I shall be away for a few days.
Regular posters are welcome to continue their good natured banter; unfortunately, I have to put comment moderation on for new posters, and there will be no one to release them until my return.
Continue reading →Monthly Archives: February 2009
Text not thy Lord Ahmed in vain…….
Our Lord in Belmarsh,
Hallowed be thy name,
Thy hubris come,
Our will is done.
Compare Lord Ahmed’s 12 weeks in prison for killing a man whist texting and driving with the 21 months Philippa Curtis got for a near identical offence?
A motorist who sent
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David Cameron’s son Ivan dies.
Ivan, who had severe epilepsy and cerebral palsy, was taken ill overnight and died in hospital this morning.
The sadness in the Cameron household this morning must be immense.
I am full of admiration for those households that manage to care for a child
Continue reading →The ‘Chav it all’ society……
Large numbers of police forces are planning to cut thousands of officers despite the threat of a recession-driven surge in crime and disorder. Representatives from dozens of police forces contacted by The Times last night gave
Now you see it, now you don’t……
The early morning edition of The Daily Mail on-line carried an interesting story juxtaposing the the case of Stuart Lubbock with that of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
The obvious connection, that both cases are of deep concern to ex-solicitor Tony
Continue reading →Double or quits is ‘crap’……….
The Government has said today that it will take measures to limit costs in libel cases “unless compelling arguments emerge against doing so”.
When Lord Woolf recommended the Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA) as a way to create a system where the
Continue reading →Tenors on a fiver an hour?
On Sunday, Jacqui Smith said that a new points based system will be used to “raise the bar” for highly skilled migrants to curb the numbers coming in.
The move is part of an immigration crackdown to be unveiled by Home
Continue reading →‘Swampy’ Branson in a pickle.
This morning, Richard Branson was nabbed for the Today programme on Radio 4. He was spotted in a corridor as he walked through Broadcasting House trying to publicise the 25th anniversary of Virgin Atlantic.
They wanted to know if the formula one
Continue reading →The ‘Old Lady’ splashes out on a new wardrobe……..
In The Sunday Times today (22nd February 2009) we read of Mr. Brown’s intention to rubber stamp – “as part of a blitz of initiatives designed to save the banking system” measures including “Permission for the Bank of
Continue reading →Coarse fishing for Grayling……
The Sunday Mirror is standing in the icy water of voter disillusionment with Nulabour governance this morning, fiddling with its flies and trying to hook a Grayling. A knee jerk reaction of partisan politics at its worst; ‘they’ve got
Continue reading →Abhorrent Aberystwyth and an Asbo for Amy…….
Aberystwyth is quite simply the most depressing place it has ever been my misfortune to live in. I am told that the sun shines for ten days every year, in August, which coincides with the University recess, so I never
The Banks are lending again!
Er, no, not to you…..don’t be daft!
The Times on-line is reporting that RBS, which is 68 per cent owned by taxpayers after a £20 billion government bailout, is offering its staff loans against the bonuses that they are owed but
Continue reading →Prawo Jazdy is not a Polish plumber.
Prawo Jazdy had left a string of some 50 driving offences logged on police computers in Ireland; each time he was stopped he cunningly gave a different false address.
Eventually the Garda decided to take a closer look at the reckless
Continue reading →Nabbing the Snappers…….
The UK police terrorism arrest statistics (excluding Northern Ireland) from 11 September 2001 – 31 March 2007 show 1228 arrests were made of whom 699 were released without charge. The statistics do not however detail how many people were threatened
It’s Bedlam out there…….
Samuel Reid-Wentworth is just the latest victim of the fashionable concept of ‘care in the community’; with pejorative and value laden words like ‘a cowardly attack’ and ‘pre-meditated killing’ ringing in his ears, hopefully he has finally found the treatment
Whistle a happy tune……
It has been a spectacular few weeks for that endangered species, the Whistleblower.
First up was Paul Moore, who had patiently bided his time and delivered a broadside under parliamentary privilege to the Commons Treasury Committee, securing not only the
Continue reading →Well done that man!
A Scottish pensioner is suing RBS for negligence in preparing the information which persuaded him to buy to buy £1.282 worth of RBS shares – which are now worth a paltry £120. He claims that had they told
Stock phrases for the new reality show……
Once we had game shows to evaluate and reward our knowledge of trivia, and competitive sports to reward our physical ability. Then came the reality show. The conventional wisdom is that audiences flock to reality shows because they enjoy the
Continue reading →The stress buster…..
One of the Vendors at this week’s New York Toy Fair is offering the “Smash-Me Bernie,” a Madoff look alike doll that wears a devil-red suit and carries a pitchfork.
It comes with its own hammer – so you can pulverise
Continue reading →Hatching and Dispatching for the NuLabour stakeholder…….
(Una )Musings has an excellent piece on the Contact Point database, Labour’s Orwellian plan to regulate every aspect of the way in which a child is raised, including chilling statements such as ‘refusal to
Higher paid British jobs for Italian workers…..
ACAS have just discovered that they live in Europe.
Having finally got round to reading the small print on the contracts at the Lindsey oil refinery, they have grudgingly agreed that TOTAL had not broken employment law by bringing in Italian
Continue reading →Cock-a-doodle-doo!
There is much squawking and clucking as fattened chickens noisily return to the safety of their roost. Jostling for space, those on the highest perches are pecking bloody holes in the late comers who thought they had a reserved space.
One
Continue reading →Golly! Gosh! Just look at you now…..
Back when Noah was a lad and I was around 4 foot tall, I learned some valuable lessons.
I learnt how to ‘visualise’ large numbers by counting out 169 at a time of my aunt’s long discarded jet beads into neat
Continue reading →‘Diss-ing’ Dolly and other Labour pains.
Friday 13th for those of a superstitious nature, was once the traditional day for making your way up the 13 steps to the hangman’s noose.
It is Frigga’s day, specially named for those who don’t give a flying frigg. Like
The flying Dutchman opens Pandora’s Box…….
Lord Pearson of Rannoch invited the Dutch Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders to present his controversial film Fitna to the House of Lords. Highly regarded amongst some factions, Fitna is a film attempting to explain the divisions in society caused by the Koran and Islamists.
Wilders alleges that the Koran has ‘proven’ links
Continue reading →Leicestershire police have been working hard…….
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the Leicestershire Police force spent £548,477 in 2007-08, whilst assisting in the International search for Madeleine McCann but a Home Office grant covered most of this. Officers declined to detail expenses for operational reasons.
British
Continue reading →Cream-lite for the fat cats.
This week we have all been able to watch as some ‘former’ bank executives have wriggled, squirmed, bleated and whined under aggressive questioning by the Treasury Select Committee; the qualifications, practices, manoeuvres, motives, fine-dining habits and honesty of these
The wolf in sheep’s clothing……
I am no fan of the Animal Right’s Movement, Peter Singer has a lot to answer for. His theoretical position has been translated into some dark and dangerous realities.
Neither, though, am I a fan of the Serious Crime Act 2007.
It has long been argued that
Continue reading →More from the smoking gun……..
Robert Preston, the BBC’s self appointed PR man for Gordon Brown, has been busy tonight following Sir James Crosby’s dramatic resignation a few minutes before Prime Minister’s Question Time.
He says that John Moore’s revelations that he was sacked because he
Continue reading →A pig in a poke.
One minute the banks had ‘loadsamoney’ and the next we were asked to shovel our pennies into their empty coffers faster than a stoker on the uphill section of the Carlisle line.
I have long been of the opinion that someone
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