The owner of a fierce German Shepherd was fined a total of £3,720 pounds for its latest attack on a neighbour.
The owner screeched ‘this is a fu*king travesty’ and ‘I’ll never set foot in a courtroom again’
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Did you feel the hand of history on your shoulder, Augustine?
I confess that I missed this scintillating piece of news yesterday; it emerged not so much with an earth shattering drum roll but more of a B-Flat squeak on an old violin.
The annals of history have been
Continue reading →Mrs Dale’s Dowry.
I have been taken to task many times because I refuse to
Continue reading →Assange assuaged.
Michael Jackson was afforded the same ‘cleansing’ treatment. He ‘wasn’t a paedophile’; he might have slept with the odd little boy, perhaps he did show ‘adult’ books to 12 year old boys, but he wasn’t
Continue reading →A Skewed Democracy Or A Screwed Democracy
‘Ello, ‘Ello, Wots Bin Goin’ on ‘Ere Then?
A sad e-mail from a dear friend who has already been visited by more unwarranted tragedy than anyone should have to survive, arrived to warn me that the storm clouds of imminent disaster were about to close
Continue reading →Saturday posts worth reading
Dick Puddlecote says let teachers teach. WattsUpWithThat highlights the dangers of Dihydrogen-Monoxide. JoNova has a long story about big Oz government changing the rules and hurting the little person. Continue reading → A Quiet Revolution
Yesterday evening I was on the ‘frontline’ of the end of the failed fabian experiment in Westminster. The dregs of the student protests were still being kettled, Police had helicopters up, tube stations Continue reading → A Question Of Style
Childhood moments
The Nakedness Of State Power
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange languishes in a British jail tonight. He is being denied bail despite offers of surety from Jemima Khan, Ken Loach and John Pilger I have
Continue reading →A Matter Of Testing
The Orwellian Present – Never Mind the Future.
‘Just off the coast of Autonomy, across the Bay of Good Intentions, lies the fog shrouded Isle of Best Interests’.
If you have arrived at this blog today
Continue reading →The Orwellian Present – Never Mind the Future. Court of Protection.
‘Just off the coast of Autonomy, across the Bay of Good Intentions, lies the fog shrouded Isle of Best Interests’.
If you have arrived at this blog today looked for cheer and sympathy for your woes
Continue reading →All in a Smuddle.
There is no cut in front line services occasioned by Gordon Brown’s profligate spending that is more keenly felt by service users than the absence of Ms Smudd from these pages.
Regrettably, after a
Continue reading →Saturday Night Posts Worth Reading.
Matt Wardman on top form lately – HERE and HERE. Katabasis proving that some of the leaked cables are more than just useless gossip. Continue reading → Aliens have landed
On Kicking the most Famous Balls in England.
How dare they! We send them half a dozen of our most highly prized gilded testicles, shipped out from our last working airport, prostrate, docile, fenestrated, bearing Frankincense and Myrrh, laden with humiliating apologies and
Continue reading →Being Aware
I am always staggered by how unaware people are of what is going on around them and the forces of nature that just might jump up and bite them. Is this because Continue reading → The British grit their teeth, not their roads.
The 5.49 to Orpington?
Ever since Gordon Brown promised to end Global Warning, the British have dripped and shivered their way through a succession of floods, snow blizzards,
Continue reading →Sex on a Soap Box.
A bed of Herrings? She were lucky……
It’s cold here.
I know, I know, you’re all freezing, I don’t know what cold is, etc., etc.. It is unusually cold here
Continue reading →Wikigate
This has been an interesting few days as Mr Assange releases cable traffic from US Embassy traffic to the State Department that covers a good few years of recent history –
Continue reading →The Christmas Boar.
Why? That’s what I want to know. Why do we make such a fuss about Christmas? Not the Christians of course, I can see why they would want to celebrate Christ’s birthday; I can even
Continue reading →On Reading the Small Print.
“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and
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Quote of the Day.
Hands to the rescue: Question in the House of Commons yesterday. Greg Hands: […]I note that there is one Member who has spoken here only once since the election, has tabled
Continue reading →From Flight to Reality.
It wasn’t Howard Flight’s ‘first’ acknowledged gaffe – that was his statement in 2005 that an incoming Conservative government would make deeper cuts than those publicly announced. Michael Howard removed him as a Conservative candidate for that transgression.
Wiki Popbitch.
The Blogosphere is gorging itself on the Wikileaks banquet this morning; a triumph of style over substance. The Cuisine Minceur of the electorate’s fight for transparency from our political masters.
Wikileaks is a masterpiece in media manipulation. It
Continue reading →Rearranging Deckchairs on the MV Public Guardian. Court of Protection.
Few stewards in the service of the public can have been asked to rearrange the deckchairs as many times as those employed on board the currently named ‘Public Guardian’.
The Office of the Public
Continue reading →Doing the Lambeth Piss-take.
As a prior long term resident of Brixton, London, I thought myself beyond surprise at any of the antics of Lambeth Town Hall. My experience harks back to the days of Red Ken flying the
Continue reading →Child safety
Proof that child safety is more about protecting children from the perceived extreme risk of pedophiles and similar abuse than about protecting them from accidents is shown by this quote from the CoE policy document on
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