Charles Crawford contemplates a ‘Reaganite’ shot down Assad’s chimney. Tim Worstall suggests an enterprisingly economically solution. Kebab Time on an Associated Press report claimingContinue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Charles Crawford contemplates a ‘Reaganite’ shot down Assad’s chimney. Tim Worstall suggests an enterprisingly economically solution. Kebab Time on an Associated Press report claimingContinue reading →Syria:Humanitarian Intervention, International Law, and the Blair legacy.
Last night I listened via my radio to Parliament debating late into the evening as to what, if anything, might be done about becoming involved in military action in Syria.
I was surprised at the
Continue reading →The McCann Can-Can.
Such an interesting dance being performed up in the Scottish State Health Board! A regular Highland jiggery-pokery.
The Scottish State Health Board is in charge of the State Mental Hospital at Carstairs. They have the responsibility of
Continue reading →They Cannot Be Syrias?
650 MPs, who have argued for 50 years as to whether they want to be in or out of the European Union, are badgering to be allowed to decide whether to be in out of Syria. They
Continue reading →God’s Own Political Party?
Who knew that God was into politics? Was this the State secret that Edward Snowden was set to reveal?
The answer according to the Limp-Dems Pensions Minister, Steve Webb, is that God is a
Continue reading →A Letter from Niccolo Machiavelli to Dave
An open letter and discourse upon journalists, and the affair of the Miranda and how the First Minister may behave. From Niccolo Machiavelli to David Cameron, Prime Minister of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and First Lord of the Treasury!
Continue reading →Doctor Death.
Whatever you think about the efficiency and value for money provided by the NHS, there has, recently, been an increasing realisation, among the general public, that it is not the “great British treasure” it was once purported
Continue reading →Savile and the Zombie Factoids – West Yorkshire Police Report.
Another day, another expensive inquiry into the ubiquitous ‘Savile allegations’. Operation Newgreen, the ‘Oh my God, someone’s making allegations that West Yorkshire Police were complicit in concealing Savile’s ‘offending’ – we’d better hold an Inquiry’ knicker waving
Continue reading →Who Guards The Guardian?
Multiple bottles of smelling salt being wafted around in the Blogosphere today. Purveyors of Free Speech dropping like Guardsmen on a hot August day. It would appear that the ‘well informed citizens’ of Blogland have just discovered
Continue reading →Bizarre Things You Are Paying For – Number 279.
I can see this series getting ever longer – and I am sure you will be glad to add to it.
The last time I worked out the value of One Drone – the amount the
Continue reading →A Social Carrousel.
One of the attractions of southern france for tourists are the marchés nocturnes. Not so much a market as a communal dinning experience. Local traders drive their mobile kitchens to their nearest market square, the Mairie provides long
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‘Neverimitate’ on first sightings of Top of the Pops. Frank Davis on Bongo-Bongo land. Dick Puddlecote with an incredible tale. Heresy Corner on the puzzleContinue reading →“Savile the Beast – the inside story of the greatest scandal in TV history”.
Seven words jumped out near the start of the second chapter of this book. ‘But the truth had to emerge eventually’ – fifteen chapters later the truth had still not put in an appearance.
I’m glad I
Continue reading →Giving Potential Victims a Voice!
Blimey! You folk have really pi**ed off the authoritarian voice of social services. Congratulations – it does my heart good to see what a difference your voices made.
I was aware before that helping you make
Continue reading →Bradley Manning and Julian Assange.
The military is a curious mixture of cultures. On the one hand it provides stable employment, a regular wage, job security for a set number of years, training in a useful skill and a reliable pension –
Continue reading →He’s ‘Special’, Our Kid.
In America, many years ago, I came to the opinion that there was only one script for TV producers. ‘Young black guy’s fears/predictions/solution are put down by (preferably fat) and arrogant white Boss, but is later proved
Continue reading →Portrait of a ‘Vulnerable Victim’.
We’ve been here before. Confident young woman makes a name for herself in the nightclub scene. Is thrilled to bits when a relative stranger offers her and her friend expensive plane tickets to an unlikely holiday destination
Continue reading →Mark Williams-Thomas – The Mark of a Man?
Back in 2010, the British Daily Mail newspaper in the UK was reported as likely to be sued by the American internet giant Facebook.
The Daily Mail faced legal action from Facebook, after
Continue reading →A Sunday Ramble
All bound for Bongo Bongo Land
This week I went for a short break in the sun, and I found myself sipping a large gin and quinine whilst looking out from the Bongo
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Gunboat Diplomacy.
It sounds grand doesn’t it? Britain sending a gun boat to sort out those pesky Spanish? Actually an aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious – pity she doesn’t have any aircraft any more, what with the Harriers having bit
Continue reading →Predatory Predications.
The keening and wailing from the feministas yesterday after prosecutor Robert Colover performed his duty as an official of the court and disclosed evidence which ‘suggests an explanation or partial explanation of the accused’s actions’ was ear
Continue reading →“Oh, a little respect, Yeah, baby, I want a little respect”
When Aretha Franklin belted out those words at the start of the era of gender politics, I, in my innocence, having never heard of gender politics, assumed that she was making reference to the civil rights movement in
Continue reading →Free to be damned – the hidden facts about illegal images.
Thousands of legal websites have been hacked to re-direct users to child pornography the Internet Watch Foundation has reported.
Whether or not there has been a surge in such activity over the past few weeks,
Continue reading →On Judgement by your Peers and Historic Sex Abuse.
The Real White Queen – The Three Widows
A little while ago archeologists discovered what turned out to be the body of the last English King to die in battle. Richard III died in battle at Bosworth Field on 22nd August 1485 defending his
Continue reading →Quite a Thunderbolt for the Pope on a Sunday…
Not since it was revealed that the Vatican’s financial advisor, Michele Sindona, was a Mafia connected crook who had embezzled 20 million quid of the Holy Father’s piggy bank has there been such a catastrophic financial insult
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Outrage at Outage for BlueHost, HostGator, HostMonster.
And lo! On the seventh day, was the Techdom of Provo built. They called it Endurance International Group. A perfect, pristine land pulsating with technology. Encased in stainless steel, with na’er a finger print in sight; temperature
Continue reading →Chuggers-R-Us – the NSPCC and Daniel Pelka.
You see them everywhere, representatives of the NSPCC. You hear them on the adverts during afternoon TV; they are on the breakfast sofa’s opining on the latest ‘terrible outrage’; they are in the side bar advertisements in
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