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  • Chris Huhne: time to get serious

    I really have veered a lot in my views in this leadership election. I’m not used to this phenomenon of genuinely not having made my mind up about something – it’s giddy stuff! So it was that while my default position at the beginning of the campaign was that I’d be voting for Clegg, by…

  • Bullying isn’t hate crime

    I never got around to bemoaning the government’s plans to make homophobic attacks a new “hate crime”. Ever since the idea of religious hatred was outlawed I’ve become increasingly sceptical of this new type of legislation; in most cases it does little more than add a little more public “tut-tutting” to something that is already…

  • Those BBC values in full: paedo = gay

    Another in my occasional series about the BBC (which may well have been corrected by the time you read this): Now, innocent until you’re proven guilty on all that: I’m not commenting on the case itself. But since when does accusing someone of paedophilia count as a “gay slur”? If a straight man was accused…

  • Gay Rights: a shit writes

    It’s fascinating to speculate the psychology behind Alan Duncan’s decision to publicly call Jo Swinson MP a “shit” for inconveniently pointing out the Tories’ lamentable record on gay rights. As I pointed out a couple of months ago, the Conservative Parliamentary Party response to Cameron calling for his party to support the Sexual Orientation Regulations…

  • The Church of England: Sheffield is so gay…

    I don’t just make this stuff up, you know: THE floods which claimed seven lives and deluged thousands of homes were the result of “moral degradation”, claims the Bishop of Carlisle. The bishop, who is a leading evangelical, said that people should heed the stories of the Bible, which described the downfall of the Roman…