Bloody buggering Sky, I swear there’s a conspiracy to piss me off. Two months ago they buggered up my internet connection and then buggered up my phone fixing my broadband. I spent several days arguing with them over the phone that the problem was at the exchange, not my equipment or my phone, the micro [...]

The English Defence League (EDL) held a “static protest” in Bradford yesterday which was typically marred by violence. The original plan was for the EDL to hold a march through Bradford but the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, Sir Norman Bettison, successfully got the Home Secretary, Theresa May, to ban any protest marches in [...]

Oh dear, looks like the fuck up fairy has visited Google!

The BBC News website has a non-story about speeding statistics at the site of two switched-off speed cameras in Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire County Council couldn’t afford to keep the speed cameras going after the British government withdrew central funding for speed cameras in England so they turned them off but Thames Valley Safer Road Partnership – [...]

I was just getting dinner out of the oven when #1 son came knocking on the kitchen window and presented a crying 6 year old boy. After talking to him it turned out that his mum had gone shopping and packed him off to his friend’s house.  He’d changed his mind halfway to his friend’s [...]

The British government have banned adverts for “the sex industry” in Job Centres because they might lead to exploitation of vulnerable unemployed women. I’m not an expert in “the sex industry” so I’m happy to be corrected but this all seems a bit daft. For a start, I’d imagine the kind of strip club or [...]