Why are the Lib Dems bothering to oppose Labour, when the Tories are the real enemy?

What’s your personal inflation rate?

“On [the internet] if someone gets up with a hangover after drinking 8 pints, the blame lies with the goverment and Gordon Brown” - commenter Eatonrifle on HYS

Intimidation, power, class and race

There’s a lot of debate in left-wing-commentaryland at the moment about electricity and gas prices, ‘fuel poverty’, and how these relate to the profits made by energy companies.
The problem is, the debate is nonsense: UK utilities are losing out from high energy prices - and utility bills are currently far too low in any case. [...]

Guide to self-loathing. “First they came for the braying toffs…”

Good news about New Zealand’s decriminalisation of prostitution - mysteriously hushed up by the mad puritans (conservative and feminist alike) who favour locking people up

A superb demolition of this kind of emotivist nonsense about wonderdrugs that don’t work

London’s poor in “not trusting Etonian buffoon” shock

The mysteriously popular Coppersblog has a piece up claiming - in line with its general tabloid nonsense agenda - that crime statistics are nonsense, that crime is rocketing, and that we’ll probably all be stabbed by the end of the week.
Reasonably disgustingly, it uses the murder of Arsema Dawit as a “OMG, evil teen stabbings” [...]

A no-go area challenge from Jamie and John B