I’d like to wish all my readers a Happy New Year. Hopefully 2009 will be a happy and prosperous year for you all and if it isn’t then at least you’ve only got 365 days until 2010! Technorati Tags: Happy New Year

What’s the point of legislation imposing age limits on buying certain products when retailers clearly know better? I’m sure we’re all quite used to seeing signs in supermarkets telling you that it’s an offence to buy alcohol unless you’re 18 and then another sign telling you that if you look under 21 you’ll be asked [...]

We just had a power cut for over an hour.  This might not sound like much and I’ve certainly been through much worse but it’s unusual for round here and it must have been pretty severe. As far as I can tell, the whole of Brookside and Stirchley were out (over 10k people) including the [...]

On the outskirts of Telford is an industrial estate, Hortonwood and next to it a small village, Horton.  Access to the village is via a narrow road, Horton Lane. Horton Lane is relatively unknown but it’s a useful time saver if you’re trying to get out of the back end of the industrial estate at [...]

We went to Tesco today to do a bit of shopping. It was unusually quiet, devoid of the crowds of bargain hunters I would have expected this close after Christmas. Vision of the Future? That wasn’t the only strange thing about the shop today – half of the store was in darkness. On some aisles, [...]

I’d like to wish all my readers a very merry Christmas. I’ll be taking a few days off blogging but I’ll probably update Twitter from time to time so if you really have nothing better to do over Christmas than read about whatever is annoying me you can follow me on Twitter! Technorati Tags: Christmas

Four animal rights terrorists have been found guilty of blackmailing companies with associations with Huntingdon Life Sciences. Their 6 year terrorist campaign included sending fake letter bombs, sending letters to neighbours of one man telling them he was a paedophile, criminal damage, grafitti and threats against the families of their victims. These scum should be [...]

The Belgian government has resigned yet again. Prime Minister Yves Leterme tendered his government’s resignation in June, just 3 months after forming a government, after failing to get an enhanced devolution deal approved by parliament.  On that occassion, the King refused to accept the resignation and told Leterme to sort himself out. This time, however, [...]

The General Secretary of OPEC, the group with de-facto control of the world’s oil supply, has said that No Mandate Brown is “confused” about oil prices. Abdalla Salem El-Badri wasn’t best pleased with El Gordo’s pronouncement that volatile oil prices were to blame for global economic problems and that OPEC should do more to stabilise [...]

Last week the island of Sark in the Channel Islands held its first ever election for the Chief Pleas, the parliament of Sark.  Sark is a Crown Dependency and is therefore not part of the UK or the EU but the elections were held to comply with the EU Convention on Human Rights. Until last [...]

I don’t share Cranmer’s zeal for Christian fundamentalism but I do share his concern over the encroachment of alien religions into everyday life. Earlier in the month he reproduced a letter from Sikh Awareness on the subject of Halal meat being served as a matter of course to non-muslims in schools: Dear Sir Re: Halal [...]

FIFA have agreed to a British football team for the 2012 Olympics and No Mandate Brown has got assurances from Sepp Blatter that the independence of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish teams will be maintained. The English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish fan associations are all opposed to a British football team and the [...]

When the Tories won control of Telford & Wrekin Council for the first time last year, many promises were made of a more transparent administration with more involvement of the electorate in council decisions. It was a rocky start for the Tories who had to pick up the pieces after a scorched earth budget from [...]

Yes, I know I’m being lazy re-posting things I’ve written elsewhere but there are only so many hours in a day and I do have to work for a living! I’ve just posted this on Bloggers4UKIP: Working Time Directive will cost billions Earlier today I wrote about the EU Parliament voting to abolish the UK’s [...]

UKIP’s Dr Bob Spink MP very kindly agreed to do a Q&A session for Bloggers4UKIP and here it is, unedited and straight from the horses mouth: It’s now been 8 months since you left the Conservatives and joined UKIP. Do you ever regret making the move? Do you think you still stand a good chance [...]

A month ago I wrote to Harriet Harperson after she announced that she would be launching an inquiry into the “too white” British Parliament.  I had all but given up on receiving a reply when out of the blue, one of her underlings sent a reply: Dear Wonko, Thank you for your email of November [...]

Via the excellent Englishmans Castle, this article in the Canadian Free Press: How many failed predictions, discredited assumptions and evidence of incorrect data are required before an idea loses credibility? Proponents of human induced warming and climate change told us that an increase in CO2 precedes and causes temperature increases. They were wrong. They told [...]

According to South Worcestershire Police accidents were up 1,000% the other day thanks to the icy road conditions. I’d be surprised if it was only 1,000% here in Telford because the roads on Wednesday were lethal.  The council sent the gritters out the night before but they’ve started using this new type of grit which [...]

Regular readers will know that I have a phobia of dentists so bad that I recently spent a week and a half in agony with a gum infection rather than go to the dentist. Well, yesterday was my first trip to the hospital for some dental work.  I wasn’t in the best shape by the [...]

I finally got round to going to the dentist yesterday to get some antibiotics to sort out the infection in my gum that I’ve had for weeks.  It doesn’t hurt any more unless I push on it but it needs sorting out. So, I went to the dentist yesterday afternoon, she had a quick look [...]