Bristling Badger

The Plebgate affair, in which police stitched up MP Andrew Mitchell, has provoked a storm of criticism about police lying and corruption. ...

As adults have to face the fact that the myriad potential of youth is largely unfulfilled, so they tend to idealise their formative years. N...

Around fifteen years ago several large multinationals tried to introduce genetically modified crops to Europe. They were met with suspicion,...

The government have a secret underground bunker that they can escape to in case of attack. From 1952-92 it was at Kelvedon Hatch in Essex. ...

The Mark Kennedy media bandwagon lurched to America earlier this month in the form of a feature article in Rolling Stone (paywalled link ). ...

So the other day I mentioned that the attention given to News International employees shouldn't distract us from the guilt shared by po...

The phone hacking scandal has been amazing. One day there's a move to refer the takeover of BskyB to the Competition Commission that loo...

Well the other week there was Bob Geldof selling his arse to promote watches. This week I found product endorsement far beyond that. It i...

Saw this in a jeweller's window the other day. Even by the satanic standards of celebrity-endorsed advertising, and even within the ...

Well, I think I'd stand up and walk out on you. We always have to wonder not only about actions and deeds, but about what they normali...

For those of us who generally spend too much time on news sites, it was curious to see Rupert Murdoch decide to put his papers behind a pay...

I went to Reading Festival once, nearly 20 years ago. It has none of the character of Glastonbury, none of the quirks and charm of smaller f...

Does your dog bark or whine when you're not there? Chew the furniture? Your pet is not a bad dog. Your pet's behavior is the resul...

Simon Mann - a person who'd fit any decent working definition of 'international terrorist' - has been pardoned and released fro...

The phenomenon of the one-hit wonder is often talked of in terms that imply they had only a single moment of talent, as if commercial succes...

Last year I wrote a piece called Hydrogen: Not The Vehicle Fuel of The Future . Amongst the things I mentioned was the way that Shell had t...

Today is Green Britain Day , sponsored by power company EDF. Under the government's Renewables Obligation , electricity suppliers must s...

Guardian and Observer columnist Will Hutton says 'the environment is too important to be left to the green movement'. Right out of ...

On 25th March, Illinois Representative John Shimkus was on the panel considering climate change for the US House Subcommittee on Energy and...

Jeremy Hardy has argued that we need to stop using the military euphemisms. There is, he says, something obscuring about calling kidnap for...