Britblog Roundup #24 is up and packed with goodness
July 31, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Month: July 2005
July 31, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Spot on
Simon Jenkins is spot-on in the Sunday Times: “The streets of London are alive with like dangers, with people who shoot, kill and maim dozens of people a year. We fight them all, whatever their proffered and spurious justification. “So … Continue reading
July 31, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Democracy, etc.
Get off your fat arse and actually DO something to save democracy and freedom of speech and stuff, rather than just moan about it.
July 30, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Reader vote excitement*!
*may actually mean mind-numbing tedium Being, as I am, currently drunk and reading blogs on a crappy computer with the slowest internet connection I’ve had the misfortune of experiencing since about 1997, I’ve realised something irritating about my very own … Continue reading
July 29, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair is a trigger-happy psycho who wants us all dead
That’s my interpretation anyway, and I’m sticking to it. He does strike me as the sort of man who, next time the terrorists strike, will sit back with a smug grin on his face and say “I told you so … Continue reading
July 29, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Berlusconi: “a disaster”, “a rip off” that “screwed everybody”
No, no, no – of COURSE I’m not implying that the rampantly corrupt Italian multimillionaire media baron cum Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is himself a disaster, a rip off and screwing everybody (though he bloody well is), merely quoting this … Continue reading
July 29, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Today, I shall mostly be mourning the end of an era
*sniff* Andrew Marr’s last day as BBC political editor… Look at his little face! I have to say, though, that I am VERY disappointed with the lack of information on his Wikipedia page… For as important a national institution as … Continue reading
July 28, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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MI5
MI5 – apologists for terror (applying the government’s logic, at any rate): “Though they have a range of aspirations and ’causes’, Iraq is a dominant issue for a range of extremist groups and individuals in the UK and Europe. Some … Continue reading
July 28, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Britain’s future
A vision of Britain’s ID card future – “the more people that say something, anything, anywhere, the better. Making a subset of our fellow citizens feel less than complete members of our society, only causes the words ‘violent backlash’ to … Continue reading
July 28, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Blair the liar
icBirmingham – Top Muslim states the bleeding obvious brands Blair a liar
July 28, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Note to all the people arriving here from Google searches for “pissing” – Eeeeew… Note to self – stop swearing so much… Update: Oddly, pissing and swearing has turned into a discussion of the IRA’s statement in the comments… Update … Continue reading
July 28, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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War
I’m not a fan of the Stop the War Coalition. They’ve made a few too many silly pronouncements and have a few too many associations with people for whom I’ve got little respect for me to normally want to have … Continue reading
July 28, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Race
British stoicism goes to shit – nice one. As if it’s not bad enough that everyone who looks a bit foreign is being stared at suspiciously on the tube and made to feel deeply uncomfortable, attacks on “asian” people (which … Continue reading
July 27, 2005
by Nosemonkey
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Cliches are becoming hard to avoid
But it must be said, “Big Brother” was the first thing that sprang to mind on reading that plans are afoot across the EU to increase the cover of surveillance technology. Naturally enough, CCTV is a useful tool. But unless … Continue reading