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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Telford & Wrekin Council has decided to put up council tax by only 2.9% this year. Fantastic.  The only problem is that it leaves the budget £2.3m short so they’re topping the budget up out of the borough’s cash reserves.  The £2.3m represents a third of the reserves and the amount of cash needed to fulfil [...]

From the 1st of April the price of a prescription in England is to rise by 20p to £6.85 per item. Most terminally ill patients, cancer sufferers and disabled people still have to pay for their prescriptions, as do asthma sufferers.  The whole idea of charging people for life-saving medication is just wrong but what [...]

I’ve got a Telewest set-top box in my house – well, it’s called Virgin now but that’s irrelevant – and at midnight last night I lost Sky One and all the other Sky channels thanks to Sky trying to take the piss. Sky tried to almost double the price of its non-premium channels to Virgin [...]

A Telford man has had over 1.8m signatures on his online petition against road pricing. The Department for Transport, Douglas Alexander, says that the wording of the petition is misleading and that’s what has led to the biggest protest in the history of this country. Lots of people are pointing out the unfairness of this [...]