There’s nothing like getting your priorities right and this is nothing like getting your priorities right.
The Campaign for Plain English has convinced Tesco to change the wording of its “10 items or less” because it’s grammatically incorrect.  They quite rightly point out that when you know the quantity then it is grammatically correct to say […]

I’m in the strange situation of feeling sorry for Alistair Darling.  Yes, he’s a fucking cretin.  Yes, he looks like like he’s got two caterpillars on his face.  Yes, he’s one of the English-hating jocks who signed the Scottish Claim of Right and then done what they can to make sure that England gets screwed […]

Naughty Bob Piper gives us an explanation of economics:
SOCIALISM: You have 2 cows, and you give one to your neighbour
COMMUNISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM: You have 2 cows. The State takes both and […]

I got an email a month or two ago telling me that Wonko’s World had been added to Politigg as a trusted source.  I then forgot about it until the other day when I noticed that the Devil had implemented Politigg.
I notice that there are only a handful of posts on the Kitchen that have […]

The Scottish Illiberal Dumocrats have elected a new leader - Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland.
In his acceptance speech he likened himself to Olympic gold medal winner, Chris Hoy, several times, following in the footsteps of El Gordo who was using the Olympics as a platform to spout his British nationalist propaganda.  A true politician in […]

A couple of weeks ago, after Russia invaded Georgia, I said that the UN would be unable to act on Georgia because of Russia’s veto and that Federal Europe would denounce their invasion but Russia would respond along the lines of Federal Europe supported Kosovo’s universal declaration of independence so they’re doing the same in […]

The Beijing Olympics has finally, finally finished.  Thank christ for that, perhaps now we can get back to normality?
The Olympics is shit, the Beijing Olympics has been shit and the London Olympics is going to be unbelievably shit.
China shouldn’t have been given a second thought when it put in a bid for the Olympics.  Being […]

I bought a family passport for the Ironbridge Gorge museums not long ago.
We get them half price through my employer in conjunction with the Transforming Telford quango I’ve blogged about before (a VP at my employer is a director of the quango as well).  At £24 for a family passport that lets us into every […]

No Mandate Brown has told Sky News that he hopes there will be a Team UK for the 2012 Olympics.  Not Team GB you’ll note, but Team UK.  Great Britain doesn’t include Northern Ireland - something that doesn’t seem to bother Lieutenant Governor Brown in Beijing - but the Northern Ireland FA is the only […]

A word of warning to my readers on an MSN Messenger fraud that my 10 year old son fell for.
If you see a website that looks like this:

DON’T GIVE THEM YOUR MSN MESSENGER DETAILS!
The terms and conditions on the page say that they may use your details to log in to your account and message […]

Nuruzzaman Hira, a former candidate for the frankly bizarre Respect party and the equally pointless spin-off, Left List, has defected to the Illiberal Dumbocrats.
This wouldn’t be newsworthy in the slightest if it wasn’t for the response by the local Liebour nutters who said it showed a “lack of principle”.
Strange that because a lefty liberal defecting […]

A few months ago I started a petition on the 10 Downing Street website calling on the British government to commission an independent cost-benefit analysis of our membership of Federal Europe.
Here’s their response:
This Government strongly believes that the benefits of EU Membership clearly outweigh the costs. UK membership of the EU is central to the […]

Some local authorities want to be able to offer mortgages to people who can’t afford to buy houses.
On the face of it, this isn’t such a bad idea.  House prices are far too high and if it was directed at the right people - young people who are priced out of their rural home towns, […]

When El Gordo first announced the Child Trust Fund I said it was a con and guess what - it’s a fucking rip-off scheme designed to make rich companies richer.
We didn’t bother “investing” the voucher we were sent for #4 (the only child that qualified) because there seemed little point as it was pretty obvious […]

The ginger one reckons that we should all list the 100 top books, as decided by somebody or other at the BBC, and highlight them as follows:

Bold the ones you’ve read
Italicise the ones you intend to read
Underline the ones you love
Strikeout the ones you have no intention of reading

Apparently, the average person has only read […]

This may seem a little random, but is there anything on this planet that baby wipes can’t clean?
We haven’t had to change nappies for about 2 years now but we still keep a supply of baby wipes because they’re so damn useful.
I polish my shoes with a baby wipe.  I clean my PC monitor with […]

The Drivers Alliance has officially launched its website today as news of the British government’s rubber stamping of road pricing trials hit the papers.
The Drivers Alliance was started by Peter Roberts, the Telford man who started the 1.8m signature Downing Street petition opposing road pricing.
Pop over and take a look.  Peter is a very hard […]

Anti-democratic extremists, Unite Against Facism, have again targetted a lawful BNP rally in the name of anti-facism.  The fact that they are display classic traits of facism themselves seems to be lost on the far left.
The fact is, no matter how odious the BNP are, they have as much right to exist and promote their […]

I have no interest in the Olympics - we don’t have an English team and there are many, many more things that those billions could be spent on, like cancer treatments and housing homeless people.
I do have to wonder, though, why the UK’s Olympic body insists on calling its team “Great Britain”.
Great Britain is a […]

Just a quick note to congratulate fellow blogger, Andrew Ian Dodge, on his good news.
AID has been fighting colon cancer for some time now and he’s just had the all-clear.
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Took Mrs Sane out for a meal last night to our favourite Italian restaurant, Osteria da Paolo in Shrewsbury.
Shrewsbury was a bit manic because the Flower Show is in full swing and the restaurant was busier than usual but the service was great, as was the food (although it did take two attempts to get […]

This letter was in the Shropshire Star last night.  The title wasn’t my idea …

Why can’t we all just be Brits
Great Britain won its first gold medal of the Olympics on Sunday.  The BBC were beside themselves and delighted in telling the world that the medal winner was Welsh and it was the first Welsh […]

Birmingham City Council has sent a leaflet to 720,000 households to thank them for helping them hit their recycling targets early.
Printing 720,000 colour leaflets and posting them to every household is a pretty stupid thing to do in itself - it cost the taxpayer £15k and how many of those leaflets will end up being […]

Back in May I blogged about the shitty Adobe Acrobat installer that gets in a huff if you don’t allow it to insert its accelerated startup thingy into Windows’ startup items.
It seems that Adobe isn’t alone in writing shit installers that won’t take no for an answer - I’ve just installed an update for Sun […]

Earth First, a militant group of eco-facist anarchists, are planning another eco-terrorist training climate camp in Norfolk.
According to Communist Socialist Unity, the camps “have the climate camp vibe and lots of good workshops for political education”.
I think I’ll pass.
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Just watched the first episode of Spooks: Code 9.
The programme itself was moderately entertaining - not a patch on Spooks - but my god, Freud would have creamed himself over the propaganda and subliminal messages in it.
Whenever one of the bad guys was shown, their face had a British flag superimposed on it.  Every plot […]

The police have now made over 100 arrests at the eco-terrorist camp outside Kingsnorth Power Station.
The eco-terrorists actually had the nerve to complain last week that the Police were being heavy handed and that there was no need to raid their camp, even though they admitted that it was no secret they intended to take […]

Boris Johnson has over-ruled the eco-loonies in London and cancelled the pedestrianisation of Parliament Square and the purchase of hygdrogen-powered vehicle for use in the public sector around London.
Ken Livingstone, the odious turd that preceded Boris, approved plans for the pedestrianisation of Parliament Square which would have involved paving over the grass and banning cars […]

A group of MPs have told the Demon Headmaster that we should have a British Bill of Rights to give extra protection to children, old people and people with learning disabilities.
Has nobody told these cretins that we’ve already got a Bill of Rights?
The Bill of Rights was passed in 1689 in the English Parliament and […]

No Mandate Brown has a master plan for reviving the housing market and turning round the market.  You’ll like it, it’s a stroke of genius.
What he’s planning on doing is allowing high street banks and other mortgage lenders to sell their mortgages to the Bank of England who will pay them in guaranteed government bonds.  […]