This article was originally posted on Comment is Free This is Brian Cowen. He is the Taoiseach of Ireland. He is a man noted for a certain belligerent political style, and certainly not noted for his sense of humour. Earlier this week, a man called...
BBC Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt has 'warned' breakfast DJ Chris Moyles about 'homophobia' and 'bullying' on his breakfast show. The BBC reports Parfitt as saying 'I made it absolutely perfectly clear to him and everyone at Radio 1 that we don't...
Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott has finally given the lie to the idea that the upper house is full of dusty old men confused by the modern world. Apparently, he's been on wikileaks and Twitter, reading all about Barclays' tax affairs. And he's used his...
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The YouTube phenomenon Song of the Grass-Mud Horse (Cao Ni Ma), has been doing the rounds since January. It's a jaunty little children's tune, with some rather, well, crude punning lyrics, taking a swipe at 'harmonisation', the PRC's polite term...
Newly released documents reveal the very real need for an Iraq inquiry, says Chris Ames As MPs once again debate calls for a full inquiry into the Iraq war, new evidence shows the extent to which intelligence experts raised concerns about the...
Interesting article by Zoe Williams in the Guardian today on Ofcom’s censuring of DJ Chris Moyles for negative gay stereotyping of singer Will Young on the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show. ‘…banning offensive words here and there is pointless. Trying to...
I’ve just got back from the Culture, Media and Sport Committee meeting on press standards, privacy and libel in Whitehall. The meeting was split into two sittings: the first with journalists, and the second with members of the Press Complaints...
Lib Dem MP Evan Harris hopes to lead a debate this evening on an amendment to the Coroners and Justice Bill in an attempt to have the laws of seditious libel and criminal defamation scrapped. Seditious libel is an archaic law that makes it an...
British Member of Parliament George Galloway plans to challenge the Canadian immigration ministry's decision to ban him from entering the country, it was confirmed last night. The Respect Party MP, who was due to speak at a public forum in Toronto...