Let me start by saying that this is what I have been told by someone who has been on the receiving end of unwanted attentions of the alleged murderer and the man hasn’t been convicted yet.
At the beginning of this month a woman was killed a few miles from where I live.  She was 27 years […]

England play Ireland today in the Rugby Six Nations at Croke Park, the site of the killing - by British soliders - of 12 members of the public.
The killings took place 87 years ago and were followed by a series of reprisals by IRA terrorists.  Despite this all having taken place outside of the living memory […]

The Electoral Commission, sock-puppet of the Labour government, has intimated that it may force UKIP to forfeit £363,697 in donations from Alan Brown, a former bookmaker and the main donor for the party.
Alan Brown, apparently unbeknown to himself or UKIP, was not on the electoral register during December 2004 and January 2006.  He was permanently […]

The estimated bill of hosting the 2012 Olympics in London has been put at £9bn - a huge increase over the original estimate of £2.35bn.
The estimated cost was revised recently when the European Federation told Gordon Brown he had to charge VAT on the construction costs when the Treasury had initially agreed to waive the […]

Wimbledon is to offer the same prize money to women and it does to men.  Currently it is the only open event that doesn’t pay the male and female winners the same prize.
It’s good that women tennis players will get the same prize but surely they must also play the same number of sets to […]

Took Mrs Sane to the cinema on Wednesday night (Music & Lyrics is a really funny film and Drew Barrymore looks great) and the two eldest kids on Thursday morning (Charlottes Web is also a good film, brought back memories!).
We paid £7.50 for the posh seats - enough leg room so that your knees aren’t […]

A coroners inquest has ruled that a motorcyclist killed on a Telford road a year ago was killed because the driver of a lorry drove down the wrong side of the road whilst following duff instructions on a GPS sat-nav system.
In his report, the coroner has called for improved signage to stop it happening again.  Telford […]

One of the most bizarre things to come out of Sunday’s BBC Politics Show on Advantage West Midlands (AWM) was the chief exec of the West Midlands Regional Assembly (WMRA) saying that he opposes regional assemblies!
That should go down well at the EU Committee of Regions.

As mentioned the other day, West Midlands NO! will be featured on todays BBC Politics Show at 12 o’clock on BBC1.
The Politics Show website has been updated with details of the programme and a mention of the West Midlands NO! Campaign.

The BNP were only narrowly pipped at the post by Labour at the Nuneaton & Bedworth by-election yesterday.
Labour managed to retain the seat by the skin of their teeth with the Tories getting a dismal number of votes - not much over 50% of what the BNP got.  The Illiberal Dums got about half of […]

Normally I like snow although the cold does play havoc with my arthritis.  Generally though I like to see a couple of inches of the white stuff on the floor (stop sniggering at the back, I’m still talking about snow).
However, today is taking the piss.  We’ve had a couple of inches of snow but the council […]

I was interviewed by the BBC last night for a Politics Show programme on Advantage West Midlands.
The show is being broadcast at 12 noon this Sunday on BBC1.

I’ve been with 1&1 for a while now and until recently they’ve been great, if a little expensive.
For weeks now email has been up and down like Paris Hilton’s knickers.  I can retrieve some of my emails at the moment but Outlook can’t delete them off the mail server so they keep downloading over and over again.  […]

The UK Independence Party is considering changing its name to the Independence Party.
This can only be a good thing for UKIP - the UK is in its death throes with Scottish independence imminent and support for the union at an all time low and only going to get lower if we end up with a […]

CodeIt.Right (Beta) - no need to correct your .NET code manually anymore?
First public Beta of the new code quality and refactoring tool. Helps to ID code and performance problems, fix them automatically, keep your naming consistent and will guide you through most common coding patterns and best practices. The site also provides complementary Coding […]

Jonny Wilkinson made a glorious comeback today after two years of injury in which he has played no international rugby and only 40 minutes of club rugby.
England romped home to a 42-20 victory over Scotland with Jonny Wilkinson scoring a try and 7 out of 9 kicks.

Traitor Blair has just bought a fifth property bringing his total mortgage liability up to an estimated £5m or 25 times his salary.
How does our glorious leader propose to pay £20k a month in mortgage payments when he finally does the decent thing and resigns later this year or even if he ends up doing […]

The BBC reports that Britishness Brown is stepping up his Prime Ministership campaign by setting out his policies on education.
The problem is, the Chancellor was elected in Scotland where education is the responsibility of the Scottish government.  Gordon Brown wasn’t elected for his education policies because his education policies don’t affect his own constituency or […]

Sitting at my desk this morning and my colleague says “Tony Bliar’s coming to Telford today at 1.30″.
Too much of an opportunity to miss so I phoned around some CEP contacts.  Unfortunately, only one person I could get hold of that was able to turn up but luckily he had a 30ft “English Parliament Now” […]