The European Empire has admitted, just one day before the ban on proper light bulbs comes into force, that energy saving bulb manufacturers are “exaggerating” their claims about equivalence. The British government, its Energy Saving Trust quango, the European Empire, bulb manufacturers and environmental extremists have been telling us that the energy saving bulbs will [...]

This is about the fifth or sixth time I’ve done a political compass test and it always comes out pretty much the same – slightly right of centre libertarian. Technorati Tags: Political Compass

Liebour’s pet far-left extremists, the IPPR, have suggested that students from “middle class” families in England should be refused student loans to pay tuition fees to make more money available to students from poor families who are more likely to vote Liebour. They are also calling for grants and bursaries to be restricted to students [...]

Working class! Failed politician, life-long member of the Scottish Raj and millionaire class warrior, Michael Martin, is being rewarded for the gross incompetence that resulted in him being the first Speaker of the House of Commons to be forced out of office since 1695 with a Baronetcy. Gorbals Mick will now be carrying out his [...]

The BBC is a pioneer of High Definition (HD) TV in the UK, broadcasting HD content on satellite, cable, freeview and the internet.  So why do I have to watch BBC Breakfast in low definition while the BBC HD channel is showing previews of what’s on the channel tonight? And while I’m on the subject [...]

Andy Burnham, the British Minister for English Health, has written an open letter to David Camoron calling on him to withdraw the whip from Dan Hannan and any other Tory that criticises the NHS. What a prize prick. He rubbishes claims the Tories are the party of the NHS as Camoron claims because Dan Hannan [...]

Mrs Sane has just been watching last night’s X-Factor and spotted what can only be the product of a secret genetic experiment … Will Young Danyl Johnson He’s got the Will Young lisp, he sings like Will Young, he dances like Will Young, he looks like Will Young and likes to take it up the [...]

Ann Widdecombe has publicly spoken out against David Camoron‘s “A” list selection procedure for Tory PPC’s. The “A” list system discriminates against white male candidates in favour of ethnic and female candidates in a deliberate attempt to artifically “balance” the sexual and ethnic make-up of the British government by placing ethnic and female candidates in [...]

We were unable to upload this document because of this error: Sorry, there was an error saving the file. Please try again. This error message comes from the converter we’re using, and hopefully tells you what you need to know to fix the problem.   I got the above trying to upload a 700k Excel [...]

On the front page of the Shropshire Star (yes, the front page) yesterday was a story about the statue of Charles Darwin outside Shresbury Library sprouting a traffic cone over the weekend. This isn’t about the newsworthiness, or otherwise, of the Shropshire Star’s front page stories but the quote from the librarian, Mrs Buckley: It’s [...]

I had some sad news the other day. A fellow Leader at the vbCity developers forum, Martin de Klerk (aka emdek), has died of cancer. He told us that he’d got cancer a while ago and that it was terminal but it doesn’t really make it any easier. Martin was an excellent role model on [...]

  Back in July I wrote a fairly lengthy post on why UKIP’s devolution policy is wrong. The relatively few comments it attracted belies the number of UKIP members and sympathisers that hold the same views – I received many more comments away from the blog and through the UKIP members’ forum. This prompted me [...]

The Broadcasting Act defines a Television Broadcasting Service as: (5)In this Part “television broadcasting service” means (subject to subsection (6)) a service consisting in the broadcasting of television programmes for general reception in, or in any area in, the United Kingdom, including a domestic satellite service (as defined by section 43(1)).  The BBC says that the Licence [...]

I’m back from my English seaside holiday.  Felixstowe was an unusual place to go for a holiday but it was nice – plenty for the kids to do, a nice town centre, very clean and well maintained and surprisingly quiet. The caravan site we stayed on was a bit of a disappointment.  The caravan hadn’t been [...]

The Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers Union (RMT) has claimed that protesters occupying a wind turbine factory are having their human rights breached. The Vestas factory on the Isle of White is being closed by its owners (announced on the same day the British government announced its fictitious “green jobs” figures) so workers have illegally [...]

My first reaction when I read this was “what the fuck”?  The taxpayer is going to pay graduates to go on a working holiday?  The British government is actually going to hand over £500 of our hard earned money to a bunch of students so they can go on a taxpayer-funded jolly?  We’re bankrupt, do [...]