MPs should be forced to do community service to make amends to the taxpayer using whichever items they have pocketed on expenses.
Posts Tagged as ‘politics’
January 12, 2009
Cameron’s latest through-the-keyhole antics reveal he has lost the plot
Those worktops are just so obviously just going to wind everyone up, especially the newly cash-strapped middle class, who have had to downgrade from great slabs of granite to MDF covered in sticky back plastic.
January 11, 2009
An apprenticeship in spin
A press release I read today suggests that we journalists aren’t doing our job.
December 24, 2008
Christmas shopping in the police state
“It’s simple: arrest everyone, and you’re bound to catch a few people who’ve done something wrong.”
November 21, 2008
Like Trains? Hate Britain? Vote BNP
I think any journalist feels uneasy when coverage of an issue is completely one-sided across every newspaper, and this is never so thoroughly the case as with a story involving the BNP. Like most people, I have nothing but a vague contempt for this party, but I like to balance my media intake, and this [...]
November 15, 2008
The ‘-ism’ that dare not speak its name
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith may be taking giant steps to tackle prostitution this week, but according to Germaine Greer, she needn’t bother. Greer claims that prostitution was less degrading than ‘stacking shelves in Tesco.’ Greer is one of the few people in public life who dares to call themselves a feminist, despite being faced with [...]
