A muslim woman has been given a 26 week suspended sentence for murdering her newborn baby because she was worried about her family being dishonoured by her having a child out of wedlock. Firstly … 26 weeks?  182 days for murdering a baby, going out with her family and then burying it in a garden. [...]

You’d have thought the de-facto leader of a failing political party crippled with debt and haemorrhaging members would have better things to do with his time than Google my name every day to see what I’ve been doing and researching my past but apparently not. Steve Uncles’ latest “exposé” on me is the startling revelation [...]

An out-of-work university graduate was forced last year by her local Jobcentre to stop volunteering at a museum and do a voluntary work placement at Poundland to keep her unemployment benefits. When challenged about this, the DWP which administers unemployment benefits said: Working in retail is perfectly good experience for a career in a museum. [...]

Shropshire Council is spending a million pounds on 22 new pitches for travellers. A million quid!  For 22 pitches!  That’s 45 and a half grand per pitch!  Multiple exclamation marks!  They’re a sign of a diseased mind! Let’s see how much value for money Shropshire Council are getting … How much would a 56 acre caravan [...]

The Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, has unveiled a portrait of himself and a lovely new coat of arms … all for the bargain price of 37,000 taxpayer pounds. The coat of arms was clearly designed by a team of lefty liberal PR consultants with a brief to produce a coat of [...]

Mrs Sane registered as self employed earlier this year for her Scentsy business. Like most small businesses, she had start-up costs and is putting pretty much all of her profits back into the business so she won’t have any taxable income for at least a couple of years.  So it was a surprise to get [...]

The world is in recession, the Bank of England have had to magic another £75bn out of thin air to try and stimulate the economy, unions are threatening to bring the country to its knees and what’s David Cameron’s number one priority?  Changing the laws of succession. Apparently what we really need to concentrate on [...]

A Scottish doctor, Dr Sue Rabbitt Roff, has suggested that English university students should sell one of their kidneys to pay for their tuition fees! Roff has written on the British Medical Journal website in favour of the right to sell your organs for profit and suggested that those wishing to sell a kidney should [...]

An Indian woman who came to live in England on a Malawian passport is fighting the British government’s refusal to allow her husband and children the right to come and live with her here. One of the very few restrictions the ConDems have put on immigration is that immigrants from outside the EU must have [...]

The British government is graciously allowing the proles in England and Wales to vote for police commissioners. We want the vote on the EU Constitution/Lisbon Treaty that we were promised and we get a vote on changing the voting system from one undemocratic system to another, marginally less undemocratic system.  We want a vote on [...]

I’m away on a training course this week and staying in a rather nice two-bedroom apartment in an old manor house-type thing (I think it might be Edwardian judging by the windows)  on the bank of the Thames with a colleague. The place is covered with wi-fi which is pretty essential if you’re away from [...]

The British government have announced a £2.2m funding package for the BBC Arabic service after the BBC announced it was closing it as part of its cost-cutting measures. Apparently the “valuable work” it does in the Middle East is more valuable than, say, the cost of 100 life saving courses of the breast cancer treatment, [...]

So … that Bin Laden person, eh? Apparently the Americans have killed Osama Bin Laden  and buried him at sea after tracking him down to a town near Islamabad. Now, I don’t normally go in for conspiracy theories that involve the Americans as perpetrators because they generally don’t have the intelligence for deceit but this [...]

The British government is planning to steal money out of “dormant” bank accounts in England to fund the Big Society Bank which will then distribute funds throughout the whole of the UK. If you’re not sitting at your keyboard with a confused look on your face saying “what the fuck?” then read that first paragraph [...]

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has produced an 11-page Ramadan guide for schools which advises them to cancel swimming lessons and sex education for all pupils during the month. The council suggests swimming lessons should be cancelled in case muslim children accidentally swallow water when they’re supposed to be fasting rather than the more reasonable suggestion that [...]

John Prescott’s phoney class war has taken another bizarre twist with the announcement that he has accepted a peerage. Prezza made a BBC documentary recently all about his class war and in 2005 he even slagged off Tony Bliar’s school “reforms” because they weren’t working class enough.  Yet as Deputy Prime Minister he was on a [...]

A primary school in Inverness has cancelled an adventure holiday for its pupils after the mother of a disabled pupil threatened to sue the school for discrimination because her daughter was incapable of taking part. Rather than tell the idiot mother to crawl back under whatever rock she’d dragged herself out from underneath, Highland Council [...]

The Met Office issued a severe weather warning yesterday for Shropshire, Herefordshire and eastern Wales, warning of up to almost 10″ of snow overnight. I excitedly looked out of my window this morning to see this fine example of global warming at work and … nothing.  The forecast had been revised for late morning/early afternoon. [...]

Gordon Brown has plumbed new depths of diplomatic incompetence and financial illiteracy with the announcement that the UK will contribute £1.5bn to a £6.5bn fund for “poor” nations to combat climate change. The pre-budget report this week set out the bleak outlook for the economy – taxes are going up, £30bn of extra pre-election vote [...]

Female prisoners are very different to male prisoners, and while there is a consensus that we need to be tougher on male offenders there is also a broad consensus that where possible we should punish and reform females in the community and not in prisons. – Jack Straw  What the fucking fuck?  No, seriously, what [...]