Via Bob Piper, it appears that Guido has been a naughty boy. According to the Ministry of Truth, Mr Fawkes has been caught drink driving for the second time in 5 years and apparently with no insurance as well.  For this offence he faces a mandatory driving ban, up to nine grand in fines and [...]

My MP, David Wright, has got a blog! So far he’s managed to mention the fact he’s “a local lad” in every post I think – this seems to be the entire basis of his manifesto. He’s getting a slating from the locals though, which is entertaining. Technorati Tags: Blogging, MP, David Wright

Haulage companies from Shrewsbury (my cousin is there – I saw him on BBC News!) have travelled to London today to protest against rising costs of running their trucks. Fuel prices are at an all-time high and hauliers are asking for a cut in road tax for lorries.  If they get their way it won’t [...]

BP and Shell have made a combined profit of almost £9bn in the first quarter of 2008. The oil companies have, of course, been criticised for making such large profits.  Most of them either don’t – or don’t want to – understand that oil companies have only one responsibility and that is to make as [...]

The two factions of MDC have reunited to form a larger opposition to Robert Mugabe. Zanu-PF is now outnumbered in the Zimbabwean Parliament – even after the “re-count” of ballot boxes that had been in Zanu-PF’s control – by 109 seats to 97. Mugabe has had over 200 MDC activists arrested and MDC says that [...]

Robert Mugabe has demonstrated his commitment to democracy by having the offices of the MDC and the independent election monitor, ZESN, raided. In total about a hundred people have been arrested and ballot counting and computer equipment has been taken under a warrant issued for “subversive information likely to overthrow a constitutionally elected government”.  This [...]

The English Democrats’ candidate in the London Mayoral election, Matt O’Connor, has dropped out of the race. O’Conner was the founder of Fathers 4 Justice and my brief encounter with him a while ago when I tried to talk to him about the dangers of forcing knee-jerk reactions around fathers rights without adding any protection [...]

Hamas has formally offered a truce in the Gaza Strip. Israel has dismissed the offer saying that it’s just a ploy to let Hamas “rearm and regroup”. Gosh, how nice it must be to know everything all the time. Looks like my question has been answered. Technorati Tags: Israel, Palestine, Hamas

Question Time has “the three men who want to be the next mayor of London” going head to head. Three men? Last time I checked there were a number of candidates, not just three. And they can’t use the argument that they’re the only three in with a chance because the Illiberal Dipshit candidate stands [...]

The Ministry of Justice has decided to include Wales in a new bill to introduce specific offences relating to mental and physical abuse in hospitals.  The Welsh government said they didn’t need the law but some Liebour MPs and a peer complained and the MoJ has changed its mind. I’ve spent a lot more than [...]

Let’s face it, things are going seriously wrong in England right now. For the first time in my life I am actually worried about what the immediate future holds. Fuel prices are through the roof and there’s no sign of them going back down again. Over 80% of the price of a litre of petrol [...]

A few weeks ago I asked what the apocalyptic non-event of the next decade would be. It was a close race right up until a few days ago but there is now a clear winner: The four “other” were: An as yet unknown disease will sweep the world New feudalism English nationalism continues to rise, [...]

The results of last weeks Twat of the Week Month so Far are in and the clear winner is No Mandate Brown with 65% of the vote. If you want to nominate somebody for this week’s Twat of the Week award, let me know.

I’d like to wish all my readers a Happy St Georges Day. Technorati Tags: St George

Dr Bob Spink MP, who resigned from the Conswervatives last month after his local Conswervative Association tried to deselect him, has joined UKIP. UKIP now has one MP, nine MEPs, two Lords and about 30 councillors. It might not seem like much but from little acorns grow mighty oaks. Technorati Tags: UKIP, Conservatives, Bob Spink

Three things that piss me off on the roads: 1. People driving 4×4′s or road versions of World Rally Championship winning cars driving down the middle of the road to avoid driving over speed bumps. 2. People driving tractors down a busy road at 8 o’clock in the morning. 3. People who drive round islands [...]

The Conswervatives have spent nearly three years “consulting” and debating the West Lothian Question and have finally come up with an “answer”. The “answer” to the West Lothian Question, according to the Conswervatives, is “don’t answer it”.  A marginal improvement over “don’t ask it” but hardly a constructive use of three years and god knows [...]

Former US President, Jimmy Carter, has met with the exiled leader of Hamas in Syria. Hamas (the political party) won free and fair elections last year but Israel, the US and the EU refuse to deal with them and are actively seeking to undermine their control of the Gaza Strip which they have controlled since [...]

The insurance company finally paid out on my broken laptop so I’ve finally been able to get a replacement. It’s a nice bit of kit but it came with Vista, Microsoft’s most controversial operating system so far.  I’ve read and heard good and bad reports of Vista but so far I quite like it. After [...]

After three weeks, votes are being recounted in 23 seats in Zimbabwe that Robert Mugabe’s ZanuPF lost. The Zimbabwean Electoral Commission is a pro-Mugabe, ZanuPF-controlled quango and party officials are believed to have had free access to the ballot boxes for the duration.  The opposition MDC says that it will not support any recount because [...]