‘Hurrah’ they chanted, ‘Find
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A – you’re adorable… An alphabetical review of 2011
An alphabetical review of 2011
A is for Arab Spring, Aiden Burley, Adele, Aflocalypse and Azerbaijan
The wind of change whirls around the Arab world in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Libya
Continue reading →The Price of Empire Building.
Over the past 20 years, the NHS has systematically – and I use that word deliberately – built itself into a closed shop for every variety of care.
It has done so I believe deliberately; for
Continue reading →Religeous Harmony
Doncha just love it?
Playing on the Old Joanna.
Let’s see how good your memory is! “War, disease, crime and banditry, distress of nations and perplexity will increase until …”
If you were a connoisseur of 1960′s and 1970′s Fleet Street newspapers, you will recognise
Continue reading →The Quiet Man.
Happy Christmas to you all!
I raise a glass to you all – and wish you the best possible Christmas.
It has been an extraordinary year, so many changes in the world – and a good few in my world.
You
Continue reading →Hands Up Ladies!
I was sent this newspaper link a few minutes ago by a reader who is oft times amused by my ability to see an alternative view of any issue. ‘Go on, spin this one’ he said. I
Continue reading →Crisis at Christmas.
It must be Christmas – guilt inducing adverts and press releases have increased dramatically.
In between Fedosi starving in the arms of her well fed Mother, (only £2 a month) and saving Ayesha from marrying at
Continue reading →Keeping France Afloat
For the last couple of days President Sarkozy has been looking slightly like a 1.65 metre man standing at the bottom of a 1.75 metre puddle having a rhetorical go at the old enemy, but blowing a
Continue reading →Bus advert fail
Ignore for the moment that the picture shows that Windows has failed to load on the computer driving the display.
Just think back a bit. Back behind the bus. In the brain of the driver of the car behind the bus.
Do
Continue reading →Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.
“Planning laws should be changed radically to ensure that retail developments are built in town centres rather than on edge-of-town sites or in the countryside, Mary Portas has said.”
Thus spake the Queen of
Continue reading →Citizen Police
The Peelian principle states that “The police are the public and the public are the police“
So when a member of the public is willing to stand up when something goes wrong rather than stay
Continue reading →Tears on my Pilau.
As you settle down to listen to the news tonight over your plate of chicken nuggets smothered in Hellman’s mayonnaise and baked for a mere 6 minutes, prepare yourself for the doom and gloom.
Not the
Continue reading →The Moving Target
I make no apology for reposting an entry from 2009. I said at the time it was a classic Bear Trap – and so it has come to pass – The government that didn’t have the spine
Continue reading →The Charge of the Right Brigade.
Half a brain half a brain,
Half a brain between us,
Hours in the Houses of Commons
Jawed the six hundred:
‘Forward, the Right Brigade!
Screw up the Huns’ Cameron said:
Into the valley of Austerity
Talked the six hundred (and 49!)
‘Veto! the Euro is slayed!’
Was
Swales’ Tale – A God-awful Fail.
The Lib-Dems have a remarkable propensity to swing both ways. Bleeding heart hand wringers over the dinner table – right wing reactionaries when they encounter real life.
The constituency office of Ian Swales received a swathe
Continue reading →Plucky Little Britain.
Alone amongst the EU countries, Plucky Little Britain and its plucky little Prime Minister has walked away from the negotiating table, noisily demanding the right to be profligate with its national budget if it wishes.
Quite
Continue reading →Live Cable Going Underground?
What now? This is a watershed moment. For some Lib Dems, it is close to breaking point. Business secretary Vince Cable spoke passionately in cabinet last Monday against making the small casino part of the City a
Continue reading →Throwing in the Blogging Towel…
Not I – don’t be daft!
I’ve just become very aware over the past few weeks that less than 10% of my RSS feeds to other blogs have been updated.
Tim Worstall still beavers
Continue reading →Muff Marching in Marylebone.
I would dearly love to write fiction – but how can one compete with the truth? The media continue to churn out (reasonably) factual stories that I could not dream up with the help of a gallon
Continue reading →Friday Limerick Competition
The too-Coldingham Turbine…
Though a turbine to some may seem pleasing
When it’s blowing quite briskly or breezing,
In the winter’s deep chill
When the air is quite still
They need heaters to keep them from freezing.
If
Continue reading →Deborah, Deborah, what will become of you?
Who’d a thought it eh?
The Dutch government are to abandon the likes of the dreadful Deborah Arnott’s Dutch colleagues to public subscription!
No more public money for the anti-smoking lobby. No more free
Continue reading →Air Hits Fans…..
Remember all those stories of the ‘useless’ wind turbines. Operating at less than 25% capacity. £283,000 a year subsidies for managing to operate at 30%?
Last night the near stationary fans in Scotland finally got enough wind.
And whoops…
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Latest News:The ‘gay’ rape of a one month old baby?
Expensive Horseshit.
Some are desperate enough to
Continue reading →The Lurch to Libertarianism.
The National Centre for Social Research today released the latest British Social Attitudes report, its annual study of how people’s lives are changing and their views on how Britain is run.
One of the main findings
Continue reading →Damn Statistics…
Now, only 2% of the population each
Continue reading →First Class Post.
Hah! That’s cheered me up. Hilarious.
They are going to send the ‘morning after pill’ by post – over Christmas.
They’ll be lucky if they get it by the end of January.
We don’t
Continue reading →12 Step programme for the Euro?
‘Tories at War’, scream the headlines – naturally they are at war with each other, rather than the enemy at the door. The comments on Conservative Home this morning would be hilarious if the situation wasn’t so
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