According to that last bastion of objective reporting, the Sun, school children are being punished for wearing clothes with England flags on them or even for being dropped off at school in cars with England flags on them. Normally I’d take anything the Sun says with a pinch sack of salt but in this case [...]

Prince Harry has been in Afghanistan on active service with the Household Cavalry in Helmand Province for the last 10 weeks. The media was aware that he was there but had agreed to keep it a secret for his safety in return for access to him for interviews in Afghanistan. An American website – the [...]

Two men have gone to the European Court of Human Rights in an attempt to get their fingerprints and DNA samples removed from the Police database on the grounds that it’s a breach of their human rights. In England and Wales – but not in Scotland of course – the Police refuse to destroy the [...]

Apologies to those who would have like to continue commenting on the post about Dr Suresh Deman, the vexatious litigator who has been banned from taking legal action in England, Scotland and Wales after launching a string of spurious racial discrimination cases against academic institutions. Although their comments were automatically blacklisted, the number of abusive, [...]

An industrial tribunal has cleared UKIP MEP, Mike Nattrass, of all charges after a former employee served him with an unfair dismissal claim. The employee had voluntarily changed his employment status to a self-employed contractor.  A breakdown in their professional relationship ensued which apparently resulted in the employee refusing to meet with him.  Mike decided [...]

The petition I started calling for a Cost/Benefit Analysis of membership of the EU has just had its 600th signature. If you haven’t signed it yet, please do so.  If you have signed it, please forward it on to all your contacts and ask them to sign it as well. Technorati Tags: Federal Europe, Petition

We all know that the amount of tax we have to pay is criminal but it turns out that the revenue really are a bunch of crooks. HMRC paid a crook £100,000 for details of 100 British citizens with accounts at Liechtenstein’s biggest private bank. The records were stolen by an employee who also sold [...]

England had a blistering start with 10 points on the board in the first 13 minutes, 5 of which came from what will probably be the try of the tournament by Paul Sachi. Jonny Wilkinson’s foot was perfect as usual. England have played an excellent first half and the statistics don’t match the performance.  France have the [...]

The Conswervative Party in Derby reckon that 300 Liebour members are defecting tonight to the Conswervatives. So confident are they that it will happen that Caroline Spellman, the Conswervative Party Chairman, is travelling to Derby to receive them. It would be funny if this was a wind-up and the Tories were left with egg on [...]

A random audit by anti-fraud investigators at the EU has uncovered £100m of fraud committed by MEPs between 2004 and 2006. £100m of taxpayers money lost to fraud and corruption over and above the latent fraud, corruption and waste that is estimated to account for up to 25% of their budget. How the fuck can [...]

No Mandate Brown took some time out of his busy schedule to tell one of his PR guru’s to send a pointless and evasive answer to the West Midlands NO! petition calling on the British government to abolish regional quangos. The Government believes there are issues which extend beyond the boundaries of even the largest [...]

I had to go to the hospital today to get measured up for braces for my knees (not Forrest Gump style braces) which involved a trip of almost an hour to Gobowen near Oswestry which has the best orthopaedic hospital in England. Anyway, I’m making good time and am about 3 or 4 miles from [...]

I was looking forward to a bit of global warming, the warm weather does wonders for my arthritis.  But I’m very disappointed with the latest bit of global warming which means that in places, the frost hasn’t left the ground for about 3 days now in Telford. It was -3oC yesterday morning and -5oC the [...]

Fidel Castro has announced his resignation as president of Cuba and his brother Raul, who is currently standing in as president, is expected to be “elected” as his permanent replacement. The BBC has been gushing about Comrade Castro all day.  He introduced free medical care for all and literacy rates are comparable with any western [...]

Telford & Wrekin have confirmed that they will not be marking St Georges Day again this year. I spoke to them today to find out what they were planning after hearing a couple of councillors at the recent Telford & Wrekin Question Time event saying how pleased they were to be marking Chinese New Year [...]

Kosovo is planning to issue a unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia today. I believe this is an important event for England because it sets a precedent for emerging nations.  English independence isn’t one of the CEP’s policies but it’s an inportant precedent nonetheless because it recognises a nation’s right to determine how they are [...]

The British government plans to allocate every 14 year old child in England a unique ID number which could be tied to the national ID database and will be used to provide access to school records for potential employers and the state. The Education & Skills Bill – which only applies to England, not the [...]

Regular purveyors of the CEP blog may have noticed that it disappeared on Saturday and still hasn’t come back.  A brief explanation … On Saturday the company running the data centre that the servers were located in told our hosting company that the power station supplying the building had had a fire which had knocked [...]

Yahoo has rejected a takeover offer of $41bn (nearly £21bn) from Micro$oft saying that it undervalued the company! Shares in Yahoo closed at $19.18 (about £10) on the 1st February when Micro$oft made their offer and the $41bn offer would have been worth $31 (about £15) per share.  Amazingly, the Wall Street Journal reckons that [...]

No Mandate Brown and Bertie Ahern have urged the Stormont Assembly to complete the devolution process in Northern Ireland by taking on police and justice even though the DUP isn’t keen on taking on those powers. Talk about taking the piss!  Northern Ireland is being pushed into accepting more devolution that it doesn’t want while [...]