A glorious example of the pocket intellectual’s most basic argumentative error today from ‘Peter’ Hitchens: “The Canadian figures show that a child is 50 to 100 times safer wi… more →
(Still) Alone In The Darkwrote 7 months ago: A glorious example of the pocket intellectual’s most basic argumentative error today from … more →
wrote 8 months ago: One of the striking things about the Mail’s columnists in general is their lack of positive vi … more →
wrote 8 months ago: A particularly gloomy take on current events this morning from Melanie Phillips: “For with the … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Interesting consideration of the nature of apology and of agency today from Stephen Glover: “O … more →
wrote 9 months ago: An interesting example of how a series of assertions do not equal an argument, from Melanie Philips: … more →
wrote 9 months ago: An interesting exercise in differing perspectives today from Melanie Phillips, which moves from the … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Hidden beneath a piece on condom adverts is this from Amanda Platell: “Lewis Hamilton is set t … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Another genuinely baffling piece, here from Keith Waterhouse: “The good news is that Gordon ha … more →
wrote 9 months ago: Not sure where to start with this column from Stephen Glover, so I’ll bow to the obvious: the … more →
wrote 9 months ago: A fascinating column today from Melanie Phillips, not least for some impressive rhetorical sleights … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Nicely dovetailing into my last post comes an opportunity to discuss the rights and wrongs of tortur … more →
wrote 10 months ago: A veritable potpourri of negativity today from Peter Hitchens. Take this, on the Bafta winning Brit- … more →
wrote 1 year ago: About a week ago, I was wondering why Liz Jones bothered going to Ethiopia if she was only going to … more →
wrote 1 year ago: As Melanie Phillips says, the backlash for Phil Woolas’ comments on immigration over the weeke … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Stephen Glover has an eye for the incisive: “Even in the socialist Seventies, no one imagined … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Liz Jones is at one with the scared readers of the Daily Mail “Like most people over the past … more →