I will be Tweeting the the England -v- Ireland Six Nations game. Follow the commentary on Twitter or Facebook. Edit: If anyone is interested, here’s the commentary from Twitter … England get the British national anthem again. When will we get Jerusalem instead? National anthem scores: England 0 – 2 Ireland All 3 BBC commentators [...]

I don’t know if any of you have ever been to Telford but it has approximately 300 traffic islands per head of population.  Yet despite this dubious accolade, virtually nobody in the town knows how to drive round one. I admit that some of the concepts of negotiating a traffic island are a bit tricky, [...]

Back in December … Prime minister Gordon Brown wants investment in technology to be at the heart of the UK and Europe’s economic recovery. Speaking after a summit with business leaders from firms including Vodafone and BT, as well as French president Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission president José Manuel Barroso, Brown said the time [...]

I would love to have been a fly on the wall in Simon Murphy’s office today when he got the call from Telford & Wrekin Council announcing that they were leaving his city region quango with immediate effect. A week ago to this day I wrote an email to the leader of Telford & Wrekin [...]

A senior Met Police officer has warned that we are likely to experience a “summer of rage” caused by “known activists”. Superindendent David Hartshorn says that “known activists” are likely to organise protests and the recession will provide them with the “footsoldiers” they need. The “known activists” are most likely the BNP.  The timing - just [...]

There’s another scam doing the rounds on Facebook – this one puts a message in your notifications as follows: Friend Name has faced some errors when checking your profile View The Errors Message  The spelling mistake is a clue but it’s subtle and I must admit, I nearly clicked on the Activate button after clicking [...]

Mrs Sane and I went to a 40′s and 50′s themed party last night.  I’ve never had to wear a monkey suit before – we don’t get invited to those sort of parties usually! I felt like a waiter in an Indian takeaway. Technorati Tags: Party

Another day, another victim of the curse of Jonah Brown. Yesterday it was the turn of Saab who, following talks between their Chairman and El Gordo on setting up a new factory in the UK, are now considering filing for bankruptcy protection in Sweden. Today’s victim is the mining company, Anglo American, which has just [...]

Jonah Brown is continuing to wreak havoc on the global economy. A week ago he visited an Ericsson R&D plant, a Mini factory and a Corus factory.  A few days later Ericsson announced 5,000 job cuts, BMW announced 850 job cuts at Mini and Tata announced massive job cuts as part of a £600m cost [...]

Jade Goody shot to fame for her … interesting … performance on Big Brother and has kept herself in the papers by doing daft things and insulting people. Sadly, she has terminal cancer and her time on the mortal coil is coming to an end.  She will leave behind two young children. Doctors are doing [...]

The BBC Money Box programme has “discovered” that banks are allowed to take credit balances people hold with them to pay that person’s debts.  Quite a discovery, I wonder if Peston had anything to do with this startling revelation. Exercising right of set-off was quite routine when I did a stint for the NatWest debt [...]

The next round of local elections in Northern Ireland are to be postponed for a year because of changes to local government.  The number of local authorities in Northern Ireland is being reduced from 26 to 11. The British government has also been working to reduce the number of local authorities in England by inviting [...]

HM Court Service introduced the Libra computer system in December last year 7 years late and £260m over budget but it went live without the ability to issue a summons in Welsh, which has been a legal requirement since 1967. The service says it intends to add the functionality in by September this year at a [...]

Well, I made it to Scotland (just about) and I’ve not been detained for crimes against the promised land so far! I nearly didn’t make it – I forgot to take my passport with me for photo ID but luckily the departures people accepted my work security pass as valid ID even though it’s not [...]

The wildfires in Australia are a terrible disaster for the country with over a hundred people killed but why do the global warming propagandists have to seize on every natural disaster to try and scare people into believing in their scam? The State of Victoria has assigned 100 police officers to investigate the fires which [...]

RBS is getting a kicking for its billion pound bonus package at the same time as taking god knows how much money off the taxpayer. Yes, RBS has been run into the ground, taken on too much high risk debt and over-extended itself buying ABN Amro, but the majority of RBS staff weren’t responsible for [...]

This excellent letter appeared in the Shropshire Star on Saturday: England is denied EU aid benefit by Labour The Labour Government is denying England a windfall from the European Union yet it is making sure that Wales, Scotland and Ulster benefit. The fall in the value of the pound has increased the value of euro-denominated [...]

The British government is making yet another database – this time with details of all overseas travel. The database will store names, addresses, phone numbers, seat reservations, travel itineraries and credit card details for every trip made.  And the reason?  Fighting crime, illegal immigration and terrorism of course!  How many travel itineraries are likely to [...]

Good old Jeremy Clarkson, he always manages to get himself into trouble.  He’s got a long way to go before he can challenge Boris Johnson or Prince Phillip for the top spot but he’s a solid contender. This time he’s offended blind people, disabled people and Scottish people by calling El Gordo a one-eyed Scottish [...]

Over the last few days the news on the BBC and ITV have, understandably, talked about virtually nothing but the snow. There are plenty of other things going on in the world they could be talking about but the snow is a major event so fine.  But with the snow has come an apparent metrication [...]

The Met Office’s chief advisor to the British government has just told the BBC that “severe snow storms aren’t incompatible with global warming”. He said that years ago we had severe snow storms every 5 years and now it’s only every 18 years.  Extend that back through history and during the ice ages we had [...]

It seems that there’s at least one judge in England with enough backbone to uphold the constitution and protect our fundamental rights. A High Court judge has ruled that Liebour’s flagship class war weapon, the ban on hunting with dogs, does not include a ban on using dogs to search for and flush out animals [...]

Amusingly, BBC viewers and the Flag Institute have picked up on a minor gaffe at the signing of new trade deals between El Gordo, Peter Mandelson and the Chinese Prime Minister. On the desk they posed behind for photos, the tacky plastic union flag was flown upside down which is historically a symbol of distress.  [...]

Last week I went to a residents meeting to hear the results of a survey the council carried out last year.  This might sound boring but actually it was quite entertaining. This survey has been carried out every 4 years since 2000 and the results have been reviewed by a “consultation manager” at the council [...]

One thing that both irritates and humours me is people labelling the BNP as “far right”. On more than one occasion I’ve opined that this is one of the most successful propaganda coups by the left who have associated the left wing BNP with the right. The BNP are a left wing party.  They are [...]