My parents are, like me and so many of my Sisters here at THE CONVENT, most mild of manner and demeanour. But unlike me they are in their eighties, though in blessed good health.
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Savez-vous que vous parlez très mal français?
Philip Salter at the Adam Smith Institute laments the lack of French taught in schools, and attributes this to schools preferring
Continue reading →Student Grant-ed Millions.
Gareth relaxes on the Sunseeker he hired to amuse a group of friends he took on holiday to Ibiza.
It was not only MPs who were casualties of
Continue reading →iDaveâs new babyâ¦.
Itâll keep you awake at night Dave,
Itâll make never ending unreasonable demands,
In years to come when you want its support, itâll announce that it has to go off and âfind itselfâ,
Youâll spend years clearing up the mess it makes,
It
Continue reading →The âinfallibleâ sniffer dogsâ¦.
Cadaver dogs perform a grim but essential task â locating the presence of human remains, even minute particles of human remains. In America, the cadaver dogs first achieved national recognition in the aftermath of 9/11,
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Bumper Bank Holiday Edition. Lament for a Piper from Subrosa. Beautifully written. True dedication from Dick Puddlecoat. Sham Democracy from Obnoxio. Continue reading → In praise of real women.
Spare a thought for Mrs Blunt today, and the little Blunts. Whatever she feels like, whatever she really thinks, despite the public utterances to friends and family, despite the carefully chosen expression, she starts today firmly in a closet
Continue reading →A great day for British liberty
Today is a great day for British liberty, values and traditions. Today should have been marked by a protest march by the increasingly blatantly bigoted âEnglish Defence Leagueâ and a counter-protest by the always blatantly violent,
Continue reading →Loose connections.
The Daily Telegraphâs xenophobia continues unabated.
Pensioner told her electrical safety report would be written in Polish.
Stella Sheen, 70, said two Polish workmen arrived at her home
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Links and Blogrolls and Rankings and all that.
As the results start to trickle out of the Total Politics rankings for 2010, the inevitable carping and whining commences as to how unfair it is that the âsame peopleâ always appear at the top, how it is an
Continue reading →Con-Dem partnerships can be trickyâ¦â¦
Coalition partners resort to violence.
Liberal-Democrat councillor Christine James has been charged with assault and will appear in Weymouth Magistrateâs Court on September 9th.
Feeling are running high amongst the tribal ground force. Passions inflamed
Continue reading →Asil meets his Nadir.
Dear Asil,
Are you mad ! I heard your pretty little speech about âan innocent man has nothing to fear from an English Court âon Radio 4, but you have been out of the Country
Continue reading →Population zero, but it has a Government of four, a Fabian Paradise.
The Righteous target the Internet.
Remember when our children were used to encourage us to smoke?
Over at Righteous Central, aka the British Medical Journalâs sidekick âTobacco Controlâ, they are beside themselves with excitement.
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Donât put your daughter in the nursery Mr Cameronâ¦..
I have been chewing on the rump of Ed Ballsâ Frankfurtian neo-Marxist âinterdisciplinary social theoryâ empire overnight. I donât recommend it â tough, chewy, and humourless. I fell down a rabbit hole marked Quango Central, and it
Continue reading →A rape by any other nameâ¦â¦
We have had some cracking redefinitions of the infamous crime of Rape recently. These cases may be increasing the Police rate of detection of a crime where it can be notoriously difficult to find the perpetrator, but they will
Continue reading →315 degrees Celsius
Hot enough for you?
I have been to some very hot places in my life. The absolute hottest was a flying visit to Kuwait City shortly after the first Desert Storm. There
Continue reading →Willetts Woolly Waffle.
Much-Slagging-In-The-Media is a curious village.
It has a language of its own, words such as âpovertyâ, âdiscriminatedâ, and âprogressiveâ which have a meaning unsuspected in the real world outside the village boundary.
It has
Continue reading →Itâs a bit late, isnât it?
Brave Sir Ian
I see that Sir Ian Gilmore, outgoing President of the Royal College of Physicians, has bravely decided to say something useful upon his resignation:
Decriminalising drug
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Congratulations!
Congratulations to David and Samantha Cameron â delivered of a fine 6lb 1oz baby girl at the Truro Hospital whilst they were on holiday.
Continue reading →Stealing our language
Not much acumen on display here
Once again, doing the right thing
Unlike many of the good readers of this blog, I have a passing interest in prurient matters. Not intimately, you understand, as such days are far
Continue reading →Kissing Cousins â the Mate Debate.
In 1987, a group of geneticists published a surprising study in the journal Nature. Those researchers examined the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) taken from 147 people across all of todayâs major racial groups. Even more impressive,
Continue reading →Fighting âthemâ on the Sandwell.
70 years ago this week, Winston Churchill made his famous speech immortalising the words âNever in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.â He did so to
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Battle ready Edition…… The Appalling Strangeness on democracry’s threat to Freedom. Dizzy on Graduate Taxes. Jack of Kent on the advisability of Continue reading → Make mine a double!
Single malt petrol? Certainly, sir!
I need to start this off by saying that I really donât believe in man-made climate change. I quite firmly believe that the climate changes, but I
Continue reading →Letâs Break Up!
Our
Continue reading →Free Will, Autonomy, and Totalitarian Instincts.
What follows may not seem to have any relevance to you at the moment. It may appear to be of merely academic interest.
However, are you quite sure that your life path is one that accords
Continue reading →The Big Society is working well isnât it?
â¦where people, in their everyday lives, in their homes, in their neighbourhoods, in their workplaceâ¦
â¦donât always turn to officials, local authorities or central government for
Continue reading →Means testing
It’s a crime!
Another day brings us another nimble U-turn from the âCoalition of the Willing (to be just as bad as Labour)â. In opposition, everyone was vehemently against Labourâs plans to
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