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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. Technorati Tags: Congratulations