The Olympics ™ (c) Pat Pending
This blog would like to make it clear how very proud it is not to be an Olympic sponsor for the London 2012 games this summer. Following what must surely become known as chip gate the level of paranoia...
View ArticleA summer stroll
As public minded citizens Katabasis and I, have determined to risk our sanity and plan to venture to the wilds of sunny Stratford (Not the on upon Avon nor the Stony variety but the one where those...
View ArticleAnother slippery slope
Yet another slippery slope that we were all told wouldn’t be applied to nice law abiding people just horrible horrible evil pervert – thus provoking at the time the response from numerous law abiding...
View ArticleExtreme porn update
Via Katabasis, it seems what I said ages ago was right – want to get someone in trouble send them a “banned” pick then tip off the police, the offence is possession so how you got it or even if you...
View ArticleModern justice or something
I’m not going to link to anyone’s blog just for a change, but I’m really quite astonished by some of the things that have been said in blogs I tend to frequent. Most of the blogs I read seem to...
View Article#alcoholaware2012 – dry January no thanks
Just as No-Smoking day became no smoking month, so the puritans and killjoys are following up Alcohol awareness week with “Dry January”. Not only do they want people to not drink during January – which...
View ArticleDrinkuary an update
As the concept of Drinkuary has now been launched for a whole five days I thought I’d share a small update. Rather gratifyingly the FaceBook event has already over taken Alcohol Concerns “Dry January”...
View ArticleA good day
It’s almost December and today saw the first proper frost of the winter down in my neck of the woods, leaving a shimmer on the bamboo and Cobb nut trees in my garden (pictured), and despite everything...
View ArticleThe endarkenment
With the dumbing down of education and politics and the rise of the new priests of the green god, the god of offense and the god of “health” – who have all demanded that the scientific method, facts...
View ArticlePolitics, navel gazing and Edith Cavell
Just in case the title of this post wasn’t enough warning, I must warn you that this post is rather navel gazing in content and may even tend towards being a bit hippy in places. I do apologize and I...
View ArticleBlog off
Following a rather dubious bit of political chicanery in the early hours, but not in a smoke filled room, our glorious leaders along with friends of Mr Huge Grunt have cooked up a typical mess of a...
View ArticleDo you really support protecting all sub cultures against hate crime?
My friends feed continues to be full of people rejoicing at Greater Manchester police not treating everyone as equal before the law, and calling for the extension of hate crime legislation to include...
View ArticleSon of Echelon
Breaking what’s becoming far too frequent radio silence, and I do apologise for that but life keeps happening, to mutter about John Snowdons revelations. I’m going to try and do the tricky thing and...
View ArticleTaxation and organ snatching
I’m not going to say anything new at all in this post, which won’t come as much of a shock to anyone who’s read much of what I write here. But recent news has given me an excuse to pull a few things...
View ArticleI feel a flyer/poster campign coming on
It’s Friday and this amuses me, really quite tempted to get a few posters and flyers printed for leaving around, would anyone want some?
View ArticleSalami slicing to a police state
Whilst that nice Mr Cameron is killing free speech and trying to introduce state censorship of the internet to protect us from looking at dirty pictures another more worrying bit of legislation is...
View ArticleMeanwhile in Russia
Hot on the heels of the same sex marriage bill being passed in the UK, Russia’s lower house has passed some sex legislation of it’s own. They’ve unanimously banned the promotion of homosexual...
View ArticleA tale of two walks – pt 1.
So November the 5th rolled round again and I went for a gentle stroll around Westminster, a whole bunch more people went for a march later as well – I’ll get to them later. As has become traditional I...
View ArticleThe security Jobsworths
For those of you that are regular readers you may remember the other day when I went for little walk, that the police took interest in my interest in the various security features around Westminster....
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