Via the Secret Person, apparently we don’t take Eurovision seriously enough.
No shit Sherlock. Bjorn Erichsen, the Danish producer of Eurovision, has been bitching about Terry Wogan, saying that he is part of the problem and that we should treat it with the seriousness it deserves.
What a fucking joke. If it wasn’t for Terry Wogan, Eurovision […]
Zimbabwean police have been instructed to campaign for Robert Mugabe and the War Veterans - an armed ZanuPF militia group - will be inside polling stations wearing police uniforms if a run-off for the presidential election is held.
According to this BBC News article, it would appear that the War Veterans are being incorporated into the police […]
ZanuPF and the MDC have both filed petitions with the Zimbabwean Electoral Court challenging the results of a total of 105 results from the recent elections.
MPs will still be sworn in and the government - such as it is - will continue whilst the Electoral Court rules on the results.
There is only one way that […]
Nourishing Obscurity has a post on bloggers’ coats of arms. Not sure if the College of Arms will approve of his choice of a badger and hamster.
Of course, being the terribly important person I am, my family already has a coat of arms which you should see to your right here.
It’s a bit basic […]
No Mandate Brown will shortly be getting his first test since the battering at the local elections last week when the Crewe & Nantwich by-election takes place on the 22nd.
Gwyneth Dunwoody held the seat for for Liebour for 25 years until she passed away a couple of weeks ago. She had held the seat since […]
Mrs Sane and I need to go to the Netherlands in October for the christening of our godchild.
Contrary to popular belief, booking flights at the last minute doesn’t get you a cheap ticket. In fact, it generally gets you a more expensive ticket because someone will pay through the nose if they absolutely have to […]
We went up to Chester to Mrs Sane’s cousin’s house yesterday for their daughter’s first birthday and now I’m jealous.
No, they don’t live in a mansion - their house is lovely but it’s about half the size of ours. No, it’s not nestled amongst million pound houses in a leafy suburb - it’s a nice […]
Richard Barnes, the Conswervative Leader in London, has told the BNP that they will have problems finding secretaries and support staff in the London Assembly and that they won’t be forcing admin staff to do their jobs.
Whilst I find the BNP quite reprehensible, I don’t see how the Conswervatives can claim any moral justification for […]
Tonight’s Shropshire Star reports that a man has been badly beaten - so badly that he needed an emergency operation on his head - just round the corner from where the racist fight took place on Thursday night.
The police believe the man in his twenties was attacked by two 16 year olds and that it’s […]
A number of children, some as young as 9 or 10, were involved in a racial attack in Telford last night.
From what I am told, a group of black youths racially abused a group of white youths and a fight followed during which a 10 year old child had their head stamped on several times. […]
The Zimbabwean Electoral Commission has released results of the Presidential elections and confirmed that Mugabe lost.
However, neither candidate officially reached that golden 50% mark which would have avoided a run-off election between the two candidates. I say officially because Zanu-PF have had possession of the ballot boxes since the election. It is an indication of […]
The results of yesterday’s elections are almost all in and it looks like being a brilliant result.
With 148 of 159 councils declared, Liebour have so far lost control of 8 councils and a spectacular in 293 councillors in what has been described as the worst result for Liebour since the 60’s. Research by the […]
Having finished my daily dose of the Daily Mash I popped over to BBC News to get the serious news.
Or so I thought.
I thought perhaps the Daily Mash had managed to hijack my browser and spoof the BBC News website somehow when I saw this: Lesbos islanders dispute gay name. Apparently, the islanders of Lesbos […]
Via Bob Piper, it appears that Guido has been a naughty boy.
According to the Ministry of Truth, Mr Fawkes has been caught drink driving for the second time in 5 years and apparently with no insurance as well. For this offence he faces a mandatory driving ban, up to nine grand in fines and up […]
My MP, David Wright, has got a blog!
So far he’s managed to mention the fact he’s “a local lad” in every post I think - this seems to be the entire basis of his manifesto.
He’s getting a slating from the locals though, which is entertaining.
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BP and Shell have made a combined profit of almost £9bn in the first quarter of 2008.
The oil companies have, of course, been criticised for making such large profits. Most of them either don’t - or don’t want to - understand that oil companies have only one responsibility and that is to make as much […]
The two factions of MDC have reunited to form a larger opposition to Robert Mugabe. Zanu-PF is now outnumbered in the Zimbabwean Parliament - even after the “re-count” of ballot boxes that had been in Zanu-PF’s control - by 109 seats to 97.
Mugabe has had over 200 MDC activists arrested and MDC says that […]
Robert Mugabe has demonstrated his commitment to democracy by having the offices of the MDC and the independent election monitor, ZESN, raided.
In total about a hundred people have been arrested and ballot counting and computer equipment has been taken under a warrant issued for “subversive information likely to overthrow a constitutionally elected government”. This would […]
Hamas has formally offered a truce in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has dismissed the offer saying that it’s just a ploy to let Hamas “rearm and regroup”.
Gosh, how nice it must be to know everything all the time.
Looks like my question has been answered.
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Former US President, Jimmy Carter, has met with the exiled leader of Hamas in Syria.
Hamas (the political party) won free and fair elections last year but Israel, the US and the EU refuse to deal with them and are actively seeking to undermine their control of the Gaza Strip which they have controlled since winning […]
After three weeks, votes are being recounted in 23 seats in Zimbabwe that Robert Mugabe’s ZanuPF lost.
The Zimbabwean Electoral Commission is a pro-Mugabe, ZanuPF-controlled quango and party officials are believed to have had free access to the ballot boxes for the duration. The opposition MDC says that it will not support any recount because they […]
If you read the following on the BBC News website …
The American housing ministry has invited tenders for the construction of 100 new homes at American settlements in occupied Iraq.
… people would say that it was wrong and that America had no right to build homes for Americans in Iraq against the will of the Iraqi government. […]
No Mandate Brown has told a meeting of the UN that “no-one thinks” Mugabe won the Zimbabwean presidential elections.
He then had the audacity to say “The credibility of the democratic process depends on there being a legitimate government”.
What’s that you say? Legitimate government? Is that like the leader of the country asking the electorate to […]
The signal on my Orange phone has been dropping off all morning so I checked a couple of other Orange mobiles and they’re all doing the same thing so I phoned Orange.
Apparently there’s scheduled work going on with four transmitters nearby resulting in the intermittent coverage. Which is nice.
So why wasn’t I told about this? […]
Tinpot dictator, Robert Mugabe, has called No Mandate Brown “a tiny dot in the world” after Gordo criticised him for holding back results of the Zimbabwean elections.
The Goblin King criticised Mugabe and said “the eyes of the world are on Zimbabwe”. As the unelected leader of the former colonial power in Zimbabwe, the irony surely […]
Nothing to do with conspiracy theories this, the ginger one has found this rather strange website that plots your website as a graph. Looks more like a dodgy astrology chart.
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Just a reminder about this poll …
I’m going to publish the results pretty soon so if you want to vote, do so quickly.
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The island of Sark in the Channel Islands has had a fuedal government for the last 600 years.
Sark is the last feudal administration in Europe and is ruled by 40 unelected “feifs” and 12 deputies chosen by the islanders. The head of the government is the Seigneur and the head of the judiciary is the […]
Toque submitted a petition to the 10 Downing Street website on eco towns which has been rejected on false grounds.
The petition called on the Prime Minister to build eco towns in Scotland instead of England because England is overcrowded and Scotland is sparsely populated and would benefit from the boosted population. It was rejected because […]
A Commons Commission has concluded that abolishing the lower rate 10p/£ income tax rate has made poor people worse off. What a leap of fucking logic!
The same pattern keeps repeating itself with Liebour. They abolish lower tax rates and exemptions that everyone is automatically entitled to and replace them with a tax credit that some […]
I was browsing the Africa section of the BBC News website today catching up on the declining fortune of everyone’s favourite dictator when I spotted this story.
It seems that pirates off the coast of Somalia have boarded a luxury French yacht and taken the thirty crew hostage.
Well, what a surprise. It only happened 25 times […]
Kosovo has hardly been mentioned since it’s declaration of independence but what’s actually going on there?
The BBC says that Russia is sending medical and food aid to Kosovan Serbs at the request of the Serbian government. Are Kosovan Serbs are in need of aid or are the Russians and Serbs playing a game, trying […]
The Zimbabwean Electoral Commission has announced that Mugabe’s Zanu PF has lost its majority in the Zimbabwean Parliament.
200 out of 207 seats have been declared with 94 going to Zanu PF, 1 to an independent and 105 to opposition parties.
This doesn’t answer the important question - whether Morgan Tsvangirai has won more than 50% of […]
All the results of Saturday’s elections in Zimbabwe have still not been announced but it looks encouraging.
According to results already released and exit polls, the opposition MDC has beaten Zanu-PF. But not by enough meaning that a run-off between Morgan Tsvangirai and Rubert Mugabe is inevitable.
MDC reckon they’ve taken 60% of the vote and Mugabe […]
Dr Crippen is a bit (belatedly) upset that the Taxpayers Alliance have criticised the Chief Executive of Kent County Council’s £229,999 salary.
It turns out that Peter Gilroy is a former nurse which, it would appear, perfectly justifies a taxpayer-funded salary that most of us mere mortals can only dream of. Kent County Council have increased […]
The Queen has cancelled plans to thrown a party to celebrate her Diamond Wedding Anniversary.
According to the Daily Mail, she has cancelled the party because she thought it insensitive when her subjects are suffering from the credit crunch and the country is on the brink of recession.
This won’t go down well with Prudence Brown who […]
I went to watch Telford United today. As a Shrewsbury Town fan I should, strictly speaking, only venture into Telford’s ground with a can of petrol and a box of matches but my employer sponsors the club and we got a box for free so I bit the bullet and went with my colleagues […]
Iain Dale has published the results of a survey to find out who people would give a second vote to at the next election if the voting system was changed.
Bear in mind that his readership is predominantly Conswervative supporting but the results are encouraging, especially if you’re a UKIP supporter!
In total, 63.6% of people said […]
According to a MORI poll, Scottish MPs interfering in English affairs that they have no control over in their own constituencies is the constitutional cock-up that causes most dissatisfaction.
Prompted by Gareth, I sent the following to the Ministry of Injustice:
Hi,
I gather that a MORI poll has confirmed what everybody’s known for a long time but […]
In the 80s we were all going to die in an ice age. In the 90s we were all going to die from acid rain. In the 00s we are all going to die from global warming. So what will the apocalyptic non-event for the 10s be?
Cast your vote in the poll below:
Gordo the Goblin King and his cabinet of all the talentless are giving their support to electoral “reform” that would have seen a swing of over 50 seats from the Conswervatives to Liebour, leaving them with an unassailable lead in perpetuity.
Let’s be very clear about this, politicians should have no involvement in this type of […]
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has suggested that religious “leaders” - priests, immams, rabbis, etc. - should be invited into schools to provide religious instruction.
I won’t go over the rights and wrongs of the NUT getting involved in this kind of thing or the role already played by religious “leaders” in schools because His […]
Regular readers will know that I’m a big Terry Pratchett fan and that he’s been diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimers.
Terry donated $1m to Alzheimers research not long ago after discovering how badly underfunded it is.
Since then a website has been set up by a fan, Match It For Pratchett, with the aim of […]
Alistair Darling, King of the Caterpillars, gave his first budget the other day. I really didn’t have the energy to give it the fisking it deserved but needless to say it was shit. More taxes and £14bn of extra government borrowing over the next two years to pay for whatever crap it is […]
I just looked up Orange’s international calling rates to see how much my 20 minute phone call to the Netherlands cost earlier.
Two questions:
Why is it cheaper (30p/min) to call the USA than it is to ring the Netherlands (45p/min) and why is it cheaper (25p/min) to ring of a pay as you go mobile?
I wish […]
Terry Pratchett is donating $1m to Alzheimers research after being diagnosed with Posterior Cortical Atrophy, a rare form of the disease.
He said:
Personally, I’d eat the arse out of a dead mole if it offered a fighting chance.
I am, along with many others, scrabbling to stay ahead long enough to be there when the cure comes […]
Once again the British government has promised severe weather and once again we’ve been let down.
Several times in the last few months the Met Office and Environment Agency have made promises that they can’t keep - catastrophic winds, apocalyptic downpours and floods of a biblical nature. Have any of them happened? No. Once again the […]
Terry Pratchett’s first ever Discworld book, The Colour of Magic, has been made into a film and is being shown on Sky One over Easter.
I was really looking forward to it so I had a look at the Colour of Magic website and was surprised (and disappointed) to see that Twoflower is being played by Sean Astin, an American. Twoflower is […]
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