Emma Kingsbury’s children are being driven into ‘child poverty’ by heartless Tory policies. From tomorrow, her housing benefit will be reduced by £15 a week – the so called ‘bedroom tax’.
Emma tells us that ‘she never needed or
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Immigration and the Mind-the-Logic-Gap.
Pan-European immigration to the UK currently runs at around 50,000 a year. A third of the net immigration – that is the number of migrants that arrive in the UK minus the number of British citizens who
Continue reading →Journalists, Suicide, Transgenderism and Media Infighting.
Ooh, that Richard Littlejohn is a terrible man, and the Daily Mail, dreadful paper! Why just three months ago, he was demanding that young children be protected from the full onslaught of adult sexuality, as they were ‘too young to deal with it’.
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THE LOST EDDIE MAIR INTERVIEWS
It is an unexplained mystery that many hard-hitting interviews by Eddie Mair with left of centre politicians have disappeared from the unbiased BBC’s archives.
After much painstaking archeological research, a few fragments of these interviews have been recovered. We
Continue reading →Thunderbirds-R-Us; Miliband to join International Rescue Team.
The Brain drain continues. David Miliband, the geeky brother, the one with personality, fully formed ideas and a smidgen of decency about him, has decided to throw in the towel. There is no future in Labour for such
Continue reading →Wilfred De’Ath – One Hypocritical Old Goat.
So the first of the Yewtree branches has crashed to the ground, a sound virtually unheard in the forest of bad news today.
The ‘famous actress’ (I had to look her up such a household name was she…) (we are
Continue reading →Jessica, Rabbit and the Media.
Donkey’s years ago, or should that be hace años de burro, Ms Raccoon was hitchhiking along the Spanish coast, heading for Algeciras and the Tangier ferry. The coast road wasn’t a solid line of hotels in those days, it was barren
Continue reading →Wealth, sex, sin and hell – what is wrong with the Catholic Church? Part 2
When I penned Part 1 last week I rambled on a bit; I was, as it happens, not very well, and not thinking quite straight.
What was I trying to say? Only this. That the
Continue reading →The Plebgate Plotters.
After getting on for 7 years, the Inspector Gadget blog had become an institution in the Blogosphere. A window on the world of ‘canteen culture’; the real personalities behind the bland politically correct sound bites that emanated from the
Continue reading →Zeppelin of Pomposity
I am sorry to be a bit slow out of the blocks, but I have a lot on my plate at the moment and don’t always keep up with the news. So the following matter only
Continue reading →Competition : That Old Canard – Stimulating the Economy!
Osborne and Cameron really are a bland, boring duo. 1p off a pint of Beer? Hardly going to create a rush of jobs is it?
Over in America they are so much more inventive, original –
Continue reading →White Van Man budget.
No Tax up to £10,000 annual income.
Fuel duty increase scrapped.
Cheaper Beer.
Tax Free child care to be introduced.
Equity loan up to 20% of value of homes up to £600,000 interest free for five years.
White Van Man must be ecstatic – and busy stocking up on dodgy cigarettes….oh
Continue reading →For Huhne, the Pryce of Justice.
When you’re caught in speeding car
Makes no difference who you are
If she takes your points, she gains
A hold on you.
Later when you dash her dreams
You’ll regret your foolish schemes
When you cheat you’ll come unstuck
As schemers do.
Fate’s unkind
She brings to
British Pensioners in ‘Third of your Pension’ haircut shocker!
You don’t remember that headline, No? Probably because it was never written.
There are around 33,000 British Pensioners in France, where the Euro has been devalued against the pound sterling by a third over the past six or
Continue reading →Walkin’ the Blog…
Remember when the Guardian first started making allegations that the News of the World had hacked Millie Dowler’s phone and deleted messages? Remember how it soon became ’murdered Millie’s’ phone, just in case we had missed the point that this was a heartless
Continue reading →Wealth, Sex, Sin and Hell – what is Wrong with the Catholic Church?
As a Roman Catholic, I mentioned to our learned editor Anna that it might be a good idea for me to make some observation on the appointment of the new Pope. She kindly agreed. I had,
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
iPad; iPoo;
Re:Joyce in the Value of Restorative Justice!
Who says Community Service doesn’t work? Why for a whole year Eric Joyce, the charming Scottish MP for Falkirk, stayed out of trouble after being fined £3,000 and ordered to pay his victims £1,400 in compensation following a drunken brawl in
Continue reading →In-Out; In-Out; In-Out; Nu-Labour; Old Ahmed.
This is where I came in, or rather where I originally fell down the rabbit hole…..it seems a lifetime ago.
Nazir Ahmed and Phillipa Curtis. Nazir on the M.1; Phillipa on the A.40. Both driving at 70 miles
Continue reading →From Stiff Upper Lip to Wobbly Lower Lip in One Generation.
British phlegm, an objective judicial system, the state acting as dispassionate arbitrator of social problems, a dignified burial at the end of your days, your home as impregnable castle – as much as the bowler hat, the double decker bus, the distinctive taxi, and Big Ben’s authoritative tones
Continue reading →The Merry Knives of Winsor and yet Another Savile Inquiry.
Ping! went the computer in the middle of the night as a rash of correspondents e-mailed to warn me that yet another Savile report was out. Several pointed to the Guardian headline published a dutiful couple of minutes after
Continue reading →Starve the BBC and Other Savile Initiatives.
A while ago, someone drew my attention to a Tweet from @fleetstreetfox regarding Lord Rennard. I was quite shocked at the time, for Susan Boniface has said that the reason she took up the ‘anonymous identity ‘ of fleetstreetfox was
Continue reading →Top 10 most informative documentaries on Youtube.
When I was a lad, the “interweb” did not, of course, exist. Now, huge amounts of information are accessible at the click of a mouse. This allows your humble scribe to indulge his interest in history, human and
Continue reading →On delving into the mind of an Investigative Journalist.
We don’t often get the chance to plumb the Delphian depths of the Investigative Journalist’s crania. Reading the Pollard report transcripts as Nick Pollard gamely ventured into that philosopher’s bourn known as Merion
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Jimmy Fried my Hamster and other tales from International Women’s Day.
International Women’s Day is with us again, our annual chance to shriek how unfair life is…we do soldier manfully womanfully on the other 364 days of the year with narry a word of complaint. Today is our day, so let rip ladies.
Yewtree Unplugged.
Whoever named the Police trawling operation in the wake of the Savile allegations ’Operation Yewtree’ had a sense of humour. The Yewtree is famous for its slow growth and longevity, and its raucously attractive fruit which appeals to little birdies – but contains
Continue reading →On eulogising a tyrant
When I was a child, I found the obituaries page of one of the big American dailies — I can no longer remember which one it was, nor the person whose life was commemorated in words so striking
Continue reading →The Way We Were.
I was nearly tempted out of my sick bed by a chance reading of a Guardian piece which claimed to have uncovered 43,00 – that’s forty three thousand in case you glossed over the figures – cases of child abuse in a 21
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