I’m going to Holland today for a week or so for the christening of my god daughter, Emmy.  Well, she’s not my god daughter yet, obviously but by Sunday she will be. Anyway, I won’t be blogging while I’m away but soemone will be keeping an eye on things so behave yourselves! See you next [...]

The governer of the Bank of England has said that we might be entering into recession which is don’t panic the plebs code for “shit, how am I going to keep up the payments on my yacht”.  Of course we’re in a recession, we’ve known for months that it was starting and that things were [...]

Sony has issued a worldwide recall of its new game, LittleBigPlanet, in case it offends muslims. They were warned by a beta tester that one of the backing tracks, written by a Somali muslim, contains two phrases that are in the Koran and might be considered offensive by fundamentalist muslim nutjobs. Sony release a game [...]

The British government is photographing every house from the air with infrared cameras and then knocking on doors and telling residents how much heat is escaping from their homes. The figures will, of course, be stored in the obligatory database that will no doubt be linked to the council tax database at some point to [...]

I’m reading Taking Liberties again at the moment (well, not right at this moment, obviously) because it doesn’t hurt to remind yourself every now and again of the extent to which this bunch of twats in Westminster are destroying our rights and liberties. So it really shouldn’t have come as a surprise to learn that [...]

Well, what a bumper day this has been for letters. First of all there’s this one in the Shropshire Star, in response to the council announcing that they’re going to put in average speed cameras on one of the safest roads, relatively speaking, in the borough: Average speed trap not fair for motorists Councillor Bentley [...]

… could someone not only consider suing god but actually manage to get a judge to hear the case. Senator Ernie Chambers of Nebraska brought a law suit against god to get a permanent injunction to prevent “death, destruction and terrorisation” caused by him. He says he has done it to expose the ridiculous legal [...]

Mrs Sane and the offspring have been members of the leisure centre at the Holiday Inn in Telford for years, despite the considerable expense of being a member of a hotel leisure centre but maybe not for much longer. As regular readers will know, we have very good Dutch friends who are godparents to out [...]

The Bank of England is loaning £100m to the UK arm of Landsbanki so that it can repay its UK customers. Landisbanki was nationalised by the Icelandic government last week and its UK arm closed down leaving customers here unable to access their money. The Icelandic foreign minister has responded to the economic problems there – national [...]

The House of Lords has rejected 42 days internment for “terrorist” suspects by 309 votes to 118 – apparently the biggest defeat in the House of Lords in living memory. If proof was needed of the importance of an independent upper house, unaffected by the whims and whips of party politics, this is surely it.  [...]

Heard the first Christmas advert on the telly last night – the 12th of October and they’ve got a Christmas song on an advert already. WTF? Technorati Tags: Christmas, WTF

Quite often companies favour form over function – they design something to look good rather than work well.  A bit like Cat Deeley – looks great but then she opens her mouth and she sounds like Ozzie Osbourne. Our tumble drier broke on Friday which is a bit inconvenient because, with two adults and four [...]

Lucky readers in the Peoples Republic of the West Midlands have the opportunity to see my ugly mug on the telly today. It’s not Crimewatch, Britain’s Most Wanted Terrorist or a documentary on devastatingly handsome young bloggers (for obvious reasons). I was interviewed the other day by the West Midlands edition of the BBC Politics [...]

The second half of tonight’s game against Kazakhstan couldn’t have been more different from the first. It took 7 minutes of the second half to score the first goal and they came thick and apart from a lucky goal by Kazakhstan, England dominated the second half. But England still looked like they were going through [...]

Kazakhstan?  Kazakhfuckingstan? What a bloody shambles.  We should be 5-0 up by now at least but no – half way through the game and it’s still 0-0.  Not only that but Kazakhstan look like they have about 30 men on the pitch. There have been moments when England looked like a World Cup winning team [...]

Just spotted this on Telford Live … Last time Oil was $80 / Barrel, petrol was 76p / litre  Bastards. Technorati Tags: Petrol

For the last year or so El Gordo has been encouraging fuel prices to increase, rubbing his hands gleefully at the prospect of an extra few billion in bonus cash flowing into the slush fund. But now the arse has fallen out of the economy and he’s spent a decade’s worth of slush fund on bailing out [...]

My eldest is starting secondary school school next year and we’ve been doing the school open day circuit. Sunday was the Thomas Telford School, one of the best independent schools in the country.  We won’t find out until March if he’s been selected to go there.  Last night was the Lord Silkin School, the closest [...]

Alistair McDarling has announced details of his master plan to save the banking sector.  He’s going to loan them 50% of the GDP of the UK. I kid you not.  The taxpayer is stumping up £50bn now for the eight biggest banks and building societies and another £200bn is being given to the Bank of England for [...]

Talking to a colleague about the money troubles this morning, I suggested that RBS might be the next big bank to fail in the UK. Since then RBS shares have lost nearly 40% of their value and they’ve had to issue a statement denying that they’ve asked the Chancellor for a few billion to tide [...]