The Real Blog

I must say, I cheered when I read about Philip Pullman and his friends, and their brave stand against the government’s latest child protecti...

The real motive power behind fascism isn’t racism or monopoly power or any of the other aspects that scare us about the BNP. Those things w...

I don’t buy all this nonsense from the architects about Prince Charles. It is an irony that it takes someone’s inherited influence to rein t...

I know this is heresy, but I’m starting to feel sorry for Gordon Brown. Politics has a habit of projecting the worst kind of horrors onto t...

Blimey, I am so fed up with the positivists – those puritanical creatures who disapprove of anything that doesn’t fit their stringent ideas ...

It is getting stranger, this expenses business, and even rather frightening – and, heavens, I’m only self-employed. I have to charge myself...

Judging by the Today programme this morning, we may be moving into a different phase of the financial crisis. The opportunities for serious...