Many times I’ve heard bloggers and commentators write that everyone who isn’t active in politics is the cause of the problem with society. It’s because these people aren’t bothered about their country or society that the elite have
Continue reading →Proles, Sheeple, Plebs
Human Achievement Hour
Tonight at half past eight is the start of Earth Hour. This is the hour when the Earth should be given some priority in people’s minds. Or at least that is what the greenies say. Myself,
Continue reading →Yes, Prime Minister
Well it seems that you can’t keep a good TV series down. Yes, Prime Minister is to return to our digital pay-tv screens sometime this year.
UKTV
Continue reading →Honesty and Tax Hypothecation
The hypothecation of a tax (also known as the ring fencing or ear marking of a tax) is the dedication of the revenue from a specific tax for a
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Tax does need to be taxing
I was reading a conversation on twitter that gave me some pause. There seem to be an increasingly vociferous number of commentators on both sides of the political spectrum who are completely uncritical about the government’s
Continue reading →Fantasy government
So we know that the current government are a shower of numbnuts by their handling of the tanker driver’s dispute and subsequent fuel shortages. We also know that the previous lot were worse seeing as we are now
Continue reading →Left heft by own Petard.
A positively docile looking Alfie, all dressed up for court.
13 years of an authoritarian Labour government has left us with scant few advantages in our daily life. One of the
Continue reading →Porn foresworn.
List of names of Anna Raccoon customers who also appear on the list to be released by O2.
Much swooning in the sticky socked marshes of Internet land this morning. I
Continue reading →Roll Up! Roll Up! Sale Must end Soon!
Get your cheap Filipino brides whilst you can! Or even your attack Chinese brides to ward off custard pie assaults whilst you are explaining yourself to parliamentary committees. Theresa May is about to change the immigration law.
Spring must be here…
It must be – we have sprouted a new crop of English speaking beggars on the main street in Bergerac.
Impeccably ripped jeans, regulation dreadlocks, and each accompanied by a well fed dog and a large
Continue reading →Australian elections
We might be a UK based blog (with the landlady based in France) but I thought you might be interested in hearing the results of the Australian elections in Queensland.
Whats that? You didn’t know
Continue reading →Update – Portuguese Justice – Graham Mitchell.
The Portuguese have a proverb – ‘Águas quietas são profundas’ – ‘Still waters run deep’; nowhere is this more apt than in their judicial system. Whilst it might appear to the uninitiated that nothing has
Continue reading →The Vera Baird Memoriam Squad.
Just as councils across the land are implored to become anally retentive of hard pressed ratepayers money, comes news that Islington Council is to splatter a quarter of a million quid collecting abandoned turds.
A lucky
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Twitter is six today and there is no evidence that it will ever get more mature.
Although I can reasonably
Continue reading →Does Winnie the Pooh support Gay Marriage?
Ding ding. Round 28.
We have 2 online petitions.
The Coalition for Marriage have one at c4m.org.uk, which at the time of
Continue reading →Portuguese Trial by Media – Graham Mitchell and the EAW.
Late last night I received an e-mail from
Continue reading →Graham Mitchell – the Victoria Derbyshire interview.
Caption Contest.
The Nature of Slavery.
A fearful flurry of left wing petticoats in the columns of the Guardian this morning. It seems that some individuals have been forcibly introduced to the notion of work. It has been a terrible shock to their
Continue reading →Rotten Borough? – the Vicious Borough of Hillingdon.
Social Services have long memories, and a messianic distaste for having their noses tweaked by those with more power then they.
Those with equally long memories will remember the case of Stephen Neary that we so
Continue reading →Size matters to the Police Federation…
Along with many commentators over at Inspector Gadgets blog, I had been wondering what the Police Deaderation were up to, apparently remaining silent and compliant as a corpse whilst the rank and file who paid their
Continue reading →Too many tweets makes a twat
This weekend, a football player had a heart attack on the pitch. Twitter went mad, with people who had no connection with the club or the team grieving and paying fulsome tribute to someone they didn’t
Continue reading →This is the way the Taxes go round, the taxes go round…
I do hope that I don’t bore you with this blog post, personally I’ve been fascinated, and its my blog etc…
There will be lots of talk of millions and billions, and I know that makes your eyes
Continue reading →WordPress.com and comments.
Fortunately for me, I made the decision after a mere couple of weeks to switch from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, so I am not affected by the current difficulty with comments that
Continue reading →The Rise of the Catwalk Copper.
The House of Winsor wishes to announce its new range of police officers, tailored to meet the needs of a changing demographic, and the demands of ‘community leaders’ up and down the country.
Non-Jobs for Neets, Milibands latest loony brainwave.
After a week of shenanigans from Labour’s own employees who are less than impressed at their current working conditions, Red-Ed desperately needed an employment friendly sound bite to bury the image of a party who couldn’t organise
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Exclusive – Update on the Portuguese European Arrest Warrant.
Oh dear, oh dear.
I would not want to take anything away from Mr Jörling’s achievement in making the most of his life after his tragic injury in Portugal, nor do I seek to make
Continue reading →Portuguese Men O Law
The long tentacles of the Portuguese Judiciary have reached out and wrapped themselves around another Briton. This time it is not just a name that we read in the papers, it is one of our own, a fellow blogger,
Continue reading →Is this the final recognition that the Police are no longer considered ‘part of society’?
On this day after the memorial service for PC David Rathband, I am reminded of that day in 1966 when a shocked nation woke to the news that three police officers, walking towards an old van parked in Wormwood
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