Well, 2005’s off to a good start. Loads of people dead via a natural disaster, ongoing violence in the Middle East and Africa and so on and so on. Now, to top it all, a load of past-it and D-list … Continue reading →

I’m still in the provinces, so nothing new for a while. In the meantime, donate money to help victims of the tsunami here.

(Geddit? More on – “Moron”? God, I crack me up…) Following yesterday’s post, there have been a few more responses to the government’s attempts to peer into every aspect of our lives. This will, after all, be dragging on for … Continue reading →

That’s how many voted against the ID card bill just now. Many more abstained – but let’s face it, that simply isn’t good enough. Angry and afraid. More tomorrow, if time.

Assuming I haven’t cocked it up – ta to Eulogist from Relections on European Democracy for pointing me in the right direction. Now if anyone can tell me how to get rid of the Haloscan comments and just leave the … Continue reading →

Manic at Bloggerheads reads the Sun so I don’t have to. Today’s topless lovely is sad to see Blunkett go. Poor love. Meanwhile, DoctorVee has a round-up of last night’s immediate responses from the Bloggosphere – sadly including mine before … Continue reading →

Loosely inspired by DoctorVee, I’ve had a bit of a re-organisation of the links to the left hand side, and added some new ones. I think of my blogroll as bookmarks as much as anything, as I blog from several … Continue reading →

The power of modern communications proved his undoing. Now personally I couldn’t care less whether any of this having an affair, trying to break up a family, using the Metropolitan Police as bodyguards for his mistress, abusing his expenses to … Continue reading →

Overseas investment in Britain has plummeted. So is this the fault of the EU, of Britain for not joining the Eurozone, of Labour’s tax and workforce policies, of the high cost of UK labour, or is it just because the … Continue reading →

On suspicion of incitement to racial hatred. Coming soon: Murderer arrested on suspicion of killing someone, Rapist arrested on suspicion of having sex with someone against their will etc. etc. Oh, sorry, I forgot. The BNP aren’t racist anymore, are … Continue reading →

Can someone please explain to me how the Conservative party’s backing for ID cards can be tallied with their claims that they want to cut back on “nanny state” big government, save money, and their age-old ideology of promoting individual … Continue reading →

Superb stuff via Martin Stabe: Pub landlord in EU flag row With a heading like that, and armed with the perennial assumption that pubs are often home to rather more “traditionalist” (to put it nicely) views on national life, you’d … Continue reading →

Jaques Derrida on the meaning of Europe Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard on the democratisation of Europe Commentary Magazine on The Islamisation of Europe (But the Times takes the opposite view) North Sea Diaries on how the EU is … Continue reading →

I’ve been having an interesting discussion with a chap called Ken in the comments section of my Euromyths post down the page. I’d be interested to hear some more opinions, as it’s certainly helped me clarify (as much as it … Continue reading →