Another of the 20th century greats has gone. An interview from 1996 with “the father of glasnost and perestroika”, one of the first to publicly break with the party and point the way to the Soviet path to the end … Continue reading →

Hmmm… Mandelson? The Mittal Polish steel contracts affair? Paul Drayson’s government contracts and peerage following his donations to the Labour party? Birmingham postal vote fraud? Allegations of bribery? Ex-Transport Minister Stephen Byers “accidentally misleading” parliament? Capita’s no-bid contracts? High-profile gambling … Continue reading →

The Tories have become a bunch of scaremongering big-government fuckwits – and that is why they will lose the next election whoever wins the leaderhip ballot. “Minister for Bird Flu”? Fucking morons! Note to Tories – the thing that separates … Continue reading →

Charles Clarke confirms that ID cards will be a massive waste of both time and money – well, what else can he mean by guaranteeing that the personal details contained on ID cards won’t go beyond those currently held on … Continue reading →

Aaaaaaw! “A police dog has been forced to quit his job, because he’s too nice… He tried to make friends with people he should have been catching, and in one case, decided to lie down for a bit of a … Continue reading →

Mandelson sets up a faintly homophobic double entendre: he “needs wriggle room”, as “Any attempt to reduce room for manoeuvre would be likely to reduce the chances of a success”. I would say more about today’s Doha talks, but as … Continue reading →

Some nice person wrote something nice. Hurrah! (But what’s all this about “language which overly sensitive readers might find troubling”? Cocking bollocks – just because I’m number one Google.com result for “cunting” and “pissing shit” and “cunting cunts” and on … Continue reading →

I am indeed off to Japan at the end of the week. As such, after Friday this place may slow down for a few weeks, as I shall be otherwise engaged and, although I will doubtless be inundated with interwebnet … Continue reading →

Don’t panic over bird flu, UN says. Fair enough. The article does, however, contain the wonderful information that the UK’s chief vetinary officer is called Debby Reynolds. Which considering the name of the anti-Bird Flu drug means I’ve now got … Continue reading →

A Charles Clarke policy “rather alarming”? Surely not… – Once again the courts make a sensible decision in the face of rabid Labour nonsense; once again, the utterly unelected prevent our elected leaders from being dicks.

Thanks to this cheeky bastard I have felt obliged to install “Backlinks” – Blogger’s new sub-par alternative to Trackbacks, where clicking on the new little “links to this post” bit below will utilise the power of Google’s sub-par Blogsearch to … Continue reading →

It’s not often you’ll find a Frenchman slagging off EU farm subsidies, but that’s precisely what World Trade Organisation Director General (and Peter Mandelson’s predecessor as European Commissioner for Trade) Pascal Lamy is doing. Is international pressure to scrap the … Continue reading →

Turkish bird flu confirmed as “the highly-pathogenic H5N1 strain that scientists worry could mutate into a human virus and spark a global flu pandemic likely to kill millions”. Hurrah!