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 with Social
Continue reading →Monthly Archives: August 2010
The Daily Express.
If we charitably assume that the partial justification for a newspaper is to inform its readers of news, then it fails dismally. If we take
Continue reading →The Carrot or the Stick?
Lobby Dog is reporting this morning that his FOI request, to elicit the names of the 200 MPs who retired from parliament in a sulk when it became clear that it would not be so easy in
Continue reading →Why 100 days ?
This was
Continue reading →They went to war in a sieve, they did….
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They went to war in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to war:
In spite of all Hans Blix could say,
At Bush’s command on that fateful day
In a Sieve they went
Cut-Price Justice.
“Roll-up, roll-up, get yer lovely ASBOs here – George, give that lady an ASBO and an extra one for her husband, hurry up there lad! – and a conditional discharge for the lady in blue.”
“Right
Continue reading →Argggh!
I’m going out for the day, I’m going to dig holes in the garden, I’m going to chop wood, I’m going to set fire to things, I’m going to, to, to…..
I don’t know, but I have to
Continue reading →And this little Piggy grew up…..
Remember the too, too chic ‘tea-cup piglets’? The must have accessory for the terminally fashionable? The £700, stuff it in your Gucci bag, take it to a film premiere, let it sleep on your bed side table,
Continue reading →Walking the Dog….
Those of you who were fans of Rufus Thomas back in the late 60s will appreciate the irony of this report from the Oxford Mail.
“A WOMAN was raped while walking her dog through a village sports field.”
Her attacker forced
Continue reading →Mustapha Ouank Weekly……
Arrrgh!
A new online magazine based in Israel will include articles and features by gay and lesbian authors, marking a first for Arabic language journalism. […]We are
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Having a Pop at the Pope.
I was all set to have a nice little knee-jerk rant this morning.
Pope’s visit to cost the tax payer £12 million?
Whee, here I go. God’s sake, t’would be cheaper to give all
Continue reading →All guns blazing
Greetings, Mr Miliband!
It was with the growing sense of despair, dismay and distaste that I read the following in the Spectator:
Westminster might be in holiday mode, but behind the
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In every grain of Sandwell, there is the story of the future…..
Fearlessly seeking cigarette ash on the streets of Sandwell.
We start the week with a little humdinger from the People’s Republic of Sandwell.
In 2008, Sandwell was
Continue reading →Muddled Martyrs.
Blue Badge tour guides Derek Pride, left, and Alistair Chisholm
The sorry pass that the teaching of our recent history has now reached is that the blue badge
Continue reading →Religious Intolerance.
I love the smell of fresh hypocrisy.
Black Dolls – known by most of us as Golliwogs – have been banned from a Shropshire country show after the organisers said they did not want them on sale for fear of causing offence.
Sally-Anne
Continue reading →The “sex and travel” option
Special rates for the Met? Certainly!
In a depressing tale of the police taking their apparent role as the state’s bully far too seriously, they have decided to “name and
Continue reading →The Righteous in full flood….
We seem to be having a ‘prostituion special’ today.
OXFORD’S “most prolific” prostitute has been banned from selling sex on the streets and in her home for five years.
It is not illegal to sell
Continue reading →Exhilarating Competition – Once in a lifetime chance……
The Labour Party is sending this e-mail out to all (sic) both its members.
Dear X
You could win one of the special VIP packages for the announcement of the next Leader of the Labour
Continue reading →Stop Press +++ The First Cut is the Deepest +++
And the Government just saved £200 Billion Million at a stroke……
Staff at the Audit Commision have received an e-mail this morning telling them that it will be announced tommorrow that they are no longer employed to watch over the
Continue reading →Nothing Unusual…..move along there!
This is the Google street view for Middle Road in St John’s, Worcester.
A Google spokesman has said:
”The imagery in Street View represents a snapshot in time of Britain’s streets and is no different
Continue reading →Victim or Villain?
Larry Murphy was a carpenter by trade, a quiet unassuming man, apparently happily married with a young family and a pregnant wife. He lived in the stunningly beautiful Wicklow Mountains in Ireland.
In the year 2000, two hunters
Continue reading →Britain’s ‘oldest smoker’ dies after puffing on cigarettes for 95 years
Throughout her life it is thought the defiant OAP, who outlived her husband, son and
Continue reading →Why is the West not giving to Pakistan following the floods?
Trauma Queen.
Ron Copsey has set himself up as an expert counsellor for those who have endured a particular kind of trauma.
Ron, you see has expert experience of this kind of trauma. It has taken him 10
Continue reading →Save (us from) The Whales.
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office is a hugely expensive operation. Over £2 billion a year to maintain its offices in virtually every important city around the world and pay its expensively trained staff. It has a
Continue reading →Football – Spot The Ball Competition.
Barry and Distrct FC are Division 2 Champions.
(Ed: I’m shocked Ms Raccoon……)
Towards a Constitution.
There are few more dangerous errors in political thinking than to equate democracy with liberty.
James Bovard 2006 ‘The Freeman‘
The Swiss Federation has had three Constitutions since 1848 following the military defeat of the “Sonderbund” alliance
Continue reading →National Raccoon Day…..
National Raccoon Day today, and I shall be taking the day off to rake through some very special garbage cans..in the meantime I leave you with this.
Integration and Minorities – Further Thoughts
This piece has been precipitated by Anna’s pieces on Integration and Minorities and Utopia Unplugged.
I was brought up in what was then a northern mill town in the late 60’s
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