Tom Newham What’s the best way to tell whether somebody’s a total moron? I mean, a real knuckle-dragging neanderthal – how do you tell if somebody’s one of those? An IQ test? I don’t think so. IQ tests are for deciding whether people are good at messing around with numbers. Somebody who isn’t good at  [ Read More ]

Tom Newham Here’s a revolutionary idea: not all politicians are awful human beings. Well, one might argue that all human beings are awful – and yes, we probably are. But politicians are no worse than the rest of us. Like all humans, politicians are essentially over-developed monkeys – selfish, petty, greedy, narrow-minded neanderthals. This would  [ Read More ]

Tom Newham Hell hath no fury like an indignant surge of twitter rage. Facebook too. Watching people’s reactions in real time on my twitter feed this evening was fascinating – though bear in mind that as twitter feeds go, mine is about as middle class as it gets. Mostly people offered their own solutions, most  [ Read More ]

Tom Newham In case you’ve been living in a nuclear bunker for the last few days, and somehow you’ve managed to miss what is now being referred to rather inelegantly as News Of The World-gate, here’s a brief synopsis of one of the the most important series of events in the history of the British  [ Read More ]

Tom Newham Think for a second. What is the single most terrifying thing you can contemplate? Spiders? Snakes? Michael Howard? Regardless of who you are, deep down there is a tought that really makes you shudder. For me, it’s the fact that people who read the Daily Mail have the right to vote. I’m unapologetic  [ Read More ]