Nick Clegg has told the Daily Telegraph that it is right English students should have to pay up to £9k per year to go to university while Scottish students should study for free. He said that under devolution it is right that there should be differences in the two nations and he’s absolutely right – [...]

Ok, the wedding is over and done with and we’ve got our new princess. Watching the wedding made me feel quite happy really – I love the royals and I’m sure William and Kate will turn more than a few borderline republicans into monarchists.  The run-up to the wedding has been absolutely horrendous though – [...]

Last September I posted some pictures of the police and fire brigade attending  a fire in some low rise flats in the next street to me. It turns out that it was started deliberately by some drunken chav who decided to set fire to her ex-boyfriend’s baseball cap and throw it on a mattress.  She [...]

HMRC is targeting plumbers in its latest attempt to extort a bit more money out of us proles.  This is a similar exercise to the recent one where they targeted 30,000 doctors and ended up getting money out of just 5% of them. According to the British government, £45bn per year is “lost” through unpaid [...]

St Andrew’s Day … St David’s Day … St George’s Day … Now I can guess what the excuse will be – St George’s Day has been postponed until the 2nd of May by the church because it clashes with Easter and Easter is more important in the religious calendar than a saint’s day – [...]

Here are some pictures and video’s from today’s St George’s Day celebration in Telford Town Centre and Telford Town Park …

It’s the 23rd of April again and I’ve racist’d the house up with Cross of St George bunting and flags. We’re going to Telford Town Park today for the St George’s Day event the council are putting on.  Last year was great, we spent the whole day there so hopefully this year will be just [...]

I was browsing the BBC News website this morning and started to read an article on the “far right” English Defence League (EDL). The BBC has an obsession with the term “far right”, applying it to any organisation that speaks out against unfettered immigration and criticises Islam or multiculturalism.  In general, I think the BBC [...]

Padiham Council, near Burnley, has voted for a BNP councillor to be their Mayor. Hope Not Hate and the Bishop of Burnley are both opposing his appointment but residents seem to be accepting of the idea judging by the comments in the Daily Mail article. No matter what you think of the BNP’s politics, Councillor [...]

According to the BBC, GPs in England are being put under pressure by PCTs to half the amount of medication they are prescribing patients to bring in more income from prescription charges. Currently you can get up to 2 months’ worth of medication on one prescription but PCTs have been telling GPs to cut that to [...]

Good news!  The ConDems have done something sensible at last and announced their intention to remove the powers of local councils in England to fine people for not complying with their recycling and bin collection rules. Naturally Labour and Greenpeace are up in arms and want councils to be allowed to carry on handing out [...]

The other day I was invited to take part in a YouGov survey which contained, amongst others, a question about AV. I don’t think AV is the answer to the democratic deficit in England as I have already said but I do support the change to the voting system because it’s better than First Past [...]

We’ve just had the census police at the door as we hadn’t returned our form.  She had already been forewarned about my opinion of the census by the next door neighbour who happens to be her sister. As it happens, the census has been filled out and sealed in the envelope already but it just [...]

I was out walking the dog last night and there were 6 police cars a few doors down from my house.  An hour later there was just one car left that I could see and a driveway was cordoned off with police tape.  Turns out a man and his daughter were found dead last night. [...]

No2AV have produced some “research” claiming that changing to the Alternative Vote system will mean the BNP getting into power.  Well, that’s how some in the No2AV camp (such as Witchfinder General Warsi and Guido) are painting it but that’s not what their “research” says. The “research” says that in 35 seats, the votes of [...]