Jonathan Bracey Gibbon has over the past 20 years has written for The Times, the Financial Times, The Sunday Times and Sunday Express. He has also been a magazine editor in the oil, retail and marketing sectors. He is associate producer of the forthcoming documentary movie, '1' on the history of Formula 1, and is a committee member of the Manchester United Supporters' Trust
Understanding North Korea, understanding military-first
North Korea simply cannot disarm. The military-first country has to behave this way for reasons of self-justification
- 17 April 2013
Railing about the state of welfare
To paraphrase Spartacus: I'm Iain Duncan-Smith!…(Blimey)
- 3 April 2013
Justice taking second place to a system saving face
The truth of the Meredith Kercher case is being lost in the endless process of trying to save face, initially by prosecutor Mignini, but now of the Italian judicial system
- 27 March 2013
Is the worm turning on the BBC?
Has the nation finally had enough of BBC bias?
- 16 March 2013
Tripped by insufferable arrogance: Huhne gets 8 months
One suspects that release from prison will only be the beginning of the downfall, such is the scale of the damage done by one man's insufferable arrogance
- 11 March 2013
Why accept the socialist-driven Iraq War narrative?
George Galloway may be a master orator, but we'd do well not to allow him free rein over the Iraq War narrative
- 27 February 2013
NHS: The Jimmy Savile of state institutions?
If, as it seems, MidStaffs is not atypical but the tip of an horrendous iceberg, it could be the beginning of the end of the NHS in its current form
- 8 February 2013
Review: House of Cards
The American re-make of House of Cards is very different to the original, but equally brilliant
- 7 February 2013
Bacon baulks at accusations of leftist anti-Semitsm
Richard Bacon's reaction to Jonathan Meades's reasonable equivalence of leftist anti-Semitism of old and new is symptomatic of exactly what Meades was trying to portray
- 4 February 2013
Piers Morgan meets the loud voice of gun ownership
In the UK, it is too easy to smirk at the pro-gun lobby's theatrical defence of the 2nd ammendment. But the fact is, the likes of Alex Jones are deadly serious
- 8 January 2013
Things get prickly for Piers on gun control
Masochistic or not, Piers Morgan under fire is always entertaining
- 21 December 2012
Is 'plebgate' now as big a scandal as the hacking furore?
Michael Crick's devastating account of the 'plebgate' affair is such a brilliantly executed piece of journalism it leaves hanging a number of threads ripe for speculation
- 19 December 2012
Haven't we already had enough of Starbucks's pie?
Rather mimicking the Leveson debate, whereby simplistic, bitter campaigners are attempting to mobilise national stupidity while Labour laps up every ounce of political capital it can, we now return to the great tax debate
- 4 December 2012
Dr Death: Leveson hastens decline of printed press?
In effect, Leveson is attempting to regulate a dying industry while the internet is universally acknowledged as impossible to regulate
- 29 November 2012
Life on a prayer for Jimmy Savile
Whether Savile actually revealed his crimes to his priest is of course unknown. Confession is, they say, good for the soul, but not necessarily for the victim
- 29 October 2012
Latest on the blog
- Italian Communists blame capitalism for London terror attack
- This is what happened to the Bow Group - but what has happened to the Conservative Party?
- Major incident in South London with reports of shootings and a beheading
- Green Party Leader blames London terror attack on Britain
- Cameron is losing this civil war
- Major incident in South London with reports of shootings and a beheading
- Saudi Arabia beheads Yemenis, displays corpses in public
- Swastika flag flies over Palestinian village
- VIDEO: BBC presenter slapped down over question of Farage's drinking and smoking habits
- MPAC Woolwich response betrays British Muslims
- NY Democrat pleads with Republican not to share document proposing confiscation of guns
- Sunday Times blood libel cartoon, on Holocaust Memorial Day no less
- Palestinian jailed for Facebook like
- 'Muslim Patrol' vigilantes attempt to control London streets
- Saudi cleric who raped and killed daughter receives small fine
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