Bristling Badger

For those of us who remember the power of the Catholic Church in Ireland before the last 20 years, the Yes vote for equal marriage can...

I usually love Paul Mason's stuff, he's both radical and reasonable, credible enough to be given a job on Newsnight and, latterly,...

Six months ago it would have been quite a funny joke - if the Tories get a majority they'll repeal the Human Rights Act and replace i...

With any argument against Scottish independence, the simple test is to apply it to Ireland.  Did Irish independence betray the interna...

Not like me to be writing in defence of a police officer, admittedly, but it's justice I'm interested in, not bigotry. PC James Ad...

The passing of Rik Mayall is to be mourned. He was in so many great things and, given that we're now ruled by a bunch of Alan B'Star...

After some years of campaigning, a posthumous Royal Pardon has been issued to Alan Turing. He was a genius mathematician whose work broke t...

More than quarter of a million people were massed in front of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28 1963 when Martin Luther King made his I Have...

I've never understood marriage, unless it's for tax or citizenship reasons. Maybe I'm just not romantic, but I've never been...

None of us like to think of ourselves as slave owners. It has become unsavoury to have house slaves so we squirrel them away out of sight in...

A senior United Nations official has slammed UK policing of protest, with especially scathing condemnation of the undercover police scandal....

A Metropolitan police officer says that black people aren't evolved and 'live in mud huts in Africa'. PC Kevin Hughes also told ...

A couple of years ago I interviewed Tom Robinson about his 1976 song Glad To Be Gay. He told me of the police repression being meted out t...

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...

After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, some American christians said the satellite picture had looked like a massive foetus and the ne...

An alcoholic is released from Strangeways prison near central Manchester. He immediately spends his money on tobacco and downs a bottle of s...

Jonnie Marbles tries to throw shaving foam at Rupert Murdoch. He gets six weeks in jail. Two men attack TV presenter Fiona Bruce with ae...

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...

The government has decided to abolish the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV and set up a new group to help with policy. T...