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

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

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 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

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

(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

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

 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 Continue reading →

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.

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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

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

  ’Nothing is so much to be feared as fear’.
  Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862

 The anti-smoking brigade have long endorsed ’fear’ as the tool of choice to persuade us to join their cult. 

 We have had the fear of our own imminent death from lung cancer. We

The dead tree press has commissioned some of its lawyers and senior editors to take a good hard look at current practice in the media – before the committee set up by the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport starts poking around.

 For once the Pro-life and Pro-choice brigade are united in their condemnation of the ending of a young life.

A Florida girl attended an abortion clinic in Hialeah, for an induced abortion. After being given the various medications that are prescribed

When I wrote of medieval ale houses, I had in mind old Flossie Lane’s establishment.

Flossie’s grandparents acquired the licence to sell beer and wine from their front parlour to the local farmers back in the 19^th century. Nothing