Being clear on Tredinnick
Here is the text of an article submitted to a newspaper, the locality of which encompasses the constituency of David Tredinnick MP: David Tredinnick, MP for Bosworth, frequently takes opportunity […]
Tag Archives: scepticism
Calling out misleading information? It SHOULD happen…
Quackery abounds. And quacks abide. And their devotees stick their deluded noggins in the oblivious sand. A few days ago I came across a retained news clipping in my cuttings […]
‘Rt. Hon.’ David Tredinnick MP, ‘Minister for Quackery’
As I understand it, parliamentary privilege means an MP can say whatever he/she likes in The House, without fear of libel – excepting calling another MP a liar in The House. Because […]
Detox? What a load of old goop!
I’ve occasionally heard people state an intention to abstain from alcohol for a month. I’ve done so myself more than once, though usually selecting February, for temporally obvious reasons. I mean, […]
Merry Mythicism
(or: Purloining the past) No, not a lisp; just recognition that the season prematurely presaged by crass commerciality, and in which to gluttonise and over-indulge, is of an ancientness that […]
Promoting quackery in Parliament: debating Tredinnick
When Dennis Skinner made the news bulletins last Friday for his apposite swipe at the Tory-UKIP curs Mark Reckless and Douglas Carswell, what wasn’t made so apparent was the context in […]
Sally’s road
“Keep an open mind.” Ever heard that before? The nugget of sagacity frequently proffered up by apologists/excusers/devotees of (practitioners of) activities which tend to provoke quizzical attitude in those not […]
Comment on cult commenting
‘I love comments and encourage you to leave one, two or more.’ So declareth Sandra Hermann-Courtney on the Home page of her petty paranoid blog project, ‘fighting-for-homeopathy‘. What, do we […]
Lee Turnpenny 