A SECURITY guard from South Yorkshire shot himself in the hand to try to remove a wart from his finger.
No point in aiming at his foot when the wart was on his finger, was
Continue reading →A SECURITY guard from South Yorkshire shot himself in the hand to try to remove a wart from his finger.
No point in aiming at his foot when the wart was on his finger, was
Continue reading →One of the failings of the European Union is in its attempt to convince us that we are all the same, just human beings. We are not – and nothing divides us more than our sense of
Continue reading →The recent case of Steven Neary is the tip of the iceberg. Mark Neary is to be commended for winning his case, but the grim truth is that he is an exception and not the rule.
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I make no apologies for keeping the corpse of the euthanasia/assisted suicide argument hanging around the bar today; if the stench is unpleasant and disagreeable to you, so be it. It’ll be your stench one day, you can’t live
Continue reading →I freely admit I didn’t watch the Terry Pratchett documentary on the Right to Die. At the last minute I voted in favour of a quiet glass of wine with Mr G in the setting sun. It
Continue reading →“Of course there is and always has been a role for anonymous quotes in journalism. But whereas it used to be that the balance of probability was that they were genuine, I think these days the balance
Continue reading →I’ve been doing well this week – first Stuart Fairney’s book arrived in the post, then an advance copy of a riveting DVD. ‘Inside Job’.
It genuinely is a riveting DVD; it’s well
Continue reading →There is nothing the Western world of bleeding heart liberals likes more than tales of oppressed women and oppressed homosexuals. Oppressed women who are also homosexual, and have been seized by armed men, and hustled into large
Continue reading →Laura Peony has kindly done another guest post.
Hello the blog.
I’ve started a new secret project; it’s the homework for my “Increase your Wordpower” course. I’ve got to get as many
Continue reading →Stuart Fairney sent me his new book, ‘Single Acts of Tyranny’, to read last week. Until I forced myself to read the Millennium trilogy a few weeks ago, I hadn’t read a novel in years.
Continue reading →Over 100 years ago, the Rev. LaFayette Moore, a Baptist minister, gave up parish work and entered the business world with a pill cutter and gelatin coating machine. He rented
Continue reading →We should really celebrate some of the magnificent examples that surround us at the moment. Perhaps a sludge grey ribbon lapel button or a badge with an upside down principle, or even better, one of those mobile
Continue reading →A guest post from Laura Peony.
Hello, the blog.
It’s been a very strange few months. Things have
Continue reading →Last year I reported extensively on the case of Steven Neary, a 20 year old autistic man. At the time, only Private Eye had taken
Continue reading →The Schnitzel, as any good cook will tell you, is a lump of immature meat, encased in a crust. The only way to make it edible is to beat it within an inch of its life, and
Continue reading →This week in the Lords there was a debate about the need to recognise the ‘women of SOE’. As Baroness Crawley put it:
In this Question for Short
Continue reading →The FIFA soap opera continues, and Placido Domingo, Johan Cruyff and Henry Kissinger have been drafted in to save world football.
As Sepp Blatter put it:
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The house that Vera Baird put on the market for £315,000 last year after she had finished ‘winding up’ her constituents in sunny Redcar, has finally sold for £265,000.
This is the house that
Continue reading →Where, precisely, does our sexual orientation stem from?
Certainly not our birth certificate which is a rough ‘rule of thumb’ observation recorded at a time of considerable drama. Yep, looks like a penis, that’s a boy!
Have we seen such fear and loathing since the Black Death hit London?
The Daily Mail says we should avoid eating ‘European food’, conveniently forgetting that the UK is part and parcel of Europe, no matter
Continue reading →So there you are – a responsible parent, anxious only to do the best by your children.
It’s your son’s 12th birthday, a celebration is called for! What are you? 30, 35? Certainly the right age
Continue reading →When M16 use GCHQ computer experts to hack into Middle Eastern computers and replace bomb making instructions with a recipe for cup cakes, it’s a bit of a giggle, What Ho! Boys, just a jolly
Continue reading →How curious it is that a country such as the UK, which has been so staunchly socialist for the past 13 years, should be so obsessed with ‘individual rights’. It is those ‘individual rights’ which lie behind
Continue reading →Hello my darlings – I haven’t half missed you all!
Rural France excels at things like growing lettuces, keeping families together, fostering community spirit; by heck, it struggles when asked to integrate with the modern high
Continue reading →I am publishing this article here for two reasons. Firstly, Anna was good enough recently to give me a platform for my Minority Report when I was temporarily unable to publish on the Libertarian Party site. Secondly,
Continue reading →I don’t want to be told that we ‘live in a democracy’ any longer; the phrase now irritates me beyond belief.
Everywhere I look I see evidence that the feudal system of kings and serfs is
Continue reading →In talks with South Africa President Jacob Zuma, the
Continue reading →It is a well known mathematical and philosophical conundrum. If the universe is infinite, then somewhere, according to the laws of probability, there must be an infinite number of monkeys sitting on front of type writers.
Continue reading →Normally when you see someone doing something naughty you always think “if only there was a policeman here” who would then nab the naughty person and give them a good talking to.
Well I hate
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