Potential ice cream shortage this summer!
“Just as summer has finally returned, Britain is facing the prospect of a severe ice cream shortage after the country’s biggest ice cream factory was forced to close because of the devastating floods in Gloucestershire.Unilever, the food giant that owns Wall’s, has been forced to close its Barnwood facility in [...]

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Climate change is a complicated issue. This sort of science is open to much politicking, from both sides. My position on this is very simple: Whilst I accept that climate change is almost certainly happening, I do not accept the hypothesis that humans have caused it - affected, exaggerated, accelerated, yes, but not caused. We [...]

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Labour’s plan to force children to stay in school until 18 is a bad idea, and it is now claimed by Geraldine Everett, chairman of the Professional Association of Teachers that it will cause “mass truancy“:
“Extending the school leaving age is a potential minefield if not handled sensitively…Here is a Government that has toyed with [...]

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Apparently, a “growing number of British women are falling pregnant after a one-night stand“.
Well, I suppose that means that we won’t have to go out and buy lots of tomato soup to keep reproducing!

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Yet another load of interfering rubbish from this government:
“Muslim or Christian guest house owners who refuse to accept homosexual couples must impose a “sleeping together ban” on all other guests, the Government says.As the holiday season gets under way, Meg Munn, a junior minister, has emphasised that it is illegal to allow married couples to [...]

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The White House has revealed what George W Bush and Gordon Brown have been eating during the latter’s visit to Camp David:
“Gordon Brown has been given his “pudding” moment with the president…After a main course of roast tenderloin of beef, mashed potatoes, sautéed green beans and peas with smoked bacon and mint, they enjoyed a [...]

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Fraser Nelson has posted this over on the Spectator Coffeehouse blog:
“Perhaps the best outcome of these torrid last few weeks is that the Cameron project has been brought down to earth…Try to finish the sentence “I really want the Conservatives to win the next election because…” I certainly can’t – and to me, this encapsulates [...]

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Iain Dale is making another Guide to Political Blogging in the UK. In the 2006 edition, I had the honour of coming 79th in the top 100 Conservative blogs.
This time the top blogs are being decided differently, rather than him picking the lists, Iain wants you to list your top 20 political blogs and email [...]

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I’m confused by this:
“Millions of pounds are set to be paid out by the Government to prisoners kept in jail beyond their release dates.More than 50 inmates, including murderers and rapists, are preparing to submit claims for damages, arguing that delays to their parole hearings breached their human rights. That figure is expected to rise [...]

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Gordon Brown announced back in July that the Union flag could now be flown from public buildings on any day, rather than the previous restrictions of 18 days a year. However, this now seems to not apply to Scotland:
“Proposals to fly the Union flag every day on public buildings are set not to apply to [...]

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