I confess to a currently fashionable perversion – I do occasionally sneak a late night look at ’stat porn’, the web record of how many people are reading your blog, and where they come from.
Continue reading →Casting ‘Total Politics’ into the Archipelago.
It’s 8 AM, do you know where your daughter is?
It’s rare that I see something that makes me positively queasy, but this little snippet certainly managed it:
Continue reading →Break out the air conditioning
Yes, folks, global warming strikes again. Although it make be that global warming is on strike again, I can’t really be sure.
Thousands
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Exclusive +++Nick Hogan – Without those Walls!
Nick Hogan is safely back behind bars. Not the bars which the government sought to contain him behind for failing to act as an unpaid policeman and report his customers for smoking – even when he was
Continue reading →Dog bites man
Once again our glorious government has (dare I say it?) screwed the pooch with some new, knee-jerk legislative
Continue reading →Mobile Mendacity.
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that a stunning £450,000 worth of mobile phone bills belonging to employees of Notts county Council are being paid by taxpayers.
Why?
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Consider this
A little Gem to Cheer your Monday Morning.
Sometimes I get up in the morning and feel that I cannot face another rant at dishonest politicians who take every opportunity to relieve us of our money to fund their increasingly
Continue reading →Saul on Sunday.
The fall out over the failure of the Russian Olympic team rumbles on. Vladimir Putin is calling for an investigation into the allocation of funds. http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100305/158106139.html
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Demonising the Inadequate.
During the 1960s it was fashionable to loudly declaim the Victorian institutions where those who did not possess the wherewithal to avoid transgressing society’s mores lived in peace and security.
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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Smoking.
More wriggling Troughers….
John Baron MP has for some months been engaged in a war of words with his local paper, The Echo.
It started in December when they alleged that his expenses claim ‘included £18.21
Continue reading →Update on Nick Hogan.
A quick update to let everyone know what the state of play is with Nick Hogan.
The Blogosphere has reacted in magnificent fashion, the target has been reached in a
Continue reading →Pursed lips on Purcell
The Scottish Press are running for the high ground. Articles are printed and pulled within hours.
We now know that Steven
Continue reading →French Fry Lies.
The Government have declared war on another front. The ultra-thin French fries.
Apparently, they make you fat, unlike the good old King Edward sliced in half and lowered
Continue reading →Diesel – the Docker.
Time was when ‘Diesel’, as a nickname, was universally recognised as belonging to a Liverpool Docker. It originated in their habit of saying ‘Dies’al do Our Kid’ whenever a container load of trainers or some
Continue reading →Having kids at 14????
A Booker Prize-winning novelist celebrated for her ‘ability to inhabit her characters’ has revealed in an interview that she considers 14-year old
Continue reading →Back where he belongs?
There were many aspects of the Jamie Bulger killing that I found entirely incomprehensible: from the video footage showing the boys leading Jamie out of
Continue reading →Ancient Artefacts and Ludlow
I wrote a few days ago of the Ludlow woman forced to hand over a treasured memento left to her by her late Mother because a local museum had zealously pursued her
Continue reading →The unacceptable face of health and safety
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