I can honestly say, I’ve never been excited about a football match that didn’t involve a team I support but I’ve just been on the edge of my seat watching Histon play Leeds. Watching a team I remember being one of the best in England go down 1-0 to a non-league team is great but [...]

In a civillised democracy a member of an opposition political party would be commended for making public some embarrassing piece of information about the serving government.  Information relating to the employment of an illegal immigrant at the Home Office, the Security Industry Authority giving licences to illegal immigrants or a letter from the Home Secretary [...]

Indian troops have killed the last of the terrorists holed up in the Taj Mahal Palace hotel. The Taj Mahal Palace hotel was the last one to be cleared of terrorists earlier today. It’s taken almost three days to clear a few terrorists out of a couple of hotels, what has actually been happening down [...]

I know it’s hard to believe but it appears that being a Scottish bank hasn’t, as previously thought, been a good enough reason for investors to plough their life savings into a bankrupt Royal bank of Scotland. Go figure. RBS had another bumper rights issue as part of the deal with the devil Alistair Darling [...]

The BBC were bleating this morning about another promised measles epidemic (the last one they said was going to happen didn’t, I wonder if this one will) and navel gazing about the number of children that aren’t getting vaccinated. What they failed to mention was that it was the BBC was one of the media [...]

Well, this is the longest two hours in history.  This morning the authorities in Mumbai were saying that they’d be done and dusted in a couple of hours and six hours later they’re still going at it. I really don’t understand what’s going on down there, there’s something we’re not being told.  I’m confident that if [...]

David Blunkett says that everyone between the age of 16 and 25 should do at least 6 months of intensive voluntary work. An interesting proposition but not something I can see many 16 to 25 year olds going for it.  How about our MPs set an example by doing intensive volunteer work during the 6 [...]

Indian troops are clearing the last of the terrorists out of the Taj Mahal Palace and Oberoi Trident hotels and a Jewish outreach centre where a Rabbi and other hostages have been taken. The death toll has increased to 130 and it will no doubt increase during the next couple of hours while troops are [...]

Although I’m looking forward to Christmas more this year than in the past, I’m starting to remember just why it is that I detest the run-up to Christmas. BBC Breakfast had carol singers on this morning.  Carol singers.  A month before Christmas.  But it gets better.  Someone at work bought a Christmas chocolate log the [...]

Not a huge amount has changed overnight other than troops surrounding the two hotels where the terrorists are holding hostages and the death toll increasing. Last night they estimated that about 20 or so people had been killed, this morning they’re saying it’s 101.  Eighteen police officers are amongst the 101 dead, including Mumbai state’s [...]

Just got out of a relaxing soak in the bath, went downstairs as Mrs Sane was just watching Robert Kiljoy-Sick getting kicked out of the jungle and the news came on saying that 8 hotels in Mumbai had suffered terrorist attacks.  Which was a bit of a downer and put paid to the plan to [...]

A man in Perthshire has been jailed for assaulting a police officer, singing Spider Pig at them and calling another one “ginger”. Best go through all those posts and find the references to ginger strawberry blonde people before the anti-terrorist squad come knocking on the door.  Is there anything that can’t be used as “aggravation” [...]

Number 3 was diagnosed with dyspraxia a while ago and as he’s getting older he’s displaying all the classic symptoms, not to mention being incredibly frustrating. Dyspraxia is a developmental disorder that affects someone for their whole life.  The symptoms include being fidgetty, a lack of concentration, having difficulty adapting to new situations, frustration (with [...]

Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel. That’s it. No punchline. Technorati Tags: Michael Jackson, Islam

Tory MP, Peter Luff, has criticised gas and electricity companies for putting up customers’ direct debits unnecessarily. I can confirm this happens with Grittish Bass – I’ve had to tell them the last two or three times that they’ve sent a bill to reduce the direct debit because they’ve put it up for no reason.  [...]

The other day I went to the doctors and saw the triage nurse to ask for some antibiotics to sort out the infection in my gum. I know I’ve got an infection in my gum because I had it about a month and a half ago and I know I need some antibiotics because that’s [...]

It’s not very often I come out in defence of an MP and even less often a Liebour MP but I have to defend Paul Flynn MP over the attempted censorship of his blog. Flynn makes fun of his fellow MPs and gives them nicknames on his blog.  Some of the things he says about [...]

Please try not to laugh, this is deadly serious. Someone has leaked the BNP’s membership list and posted it on the internet. Some BNP members are less than please judging by the comments on one BNP blog. Some of them are unhappy because they’re ashamed of their membership and have been outed and some are [...]

About 10 years ago my mum was diagnosed Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.  Needless to say, it was a difficult time for the whole family and I got through it by pretending it wasn’t happening.  She spent a couple of months in isolation in a hospital in Birmingham and had to have her heart stopped twice to bring [...]

One of the kids brought home another glossy newspaper-style magazine produced by my local council’s school meals people. Regular readers will know that I’ve complained about school meals in the past specifically about the rewards schemes they run to get kids pressuring their parents for school meals and reward children that are entitled to free [...]