Three finkers

2007-04-12T20:50:00.000Z

No.

The longest word in the English language.

2007-04-12T14:10:00.000Z

Beguiled by Sophistry...

What more can I say?

2007-04-12T10:34:00.000Z

Melancholy...

I have never been tired of life, but i've often been tired of company.

2007-04-10T20:23:00.000Z

This is for those born or conceved in Traford...

oh yes....

Okay, Stretford and Salford are allowed , okay.

But only if youv got record

2007-04-07T19:49:00.000Z

I've just returned from the supermarket.

It's Saturday night and i've had plenty to drink.

Anyway, my story...

On leaving the shop, I was about to pass a gang of youth.

Being me and rather fearless, I thought, 'why not have a chat'.

They were lovely and as I expected, not very scary.

We talked about this and that and then as I was about to leave one of them asked.

"How old are you?"

"How old do you think I am?"

The concensus fell between 27 and 29.

I've never felt this kind of pleasure before...

2007-04-07T18:01:00.000Z

The filth...

Watching the police in Rome and Seville enjoy hurting the young and the disabled this week reminded me just how far our plod have advanced in the last twenty years.

Seeing our politicians stand by us was also refreshing...

2007-04-04T18:35:00.000Z

Iranarchy for the UK

I'm glad Iran has agreed to release our trouble makers...

...'though I doubt we will respect their borders.

2007-03-27T14:50:00.000Z

Slavery,

I would like to apologize for the behaviour of my old folk.

It seems that they neither owned nor traded slaves.

2007-03-23T00:41:00.000Z

Murder.

The truth is awful.

R.I.P. Bob,

Profit makes us free.

2007-03-16T15:12:00.000Z

These days...

Stealing copper has become a common crime, a month ago my local electric sub-station was raided causing a prolonged power cut, it killed my computer.

I've enjoyed being without it, although I admit to being very angry at the time, especially as I was completely unprepared for life without mains power.

Oh well, life is back to normal, England are even being trounced at cricket as I write!

2007-02-14T16:44:00.000Z

Dog eat Dog!

According to UNICEF, us Brits have the most torrid childhood of any developed country.

Good, the pastel niceties on offer elsewhere suck.

Give me an arrested development full of risk and madness any time.

If our wellbeing suffers.. then maybe we''ll try to be more creative, or scoundrelous.

2007-02-07T16:20:00.000Z

Frankie Laine...

I've just cranked up my oldest record player and in good old analogue 78 rpm sang 'High Noon' and 'Raw Hide',

I'd forgotten how much I wanted to be a cowboy...

2007-02-07T12:27:00.000Z

February...

I've always hated February..

Both Ceasar and Augustus 'stole' days from February.

I think maybe they didn't steal enough for once...

2007-01-30T23:55:00.000Z

Dear Lord levy,

I've no ( fine ) idea what these people want...

But if you ever have to stand next to a pleb on the front line...

I'll be your equal.

2007-01-30T15:08:00.000Z

"I am commencing an undertaking, hitherto without precedent and which will never find an imitator.

I desire to set before my fellows the likeness of a man in all the truth of nature, and that man myself.

Myself alone!

I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence.

If I am not better, at least I am different." (Rousseau)

During these dark and dull winter days,

I thank God ( I am not) for the French...

2007-01-27T01:25:00.000Z

Is oil abiotic?

I don't trust my masters.

Abiotic oil/gas could explain alot...

No-one has ever given me an explanation as to how fossil oil was created...

2007-01-26T23:43:00.000Z

"London is a world by itself...

...among the Londoners are so many nations differing in manners, customs, and religions, that the inhabitants themselves don't know a quarter of them." Tom Brown (1690).

I am in complete contempt of our politicians as they tell us mutts what we're supposed to be.

Us Brits distrust the State and its minions, we do not need to be told what we are.

2007-01-24T01:07:00.000Z

“When she was appointed, Ruth Kelly assured us that her attachment to an extreme Catholic religious sect – whose stated aim is to recruit people in influential positions to promote its agenda – would not affect the way she ran her department. She promised equality for all. We now know that her adherence to Opus Dei is completely incompatible with her job in a government department that promises to protect people from the very discrimination the Catholic Church wants to practise.”

Ruth Kelly....

No!

2007-01-23T13:34:00.000Z

Whisky Galore!

England's enjoying yet another moral panic. Today we are dreadful looters.

Personally I don't see why scavenging the beach to salvage goodies from a shipwreck is bad at all.

My eyes were green as folk helped themselves to BMW motor bikes (which otherwise would be ruined anyway).

What worried me was those who walked away with disposable nappies. (Young children must be bad for the brain!).

Of course, the outraged are wealthy thieves who cannot understand petty theft.

Addendum.

Underling Mark Rodaway twittered, "I personally witnessed young children sitting unattended in gale force conditions, with the sea crashing, as their parents blatantly looted things out of containers," (up 'till now those crazy parents have lost no children, unlike that unseaworthy boat that pollutes our seas and lands).

'rescue authorities condemned the "crass greed" of hundreds of people who came to see what they could find.'

I take it that the rescue authorities have no idea what the word crass means.

I believe salvaging to be sensible greed.

2007-01-16T15:35:00.000Z

300 Years of Misery....

Today being the anniversary of the unification between England and Scotland, all talk is of course, about divorce.

I'm all for seperation, the Scotch are a bunch of whinging bores, almost as bad as the Irish. If they prefer to ditch Brittishness, good for them. All their music sounds like a dirge and central heating put paid to their sporting prowess many years ago.

Imagine, overnight millions of people would become foreigners. All non-English would find themselves unable to claim to be British, there would be no such country. The English would feel hurt yet indifferent. Ambitious Scots would be horrified; doomed to play a minor role in a gloomy country.

One 0f the first consequences of independence would be the realisation that without England to unite against, the Scottish don't like each other at all. This would provide great hilarity to the rest of us (how about a free Pictland!).

The Union isn't broken, I can see no benefit to anyone if Scotland becomes a teeny weeny sovereign statlet. The potential damage though is enormous. If a few proud emotions win the day, then Britons of every variety will lose.

2007-01-15T19:09:00.000Z

"Daddy!, don't waste that paper!

If we cut all the trees down we'll die!"

..."I'm not sure that's right dear.. ..the dinosaurs did alright without them.."

My youngest daughter's infancy is more or less over; her peers and teachers have taken over..

2007-01-15T14:11:00.000Z

Winter blues...

SUPER-COMPUTER

Tony Blair is expected to announce today that sensitive personal data could be swapped by Whitehall departments. Ministers believe restrictions on data-sharing between civil servants are too strict. A 'super-database' or 'super-computer' holding everyone's records would be similar to a planned children's database.

DNA DATABASE

The Prime Minister has suggested that the DNA of every British adult should be stored by the state. The national database already holds 3.7 million samples, 6 per cent of the population, far higher than any other country. More than one million have been taken from people never convicted of an offence.

CCTV

The British are among the world's most observed people. Some 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras record our every move - one for every 14 people and more per head than any other country in Europe or North America. The average Londoner can be caught on camera 300 times a day.

MEDICAL RECORDS

Millions of medical records are to be transferred to a central NHS database, allowing staff anywhere to access patients' information. People who object will not be able to opt out. The most personal information will be available to hospital managers, IT departments, high street pharmacists and civil servants.

IDENTITY CARDS

The first identity cards will be issued next year to foreign nationals and from 2009 to UK citizens. Anyone who renews a passport will be forced to register and the Government aims to make ID cards compulsory within six years. Fifty-two pieces of information, including fingerprints and iris scans, will be held.

SPY IN THE SKY

Motorists are already monitored through the soaring number of road cameras. In an effort to cut congestion, the Department of Transport is examining plans to use satellite technology to keep tabs on every vehicle's exact movements. Motorists, forced to have a black box fitted in their cars, would be billed for every journey they make.

...life on the British farm.

2007-01-07T12:03:00.000Z

Israel plans to nuke Iran...

This report http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2535310,00.html sent yet more shivers down my peaceful spine this morning.

I like this bit, "Some sources in Washington said they doubted if Israel would have the nerve to attack Iran."

Since when has Israel not had the nerve?

2007-01-05T15:29:00.000Z

I've just walked past the immigration centre in town...

It was full as usual but i'm sure they were probably of Romanian/Bulgarian origin for a change.

Their faces seemed full of hope and fear.

Good luck to them all.

As the world becomes one Global Community and overall wealth expands like mad, there should be no need for any despair.

There is no need for us to fear this change as long as our rulers truly care.

But they don't.

2007-01-04T13:50:00.000Z

1921...

This was the year we lost 5-0 to Australia..

Tonight it will be repeated.

I'll be watching.

Ooh that was painful.

2007-01-02T00:25:00.000Z

The Longbow

I get angry when folk talk about this...

An Englishman never draws the arrow... ... An englishman bends the bow...

The men of Gwent taught us.......

2007-01-01T19:29:00.000Z

Whitewash....

Maldon...

...Hastings, Spion Kop, Dunkirk....

...or maybe Crechy?

I'm in pain, good luck in Sydney.. please.

2007-01-01T02:03:00.000Z

This is for those (that beat me) i'm with...

Saddam : "He died like a man...."

2007-01-01T00:13:00.000Z

Happy New Year..

Babysitters of the world unite.. ..and enjoy I suppose.

2006-12-31T21:16:00.000Z

Hazel Bleaarrzzzz.....zzz...hic..

With her northern accent and desperate face, Ms. Blears annoys me on a regular basis.

Her bleating, preaching ways fill my soul with emptiness.

But today we almost entirely agree!

"We actually enjoy getting drunk.." she declared..

"Good schools create fools like you... ..ban them."

Tony (I hate the poor) agreed

YAH BOO and Happy New Year!

2006-12-30T11:12:00.000Z

Revenge... ..on the day of mercy.

Saddam Hussein's colourful existance ended with a good old fashioned rope dance this morning.

An Arab martyr has been created.

Bush and Blair next?

2006-12-24T17:20:00.000Z

Happy Xmas (war is oh.. ),

Ethiopian aircraft have dropped bombs and fired missiles on several towns in Somalia.

"After too much patience, the Ethiopian government has taken a self-defensive measure and has begun counterattacking the aggressive extremist forces of the [Islamic council] and foreign terrorist groups," Solomon Abebe, Ethiopia's foreign affairs spokesman, said.

Si..ilent night, Ho..oly war..

2006-12-21T14:58:00.000Z

It feels like Christmas....

..it's cold and the travel is hard..

Radiant heat is my favourite pleasure and

"bah to all men " is all I want to say.

I've just had Carol Singers!

My request for 'Silent Night' sung in German was ignored.

God rest ye merry Gentlemen....

2006-12-18T15:26:00.000Z

Brilliant polytician

John "There are cheaper slaves than you." Hutton,

has declared that the weakest scum, are..

.."the worst type of scum".

Their lack of a desire to be a lucky slave, "...does my 'ead in..." he claimed.

2006-12-15T14:22:00.000Z

"Who will rid me of this turbulent Princess?"

Princess Diana was a loose cannon whom had completed her duty with two healthy Princes.

After years of inquiry into her death, ....the conclusion was given to the world...

"It was the Queen what done it".

..Only kidding, of course it was a cockup by a drunk. As if any other conclusion was possible.

What made yesterday such 'fun' was the Governments ditch all bad news now attitude.

We had Honest Tony questioned by the police.

The news tha 2500 Post Offices will be closed.

The extention of two airport runways.

And my favourite: the end of the enquiry into the bribes, sorry commisions to people to gain the right to sell death machines to the wonderful country of Saudi Arabia.

So, no conspiracies, just cockups and coincidences, and a few content important people.

2006-12-14T15:34:00.000Z

The enviromentlist position that industrial man will ruin us all through climate change is the classic pessimist position of lose/lose.

If they are right, civilization collapses and being able to say, "I told you so." won't help.

If they are wrong then our descendants will laugh at how silly they were.

I'm not saying be wasteful, I'm a very frugal person.

I'm saying be an optimist.

2006-12-12T16:51:00.000Z

OK

a sibling as left,

a couple of close friends have left,

But now the only person I appreciate arguing with; is leaving.

"White flight" he called it.

England is changing fast.

2006-12-12T15:42:00.000Z

I've just been to the school play.

It was all about penguins.

At the end the son of God was born.

Is God a penguin?

2006-12-11T14:35:00.000Z

Courtesy.

I was raised to be courteous even if I did not wish to be polite. I've just discovered that (although I thought otherwise) my comment moderation option has been on. Therefore i've ignored a few people; this was not intentional and I sincerely apologize.

2006-12-10T19:21:00.000Z

General Pinochet is dead...

good.

I have just moderated my own comments, sorry if I my language offended anyone. I promised myself this moment of madness in my youth. And boy did I get drunk last night.

I do and don't regret both.

2006-12-05T16:39:00.000Z

I appologise...I've left a few rotten comments today,

I complain too much,

Crickit is a bad thing..

Tired...so tired.

2006-12-04T12:18:00.000Z

Hugo Chavez...

"We have shown that Venezuela is red!... No one should fear socialism... Socialism is human. Socialism is love," Chavez said. "Down with imperialism! We need a new world!"

Are the poor people of Venezuela mad? Do they not respect their superiors any more?

Do they not realise Chavez is as left wing as John Reid used to be.

Again democracy fails to give the right result. Once more the wealthy of the world are left confused by the desire of the poor for more than bread and cheap alcohol.

With politics in the UK stagnant and middle class, I almost wish we had a Chavez to scare the young ones with. Oh well at least we've got the BNP to scare the political elite with.

2006-12-01T15:04:00.000Z

Tony Blair wants Maths and English to be more relevant,

So English will consist of being able to fill in a CV. and job application.

Maths will be about investing in shares and paying tax.

British education will remain what it has always been, a way of helping the masses to be better economic fodder for the wealthy.

Oh and apparently the pupils will be taught how to cook a meal...

2006-11-28T16:11:00.000Z

ZZzzzzz... it's nearly Adela...zz

2006-11-28T12:40:00.000Z

Living in Australian time is..

a strange and unusual (self imposed) punishment.

sMore strang is the 'apology' made by the PM regarding slavery. The reason I think this is that britons did nothing more than carry out a universally accepted trade. I would be far happier if Tony Blair apologised for Britains' role in the arms trade of today. The trade in sophisticated weapons is cruel and contempory, we in the UK are at the forefront of this.

Where's the moral crusade now?

2006-11-25T13:04:00.000Z

ZZzzzz....

I had fallen into a deep and disturbing nightmare when I realised the Aussies were batting.

Confused and confusing...

I'm not looking forward to midnight.

2006-11-24T12:07:00.000Z

Could someone please open Pandora's box...

It's the hope I can't stand.

I'm sleep deprived and as expected miserable..

Best wishes to my fellow sufferers.

2006-11-23T11:34:00.000Z

The Ashes..

It was a long night..

After three overs I was hoping for a draw.. By the end of the night I was in despair..

Oh well, only four more days to go...

2006-11-17T11:57:00.000Z

On This Week last night..

We were jollied with a couple of renditions of nursery rhymes. The reason being that our great nanny state feels that not enough parents tell them correctly and feel that it might be in the best interest of children for parents to go to nursery rhyme classes!

As I cried in my bedtime brandy, I thought that it might be more appropriate for politicians to be taught that many nursery rhymes are a piss take of the stupid and powerful. So in the vain of getting it all wrong, here's the origins of Jack and Gill!

The rhyme comes from an ancient Scandinavian myth about the markings on the moon. The moon god Mani captured two Norse children, Hjuki and Bil, while they were drawing water from a well. When the moon was full, the children could be seen with a bucket on a pole between them.

2006-11-16T14:24:00.000Z

This website has just been drawn to my attention.

It is a stark reminder of the cruel and evil folly of our leaders' pride.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

2006-11-16T12:51:00.000Z

There are many ways to Heaven..

I choose to feed the birds.

I mention this because i've just watched (and heard) an amazing experience. A sparrow hawk taking out a magpie. The fight was just wow. I cheered all the way for the sparrow hawk (the magpies were also there) and am very pleased to say it won. He's eating it right now; a very good meal.

2006-11-15T17:32:00.000Z

"Those we curse as yobs end up being the ones that save our freedoms." (paraphrasing) Samuel Johnson.

Long live defiance and freedom.

2006-11-15T13:31:00.000Z

I love Globalisation...

I'm so pleased that prawns caught in Scotland are shipped to the Far East to be peeled, then shipped back to Britain to be eaten.

2006-11-13T19:09:00.000Z

When George Bush said he was surprised

with the election results last week I reckon he really was.

How come they weren't rigged this time?

"Is anyone gullible enough to believe that Republican big-wigs have given up cheating as a vital part of their strategy for winning elections?" Mike Whitney.

2006-11-12T19:27:00.000Z

I've been on holiday and both the computer and I were ill.

Still the news was quiet....

2006-10-20T14:17:00.000Z

Amara Tony.

It's just a reminder of how vain you are, in your humble little way of course.

Give up Tony, history will laugh at you 'til it's bored.

Why won't Tony go?

2006-10-19T14:42:00.000Z

Veil problem solved!

The Government's desire to tell us what to do, reached a logical conclusion today when it realised that if all women over 40 would only wear the veil, then there would be no prejudice or fear created by it.

Community spokesman, Jack le Ladd claimed, "My mum won't like it, she more of a blond with lots of make-up, ...but I think it's a good idea." (our translation)

Meanwhile, an Islamic educational trust has called for a Yorkshire school at the centre of the row over women wearing full face veils to sack all of its teachers who are not bilingual Muslims.

Keep fanning the flames.

2006-10-19T14:06:00.000Z

Why delay?

The verdict in Saddam's first trial was delayed this week until the 5th November.

The sentence will be death by hanging. The media will make a big fuss. Two days later The US will vote in the mid-term elections.

Another great victory in the war on terror.

2006-10-17T11:58:00.000Z

Farepak

There won't be to much concern about those that have lost their money with Farepak. It's a shame when people do their best to save for christmas and find out at such a late date that it was for nothing. Most Farepak customers will not be able to replace these meagre savings.
I even feel sorry for the agents, who in this case thought that they really were helping people out (often friends and family) .

2006-10-15T11:12:00.000Z

Religious fascists?

Geraint Davies, teaching union NASUWT Cymru secretary, said he supported the right of any teacher to wear the swastika.

"There's no law against wearing a swastika so she's within her legal rights to wear one. Any union would support any member exercising their legal rights. I accept it's important to interact properly with the pupils and every teacher and every teaching assistant has the responsibility to do so, but every teacher and every teaching assistant also has the right to live their lives as they wish to do so within the law." Sorry, replace swastika with veil.

2006-10-12T23:36:00.000Z

British troops should

"get ... out sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems".

The head of Britain's army General Sir Richard Dannatt spoke frankly in a way that will cause great consternation in Downing street.

He lambasts Tony Blair's desire to forge a "liberal democracy" in Iraq as a "naive" failure and he warns that "whatever consent we may have had in the first place" from the Iraqi people "has largely turned to intolerance."

It's time for us to go home from this folly.. How the politicians react to this should prove very interesting.

2006-10-12T11:31:00.000Z

Bad night last night...

Being English, it doesn't really get much worse than last night. Forget everything else, I, like most other Englishmen wanted nothing more than the chance to cheer our side on to an easy victory (like when Heskey! scored against the Germans, so long ago now..) .

There was though, one consolation...

England reduces every glory hunter to the level of a Wolves fan.

2006-10-10T14:31:00.000Z

As much as I hate Charlemagne,

I do have a soft spot for Charles Martel.

we ( possibly I ) won't forget.

2006-10-10T11:58:00.000Z

Perverts and creeps..

Censorship is an ugly word, I would ban censorship outright...Censors are bad people that need to be legislated against..

Who can deny, that in a world full of censorship, babies die, perverts do missionary things where the're not welcome and the meek are left wondering..

So why does one care about freedom? Freedom comes at a price, that's right, every time you feel free, remember, someone else is feeling sticky.

2006-10-09T10:40:00.000Z

Happy Joy Lucky..

WELCOME.

North Korea found itself in the eyes of the world today after it proved itself capable of blowing up a cave.

Friendless and threatened, the nuclear test has brought great condemnation from Japan, China and the world.

The British Government offered a prisoners for bombs exchange after discovering just how cheap life and imprisonment can be on the asian peninsular.

2006-10-05T23:03:00.000Z

Radical Patriot Peter Hitchens

speaks for many right wingers tonight as he complained that the Tories were now Liberals. He declared that the next election would be without a real choice, meaning we might as well be in a one party state. (the wrong one)

Watching the right squirm in a similar way that the left did in the 1980's is giving me pleanty of pleasure right now.

The Conservative and Labour Parties are in trouble.

2006-10-05T15:25:00.000Z

The world can't wait.

I would just like to give my best wishes to all those in the US today that are protesting to "Drive out the Bush regime".

2006-10-05T13:00:00.000Z

Thoughts on Independence for Scotland..

Scotland has played a minor role in my life but it's always been there. My grandma was of the Gartshore clan, a clan that was disbanded before the modern mythology of what it is to be a Scot was invented. This meant that when one of my cousins required the 'family' tartan for a wedding, it appeared not to exist. It didn't really, if my pictish ancestors wore plaid then they kept it a secret.

Never the less, for some reason folk with a Scotish (etc..) surname often seem to get all romantic about the long lost sheep stealing days of their ancestors.

With a heart full of schadenfreude, I really hope Scotland gains independence ( my grandma and almost all my relatives that fought for Britiain, are dead , so it won't really matter if they spin , I suppose. ) because it will leave so many ambitous people stuck in the SPL version of reality. Cruel fate will mean that to no longer be British means they will have to sit back and view, always with envy, the Game in England, where the whole world enjoys the Premiership.

2006-10-05T11:32:00.000Z

The strange re-birth of Liberal England.

I suppose it was inevitable that with the end of the cold war, ideology was over. Yesterday it became a reality. In the UK all three main political parties are now Liberal. David Cameron confessed to wanting to be nice to everybody except the looney right.

So after three long winded weeks of intrigue, the UK is left playing spot the difference.

I feel sorry for the Libdems. Having spent decades in a political party with no chance of power they discover that everyone is copying them and doing it better.

With three years or so until the next election, the phoney wars have begun in earnest. The British people will now be bored senseless as egomaniacs pretend that vanity is humility, and the nasty game of power is something they just slipped into.

Vote Charisma.

2006-10-04T13:08:00.000Z

Let them eat Cack!

Boris Johnson cheered me up today, he's about the only colourful politician we have.

2006-10-03T18:58:00.000Z

From butchers' apron to ...

I've studied power all of my life; my parents introduced me to it.

When I was young, the British Empire had become a joke. It was something that old people clung to, an idea, an ideal that was over. Furthermore, it was seemingly considered by most to have been a travesty, a cruel imperialistic hatred of humanity. We had been the scoundrelous nasties from overseas.

Without going further into my thoughts regarding the above, may I argue that our two wars against tyrany and despotism, (both completely against the national interest, but in the national psyche) plus other redeemable features, meant that Britain/England had, in many peoples' eyes become a mature and considerate nation/state...

So the fact that we have become a lackey of the New Roman 'Republic', is about as bad as it feels today...

2006-10-03T11:01:00.000Z

God fails US in Paradise.

Guns don't kill people.

2006-10-02T10:21:00.000Z

Tory Bombs fall again...

The once united Tory front dispersed like the taliban army today. The forlorn hope that is David Cameron, scratched his incredulity as party members (average age, nearly dead) , declared that they would never want to appeal to the vulgar nation.

2006-10-01T12:19:00.000Z

Mushrooms.

I had a good day yesterday. I went for a nice long walk in some old childhood haunts. The highlight of the day ( apart from collecting some perfect fighting conkers, discovering a healthy looking badger set- complete with stoat skull etc..) was collecting some Blue-stales (blewits) for breakfast today.

So breakfast was great: good bacon, eggs, great sausages, seriously excellent black pudding, the last of my tomatoes and perfect button blue-stales from a fine walk.

2006-09-29T10:50:00.000Z

Judge Dread......

Who didn't dislike Dredd? Obviously the Home Office. Plans for a brave new world expanded a bit more today. That's right, History is bumpf, freedom is work (sorry, that was something else), and the police should be able to dish out summarily justice anywhere.

Will they also get a great bike?

Sounds good to me.. "citizen, ...prepare to be judged.."

2006-09-29T10:18:00.000Z

Richard Branson to save the world..

For just $200,000, Virgin philanthropist Richard Bransom will take YOU.. on the mother of all flights. That's right, Doctor Who and you too, can go into space.

Richard Branson announced exciting plans yesterday for rich people to show off and tell the rest of us just how much more we should tighten the belts and care for our poor, fragile, planet.

The expansion of his Galactic Empire came just days after he announced his bit for the planet by giving his Virgin Company 3,000,000 dollars to help combat the scourge of global warming.

2006-09-28T16:18:00.000Z

I wasn't going to write today..

..then I remembered the date had a ring of some importance. Of course it's 940 years since that great national disaster. The invasion of England by one the nastiest pieces of work in the whole of history. The Normans were a dreaful war machine that made the Danes look like pussycats.

I wont go on to much because everybody has their own understanding of this event.

An unknown for most, is just how destructive they were to many parts of England. The people of Yorkshire tend to know because they were particularly cruel in the scorched earth policy there. My own county town Leicester (a very ancient place) , was reduced to the status of a town for 800 years and the old ruling class was killed or scattered all over Europe.

Not until until 1362, was an Englishman again charged in his own language or english spoken in 'Parliament'.

Oh well, I could go on...

2006-09-27T12:45:00.000Z

Small town Uk.

Living in Loughborough means that students are everywhere. It also means we get nice quiet summers and a very peaceful christmas.

Yesterday, alot of( soon to be) students arrived in our utilitarian town looking for somewhere to park. This is nigh impossible.

So the (not so) poor souls parked close to the Uni., even though it says quite clearly that one can only park for an hour.

My very blonde, ancient, nearbores decided that this was sinful, and instead of saying welcome stranger, rang the police.

On seeing plod taking numbers I asked "what's the problem"?

Oops, i'd forgotten just how dim the folk of Loughborough are. Me having declaring everyone to be acting foolish Mr. (community something) Plod told me he was ringing the (real) police and that they were on thier way. I instantly repeated myself.

Nobody came round, the sad folk of this town should feel ashamed and i'm glad that I lower the tone of their empty lives.

2006-09-26T10:22:00.000Z

Tony Blair to go soon..

Tony Blair declared today that nothing short of WWIII would stop him stepping down from the Premiership.

2006-09-26T10:08:00.000Z

Tony Blair to remain Prime Minister!

Following the unprovoked attack by nuclear crazed Iranian Mullahs. Tony Blair flew straight to the USA for urgent talks with his matesr. "The war is tragic for mankind and requires that we do not show weakness through change" , declared a solemn Mr B.

2006-09-24T12:12:00.000Z

Labour Party implodes!

With an electoral turnout of barely 45% the (wanted to be nice, honest) party is over.

The swan song was the most succesful Labour Prime Minister in history. Yes, the youthful liberal, turned tory opportunist, turned tory ???, has done for British socialism what Hitler did for for German militarism.

It would appear that without the industrial masses to back them up, there will never again be an elected Labour leader.......

...and then I awoke.

2006-09-23T20:23:00.000Z

How ironic..

"the first modern prime minister".

Mr Blair paid tribute to Wilson's legacy, including the Open University. He added: "He also brought in a whole new culture, a whole new country. He made the country very, very different".

One could add that he didn't follow the USA into a bloody foreign adventure, and quit without being pushed.

Still Tony has " made the country very, very different."

Tony Blairs description of harold Wilson earlier today left me wondering... How would Mr. Wilson have thought of our Tony?

Of course I can only guess, but I wonder what epithet our war-mongering foolish leader will achieve?

These have all been taken,

Unready (not unprepared but as in without counsel) . (Ethelred the)

Bastard (This time the winners surely won't change it to conquerer). (William the)

Bad. (king John)

Bloody. (Mary)

Only time will tell.

2006-09-22T13:42:00.000Z

Dear USA (America)

I'm just (belatedly) writing to thank you for doing England its greatest ever favo(u)r.

That's right, several hundred years ago, you'll remember your English cousins waving goodbye to many of your ancestors. No doubt we were drunk, raucous and probably very rude. The reason being of course, the end of puritanism. Both countries gained so much. At last the godless English could do what they liked without some godfearing half-wit boring them to death with the promise of hell and damnation. You of course, ..found the promised land.

Unfortunately for us, the're back! Okay, most of them are crystal gazing bores who hated science at school, but alas, the're green and they seem to run the media.

Now, not being funny.., ..but if we're not scared of hell and damnation; the end of the world is'nt going to bother us to much is it.

The're full of conviction, know the're right and can't help preaching -so i'm sure they'll fit in really well!

please consider this, and all the best in the future.

2006-09-21T11:24:00.000Z

What's wrong with the Lib Dems?

I believe that most Britons are culturally liberal and that with a welfare state and no cold war , they would wish for a liberal style government.

But no, alas these people seem to have no grasp of petty party politics or the voters' needs.

What we get offered is higher unfair taxes, where little old ladies in six bedroom mansions they own, would be expected to pay less to the council than a few impoverished working adults living in a wee house they rent. It's almost the poll tax.

Of course they have to remind us that global warming is about to end the world. Yes and every China man loves to ride bikes. The solution would be to end those cheap holidays; you know the ones that make poor white folk say "Great world cup, Germans are alright are'nt they".

Still with typical selfish political style, at least we got the pleasure of watching the ugly sight of ex- leaders in a back stabbing daisy chain.

Come on liberal Britain..

2006-09-19T09:43:00.000Z

Am I here?