Clang! Clang! Ding-a-ling! Can I have silence in the bar please! Your landlady would like to say a few words.
I would like to propose a toast.
Some of my more regular readers are aware that I
Continue reading →Yearly Archives: 2011
The World Turned Upside Down.
This is a sad story, but I am grateful to Ambush Predator (Julia) for bringing it to my attention in her tweets. AP has already blogged on this, but I don’t feel
Continue reading →Stony Hearts?
Stony hearted? No, that’s not it. Stone – didn’t feed horse? Nope! Dobbin, Dobbin, Dobbin running around the neurones. Think! Visualise the cloud, don’t panic, you wrote
Continue reading →Integration and Multi-culturalism.
Much ruffling of Guardianista feathers today. The Prime-Minister’s speech in Munich stating that we must all try harder to integrate and adopt ‘British values’ may be responsible for the appearance of this article in the Guardian, one of our famed
Continue reading →Takin’ the ‘P’.
I’d like a show of virtual hands, please, from those readers who have recently filled up their petrol tank with the usual care and control and yet who have arrived at the cashier’s desk to
Continue reading →Multiculturalism has failed in Britain – Cameron
10 out of 10 for raw courage Mr Cameron!
This morning he will dive head first into the hornet’s nest of multiculturalism.In a direct assault on the sacred behemoth of the far left, he
Continue reading →Gang, Bang!
Regular readers will know that I have a passing interest in history, and like to post from a constant perspective on life that there is nothing new under the sun.
Recently SadButmadLad’s post
Continue reading →PeterPan in porn shocker
Unrealistic Expectations?
A Swedish TV company is today reflecting upon the Ombudsman’s (surprised they have a word for it, really) ruling that the above picture is sexist and offensive. Someone complained that it was and
Continue reading →‘School Dinner’ Money Wanted.
Carol Hill is the school dinner lady who committed the heinous crime of telling the parents – what’s it got to do with them? – of Chloe David that she had been bullied at school. Tsk!
Carol
Continue reading →Too stupid for sex?
Our sex drive is a basic instinct, one of our prime motivations in life. Without it, there would be no more humans. You might imagine that our judiciary, if only in order to keep up a willing stream of
Continue reading →Party!
Party! There’s going to be a party on the street. Well so long as the council allow it.
Andrew Withers has previously mentioned the Royal Wedding where
Continue reading →Public Libraries Censoring Bloggers.
Censorship of the press is considered a heinous crime best avoided even by those political parties who would cheerfully see the UK emulate North Korea in all manner of things.
Can you imagine the outcry if
Continue reading →A True Tale of the Daily Fail.
A guest post by Juliet Shaw – feel free to retweet it, it’s essential reading for those interested in how the media operates. Regular readers will remember THIS ‘disgraceful piece of journalism’.
I grew up with the Daily
Lockerbie, Labour and Realpolitik
It is, perhaps, a surprise that a human figure, as revered as a priestly relic; part wax effigy, part mortal remains and part fancy sits at the end of the South Cloisters of
Continue reading →Poor dumb dog
Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!
Cardboard milk
Competition: How to define Libertarianism?
The Mises Circle, a libertarian group that meets in the European Parliament, is running a competition to find the best new definition of Libertarianism. Here are the details….
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The Challenge
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Power to the wrong people.
Online crime maps ‘putting power in the hands of the people’ scream the headlines.
They would appear to be accurate – going onto the fancy new police web site HERE today I tapped in
Continue reading →Curbing the Press.
Another knee jerk reaction from our sober politicians, this time reacting to the ‘speculation banquet’ attended by all the national newspapers in the wake of the questioning and subsequent bailing of Chris Jefferies in the Joanna
Continue reading →Putting Sand In The Engine And A Potato Up The Exhaust
The ‘Political Consequences Of Mr Brown’. Now that Ed Balls is now the Leader of the Labour Party (De Facto) he is calling for a plan B to stop jobs being
Continue reading →What is ‘normal’?
I have been stirred into print this morning by a new ‘mental affliction’ discovered in America – where else.
I am not, it would appear ‘normal’. I suffer from a defect in the brain. A ‘fault’.
Continue reading →Never Ending Price Increases.
Deportation, or transport to the colonies used to be free. It was a punishment. Not any longer.
Grimsby man James O’Neill proved his eligibility for convict central, otherwise known as Australia, by leaving one
Continue reading →Minister for Silly Crimes
Sunday Contributions.
It’s the commentators that make this blog – erudite, witty, emotive, angry, endlessly fascinating, they come in all shapes and sizes, and are the whole reason this blog exists – here are my favourites from this week.
Open Wide for Nanny……
Roll up, roll up, roll up from the bottom.
Whilst you were asleep, Nanny’s found a nice new cavity for her to insert herself into.
“More modern interventions are selected from a palette
Continue reading →Libertarian bloggers strip off for Clarity.
Katabasis strips away the BBCs claim to ‘impartial news’ with surgical precision.
The background to this story is the ever bubbling slurry pit of ‘climate warming’, which has been a happy playground for Libertarian bloggers, commencing
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Outsize Edition. Julia M fisking JohannH to perfection. Skiplicker, off, gorged, sobered and back again….. Subrosa the all seeing eye. Continue reading → The Porn Again Expert.
Brrr! Brrr! Brrr! Brrr!
‘Good Morning! “Job Centre”, how can we help you?’
‘Ah, Radio 5 here, we’re making a documentary about porn stars and we need a talking head who can give
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