Lifestyle Choices At Christmas
Did you feel the hand of history on your shoulder, Augustine?
I confess that I missed this scintillating piece of news yesterday; it emerged not so much with an earth shattering drum roll but more of a B-Flat squeak on an old violin.
The annals of history have been
Continue reading →Dog bites Man, Owner Swears.
The owner of a fierce German Shepherd was fined a total of £3,720 pounds for its latest attack on a neighbour.
The owner screeched ‘this is a fu*king travesty’ and ‘I’ll never set foot in a courtroom again’
Continue reading →Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has limited the scope of his audit opinion on the regularity of expenditure in the 2009-10 Resource Accounts that report the costs of the MPs’ Expenses Scheme. This is the first audit
Continue reading →Read the Small Print No:276
From Downing Street:
The Cabinet confirmed that the wedding on Friday, April 29 next year will be an official bank holiday. The day falls at the end of Easter week and
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Assange assuaged.
Michael Jackson was afforded the same ‘cleansing’ treatment. He ‘wasn’t a paedophile’; he might have slept with the odd little boy, perhaps he did show ‘adult’ books to 12 year old boys, but he wasn’t
Continue reading →Mrs Dale’s Dowry.
So Iain Dale has finally decided that he doesn’t want to sit permanently on top of the blogging tree, and who can blame him?
I have been taken to task many times because I refuse to
Continue reading →‘Ello, ‘Ello, Wots Bin Goin’ on ‘Ere Then?
A sad e-mail from a dear friend who has already been visited by more unwarranted tragedy than anyone should have to survive, arrived to warn me that the storm clouds of imminent disaster were about to close
Continue reading →A Skewed Democracy Or A Screwed Democracy
I received a letter on Saturday morning from the Speaker of the House of Commons in relation to the recent attempt by ‘Liberal’ Democrat Vince Cable to interfere in the the internal
Continue reading →A Quiet Revolution
The Orwellian Present – Never Mind the Future. Court of Protection.
‘Just off the coast of Autonomy, across the Bay of Good Intentions, lies the fog shrouded Isle of Best Interests’.
If you have arrived at this blog today looked for cheer and sympathy for your woes
Continue reading →The Orwellian Present – Never Mind the Future.
‘Just off the coast of Autonomy, across the Bay of Good Intentions, lies the fog shrouded Isle of Best Interests’.
If you have arrived at this blog today
Continue reading →All in a Smuddle.
There is no cut in front line services occasioned by Gordon Brown’s profligate spending that is more keenly felt by service users than the absence of Ms Smudd from these pages.
Regrettably, after a
Continue reading →Saturday Night Posts Worth Reading.
On Kicking the most Famous Balls in England.
How dare they! We send them half a dozen of our most highly prized gilded testicles, shipped out from our last working airport, prostrate, docile, fenestrated, bearing Frankincense and Myrrh, laden with humiliating apologies and
Continue reading →Sex on a Soap Box.
It’s cold here.
I know, I know, you’re all freezing, I don’t know what cold is, etc., etc.. It is unusually cold here
Continue reading →The British grit their teeth, not their roads.
Ever since Gordon Brown promised to end Global Warning, the British have dripped and shivered their way through a succession of floods, snow blizzards,
Continue reading →Being Aware
On Reading the Small Print.
“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and
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The Christmas Boar.
Why? That’s what I want to know. Why do we make such a fuss about Christmas? Not the Christians of course, I can see why they would want to celebrate Christ’s birthday; I can even
Continue reading →Wikigate
This has been an interesting few days as Mr Assange releases cable traffic from US Embassy traffic to the State Department that covers a good few years of recent history –
Continue reading →From Flight to Reality.
It wasn’t Howard Flight’s ‘first’ acknowledged gaffe – that was his statement in 2005 that an incoming Conservative government would make deeper cuts than those publicly announced. Michael Howard removed him as a Conservative candidate for that transgression.
Quote of the Day.
Greg Hands: […]I note that there is one Member who has spoken here only once since the election, has tabled
Continue reading →Doing the Lambeth Piss-take.
As a prior long term resident of Brixton, London, I thought myself beyond surprise at any of the antics of Lambeth Town Hall. My experience harks back to the days of Red Ken flying the
Continue reading →Rearranging Deckchairs on the MV Public Guardian. Court of Protection.
Few stewards in the service of the public can have been asked to rearrange the deckchairs as many times as those employed on board the currently named ‘Public Guardian’.
The Office of the Public
Continue reading →Wiki Popbitch.
The Blogosphere is gorging itself on the Wikileaks banquet this morning; a triumph of style over substance. The Cuisine Minceur of the electorate’s fight for transparency from our political masters.
Wikileaks is a masterpiece in media manipulation. It
Continue reading →Bábógbaby
Forget the Celtic Tiger, just in time for Christmas we have Bábógbaby, the Irish Begging Bear.
Invented by Irish entrepeneur, Adrain Devane, the toy is set to be a hit amongst English parents anxious to convey
Continue reading →A New Leader For The Libertarian Party.
The Acceptance speech of Andrew Withers – the new Leader of the Libertarian Party.
I would like to thank the Party for the confidence that it has shown in electing me as
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
When Irish Eyes Stopped Smiling Edition.
A Libertarian assessment of the Irish crisis. Let Them Eat Children. Blackswans
Continue reading →A Tale of Two Teens.
Johnny, the 17-year-old, is upstairs with a horrific cold. No wonder: he spent the whole of Wednesday out on the street in sub-zero temperatures, being “kettled” by the
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