Now, I’m not a fan of the Daily Express but even by their standards there is an article in the paper today that could best be described as misleading. The headline on the top right hand side of the front page reads “Outrage as police spend £82m on translators for foreign criminals”.

Firstly can I point out to the Express that there is an online thesaurus so they can look up, for free, words that mean the same as “outrage” but are different from “outrage” which seems to appear ...

Dear Melanie Phillips,

Hello, how are you this morning? I would imagine you are having a nice cup of ENGLISH breakfast tea (with milk obviously) and a small bowl of Kellogg's Cornflakes with extra dullness in order definitely, definitely quash any of “those thoughts”.

Then I think you would open your email, maybe sift through a few press releases (which you will only half read) and then a quick flick though the morning papers and when I say “papers” I me...

Dear The BNP,

Hi, how are you? Everything going well? Sorry I haven't been in touch for a while but I think you are a bunch of insufferable bastards. I feel though that I have something to offer your “cause”.

I was looking on your website today (I was doing research before you ask, following up on the thing I wrote about Jack Straw and seeing how you reacted to it, all too predictably as it turns out. Oh and Muslim is not the same thing as Pakistani by the way, you seem to ...

Good news everyone, I have decided that Jack Straw is not a racist. He is, however, an idiot. Actually that's not entirely correct, he may very well be a racist but I'm not going to call him one so I will call him an idiot.

In an interview (which you can see here), which followed a successful prosecution of a gang that groomed and sexual abused girls in Derby, Mr Straw decided it was time to speak out. He has become of those people who starts sentences with the phrase “of course, you ca...

At the beginning of this lovely week that has just gone to wherever it is that time disappears to, I was thinking of changing the name of my Sunday posts.

The “Diana Watch” thing stated out as a simple table on my Myspace page (remember them?) that logged the number of times that the “People’s Princess” mysteriously appeared on the front of British newspapers every week despite having died some 9 years before.

I only did this because I found it sort of odd that she (however...