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Even Doctor Evil is now a Tory

Tantric Tory? Andrew Charalambous

Well he looks a bit like Doctor Evil, anyway. His name's Andrew Charalambous and he's the quirkiest Tory candidate you ever did see.

By day – see his official Tory candidate website – he is a pillar of the community. A property developer (but a really nice one, apparently, who specialises in ethical housing for the poor and needy) and a police special constable attached to the Honourable Artillery Company.

By night he is "Dr Earth", a man who has "completed...

'Liberal satire' is an oxymoron

In the latest issue of The Atlantic Christopher Hitchens brilliantly articulates something many of us have long suspected: that left-liberals – the modern variety, at any rate – are quite incapable of effective or indeed funny satire.

The Hitch's immediate target is the libtard comic turned Democrat senator Al Franken:

"Franken very often refers to himself as a "satirist," which is a piece of hubris that comes to him too glibly and naturally. One wants to say, on hearing or reading such a...

Et Tu, Eddie Izzard?

Eddie Izzard Labour MP? Photo: Eddie Mulholland

Does anyone else share my dismay that comedian Eddie Izzard is thinking of standing, not just as an MP, but as a Labour MP?

In the days before Izzard, comedy was aggressively, tediously political: all you had to do in the Alternative [to:] Comedy Eighties was say "Thatch" in a sneery Ben Elton voice to get a roar of smug, consensual, right-on approbation from the audience.  Izzard – and his contemporaries – changed all that. They took the...

"I gladly fell prey to a cougar"

"Would you mind awfully if I seduced you?" asked the attractive older woman sitting next to me on the bus, placing one hand meaningfully on my bare, suntanned thigh.

"Er, no," I replied.

And I didn't. Not one bit. I was 19; she – it later transpired – was 36, a lecturer at London University. And if there's one thing you want above all else when you're 19, it's uncomplicated, deliciously meaningless sex with a good-looking woman who is totally up for it, knows what she's doing, and isn't...

Isn't Black History Month a bit racist?

It's Black History Month again. So the latest issue of Lambeth Life, the free magazine I pay through the nose for via my council tax, tells me. Apparently it's "one of the most popular and exciting events in the council's calendar."

Highlights will include "calypso sessions, steel pan workshops and sessions focussing on African costumes and African masks, plus information and worksheets in all Lambeth libraries." And a session in storytelling and percussion from Winston Nzinga. And a special e...

How the global warming industry is based on one MASSIVE lie

For the growing band of AGW "Sceptics" the following story is dynamite. And for those who do believe in Al Gore's highly profitable myth about "Man-Made Global Warming", it will no doubt feel as comfortable as the rectally inserted suicide bomb that put paid to an Al Qaeda operative earlier this week.

Now read on.

Those of you who saw An Inconvenient Truth  may remember, if you weren't asleep by that stage, the key scene where big green Al deploys his terrifying graph to show how totally...

Gordon Brown: 'Re-elect me and I will hang all paedophiles, restore grammar schools and create permanent world peace.'

They say his party is about as likely to win the next election as Polly Toynbee is to headline a 40-date sell out stand-up comedy season at the O2 Arena or Michael Moore to enter a burger joint and say: "I'll stick to the salad today, thanks."

But as Labour begins what many are saying is the last party conference before it is wiped off the face of the earth, I can today exclusively reveal Prime Minister Gordon Brown's ten point masterplan to revive his political fortunes.

1. All Britain's...

Climate fear promoter Jo Abbess has a science degree. Well done, Jo!

I've just had an email from someone signing herself Jo Abbess Bsc wanting to know whether I did a science degree. She has written it up at her online-CV-cum-website.

Jo who? The name rang a vague bell so I Googled her.  Abbess, it turns out, was the blog bully who last year demanded the BBC censor a true story on its website about global cooling. She didn't like the way it gave succour to evil Global Warming Deniers.

So she wrote to the BBC's science editor Roger Harrabin a series of finger...

Lady Macbeth sticks it to Berlusconi

 

 

Check out the expression on poor Barack's face. It's that expression of pained forbearance every husband has worn at one time or another when his wife has landed him deep in the doodoo and there ain't nothing he can do because she's his missus, right or wrong, and it's more than his life's worth to tell her her mistake.

So I guess we'll have to tell her instead:

Michelle, we know exactly what was on your mind when you hugged Merkel, Medvedev and, Lord save us, Gordon Brown, while pointedly...

Clive James: keep tokenism out of literature

I wish I'd been at Australia House on Tuesday for the launch of 1464 page anthology The Literature Of Australia. No, not normally I wouldn't, but I gather from those who were there that Clive James rather set the cat among the pigeons by having a dig at the book's political correctness.

Presumably, as one of Britain's three most famous resident Aussies, James had been invited along to the bash - presided over by the Aussie High Commissioner - to utter platitudes about how bloody great Aussie l...