State Has Role In Family Life
This article in the Telegraph fills me with abject horror. Am I, I wonder, the only one who finds the idea of the state interfering […]
Month: November 2004
Virgin Mary Toast
Sometimes, you come across a story that makes you take a couple of steps back in amazement. This is one of them. A piece of […]
Reform Poll on Liberty
According to Reform the overwhelming majority of Britons – some 71% of us – believe that HMG is introducing too much legislation that infringes personal […]
What a Way to Go
I grew up in the back of a sidecar. My earliest childhood memories consist of peering out through a fugged-up perspex window at my father […]
Firefox Competes with MSIE
Firefox Version 1.0 is doing well with more than 5 million copies downloaded since its release. I said before that it is a good browser […]
Huge Sauropod
Fossilised remains of a large sauropod have been discovered on the Isle of Wight. Well, the neck bone of one, anyway. Reckoned to be between […]
Canary Warf “Attack Foiled”
This piece of utter bollocks is typical of that little englander rag, the Daily Mail. Not covered anywhere else, and with no provenance other than […]
Queen’s Speech
Today is the State Opening of Parliament. The Queen’s Speech, likely to be the last before an election, outlines HMG’s planned round of legislation during […]
It’s a Ginger Thing…
I was talking to my sister on the phone today and we got to talking about Penfold and other cats we’d lost over the years. […]
In Response to Blunkett
Charles Kennedy has responded to Blunkett’s authoritarian knee-jerk nonsense with this. He accuses the Home Secretary of populist rhetoric – a fair comment. A polite […]