According to the latest ICM opinion poll (.pdf file), at least. In the first question, “Which of the following issues will be most important in your decision on how to vote in the next general election?”, there was a singular … Continue reading →

An article in The Sunday Times yesterday was a prime example of the easy cop-out of buck-passing to the EU whenever a government department makes a cock-up. Basic story? A moronic official at DEFRA vetoed a food advertising campaign because … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s budget promised a �200 council tax rebate to pensioners. A handy bribe, with an election coming up. As Labour’s Blogging Bromwich East MP notes, “Gordon Brown just gave 12,980 pensioner households in my constituency an additional �200, it’s these … Continue reading →

In a comment to this post, a chap by the name of Ronnie in New Orleans, who has visited the site before on and off to have a few arguments with a wishy-washy liberal Brit, has a rather good summary … Continue reading →

That’s how much the “War on Terror” has cost, according to the budget. �4.9 billion. That’s �4,900,000,000 – a lot of zeros. Would you look at that? This money could have been used to fund ID cards for every citizen, … Continue reading →

Following this old piece of mine, an article in today’s Times does much to help explain to Americans precisely why Britain has the attitude it does towards this whole “War on Terror” malarkey. I don’t usually like Simon Jenkins much, … Continue reading →

That’s all the Commission has allocated EU-wide for pro-constitution propaganda. (�5.5 million divided by an EU population of 456 million.) Of that, �86,000 has been allocated to the UK (one tenth of one penny per British citizen, taking current UK … Continue reading →

Well, it looks like the election will probably be called between April 4th and 7th. If you’ve been following the polls (latest: CON 34% (+4) LAB 39%(-3) LD 19%(+1)) or working out the odds (or taking others’ odds), you’re no … Continue reading →

I’ve just noticed that, six months after starting up a stat counter thing, this site has clocked up 51,000 unique visitors. Hurrah!

The US calls on the EU to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organisation and label it a threat to international security. Well yes, yes it most probably is both. But isn’t it a tad rich considering that it’s taken until now … Continue reading →

Blogger is shit – hence the multiple posts. It’s currently not letting me delete them (having delayed their posting by nine hours), and it wasn’t really worth the bother in any case. My bad. I hate the internet.

They just can’t win. After repeated fuss about how the Commission is funding pro-EU and pro-constitution organisations and material, they’re now being attacked for funding their critics. “The deputy head of the Liberals in the European Parliament, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, has … Continue reading →

Today London Mayor Ken Livingstone is in Brussels to promote the 2012 Olympics bid. Yet more wastage in pursuit of a project which will cost each and every London Council Taxpayer an extra �20 a year for the privilege of … Continue reading →

In the absence of any energy from me, check out Tim Worstall’s latest Britblog Roundup – it features a couple of things from this very site, so it must be good… Oh, and as us bloggers (and apparently our readers) … Continue reading →