In the first part of this duplex, I responded to Daz Pearce’s challenges about the death penalty in the first part of his article. Here I respond to the challenges Mr
Continue reading →Why We Need A Death Penalty & Why We Need Jurors (part 2 of 2)
Why We Need A Death Penalty & Why We Need Jurors (part 1 of 2)
I thank Mr Darren “Daz” Pearce for his latest contribution to our capital punishment debate. For those of you joining the debate in media res, Mr Pearce opened the debate
Continue reading →Contrary Daily Mail readers
Being a man (well a sad lad), I couldn’t help but click on a Daily Mail article which was highlighted by a photo of four naked women. The Daily Mail know this is what men do
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Please note: this post has NOTHING to do with my anarchist beliefs, and is made in the context of current societal norms.
I attended an interesting debate and discussion
Continue reading →Sarah, Untethered
They took Sarah Teather, the Minister of State for Children and Families, to Birmingham, and let her off the leash.
Ouch?
Via Guido.
Continue reading →Cutting Tax Evasion is Easy – Cut Taxes
By definition, the cost of tax evasion in terms of lost revenue to the UK Treasury is a figure which can only be the subject of an estimated guess.
What appears to be almost certain is
Continue reading →Prescott Doggerel.
It’s an iniquitous thing to be
A two-Jag own-ing Labour man like me,
(Chauffer-driven 20 yards in case of showers)
While the Red Flag flies aloft at Prescott Towers!
Such a notorious bloke as me
Deserves to get his toilet-seats for free
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Turkeys voting for Christmas
In Leeds councillors have recently rejected a vote to stop paying union “Pilgrims” over £400,000 a year. Interestingly just about all the councillors who voted to reject the motion were Labour and all were union members.
Continue reading →Two Headed Snakes.
The patchwork quilt known as the European Union, which was forcibly flung around our shoulders to protect us from the chill wind as our Sovereignty was stolen, is coming apart at the seams.
The ‘fat quarters’,
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
The hierarchy of grief.
The reporter assured us that he thought he saw a tear in Peter Hain’s eye. The last time something resembling that was spotted, it was the day he announced his resignation after the police launched an investigation
Continue reading →It’s a Wonderful World…
We have this theory in the Western world whereby we remunerate the most able handsomely and give them titles and everything, and then we listen carefully to that which they spout.
It’s a good theory, but
Continue reading →Public Sector Pensions and the Shadow of Fred Goodwin
The decision of various trade unions across the UK to take the gloves off and wage war against the planned reform to public sector pensions of course prompts comparisons
Continue reading →Islamist Terrorism in the EU? Not a Lot
There were 249 reported terrorist attacks in EU member states in 2010.
Quite a lot.
Who carried them out? Not who you might think (my emphasis):
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Less Cannon Fodder equals a Compelling World Cup
I’ve always enjoyed Rugby Union World Cups, probably more so than their football counterparts.
In the absence of soap operas regarding
Continue reading →Haripology: Bury the Bodies and Walk Away
Johann Hari has apologised personally, and Twitter is currently full of people congratulating him on coming clean – again – just like after the
Continue reading →Somebody’s Cup of Tea
Having been … er … encouraged by a certain landlady to write what is normally called a ‘boast post’, I thought I’d post this picture which crashed my mail program when it arrived.
I only received
Continue reading →Lord Hanningfield Freed? Not so fast, my lovely!
Not so fast, my lovely, that electronic tag on your ankle was put there for a reason – so they would know where you are.
Last week Hanningfield was released from jail after only nine weeks
Continue reading →Like a Moth to the Flame.
Gosh, Hansard can be exciting.
Just watch the Indian born Conservative Peer Baroness Shreela Flather fluttering her wings around the everlasting flame of partitional racism last night.
Gasp in wonder as The Sun gets hold
Continue reading →101 Uses for the Victim Surcharge Fund – A prickly subject.
Hedgehog redesigned as toilet roll holder.
Victor Ford has many problems in life. He’s an alcoholic paranoid schizophrenic.
Ambling along Balmoral Avenue in Spalding, he was seized by a desire to make a profound post
Continue reading →Lib Dems working hard…
A brilliant Election poster (via Twitter), or more likely spoof Election poster, celebrating Nadine Dorries’ complaint about Lib Dem influence.
In case you hadn’t heard, David Cameron has
Continue reading →9/11: Muslim vs Muslim
Charles Crawford was British Ambassador in Belgrade when the World Trade Centre was attacked. Here he reflects on his reaction. This post first appeared at Charles’ site on 11 September.
I returned to
Continue reading →Calm Down, Dear
The Twittery Stock Market.
Both the Times £Paywall and the Telegraph have covered the story this morning of that inane cesspit of late night ramblings, Twitter, being the basis for calculations of a 25m Hedge Fund for investors. Both
Continue reading →What the XXXX factor! – Fixed
As most readers will be aware, the TV behemoth that is “The X Factor” has returned to the Saturday night slot (with repeats and add ons such as “The Xtra Factor” spread over most of the week).
Pompous Letters from Pompous Lawyers about Pompous Politicians
It’s the middle of the weekend and I currently have two curious puzzles:
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The Ballsup behind the Banking Crisis.
Some gems in this morning’s Sunday Times £paywall edition of the Alastair Darling book “Back from the Brink”
In the aftermath of this crisis many have claimed authorship of what proved to be
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Who Paid? Why?
Remember Mark Duggan? The family man whose partner Semone was so devoted to him that she had three of her four children by him:
“Mark was a good dad, He loved his
Continue reading →How To Be Sectioned: Part 1
How difficult can it be to get myself sectioned under the Mental Health Act?
Not at all difficult, I suspect.
Probably all I have to do is write
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