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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]