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 →

Spot. On. That is all.

Overnight, the British parliament has been working exactly as it should. The House of Lords has been debating and stalling the government’s God-awful anti-terror bill, and is – entirely rightly – refusing to allow this horrible piece of legislation to … Continue reading →

A couple of posts on the two semi-official pro-EU blogs have once again attracted demands from Eurosceptics for explanations and clarifications. First, over at Commissioner Wallstr�m‘s place, someone asks: “Here in the UK, our Labour politicians say that the European … Continue reading →

Via Nick Barlow, some fun new Google-bombing opportunities present themselves to piss off those stuck-up heirs of irritating bint Mary Whitehouse who seem constantly to be plaguing our lives with their pathetic attempts to impose their own repressive moralities on … Continue reading →

A very odd development – if only for the fact that something everyone has known to be the case for the last 30+ years is finally out in the open, as the IRA has offered to shoot those of its … Continue reading →