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Nick Griffin MEP in misogynistic pig shock

After Nigella Lawson’s abuse at the hands of Charles Saatchi, Nick Griffin thought this was funny: If I had the opportunity to squeeze Nigella Lawson, her throat wouldn't be my first choice. — Nick Griffin MEP (@nickgriffinmep) June 17, 2013 Apparently the anger it provoked is not justified, but the result of a sense of [...]

Hillary Clinton shows how to join Twitter

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched herself onto Twitter, showing everyone else how to do it in the process. Her bio is probably one of the best on the site: Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US Senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD… The [...]

Labour’s Prism hypocrisy is obscene

Labour’s hypocrisy since 2010 has been galling, but their response to the Prism surveillance scandal really turns the stomach. I’ve just walked past a TV screen at Terminal 5 (going to Washington, a pure coincidence,) to see Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander looking very earnest and concerned about PRISM, the extensive web snooping network use [...]

Looks like another lefty loudmouth is plagiarising

Stop me if you have heard this one before, but a popular, prominent left wing social commentator appears to have caught out lifting quotes. Harry Cole, as his Spectator alter-ego Steerpike, has revealed that a quote that appears in Penny’s breakthrough pamphlet ‘Meat Market’ also appears in a previous article from the New Internationalist. From 1988. [...]

Guardian opens a data driven coffee shop

The Guardian, which used to be a newspaper, has opened a data driven coffee shop in Shoreditch. Having checked the date, and confirmed it’s not April 1st, I am now utterly speechless. Luckily Alex Hern has summed it all up nicely here.   Those sharks must be confused by continually being jumped.