A relative of mine recently changed their number plate at the same time as exchanging cars. Due to problems along the way they had two cars with identical number plates. Garages are not that efficient and the DVLA
Continue reading →Yearly Archives: 2011
Flooding the News.
Yesterday Anna Raccoon posted one of those incredible photographs that tell a story without using a single word – a Brazilian dog by a freshly filled grave marked simply ’305′, with rows of empty graves stretching away behind
Continue reading →Quote of the Day.
But when any of us write something these days, it is like tiptoeing to a cage with a hunk of meat, and nervously prodding it through the bars. Sometimes the blogosphere will
Continue reading →Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus – Dictator Then, Dictator Now
On Saturday Ed Miliband gave a speech at a conference organised by the Fabian Society, by doing so he is endorsing an organisation that is the closest I can equate to an unethical, amoral resident evil still in
Continue reading →The Erosion of Autonomy.
The shoreline of Autonomy has been under attack for hundreds of years. Perhaps since time immemorial. Yet Autonomy, in its philosophical sense, is the single most important ingredient of our persona which separates us from the animal world.
Continue reading →A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words.
The world media haven’t found it so easy to wring the heart wrenching front page stories out of the flood disaster in Brazil as they have done in Australia. It’s not so easy to travel in the
Continue reading →The Sunday Sermon – Bankers, bonuses, and the “S” word
This week, as part of my ministry, I was called upon to give comfort to a man who had lost his home. Jon, as we shall call him, had been made bankrupt, and his
Continue reading →Whoopsy Poopsy!
The tree huggers can hang their heads in shame. Humble pie is on the menu for some months to come.
The devastating forest fires in Israel before Christmas killed 42 people and destroyed a
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Woman on a Raft aims her bow at the archers. Al Jahom shoots Kerry in style. Tim Worstall on medical advances. Continue reading → Unlikely Heroes Of The Revolution
I was recently introduced to a character from recent history by David Farrer of the Libertarian Alliance who is an unlikely hero of the Classical Liberal Revolution and a
Continue reading →The Real Oldham Election Results
How Can Yvette Cooper say on Radio 4 that the Oldham Result gave a clear message of anger to the Government ? They Continue reading →
Breaking Bread With Crusties.PC Mark Kennedy is scarcely the first police officer to include sex in his repertoire of policing skills. Nor is he the first officer to emerge from a period ‘undercover’ psychologically damaged. WPC “Lizzie James” as she was Continue reading →I need your help!Could you just take a minute or two out of your day and do something to help me? I need you to tell me what you think a word means. I don’t want a cut and past job from the nearest on-line dictionary, Continue reading →How to handle interviews In the light of MP Kerry McCarthy saying that she was misquoted in a sunday newspaper about the call to DNA test every male in the Bristol and surrounding areas here is a Continue reading → Vegetarianism When laws aren’t needed
And You Think We Have Problems Today’s guest poster is Mik Robertson on how the requirement for a £500 deposit and ten signatures is positively open compare to the United States
Unrealistic Expectations.
The Wonders of Modern Policing. Have you got a search warrant Officer? Deep in the heart of Bradford, the Police helicopter was monitoring the comings and goings of the community. Serious crimes of Continue reading →This Signals That The World Is Coming Together To Save Europe “This signals that the world is coming together” to save Europe, said Noriaki Matsuoka, an economist at Daiwa Asset Management Co. in Tokyo. “But it’s unlikely the euro will maintain its current strength. It’s unclear whether the market Continue reading →
Super Hero Gets Broken NoseA superhero called Phoenix Jones is protecting the town of Lynwood near Seattle USA. The local Police have advised people not to take the Law into their own hands but to call 911. The Superhero was quoted as saying Continue reading →GerrymanderingOne of the first testing grounds for the new Libertarian Party was fighting the Norwich North By Election. We learned a huge amount. We gained precious little in the way of votes, but a huge amount by way the cynical way elections Continue reading →Lets Just Reintroduce The Six Acts And Have Done With ItThis morning I heard the BBC intone the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords ‘ could not be laid at the door of one lone deranged gunman but as a result of a hostile right wing political discourse’. Where is this coming from ? Yes Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading (Better late than never edition) Quote of the Day.They started a relationship shortly afterwards during a Christmas visit to a local pub. Nadine Dorries MP explaining where and when her ‘platonic’ relationship with John Butler MP became, er, Continue reading →The New Year Crush to Get Insured.The combination of the ‘libertarian’ (?) Lib-Dems and the ‘rolling back the State’ (?) Conservatives are bulldozing their way to ever more impressive authoritarian heights. If your car is uninsured it is liable to Continue reading →Black and White | Plain Speaking.Whoa! Haven’t we all got our knickers in a twist? So much so that I find myself in agreement with Keith Vaz – not quite sure what the long term effects on my health that will be – probably Continue reading →The cruellest hoax of all.Long ago, I watched a young man create an elaborate ‘cat’s cradle’. It involved perhaps a half kilometre of twine, stretched from cupboard door to cupboard door, rendering the kitchen unusable during its construction. It was breathtakingly beautiful Continue reading →The perfect MP
A politician who jumps up at any opportunity and makes a name for himself by grandstanding and coming up with new laws and opinions every other Continue reading →Resistance is Useless…….. Not QuiteMy letter of the day following the iniquitous fine against Michael Thompson for obstructing the Police in the course of their duty by warning other motorists of a speed trap set by the local Continue reading → |
