H/t to Iain Dale this morning, for pointing me in the direction of Dennis Sewell’s excellent article. I confess I had given up reading the Spectator, but shall return
Continue reading →The silent killer.
The Knee-Jerk Reaction.
We like to make issues black and white, it gives us a sense of security, of knowing where we are in the world.
Drugs are a bad thing, we have collectively agreed; therefore
Continue reading →A Blairy definition of Britishness.
You might think that allegiance to the Queen, the Church of England, and pride in a British passport would all be on the list of ‘definitions of Britishness’, no particularly reason why they should be
Continue reading →Demonising Dementia.
The elderly demented do many strange things; they shoplift, they urinate in public places, sadly they occasionally bruise and batter their nearest and dearest. They have rarely murdered
Continue reading →For God’s sake, Go! Gordon.
Last night we were told that the heads of state at the G20 have committed to a massive increase in funding for the International Monetary Fund.
Today we are told
Continue reading →The Sick Man of Europe
* WORSENING OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
* SEVERE DEPRESSION CONTROLLED BY DANGEROUS DRUGS
* FAILING SIGHT IN ‘GOOD’ EYE
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Major whoopsie….
Last week a new semantic search engine was launched, an essential accoutrement for the on-line hypochondriac. It aggregates medical content from a number of different informative health sites.
Allegedly it understand
Continue reading →A word from the wise…….
I have blogged a lot recently HERE and HERE and HERE about the manner in which Nu-Labour have been redistributing tax payers money into areas that are ultimately either
Continue reading →The Gold Standard for an Obscene Death.
There is a sense in which publication of this letter in the Daily Telegraph was as inevitable as death itself.
I have been waiting for it, or
Continue reading →Gordon Brown is finished?
The Maverick Mayor.
It is not April 1st. Truly. It is not April Fool’s Day. Just keep that in mind, don’t panic, stay calm, and listen with Mother……
Nu-Labour will go into a catatonic trance when
Continue reading →Cofiwch Dryweryn
In the days when I drove daily to Aberystwyth, I would pass a poignant reminder of my Father. Just outside Aberystwyth on the A487, on the side of an old ruin, were the words Cofiwch Dryweryn. Many
Continue reading →The fanatical few will spoil the freedom of the Internet for the many.
I had woken this morning to the news that Alan Campbell MP is to publish a ‘Hate Crime Action Plan’ this month in response to concerns about the Internet being a vehicle for a particular
Continue reading →Data Protection Act.
The publication of the list of members of the British Nationalist Party caused an uproar last year. Vociferous supporters clamoured to complain that their secret membership had been made public. At least one member complained
Continue reading →Bullets or Benefits?
I have written a lot in the past few days on the disgraceful waste of tax payers money that is the £700 million paid to Princess Emma’s A4e
Continue reading →The Princess and the P’s.
Princess Emma of Sheffield can’t have been sleeping easily the last few nights, and the news that there are more
Continue reading →Stark Choices.
The reality that is Rupert Murdoch, dwarfs any other media mogul in history.
Journalist Wendy Goldman Rohm described him as “a man who over the years has been reviled worldwide for his alleged
Continue reading →Rattle dem Bones……..
I once wrote a dissertation on ‘101 uses for a corpse’- to reach my alloted target I really had to scrape the barrel, dragging up the French law which allows a corpse to
Continue reading →Microsoft Poland doesn’t do multi-cultural…….
Princess Emma of Sheffield.
They do say that all cats look grey in the dark, but the women encircling David Blunkett MP do have a certain je ne sais quoi. Continue reading →
The future Baroness Crack of Brixton.
This is the face of ‘a vulnerable young woman’.
This is the face of a woman who felt unable to confide in the British officials who visited her every month in
Continue reading →New Deal – Great Deal!
In the parallel universe inhabited by Nu-Labour, where all Labour voters are automatically ‘victims’ of something or someone and all Conservative voters automatically ‘villains’ – it is axiomatic that the solution to any given problem
Continue reading →Title? What’s wrong with Mandelson’s Bum?
HSBC France – you have to love it………
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
In the beginning there was Old Anorak. And Anorak spake of Madeleine McCann and the multitude did answer him.
‘We want to talk about this, give us our daily McCann thread, and we will
Continue reading →Gissa Jobski!
There’s a thing, official figures for 2009 show that 835,000 18 to 24 year olds had left school, discovered that the nice man in the job centre didn’t have anything they really fancied to hand
Continue reading →Libertarianism and the Doctrine of Free Speech.
Nothing exercises the Libertarian sense of impending moral outrage so much as those two little words ‘Free Speech’. It is said by some to be the very definition of Libertarianism.
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Blogging a dead horse…….
In the Neo-Facist State formerly known as Italy, the Justice Minister, Angelino Alfano, has proposed a law that is a direct threat to Internet freedom in Italy. Given the
Continue reading →Poisoned lines in the sand.
When you go down to the beach today, take a sharp stick with you. Draw a line in the sand, from surf to tree line. I doesn’t matter where, or in which direction, what matters
Continue reading →The way we were.
Life used to be very simple. You found a husband, got married, got pregnant. A few people skipped the middle bit, but not so many as tipped the social balance.
When
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