Brave Sir Ian
I see that Sir Ian Gilmore, outgoing President of the Royal College of Physicians, has bravely decided to say something useful upon his resignation:
Decriminalising drug
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It’s a bit late, isn’t it?
Anna Raccoon
Congratulations!
Congratulations to David and Samantha Cameron – delivered of a fine 6lb 1oz baby girl at the Truro Hospital whilst they were on holiday.
Continue reading →Not much acumen on display here
Once again, doing the right thing
Unlike many of the good readers of this blog, I have a passing interest in prurient matters. Not intimately, you understand, as such days are far
Continue reading →Kissing Cousins – the Mate Debate.
In 1987, a group of geneticists published a surprising study in the journal Nature. Those researchers examined the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) taken from 147 people across all of today’s major racial groups. Even more impressive,
Continue reading →Fighting ‘them’ on the Sandwell.
70 years ago this week, Winston Churchill made his famous speech immortalising the words ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.’ He did so to
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
Battle ready Edition…… The Appalling Strangeness on democracry’s threat to Freedom. Dizzy on Graduate Taxes. Jack of Kent on the advisability of Continue reading → Make mine a double!
Single malt petrol? Certainly, sir!
I need to start this off by saying that I really don’t believe in man-made climate change. I quite firmly believe that the climate changes, but I
Continue reading →Free Will, Autonomy, and Totalitarian Instincts.
What follows may not seem to have any relevance to you at the moment. It may appear to be of merely academic interest.
However, are you quite sure that your life path is one that accords
Continue reading →The Big Society is working well isn’t it?
…where people, in their everyday lives, in their homes, in their neighbourhoods, in their workplace…
…don’t always turn to officials, local authorities or central government for
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It’s a crime!
Another day brings us another nimble U-turn from the “Coalition of the Willing (to be just as bad as Labour)”. In opposition, everyone was vehemently against Labour’s plans to
Continue reading →Free Will, Autonomy, Totalitarian Instincts and the Court of Protection
What follows may not seem to have any relevance to you at the moment. It may appear to be of merely academic interest.
However, are you quite sure that your life path is one that accords with Social
Continue reading →The Daily Express.
If we charitably assume that the partial justification for a newspaper is to inform its readers of news, then it fails dismally. If we take
Continue reading →The Carrot or the Stick?
Lobby Dog is reporting this morning that his FOI request, to elicit the names of the 200 MPs who retired from parliament in a sulk when it became clear that it would not be so easy in
Continue reading →Cut-Price Justice.
“Roll-up, roll-up, get yer lovely ASBOs here – George, give that lady an ASBO and an extra one for her husband, hurry up there lad! – and a conditional discharge for the lady in blue.”
“Right
Continue reading →Argggh!
I’m going out for the day, I’m going to dig holes in the garden, I’m going to chop wood, I’m going to set fire to things, I’m going to, to, to…..
I don’t know, but I have to
Continue reading →And this little Piggy grew up…..
Remember the too, too chic ‘tea-cup piglets’? The must have accessory for the terminally fashionable? The £700, stuff it in your Gucci bag, take it to a film premiere, let it sleep on your bed side table,
Continue reading →Walking the Dog….
Those of you who were fans of Rufus Thomas back in the late 60s will appreciate the irony of this report from the Oxford Mail.
“A WOMAN was raped while walking her dog through a village sports field.”
Her attacker forced
Continue reading →Mustapha Ouank Weekly……
Arrrgh!
A new online magazine based in Israel will include articles and features by gay and lesbian authors, marking a first for Arabic language journalism. […]We are
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Having a Pop at the Pope.
I was all set to have a nice little knee-jerk rant this morning.
Pope’s visit to cost the tax payer £12 million?
Whee, here I go. God’s sake, t’would be cheaper to give all
Continue reading →All guns blazing
Greetings, Mr Miliband!
It was with the growing sense of despair, dismay and distaste that I read the following in the Spectator:
Westminster might be in holiday mode, but behind the
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In every grain of Sandwell, there is the story of the future…..
Fearlessly seeking cigarette ash on the streets of Sandwell.
We start the week with a little humdinger from the People’s Republic of Sandwell.
In 2008, Sandwell was
Continue reading →Religious Intolerance.
I love the smell of fresh hypocrisy.
Black Dolls – known by most of us as Golliwogs – have been banned from a Shropshire country show after the organisers said they did not want them on sale for fear of causing offence.
Sally-Anne
Continue reading →The “sex and travel” option
Special rates for the Met? Certainly!
In a depressing tale of the police taking their apparent role as the state’s bully far too seriously, they have decided to “name and
Continue reading →The Righteous in full flood….
We seem to be having a ‘prostituion special’ today.
OXFORD’S “most prolific” prostitute has been banned from selling sex on the streets and in her home for five years.
It is not illegal to sell
Continue reading →Exhilarating Competition – Once in a lifetime chance……
The Labour Party is sending this e-mail out to all (sic) both its members.
Dear X
You could win one of the special VIP packages for the announcement of the next Leader of the Labour
Continue reading →Stop Press +++ The First Cut is the Deepest +++
And the Government just saved £200 Billion Million at a stroke……
Staff at the Audit Commision have received an e-mail this morning telling them that it will be announced tommorrow that they are no longer employed to watch over the
Continue reading →Nothing Unusual…..move along there!
This is the Google street view for Middle Road in St John’s, Worcester.
A Google spokesman has said:
”The imagery in Street View represents a snapshot in time of Britain’s streets and is no different
Continue reading →Victim or Villain?
Larry Murphy was a carpenter by trade, a quiet unassuming man, apparently happily married with a young family and a pregnant wife. He lived in the stunningly beautiful Wicklow Mountains in Ireland.
In the year 2000, two hunters
Continue reading →Britain’s ‘oldest smoker’ dies after puffing on cigarettes for 95 years
Throughout her life it is thought the defiant OAP, who outlived her husband, son and
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