This shouldn’t really need to be said but just a quick reminder on the two most important rules of blogging etiquette …

Always quote your sources, preferably with a link
Don’t pass off someone elses work as your own

Like 99.9% of bloggers, I really don’t care if what I write is copied and posted elsewhere (as long […]

According to the BBC, Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland alone had net income of over £1m from donations and grants whilst the DUP - which leads the Northern Ireland Assembly - made a loss of £27k.
This might explain why the DUP were so keen to join the Conswervatives who are in a far better financial […]

DK talks about the latest murmurings about regulating the content of websites and blogs and suggests several, quite obscene and medical things, that the British government can do with their idea of curtailing freedom of speech.
If the British government intends to censor the internet with draconian, illiberal legislation then I’ll just do what Guido and […]

Last night I went to a PACT meeting in my local area.  These things aren’t particularly well advertised so most of you won’t have heard of them - it’s basically a meeting for local residents, a representative from the council, a CSO, a representative from the housing trust and a councillor.  This is a national […]

The Identity & Passport Service has lost 3,000 blank passports and visas after thieves robbed a security van while the driver was in the newsagents.

The IPS said that the passports can’t be used because of the security chip but this is utter bollocks.  They can be used at home and abroad as ID and could be […]

A Welsh Sikh girl has won a High Court challenge to her school’s decision to exclude her for wearing a Sikh bangle to school in defiance of their ban on jewelery.
The school considered the bangle to be nothing more than an item of jewelery but the High Court ruled that it was a religious symbol […]

Surprise, surprise - the terrible weather predicted for last night didn’t happen.
We have had a fair bit of thunder and lightening and heavy rain tonight but not the horrendous storms predicted by the Met Office.
So the weathermen can’t get the forecast right for teatime at lunchtime on the same day but they expect us to […]

A handful of ex-Googlies have set up a new search engine which they reckon is going to beat Google.
Hmmm.  Well, I saw this mentioned on BBC News earlier today but didn’t bother checking it out.  Then I saw a thread about it on Telford Live so I thought I’d best give it a whirl seeing […]

The last few days have seen some fantastic weather - mid 20’s (sorry, I can only do metric temperatures), glorious sunshine and barely a cloud in the sky.  The only thing that’s spoiled it is the incessant yapping of the neighbour’s dog (I got a bit ratty yesterday and ended up bawling at said neighbour’s […]

I already wrote about the Glasgow East by-election result on the CEP blog this morning so I won’t do it again here except to comment on what an enormously stupid muppet Nick Clegg is for failing to lay the boot in to Gordon Brown like anyone with an ounce of political sense would do.
While David […]

Public bodies used “anti-terrorism” laws to make over half a million requests for information like phone and internet records last year.
In 2006 only 350,000 requests for information were made by public bodies, in 2007 that had risen to 519,000.
The legislation that lets public bodies such as local councils get this information and carry out surveillence […]

Well, it was bound to happen eventually - the acre has fallen to the forces of Europeanism.
Federal Europe has issued a directive on the harmonisation of measuring open spaces which specifically bans the use of the acre from 2010.  The directive was given the nod by the eurofederalist minister for the south east euroregion of […]

The former Serbian general and world’s most wanted war criminal, Radovan Karadzic Carrotbitch, has been found and arrested in Serbia.  On a bus.
Carrotbitch obviously let his subscription to Genocidal Maniacs Monthly lapse and missed Saddam Hussein’s column last year giving tips on finding a big hole to live in while the American pig-dogs are trying […]

OFCOM has ruled that Channel 4 failed in its duty to be impartial and reflect a range of views when it broadcast the Great Global Warming Swindle, a documentary that set out to expose the lies around man made global warming.
But, strangely, Al Gore’s climate change propaganda, An Inconvenient Truth, can be shown in schools as long […]

Guido has already started a caption competition for this picture of El Gordo but any contribution you make will be lost in the 300 comments which will mostly contain arguments, insults to other commenters, complaints about his prize policy for this week (will he, won’t he, does anyone get the prize anyway?) and the occassional high […]

Back in October I posted about how I would make people work - basically forcing them to work for the local authority street cleanging, clearing up graffiti, etc. in return for benefits.
Then in May, Chris Grayling, the Shadow Work & Pensions Secretary, proposed a slightly watered-down version of the same policy.
Now the real Work & […]

The Joseph Rowntree Trust, a Liebour think tank, has concluded that “a fixed notion of Britishness” will not help to unite the population of the dis-United Kingdom.
The report says that ideas like swearing allegiance to the Queen, Britishness lessons and a Britishness Day public holiday won’t help people feel British, making an arse out of […]

These kind of memes are always kicking around but I quite like this one.  If you could choose any 3 people from history (alive or dead) to have dinner with, who would they be, why and which single burning question would you ask them?
Here’s mine for a start …
Freddie Mercury because he was just such […]

According to a thread on the British Democracy Forum senior English Democrats Party activist, Steve Uncles, has been arrested for harassment of Matt O’Conner’s family.
O’Conner was the EDP’s candidate for Mayor of London and was the founder of Fathers 4 Justice.  The EDP’s decision seems to have been a popular one in the EDP but […]

You would be mistaken for thinking that I had just scanned in the latest wax crayon masterpiece by my 3 year old daughter but no, this is the work of a grown man.  He does come from Milton Keynes, though, which might explain a few things.

This is 60 year old John Yates’ proposed new British […]

Browsing through the paper last night I read a quite bizarre story about two parish council’s in Telford having a bit of a bust-up.
One parish council - the Gorge - is the parish containing the Ironbridge World Heritage Site and all the associated musems.  It suffers from quite severe flooding on a regular basis and […]

Sometimes it seems like everyone in the IT world thinks they’re a psychic - every other day there’s some headline declaring the imminent death or arrival of something computer related.
This time it’s the turn of the humble mouse.  Not the little rodent that goes squeak squeak, can’t stand cheese and craps in your cereal - […]

The pathetic weakness of Liebour has been reconfirmed today with the first day of a two day strike by public sector workers and the Scottish Chancellor’s back-track over the 2p rise in fuel duty.
Council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in the Unison and Unite unions went on strike today over a below inflation […]

The Belgian Prime Minister has tendered his resignation after only a few months heading up a coalition government hastily thrown together under pressure from Federal Europe to prevent delays to the ratification of the EU not-a-Constitution.
Unsurprisingly, the Belgian government has fallen on its arse yet again, this time over a devolution package that would give […]

Gareth has put up the 2008 Witanagemot Blogging Awards survey.
Be sure to pop along and cast your vote for your favourite blogs and I’m not going to drop subtle subliminal hints like last year.
Witanagemot Blogging Awards 2008
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The M6 Toll Road has seen a drop in traffic numbers of over 13% in the last year.
The road was the first toll motorway in the UK and is operated by Midlands Expressway, a private company that spent a huge wedge of taxpayers money along with another huge wedge of private money on building and […]

Tony McNulty, the Liebour Home Office minister who helped bully and bribe the recent “anti-terrorism” legislation through the British Parliament, has criticised David Davis for resigning and forcing a by-election to give the electorate their only chance to have a vote on the abolition of civil liberties.
McNulty says that David Davis should have made his […]

The primary school that my children go to has a School Council which gets the kids involved in how the school is run and even how some of the money is spent.
Last year the children who wanted to take part stood for election and were voted in by their peers.  However, next year (this is […]

We bought a Nintendo Wii the other day and I strongly recommend one for every household, particularly if there’s a fatty in the household like there is in ours (me ).
I’m sitting here typing this with sweat dripping off me (pleasant image, I know) after spending just 10 minutes playing […]

You’d have thought George Ashcroft would have enough to do with his time as a borough councillor, assistant to the local Conswervative PPC and cabinet member for regeneration on Telford & Wrekin Council but apparently not.
This letter is in tonight’s Shropshire Star:

CIVIL RIGHT TO BE SAFE FROM TERROR
Stuart Parr says that he is becoming quite […]

The Counter Terrorism Bill that will allow suspects of terrorist offences such as teaching someone to shoot a gun, protesting outside parliament or saying “nonsense” to Jack Straw to be locked up for a month and a half without charge hasn’t even passed through the House of Lords yet and already the British government is […]

The Illiberal Dumbocrat leader, Nick Cleggover, says that schools “must tackle homophobia” because 2/3 of gay people in school report homophobia.
Quite a shocking statistic that.  You’d have thought it would be nearer 100% like it is with fat kids, thin kids, tall kids, short kids, clever kids, thick kids, rich kids, poor kids and pretty […]

I was browsing the BBC News website and saw a heartening headline - “Brown faces climate change revolt“.  My excitement turned to dismay, though, when I read the article.  More than 80 rebel Liebour MPs have signed an amendment to the Climate Change Bill to increase the target for reducing carbon emissions by 2050 from […]

No Mandate Brown has urged Brrrritish families to stop wasting food  to combat food shortages and save up to £420 a year in the process.
£420?  Whoop-de-fucking-do.  My tax bill, food bill, fuel bill, gas bill, electricity bill and just about every other bill has gone up by more than that thanks, largely, to the one-eyed […]

Regular readers will know that I complained to the BBC over its episode of Dr Who in which it used the phrase “You know how it is, England for the English”.  To see the original complaint, click here.
I wonder how many complaints the BBC got.  They certainly got enough to spend time coming up with […]

I’m back off holiday, normal service will be resumed shortly.
Thanks to the ginger one for keeping an eye on things here in Wonkoville, disappointed glad to see there’s no pictures of Gemma Atkinson’s breasts plastered all over the place.
We had excellent weather for most of the holiday - a bit of rain once or twice […]

Me again. Wonko will get back from his well-earned break and wonder what he’s done giving me access to this… Still, I’m here with some good news this time: English-hating tennis hack Andy Murray has been knocked out of wimbledon.
Good riddance you lanky streak of Scottish piss. One can only hope he will never darken […]