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Telegraph - Cameron takes a faltering step into nappy minefield

David Cameron’s attempt to show off his parenting skills backfired yesterday when he came in for criticism from environmentalists after revealing that his children used disposable nappies. … His response was seized upon by campaigners who claim that disposable nappies damage […]

Categories: Science and Nature

Times2 - Stop press: the sad decline of local newspapers, by Richard Morrison

Why should you care? The answer is that there will be even fewer newspapers around in future with the resources to investigate incompetent or corrupt councils, campaign against hospital closures or over-reaching developers, put a rocket up the backsides of police […]

Categories: Business & Media

Opinion Journal - Meathead Economics: Hollywood liberals drive productive Californians to leave the state

It takes hard work to drive anyone away from California’s sunshine and scenic vistas, but politicians in Sacramento have been up to the task. The latest Census Bureau data indicate that, in 2005, 239,416 more native-born Americans […]

Categories: Politics

PoliPundit - National Security

“Please, look at the facts” - President George W. Bush “Yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!!!” Howard Dean, Michelle Malkin, William Bennett et al.

Yup.

Categories: Politics

Wheat & Weeds - Read This First (Intro. to Part 16) & So Persecuted They The Prophets

Reading the second one, it’s really quite funny, until you consider that these people are supposed to be on their way to church. I didn’t see the “Read This First” though, but when I did, I realized that […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Two bad jokes in one day.

Infinitives Unsplit - Snigger

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Europe. Europe who? No, you’re a poo.

Arthur’s Seat - Thought for the Day

A bear, a lion and a chicken meet. Bear says: “If I roar in the forests of America the entire forest […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Telegraph - The single market and Gallic delusions

In a bid to be elected to office for the first time in his life, Dominique de Villepin has espoused the doctrine of “economic patriotism”.

Oh lord.

Economic patriotism may gain votes in a nation neurotically prone to see its self-inflicted decline as part of a […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Times - One kid’s blast against bigotry, by Libby Purves

These people are not “activists” or even “extremists” as mealy-mouthed news bulletins like to put it. They are terrorists. Death threats and physical attack are their prime arguments. They are, in some ways, more horrifying than the Abu Hamzas who threaten all unbelievers […]

Categories: Science and Nature

Telegraph - Japan’s fashion rebels embrace tradition

Japan’s teenage girls have returned to Earth after a decade lost in a bizarre fashion universe all their own. Their scary-looking Ganguro, or black faces, whose deep orangey tans were offset by white lipstick, are now sighted as rarely as the yetis they were […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Telegraph - Spy

Moore terror Michael Gove may have abandoned full-time journalism for politics when he became Tory MP for Surrey Heath last year, but don’t imagine for a moment that he has put down his pen. I hear that Gove - recently appointed a junior spokesman on […]

Categories: War and Peace

I had no idea.

Telegraph - Your view: the Oscars

If Reese Witherspoon wins, I’ll be pissed. Not only does she annoy the crap out of me, she skipped the Baftas without even having the decency to make up an excuse. I hate that.

My reviews of the nominees are here, btw.

Categories: Entertainment

This is freakin’ hilarious. And really well done.

YouTube - Microsoft designs the iPod Package

Categories: Electronics

Two items on the, ah, life in religion:

The Telegraph - Challenging the Church

Five times in the last 2,000 years the Church has to all appearances gone to the dogs,” wrote GK Chesterton. “In each case it was the dogs that died.” He was writing about the Catholic Church, as it […]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Telegraph - Power to the people, not anarchy in the UK

Faced with a fall in enthusiasm for politics among adults, the Power Inquiry - most of whose members were young in the 1970s - reports today that the voting age should be lowered to 16. There is something a little embarrassing about […]

Categories: Politics

The Telegraph - Homefront. By James O’Shaughnessy

An Englishman’s home is a broom cupboard

(”The author is head of research at Policy Exchange. ‘Better Homes, Greener Cities’ is available at www.policyexchange.org.uk“)

But it hasn’t always been like this. Those lucky enough to live in homes built before the 1940s enjoy high architectural standards in […]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs