Willy Stobbs, respected local farmer and county stalwart was alleged to have used the ‘f’ word twice. It cost him £85 and a conditional discharge.
Since you can now burn multiple poppies on Remembrance Day for
Continue reading →Willy Stobbs, respected local farmer and county stalwart was alleged to have used the ‘f’ word twice. It cost him £85 and a conditional discharge.
Since you can now burn multiple poppies on Remembrance Day for
Continue reading →As many of you will have received your census form in the last few days, I thought it might be worthwhile giving you a guide into how to fill in the form.
Some
Continue reading →We don’t want to fight but by Jingo if we do
We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men,
and we’ve got the money too;
The euphemisms are being run up the flag pole, and the international armchair
Continue reading →As most of this blog’s regular readers know the democratic process in this country is practically non-existent, and can only be described as a “faux-democracy”. The farce that is our democracy is evident at both
Continue reading →There probably aren’t many people who want to know what ‘goes on’ in the Court of Protection more than me; it’s what I spend much of my time trying to fathom. An outsider would be forgiven for
Continue reading →Liverpool Council’s Spring Sale of cremations is about to end – from the 1st April the price will increase by £156 – those council tenants who thought all their Christmas’s had come at once when they were
Continue reading →OMG! Mineral oils will give you cancer, you will have organ failures, your body contains this contaminant at levels 100 of times recommended guidelines. All this coming from a green product. Recycled cardboard used in packaging
Continue reading →As most of this blog’s regular readers know the democratic process in this country is practically non-existent, and can only be described as a “faux-democracy”. The farce that is our democracy is evident at both local and
Continue reading →As I have mentioned in my previous article on the census, I don’t believe that there is much of a case for it to be used in
Continue reading →Dear Diary,
Friday night.
Back in my idyllic Yorkshire constituency! I’m up for a bit of romance so I decide to really splash out and treat Ffion to a slap up meal of
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Last year I wrote of the load of bollards appearing in Newcastle at a cost of £500,000 which they maintained was an anti-terrorist device recommended by M16. It turned out to be a government grant which
Continue reading →Pornography was once an art form to be enjoyed exclusively in your own home, in private, away from prying eyes. Victorian sensibilities ensured that.
These days Pornography, at least the so-called ‘soft’ pornography is on sale
Continue reading →The accuracy of the census has been called into question by various councils. This is because their budgets are calculated based on the figures from the census. They are worried that the census might not count
Continue reading →Mr T, who came before Mr G, in my dyslexic litany of marriages, once offered to move a boiler for me so that I could squeeze another piece of kitchen equipment into the resulting space. The offer
Continue reading →I have a problem; being a Sunday, I have to solve it myself.
I have two linked computer screens.
A HYUNDAIIT X91D Digital on NVIDIA Geoforce 7050 PV/ NVIDIA nforce630a as my primary screen
Continue reading →All your problems solved with our straight talking no nonsense Sister of Mercy!
Dear Sister Eva,
I have been a serving officer in the Parachute Regiment for 8 years and
Continue reading →An object lesson in parting words as you fling open the door to that harsh, cruel world. Tantrumtastical.
Richard Peppiatt leaves the comforting embrace [Ed. Are you sure?] of employment with the Daily Star,
Continue reading →This week’s events in Libya have overshadowed the death of Shahbaz Bhatti in Pakistan.
Bhatti died in his car on Wednesday, cut down in a hail of bullets.
Bhatti was a Christian,
Continue reading →If you are of a sensitive, politically correct disposition, best you run away now and play Solitaire or something, this post is not for you. You’ll only get upset.
I want to talk about the deep
Continue reading →Senior Civil Servants – you have to love ‘em don’t you? For months now they have been urged to find ways to save money in their departments. Some have responded by ‘cutting front line services’, others have
Continue reading →Those with long memories will remember the Grosvenor Square demonstration in 1968. I was walking down Oxford Street, window shopping at the time, an innocent enough occupation. Unfortunately, I had the misfortune to be accompanied by my
Continue reading →I always knew there was a very good reason why I had no ambition to be an employment lawyer. It meant grappling with the likes of The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 or TUPE
Continue reading →Last week I reported on the curious case of the breast milk ice-cream on sale in London’s Covent Garden.
Ice-cream confectioner Matt O’Connor was confident his take on the “miracle of motherhood” and priced at
Continue reading →“London School of Useful Idiots” 1
The best description yet of left wing intellectuals who might have lots of intelligence but no common sense, no reason and no morals. They are so keen on supporting
Continue reading →Mea Culpa! I have long been guilty of boring you all to a state of near death with my tales of the Court of Protection. There was method in my cruelty. I shall not make
Continue reading →Seven years after the death of Princess Diana sparked a national outpouring of grief in floral format, tightly bundled in the non-biodegradable ‘wrap’ that florists use, rather than true cellophane, the ‘future compost’ tributes were still being
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