Anthony Zacharzewski

The Bishop of Rochester, cabbie no. 1867 Dr Nazir-Ali, has caused a row by claiming that unspecified areas of Britain are no-go areas for people of different faiths. Speaking as someone who lived in Bethnal Green for three years, in the most Muslim bit of the third most Muslim constituency

Didn’t watch it myself, but the bloggertarians are going to hate the Queen’s Christmas message, in which she said “people should share responsibility to help those less fortunate than themselves.”

The Conservatives are complaining that Whitehall departments spend too much money at Christmas. The total five-year spend of Whitehall departments on Christmas parties, decorations and cards was £461,000, which works out at a shocking twenty pence per civil servant per year. This extravagance – almost enough for one bite of

It’s a great day today, as the borders between even more European countries evaporate. I wonder how long it will be before we Brits (and Irish) see sense?

If you want a representation of why the American healthcare system is so, so broken, head on over to givewell.com, where you can buy a Visa-brand healthcare giftcard, handy for all those occasions where getting life-saving treatment has to be preceded by handing over cold, hard cash. I remember