http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress A foreigner in my own country ... Sun, 11 May 2008 17:39:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/11/eurovision-what-a-joke/ Guido has a copy of a Liebour election leaflet for the Crewe & Nantwich by-election. Mrs Sane and I occasionally spend a weekend at a nice hotel just outside Nantwich and there are a lot of nice big houses round there.  Of course there are some scutty houses as well but ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/11/lying-hypocrites/ Good old Sky, you've gotta love 'em. I introduced a friend to Sky and got a free Sky Plus box for the introduction. I phoned the number on the letter and gave them the details. A couple of months passes and the phone call to sort out the installation ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/11/sky-hd/ I've just signed the petition for a .ENG domain courtesy of DotEng. The rules on top-level domains are being relaxed and this will make a .ENG domain much easier to secure than previously. If the .SCO or .CYM campaigns for Scotland and Wales are successful that will set a precedent ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/10/campaign-for-a-eng-domain/ 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/09/mugabes-armed-militia-to-police-election/ 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/08/zimbabwe-election-challenge/ 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/07/coat-of-arms/ 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/06/big-test-for-gordos-crewe/ 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/05/come-fly-with-me/ 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/05/im-jealous/ 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/04/london-tories-hint-at-trouble-for-bnp/ 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/03/1284/ 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/02/exclusive-10-year-old-victim-of-racial-assault/ Some of the hauliers that protested in London earlier this week arranged a surprise blockade of the Stanlow oil refinery in Ellesmere Port yesterday in protest at fuel prices. According to my local rag, the Shropshire Star, "Jim Jordan, of Shrewsbury-based Jordan’s Transport, said the surprise protest was aimed at building ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/02/more-fuel-price-protests/ 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.  ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/02/mugabe-youre-fired/ Stuart Wheeler has been granted a judicial review at the High Court on the British government's refusal to hold the referendum they promised on the EU not-a-constitution. In all honesty it is highly unlikely that he'll be successful but the important thing is that it now makes the matter of the ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/02/1280/ 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 ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/02/whod-want-to-be-a-liebour-councillor-right-now/ The already discredited global warming propagandists will be reeling from the latest evidence that they're a bunch of lying shits. They've yet to offer a reasonable explanation for why, despite their claims that the earth is warming, it has in fact been cooling for the last few years and is lower ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/01/global-cooling/ 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.  ... http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/01/lets-hope-theres-no-such-place-as-homosexos/ May the fire of socialism burn inside you as strong as the cars and shops your friends will be setting on fire today. [tags]May Day[/tags] http://www.wonkosworld.co.uk/wordpress/2008/05/01/to-all-my-left-wing-readers/