Many readers have turned away from newspapers towards the Internet, the Internet in turn has spawned a reversal of the accepted procedure whereby news filtered from
Hold the presses – investigative journalism is not dead!
Is Jacqui Smith’s husband a secret Conservative?
by Anna Raccoon on March 29, 2009 What other explanation can there be for his decision to download adult movies on pay-per-view cable TV, to be watched in Ms Smith’s ’second home’ in Redditch, and then allow his wife to …Continue reading →
Putting the boot in.
Torn Posters and Shredded Lives.
Excluded by inclusiveness.
Yesterday, the Communities secretary unveiled the new counter-terrorism strategy, known as Contest 2, a commitment to challenge those who “reject parliamentary democracy, dismiss the rule of law and promote intolerance and discrimination on theContinue reading →Something to cheer your evening……..
With thanks to Chatelaine.
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The Great Firewall of Australia.
Marching towards an imposed morality……..
Whinging and bingeing…..
The Beeb, Botnets, and Breaking the law.
See You Jimmy……
Huffiing over puffing…….spinning ‘a line’.
Before I say a word, I must declare a ‘non-interest’; I have never had so much as a ‘puff’ of weedContinue reading →
Would you buy a used car from this man?
Too little latitude.
Veracious Vera………..do explain!
Lord Ahmed who was jailed for 12 weeks for sending and receiving text messages while driving on the M1 has been released by the Court of Appeal. The sentencing judge, Mr Justice Wilkie, made it clear his text messaging
British Slag and the Decline of Cole.
Ashley Cole needs his right to privacy and threatens the Sun newspaper just before being arrested for using abusive language!
The philandering husband of Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole has threatened to sue theContinue reading →
Drat Draco Malfoy!
A plague on his disingenuous disguises.
Especially the one he adopted when he came to see my house. It’s in the nature of actors to act. It’s what they ‘do’. I shouldn’t be so surprised.
All mouth and no knickers, the new ‘Kilt’ notes.
Yesterday we spoke of David Mundell’s plan to force English shops to accept Scottish Banknotes. An earlier post by Gloria on 
So, go
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French Letters going unread……..
After the limp reception the droopy Draper received as spearhead of the governments penetration into Web 2.0 and the blogosphere, we get news of another flaccid attempt. The Department for Children, Schools and Families hasContinue reading →
Our Lord in Doncaster, continued. …….
10,000 Muslims and the Solicitor-General……..
Big Brother goes undercover……
The tax man is telling fairytales……..
The February edition of HMRC’s thrice-yearly “Employer Bulletin” normally contains a CD of software designed to help small firms deal with their tax obligations. There should be an employee database, tax calculators and automatic form generators. “Install Immediately”, the taxman’s
The Calpol generation of ‘home alone’ kids.
The Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) made a surprise announcement last night. They have banned a range of children’s medicines from being administered to the under six’s.
Amongst these products was Calpol Night, which contains a sedating antihistamine
Continue reading →Prime Mentalist’s health records breached in database attack.
A HACKER attack on the health records of Gordon Brown and Alex Salmond has sparked a huge security alert.
Confidential computer files on the Prime Minister and Holyrood’s First Minister were illegally targeted along with the records of scores of other
Continue reading →Mugabe Pension Grabs.
It is difficult to think of a more effective way to ensure that another 3 million properties are built in Andorra, and another 3 million relatively wealthy people move their savings and pensions out of the UK into Andorra, or
Just because I can……
Eating humble pie……..
Neither those who love me, nor those who wish they’d never set eyes on me – and I’ll admit to a few, would ever accuse me of being a feminist.
I believe too strongly in the superiority of merit as the
Continue reading →Twick or tweet?
Yesterday we were treated to the news that Madeleine had her own twitter account. The account was opened on June 30th 2007 – at 7.57am, someone was up early that day.
Twitter is the art of describing ‘what you are currently doing’ in 140 characters –
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