2009-11-29 12:45
Unquestioning support for the presence of both our own and US forces in Afghanistan is rapidly dwindlng. As the number of troops returning from the country in coffins is increasing, our real… Read More
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2009-11-28 14:39
I don't have a clue what this has to do with the drink Orangina but after a week of depressing news it made me smile.Probably, because I can imagine the outrage from the PC police if it were… Read More
2009-11-19 22:50
Mention the name Catherine Ashton and you could be forgiven for receiving a blank stare in response.From today, though, all that is likely to change, for she is not only a little known (outs… Read More
2009-11-19 20:37
Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, is to face prosecution after all, following a police investigation into her alleged car smash back in July (see earlier post).The Crown Prosecution Se… Read More
2009-11-19 19:47
Are we surprised?Yesterday, the Queen's Speech, setting out the government's final plans for the country before facing the electorate in next year's general election, was conspicuous by one… Read More
2009-11-17 19:14
Beware, there is a new virus attacking computers. It starts with an email along the lines of:We are contacting you in regards to an unusual activity that was identified in your mailbox. As a… Read More
2009-11-16 20:55
You know when you are getting older - the 'stars' you have always watched on-screen start to disappear.Today, it was the turn of the great actor, Edward Woodward, who died at the age of 79… Read More
2009-11-16 12:59
You could not make it up! The Sun has been forced to apologise for doing exactly what it criticised the prime minister of doing – misspelling the surname of Jacqui Janes. She is the mo… Read More
2009-11-15 22:33
We are not an occupying army," Gordon Brown told the BBC on Friday. "It's not like previous interventions.... We are actually creating the conditions by which the Afghans themselves, and not… Read More
2009-11-14 11:27
I suggested it back in July, in my post Afghanistan - We Will Eventually Have To Talk! but now it seems our government is finally catching up with my common sense theory, that nothing will b… Read More
2009-11-13 20:21
A baby born with two heads, many with multiple tumours and others with extensive damage to the central nervous system.It sounds like the kind of horror to be found in the plot of a science f… Read More
2009-11-13 17:52
Civil Servants at the Ministry of Defence have been paid bonuses this year of £47 million.The payments are, apparently, performance related although quite how 'performance' is measured… Read More
2009-11-11 20:10
The Office of National Statistics has announced today that the number of people unemployed in the UK has risen by its smallest amount since May 2008. Before we pop the champagne corks and ex… Read More
2009-11-09 20:26
I meant to post this at the weekend but foolishly, I left the original email at work. It was sent as part of a weekly newsletter I receive from the Red Fridays campaign.I have no idea who th… Read More
2009-11-09 19:01
It is not often that I feel a pang of sympathy for dear 'ole Gordon, our esteemed prime minister but I did feel it stirring today. He has, after all, been guilty of extreme arrogance and alo… Read More
2009-11-08 12:13
Today is the day we remember all those who have died in conflict fighting to preserve our freedom. Since my earliest childhood memory of men and women standing around the Cenotaph in warm bl… Read More
2009-11-04 19:47
It has been a while since I last posted on here, following my spectacular dive down the stairs and my teeth numbing stop, using my head as a brake, against a doorframe. Since my unplanned fl… Read More
2009-10-13 21:53
One of the best quotes of the day, referring to the MP's expenses repayment saga, must have been supplied by Ann Widdecombe, Tory MP for Maidstone. She was trying to make the point, that lim… Read More
2009-10-13 19:41
If this is an October sunset in the UK that results from global warming then things can't be all bad! Bring it on! Read More
2009-10-12 22:32
The Guardian newspaper has announced it has been gagged from reporting parliamentary proceedings, on legal grounds, for the first time in living memory. It has said in its report:Today's pub… Read More
2009-10-12 19:19
OK..Ok it's time to own up...aren't you feeling just a little bit of sympathy for that dysfunctional group of society called MPs?After all, they have just returned from weeks and weeks on an… Read More
2009-10-11 20:50
For a country that has so many surveillance cameras the authorities can virtually see the state of your colon as you walk down the street - and all in the name of anti-terrorism - it comes a… Read More
2009-10-10 18:46
Today, is World Mental Health Day.It has been organised to try to stimulate discussion on what seems to be one of the most stigmatised areas of modern medicine: mental illness.Most people wo… Read More
2009-10-08 21:40
I have only just caught up with this interview between London's somewhat eccentric Mayor, Boris Johnson and BBC Newsnight's 'Rottweiler' frontman Jeremy Paxman. It was recorded at the Conser… Read More
2009-10-08 19:28
Postal workers have voted by a 3 to 1 majority in favour of an all out strike. If it goes ahead, it will be the first UK-wide walkout since 2007.However, I am not really feeling much sympath… Read More
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