Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading
Gone Fishing!
I leave you all in the capable hands of Ms Smudd and Master Ward, who will continue to amuse and exasperate in equal quantities.
I shan’t
Continue reading →Lordy, Lordy, look who’s 40!
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the creation of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. On that day in 1969 a small laboratory on the UCLA campus unleashed a force which has
Continue reading →Flash Gordon now has 40 days to save the world.
10 days ago, Flash Gordon announced that he had less than 50 days in which to save the world. The main stream press have responded to his dilemma in magnificent fashion, and the suggestions
Continue reading →What is the measure of a society ? Court of Protection
I ask this question because there is a maxim that says “a nation is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens”. This is from US President Hubert H. Humphrey and the full quote is:
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Official No 10 Website………..
Court of Protection
I am so coldly, rigidly, white knuckled angry, that at 3am I still can’t sleep.
The cause of my anger is an article, so poorly researched, so sensationalist, so, so utterly, incompetently wrong, written by a ‘Whitehall Editor’
Continue reading →Hain Claims Vindication.
Ex-Minister Peter Hain leaving the scene of yet another little misunderstanding in 1969.
HAIN CLAIMS VINDICATION – BUT HE NEEDS TO LOOK HARDER AT THE NUMBERS
Peter
Continue reading →So, it was Rape!
There are powerful biological reasons why women fear rape. There are equally powerful biological reasons why men protect their womenfolk from rape. We have an inbuilt instinct to ensure that the food supply will support
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading…
When you have the time…..
Almost two hours long, (and there are already rumours that Continue reading →
In Pursuit of Partisan Pantomimes.
The BBC’s Mark Thompson claims that he had ‘no choice’ other than to invite Nick Griffin on to Question Time because of the Corporation’s ‘central principle of political impartiality’ – nicely distancing himself
Continue reading →The Griffin has Landed.
As ‘G’ Day approaches, the BBC Chief’s of Staff are out strutting their stuff to assure us plebs that the battle will be won, there will be no loss of life amongst the
Continue reading →I’m Piglet, Fly Me!
Ding-Dong!
Good Morning, this is your captain speaking. I would like to welcome you aboard my maiden flight.
I’ve never flown a plane before, I’ve never worked on a
Continue reading →Lest we forget…..
The Algarve summer is over, and rather abruptly so.
On Sunday, I was at the beach, enjoying the final days of warm and dry bliss of this long summer of ’09.
Continue reading →Swiss Roll Ball into Own Goal.
When you don’t have many claims to fame, you need to work hard at protecting the ones you do have.
The history of
Continue reading →++ Exclusive ++ Matthew Parris on ‘Thinking before Bedding’.
‘Journalists think before they write – bloggers write before they think’, runs the popular mantra of those who extol the virtues of professional journalists over bloggers.
The uproar over Jan Moir’s
Continue reading →‘Stalking horse’ threat to Gordon Brown
On your expenses you can put the fat fee,
For I want McCavity out full and fair,
Wi’ Harriet Harman, Jack Straw, and Mandy,
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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading…
The Pink Princess
When Stephen Gately’s death was first announced in hushed reverential tones on the BBC news, my first reaction was Stephen Who? Never heard of him.
By the time the ‘breaking news’ announcements had given way to
Continue reading →++ Exclusive ++ Carter ‘Rucked’ but not ‘Out’.
The jubilation in the blogosphere regarding the ‘Twittering’ into silence of the Carter-Ruck ‘super-injunction’ appears to have been premature.
This morning every member of the House
Continue reading →Bonfire of the Inanities
Fawkes profiting from Parliament’s collapse? Dubious accounting methods ultimately destroying the integrity of Parliament? Government intervention in the style in which the unemployed were supported? Social unrest regarding the manner in which the
Continue reading →A l’Eau, C’est l’Heure
Dear Blog,
Thank-you for being here, you are such a comfort to me.
There I was, minding my own business, as one does when one has an Important Man Doing A Professional Job Around Your House. Especially
Continue reading →Petards, Hoists and Assorted Hypocrisies.
What delicious irony! Sir Stuart Bell complaining that allegedly ‘retrospective rules’ were introduced by Sir Thomas Legg during his inquiry into the probity
Continue reading →In memory of Ian Wallace RIP.
The hen-pecked and snaggle-toothed Mr Smudd.
If it hadn’t been for Flanders and Swann and a treacle-voiced bass-baritone called Ian Wallace, I wouldn’t have given it a second thought.
Continue reading →‘Off with her head’ – Muslim march to demand abolition of the Queen
The Islam4UK organisation, which seems to be nothing more than a new front organisation for the banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun of Anjem Choudary fame, has called the brothers to arms.
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Farmer fined for failing to meet ‘psychological needs’ of cow
Ronald Norcliffe, 65, kept the cow and its calf in a barn but had not provided adequate lighting, breaching the Animal Welfare Act.
Huddersfield magistrates heard that Mr Norciffe, who had been a farmer for 30
Continue reading →Government Moves to Regulate Markets.
No, no, no – not that Market, not the Stock Market, they’ve given up all hope of controlling that market.
They have turned their attention to one of the oldest examples
Continue reading →Holy Shit! – Semantics with the Holy See.
The Queen has invited the Pope to ‘tea’ – “more tea Pope”? – next year at Buckingham Palace. According to The Catholic Herald, the Queen has “grown increasingly sympathetic” to the Catholic
Continue reading →Brown’s Yard Sale – Everything Must Go!
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of his success at flogging off the family Gold at a stomach lurching $275 an ounce in 1999, Brown the spiv is out on the corner again this
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