The Iranian News Agency, IRNA, claims that the British soldiers kidnapped in Iran may be facing a trial in Iran.
The Iranian Ambassador to Iran has apprently told a Russian TV station that the soldiers will face trial and be punished if found guilty in Iran but the last the Iranian Foreign Minister had to say on [...]

I haven’t blogged about the Iranians kidnapping some of our soldiers because I really couldn’t think of anything worthwhile to say that every other blogger isn’t already saying.
However, over the last few days the situation – I feel – has changed.  When it all kicked off it was a simple case of “you threaten to [...]

It’s been a while since we had a Twat of the Week competition but as I’m still sat at work waiting for a computer to go beep at me I amy as well take the opportunity to ressurect the award.
So, any nominations?
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The tyrant Mugabe has been given a further 5 years as president of Zimbabwe.
Zanu PF, the party that Mugabe heads up, has approved him as their candidate for the upcoming elections.
This doesn’t guarantee that he will win the next election of course, there’s a chance that a majority of Zimbabweans will defy the armed police [...]

The US has finally sentenced the first detainee held at Guantanamo Bay.
It’s a strange choice of first victim – a white Australian.  Presumably they think it will send a message to Asian muslims that they aren’t treating white muslims differently.
David Hicks, an Australian, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison but will serve only [...]

Charlie Falconer has been told that he won’t be heading up the new Justice Ministry after the transitionary period.
Where will the fat, sweaty turd be dumped next?

Which department will Charlie Falconer get?

Department for Constitutional Affairs/Ministry of Justice

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Home Office

Department of Health

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Department for Transport

Department for Education and Skills

Department for [...]

The Home Office has been split into two with the creation of a Justice Ministry.
The new ministry will be headed up by the unelected Scottish Lord Chancellor, Charlie Falconer, while it is being reorganised.
The Department for Constitutional Affairs is taking over the sentencing side of the legal system from the Home Office and will be [...]

The European Federation yesterday voted to abolish the English football team and replace it with a British football team.
MEPs were asked to vote on 180 proposals in less than 90 minutes, once of which was for the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football teams to be replaced by a British football team.  UKIP MEPs [...]

Mrs Sane brought home a new £20 note today and we both commented on the fact that it looks significantly different to any other bank note.
It looked kind of familiar though so I did a Google search and guess what, it bears a rather uncanny resembelence to the euro notes.  Funny that.  The £2 coin [...]

A Scottish company, sendapoo.com, has the following incitement to commit an act of racism on the front page of its website:
Not sure what to send this St. George’s Day? Why not send a poo to your favourite (or least favourite Englishman!). Send one now and select scheduled delivery for arrival on 23 April. 
Racism under English [...]

MEP’s will vote this week on proposals to enforce the flying of the EU rag and singing of the EU “national” anthem at European football championships.
It’s not clear whether the proposal is to have it playing instead of national anthems of the countries involved or whether it will be played in addition to the national [...]

The European Federation hasn’t signed off its own accounts for 8 years because they are fraudulent.
EU commissioners and other EU civil servants are protected from the law by immunity from prosecution, hence the widespread fraud and theft that runs throughout the entire corrupt organisation.
Police have now raided the offices of EU institutions in 3 different countries [...]

Blair has signed the Berlin Declaration declaring the European Federation to be the best thing since sliced bread (assuming the EU hasn’t banned sliced bread yet), the reason for peace in Europe (don’t mention Yugoslavia, Georgia, Cyprus …) and the best thing that could ever happen to us ever.
The text of the declaration follows with [...]

Traitor Bliar is going to Berlin to sign the Berlin Declaration.
By signing the declaration he will commit us to the principle of a European Constitution, political union with EU member states and will declare that “we, the citizens of the European Union, have united for the better”.
I am not a citizen of the European Union, [...]

Ian Paisley has told the Tartan Taxman that the money he’s offering Northern Ireland isn’t enough.
Currently the Barnett Formula gives Northern Ireland an average of over £1,800 per head in central government funding straight from the English taxpayers pockets but this, Paisley claims, is not good enough.
Nor is the extra £1bn of English taxes that the [...]

The Healthcare Commission is calling for hospitals to monitor the ethnicity of patients because their research has shown that black and asians are more likely to be admitted to a mental hospital.
There doesn’t appear to be any suggestion that this is because of institutional racism or that black and asian patients are being targetted unfairly so [...]

The Tartan Taxman delivered what is likely to be – one way or the other – his last budget today.
I haven’t read everything in the budget but a couple of things jump out:
The 10p/£ lower tax rate has been abolished and replaced with the standard rate of the tax
Result: People on low incomes will pay more [...]

I went to the dentist today.
Not very exciting but quite an achievement for me as I have a phobia of dentists.
Anyway, it’s the first time I’ve been to the dentist for about 9 years and she didn’t say “To be honest Mr Sane, it would be a lot let hassle if we just yanked the [...]

Traitor Blair has appealed to Scottish voters not to vote for the SNP in the May elections.
He tells the Scots that independence would cost every Scottish household over £5,000 per year because of their £11.9bn budget deficit.
Previous attempts to stop the SNP from taking control of the Scottish Parliament have centered around their dodgy maths [...]

Apologies for the poor quality picture, I only had my mobile phone to hand.
You can’t make out the words on the road sign that the car has crashed into but it’s one of the “Think!” signs that tells you to drive safely, complete with the number of accidents on that stretch of road.  Unfortunately, it [...]

New guidelines are being drawn up by the British government to force universities to take more students from ethnic and underpriveleged backgrounds.
The new guidelines – which will only apply in England of course – will mean that universities will have to take into account ethnicity, whether the applicants parents went to university and whether they [...]

Rotherwas Access Road
Work has commenced on the £12m Rotherwas Access Road, partly funded by the unelected regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands (AWM). [1]
AWM is part-funding the access road through a £9.5m “Rotherwas Futures” project [2] but the scheme has already been refused funding by the Department for Transport because it does not offer value [...]

Another petition on the PM’s website worth signing: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Respect our Bill of Rights 1689.
Our Government should recognise that all EU/EC/EEC ( etc ) law, regulation, guidance and acts are illegal and contrary to Our Bill of Rights 1689, the basis of Common Law.
Quote – “And I do [...]

The latest dictat to be issued by our masters on the continent is that we must stop using normal light bulbs and start buying expensive energy-saving bulbs instead.
We’ve got a mixture at home and I’m afraid I don’t like the energy-saving bulbs.  For a start they cost a damn sight more than normal light bulbs [...]

The European Federation has instructed the British government to abolish the crown mark that currently certifies a legal pint glass and replace it with a CE mark.
The CE mark stands for Conformite Europeenne and certifies that the item in question confirms to EU standards.  This raises an interesting question – how can a pint conform [...]

Just a quick update on my bid to get blocked by the Chinese government.
After about 8 hours I still hadn’t been blocked but I checked every hour or so and I can confirm that Wonko’s World was blocked after 12 hours.
The British government might be a bunch of illberal tossers but the Chinese government puts [...]

The Times says that there are at least 8 other life saving drugs that are refused in England but provided on the NHS in Scotland.
This is probably part of the mysterious “union dividend” that Gordon Brown keeps talking about.  Where else in the world could 85% of the population be denied life saving cancer treatments [...]

Yesterday the people of Northern Ireland went to the polls to elect assembly members for the Stormont Assembly.
The DUP, under Reverend Ian Paisley, has taken the majority of votes with The IRA Sinn Féin in a fairly close second place.
All parties involved in the Northern Ireland Assembly have until the 25th of March to come [...]

MP’s have voted to abolish the Lords and replace the upper house with an elected chamber.
This is bad for democracy, don’t be blinded by the “voting means it’s democratic” argument.
Before Labour “reformed” the House of Lords it was completely hereditary.  The political balance of the upper house was random.  Ok, it had a general leaning [...]

Thunder Dragon posts about China’s latest crackdown on internet use and links to an interesting site – the Great Firewall of China.
Interestingly, my own rantings and ravings are not blocked in China despite my previous swipes at the Chinese government for the illegal occupation of Tibet, threats against Taiwan and their supression of the internet [...]