You wait years to use some headlines…..
John Hemmings MP ex -wife has just been found guilty of breaking into his lover’s house and stealing her kitten.
Continue reading →Monthly Archives: September 2011
PC Plod lumbers to a conclusion.
Oh dear, things haven’t been the same in Oxford since Inspector Morse meandered his way through a half hour programme and only solved the crime when Sergeant Lewis pointed out the obvious to the cantankerous old git…..
Give Fate A Chance.
Lives are thrown into the High Court punchbowl like so many suburban key rings, and we gather round like priapic husbands, raucously commenting on the options picked out by the early life swappers.
‘Coo, don’t fancy
Continue reading →A curious sensation
Let us examine the record: unprecedented electoral success for his party; massive approval ratings; vast donations to the party. An inspired political strategy that appeared to marry conflicting goals. A media management strategy that still defines
Continue reading →What do you do with a drunken parrot?
What do you do with a drunken parrot,
What do you do with a drunken parrot,
What do you do with a drunken parrot,
Earl-eye in the morning!
It’s
Continue reading →Would you happen to know?
The answer to some technical questions which are beyond me at the moment?
Thanks to the generosity of one of my readers (you know who you are, bless you!) I have been given an Ipad to
Continue reading →Rise of the Holy Barroso Empire
Great news from the heart of Euro land. The Euro has been a massive success! As a currency it is stable, strong, and has produced massive economic growth. The inevitable conclusion is that there should
Continue reading →Sycophantitis
Sycophantitis is a debilitating virus that has been known to drain the life and soul of thousands of individuals across various social demographics in the Uk. If untreated, it can
Continue reading →Big Ern and the beneficial properties of HP sauce
Do you ever have days when it all goes wrong?
I was all ready to go home last Friday; scrubbed, showered, dressed, packed, taxi arrived, waved off into lift on the second floor.
By the time the
Continue reading →Another question for “the left”
I was perusing this piece on regulation, and something familiar leaped out of the text:
The Portland area’s response to the lack of affordable housing has been the implementation
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Gaddafi and the IRA, and the exposure of ITV
On Monday night ITV broadcast “Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA“, a documentary about the connection between Libya and the IRA. This was a serious programme about serious events though
Continue reading →A genuine question. Or two.
I have often railed against the behaviour of “the left” when it comes to confusing intentions with outcome. I have on occasion even said that I really don’t care how heartless or cruel the motive is,
Continue reading →Stupid Idiot
So a teenager called Paul Thompson has been called a stupid idiot. Now it’s well known that most teenagers are stupid idiots. I was when I was
Continue reading →The Only Way is Downton Abbey
Well done The ITV!
How clever of you to find some way of making the turgid new series of ‘The Only Way Is Downton Abbey” actually watchable by cleverly cutting to the
Continue reading →In the pub cellar
We’ve been a bit busy in the pub cellar sorting out all the beer barrels so please talk amongst yourselves for a while. Normal service will be resumed soon. Talk about
Continue reading →Caption Competition – Boxing
A virtual coconut to the reader who can come up with the smartest caption for this video.
It concerns what turned out to
Continue reading →E-petitions: the modern professional penitent?
I was reading about the terrible case of Troy Davis, a black man accused of killing a policeman in in the US:
The federal court that finally reviewed evidence of Davis’ innocence
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Total Politics blew our trumpet
[Update: To reflect that the work is all done by the staff at Total Politics – to whom our congratulations – the title has been updated.]
We’ve just had the final results of
Continue reading →Angry Bird
No, not the game, the constellation or more specifically the nebula Lambda Centauri, also known as the “Running Chicken Nebula” or it could be the Angry Bird.
NASA has just released some new pictures of the nebula
Continue reading →Why We Need A Death Penalty & Why We Need Jurors (part 2 of 2)
In the first part of this duplex, I responded to Daz Pearce’s challenges about the death penalty in the first part of his article. Here I respond to the challenges Mr
Continue reading →Why We Need A Death Penalty & Why We Need Jurors (part 1 of 2)
I thank Mr Darren “Daz” Pearce for his latest contribution to our capital punishment debate. For those of you joining the debate in media res, Mr Pearce opened the debate
Continue reading →Contrary Daily Mail readers
Being a man (well a sad lad), I couldn’t help but click on a Daily Mail article which was highlighted by a photo of four naked women. The Daily Mail know this is what men do
Continue reading →Women in gaol
Please note: this post has NOTHING to do with my anarchist beliefs, and is made in the context of current societal norms.
I attended an interesting debate and discussion
Continue reading →Sarah, Untethered
They took Sarah Teather, the Minister of State for Children and Families, to Birmingham, and let her off the leash.
Ouch?
Via Guido.
Continue reading →Cutting Tax Evasion is Easy – Cut Taxes
By definition, the cost of tax evasion in terms of lost revenue to the UK Treasury is a figure which can only be the subject of an estimated guess.
What appears to be almost certain is
Continue reading →Prescott Doggerel.
It’s an iniquitous thing to be
A two-Jag own-ing Labour man like me,
(Chauffer-driven 20 yards in case of showers)
While the Red Flag flies aloft at Prescott Towers!
Such a notorious bloke as me
Deserves to get his toilet-seats for free
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Turkeys voting for Christmas
In Leeds councillors have recently rejected a vote to stop paying union “Pilgrims” over £400,000 a year. Interestingly just about all the councillors who voted to reject the motion were Labour and all were union members.
Continue reading →Two Headed Snakes.
The patchwork quilt known as the European Union, which was forcibly flung around our shoulders to protect us from the chill wind as our Sovereignty was stolen, is coming apart at the seams.
The ‘fat quarters’,
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
The hierarchy of grief.
The reporter assured us that he thought he saw a tear in Peter Hain’s eye. The last time something resembling that was spotted, it was the day he announced his resignation after the police launched an investigation
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