For those of who remember the case of Steven Neary, you will be pleased to learn that his father Mark has written a book about his experiences.
If a recent story by Mark
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The injustice of the EAW
Many readers of this blog will know about the European Arrest Warrant (EAW). Many readers of all political persuasions will also be of the opinion that the EAW is a step
Continue reading →Road Safety Ambulance Chasers
There’s been a road accident, in case no one heard.
A huge, ‘ginormous, road accident.
On the M5, on Saturday 5th.
As the BBC
Continue reading →Sacred Cows.
Taking an autumnal Sunday afternoon stroll through the Blog heartlands with my trusty keyboard trotting alongside yesterday, I managed to put up an entire flight of feministas – Cor! Feathers everywhere! I
Continue reading →Sovereign Piracy
I realise that many of you may see this as something of a specialist rant, if you will, but bear with me.
I was provided with a link to a rather fascinating document about the matter of
Continue reading →Female Bloggers Cry Rape?
I published this piece this afternoon on Dale and co.It has attracted a string of retweets by the predictable few, and some interesting comments.
The consensus of opinion seems to be that because I have never
Continue reading →Archive Post – Callow Jarrow.
Callow Jarrow.
75 years ago, 200 carefully selected men, in strict formation and their Sunday best, accompanied by a barber – lest they give the impression of being unemployable en route – set out to march the 299 miles
Continue reading →In the Absence of the Born Leader, Talent Becomes Everything
Man City’s astonishing demolition of their city rivals at fortress Old Trafford was too significant as both result and statement not to have any lasting meaning. This bunny is by no means a United supporter, although the
Continue reading →Libertarian Left or Right?
Libertarianism, if it be the promotion of individual liberty and individual responsibility, is neither left nor right. In the British context it is neither Conservative nor Labour. It is not, essentially,
Continue reading →1.4 million years to clear housing waiting list
The National Housing Federation has just invented some figures to lobby the government with as they try and push their pet agendas.
Using some figures from a
Continue reading →Pouring Greece on Troubled Waters.
Just when the Bankers and the Politicians thought they had it all sewn up – even Gordon Brown has done a complete about turn from his days of ‘British Jobs for British Workers’ and called (from the
Continue reading →Competition -The National Animal?
A suggestion from Saul, following the news that Canadians are lobbying to change their national animal from the Beaver to the Polar Bear (so very ‘this year’!) .
What animal would you choose to represent
Continue reading →Too much law, too little evidence?
Vincent Tabak is now behind bars for murder, rather than for manslaughter. That is important. It does not bring back his victim, Joanna Yeates, and it will not end her family’s
Continue reading →Conservatively disgusted
The scientists have been at it again. They seem to have found a connection between having right wing views and being easily disgusted at disgusting images.
The
Continue reading →The modern way to handle a situation
When a couple of people does something wrong what would you normally expect to be the reaction. Would you tell the people involved off and ban them or take some similar appropriate action to ensure that the problem
Continue reading →Occupy the Motor Trade!
How To Be Sectioned, Part 2
A few weeks ago I wrote an inconsequential piece about a strange experience in which I underwent a so called “peak” experience. My conclusion was that this was a real phenomenon which was created
Continue reading →Go Faster – Spend More.
In the week after Cameron (and Miliband) showed their utter contempt for the principle of MPs being in parliament to reflect their constituents wishes, and proved conclusively that they were merely the henchmen of their party leader;
Continue reading →Anonymous – Hints for Citizens in a Revolution.
Anonymous, the internet based activist group best known in the UK for its attacks on Amazon, PayPal, Mastercard and Visa in the wake of Wikileak’s publication of the US diplomatic cables, has published its definitive volume of
Continue reading →Loitering within Tent : Where’s Wally? #olsx
Spread-Sheeting Sanctimonious Sanctuary.
Giles Fraser took the cheap way out of advertising his resignation his morning. No beautifully penned letter with a first class stamp for him – he did it via Twitter.
Empty heads and empty tents at St Paul’s Cathedral #olsx
These #occupy demonstrations at St Paul’s Cathedral are brilliantly revealing.
It’s like a Continue reading →
The Patchwork Quilt.
‘Europe’ as a legal entity was designed to stitch together disparate nations.
As any student of the origins of patchwork quilting (I am not talking of the modern commercialised, ready to sew version) would tell you
Continue reading →60 things you say to children
60 things a parent has told their child: – What do you mean you’re still hungry
– Don’t touch that, it’s hot
– Go to bed, I’m tired
– Don’t step
Marat/Sade
I understand from the MSM that hundreds of people have been leaving a Royal Shakespeare Company‘s show early, during the interval
Continue reading →Snip! Snip!
Ah, those terrible cuts! We have protests, we have rage, we have the incomprehensible irony of people occupying public spaces against global capitalism, while yakking on their spanking new iPhone 4S’s and sipping a Starbucks decaf
Continue reading →Lord of the Flies Beds Down in Animal Farm.
The Occupy UK shower have done their best, there was always a delicious irony in their making their bed in the guest accommodation of the wealthiest ‘corporation’ in Britain and certainly the one that pays the lowest
Continue reading →Does it really cost that much?
Simon Cooke asks on his blog how setting up the videoing of council meetings at Hampshire County Council could possibly cost nearly a quarter of a million pounds.
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Stop Press | Democracy – the Left Wing Version.
Hastings Borough Council, a Labour dominated council, are committed to “equality of opportunity” – so long as you agree with their views.
If you don’t agree with their views, or you chose to listen to those
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