Do you have ‘legitimate’ expectations? It’s probably best not to, you’re only going to end up disappointed, and quite possibly angry. You see, the matter of whether we, as citizens, can have ‘legitimate’ expectations became the matter of legal precedent last year....

Any other bloggers out there getting emails from a John Miles on the Labour Party ‘New Media Task Force’? I am even though I didn’t asked for them and I’m unable to unsubscribe from them. Five emails since January 13th. I’m being spammed by New Labour. Tim Ireland has t...

Remember back in December when we heard about the government ‘proposing wide-ranging new powers for bailiffs to break into homes and to use “reasonable forceâ€� against householders who try to protect their valuables’ and we wondered how long it would be before someone ended up dead? W...

As well as sticking his tongue out at the retreating back of George Bush, David Miliband’s also been indulging in a little tokenistic slumming while on his trip to India: Foreign Secretary David Miliband spent the night in the hut of a Dalit or “untouchable” [as those on the lowest...

Mr Miliband regrets: The idea of a “war on terror” is a “mistake”, putting too much emphasis on military force, Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said. Brave words coming, as they do, five days before George Bush steps down and from a man who’s been at the centre of ...

The man behind New Labour’s new online propaganda ghetto LabourList, Derek Draper, has something of a track record for wild boasts. Back in 1998 when Draper was hooking up big business with New Labour ministers (or ‘top lobbyist with GPC Market Access and former chief aide to Peter Mande...

More class warfare from New Labour. Not only, it seems, are government ministers trying to out-bastard the Tories, they’re trying to out-bastard each other. Communities Secretary Hazel Blears goes one step further than even Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell and makes a direct compariso...

I’ve just pitched a Saturday night prole-pleaser to the BBC. It’s downmarket from Strictly Come Dancing I suppose but it definitely on a level with that one where minor celebrities get pushed into a swimming pool. It’s called Feel the Benefit and it goes like this. Each week a reci...

And no, one of them isn’t ‘off’ in response to his staggeringly half-arsed plan to censor the Internet. The two words are prior restraint . Still, Mr Burnham can scratch the itch of his technocratic authoritarianism all he likes but if this plan actually happens (who decides what&#...

This has been on the cards for a little while but it now looks like the crazy bastards are actually going to do it: The government has been accused of trampling on individual liberties by proposing wide-ranging new powers for bailiffs to break into homes and to use “reasonable force� against hou...