An eerie silence in the Raccoon bar, no e-mails from the prudish Thaddeus telling me I’ve shocked him yet again, nothing from Gildas threatening to put me on the naughty step once more – not even the
Continue reading →Yearly Archives: 2011
The end of the world is nigh!
Are you still here? Is anyone reading this blog. Please let us know as the world should have ended by now.
Harold Camping is the one who
Continue reading →A Shaggy Hamster Tale.
The crowded route to Liam Fox’s arse, being on the line, has produced some strange bedfellows; last night I stumbled on possibly the queerest one of all. The Pet Shop Boy.
Nah, not those singing mongs,
Continue reading →This is not an April Fool’s joke.
Truly it’s not, I promise you. I’ll even give you a link to an ‘authoritative’ source. Honest. Soon as I stop laughing.
You remember all those families living ‘below the poverty line’, the ones the heartless
Continue reading →Something odd going on…
I don’t understand it at all. Help me out here folks!
Whilst those who would seize any opportunity to get ‘out from under the thumb of Brussels’ are happily chortling that having iDave and Vague in
Continue reading →The Real Cost…
Exclusive – Welsh Wails.
There is a folk lore image of the down-trodden miner, coal grimed face, singing ‘Men of Harlech’ as he is forced down thousands of feet underground with hundreds of his fellow men for the exclusive benefit of
Continue reading →Occupy! Occupy!
I have watched, with increasing amazement, the occupation of various “symbolic” venues by people representing “99%” of society, in protest against the greed of the remaining 1%.
I don’t know who this mysterious 99% is,
Continue reading →Sacrificed Alternatives
Imagine, if you will, that from our point of view, the government is a business, just like any other business. And just like any other business that we deal with, we pay them a certain amount
Continue reading →PentUpToDate Rants.
What a week to miss in politics!
Liam Fox resigns to spend more time with his exotic extended ‘family’. While we wait with scarcely baited breath to find out which ‘wing’ of his family he will
Continue reading →Technophilia
When Blackberry’s worlwide lost their connection to each other and the world many of Blackberry’s customers loudly proclaimed that they would chuck their handsets in for iPhones (other phones
Continue reading →16 Year Olds Should Have the Right to Vote – and Just as Importantly, the Right Not To
The subject of lowering the voting age occasionally comes up under the conversational umbrella of “how do we get the general public engaged with the political process again?”. As a
Continue reading →Darwin awards
Imagine
Close your eyes and imagine this scenario: although no-one is particularly complaining about some vague and menacing-sounding situation involving children, the government has decided that it has to be seen to be doing something.
The Perfect Politician
With its Trougher shaped features, tentacles reaching out into many different pies, transparently full of sh*t, it dwells beneath the surface of our understanding, and is always smiling to itself….
I give you, courtesy of the Daily Telegraph, a
Continue reading →Past Lives and the NHS.
I posted yesterday on the different attitude between France and the UK to families being present in a hospital and helping nurse their relatives. I hadn’t appreciated until the comments started coming in – and a couple
Continue reading →Back When We Had Time to Care…
Are you old enough to remember when you went through the weekly budget with a pencil, working out whether you could afford to go down to DER and rent a TV? Remember when carpets only covered the
Continue reading →Why create new law
Prompted by a post by LongRider about safe limits and drinking and driving I started thinking about his idea that there shouldn’t be a law against drinking and driving
Continue reading →Hari Harigals.
You don’t have to lift Johann Hari’s shirt tail far to reveal a nest of brown nosed friends positively panting to rehabilitate him, or whatever they call it these days.
We have a fine example this
Continue reading →Barbershop food
I bet you’re wondering who or what or where a Kapsalon is?
The clue is in the picture above. It’s a type of food. The name is
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
The Blogess and how to reply to spam mail. Leg-Iron on the Americans and Irony. Nic Lowe on Engineering Laws.
Continue reading →The Fox and Hounds.
Fox hunting may be considered an odd occupation for the politically correct left, but they make an exception for old Liam. Reynard flâneur. A walker. (I am indebted to Charon QC for introducing me to that
Continue reading →Mickey Thomas for Chancellor!!
I wasn’t around to see the football of the late 1970s and was unable to gather a full understanding of what took place for most of the next decade. Watching
Continue reading →Rewriting History.
There is a sound reason why sane people don’t study the Law – it fries your brain. Normal people wish to retain a few brain cells to enable them to do ordinary things – like cross the
Continue reading →How to make a toaster
Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two
Continue reading →God help us!
The European Commission believes it is backed by a “silent majority” in favour of its push for further EU integration and potential future role as the economic government of Europe.
I didn’t make
Continue reading →“Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath Huhne out her seven pillars:”
In the course of current debate about the future of press regulation, there is a risk that any form of regulation will become a byword for draconian state interference – employed by none so oft as our
Continue reading →You Can’t Go Back, Mr Union Jack!
The political and economic crisis in Europe has ignited a spark of doubt in the European Union project across The Old Continent.
The United Kingdom always leads the crowd when those kind of doubts come to the
Continue reading →Pussy Talk and Conference Balls
I quite like Theresa May. It may be because I am an inveterate flirt and quite like posh women with fancy tastes in shoes. I don’t know. And when
Continue reading →BoJo Mojo
It was this photograph that tipped me over the edge.
Mr and Mrs Marks and Spencer modelling the conference ‘limited edition’ special.
The Halfords’ Area Manager arriving for the Chairman’s annual garden party.
Just
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