I was born in 1973 so Margaret Thatcher was PM for my formaive years.
I very vaguely recall “Sunny Jim” and have no recollection of that fat treachorous oaf Ted Heath or of that deranged buffoon Harold “bloody” Wilson. He thought MI5 were gonna kill him. If only…
So she was my PM. In eleven years [...]
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Maggie
Maggie and Russell…
I have considered fisking this but God knows where to start. Every 8 bits of ASCII in it makes a decent human being want to vomit blood. I have always despised Russell Brand but this takes the cake. Read the whole thing if you can stomach it.
Maggie was a stateswoman who made my life better, [...]
The end of the pretence
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn had a point. I [...]
Horror Footie
Full disclosure - I’m a lifelong Newcastle United fan.
Yeah, it’s quite the cross to bear. But this is not partisan. Football is about two things that are not mutually exclusive. It is of course a sport, a game, a pastime… That is my eperience from “jumpers for goal-posts” kick abouts in parks (I was [...]
Lord Melvin of the Bouffant
A couple of nights ago Our Beloved Lord of the BBC Round Buffet Table (of the Free Drinkies and Nibbles), Lord Melvin of the Laboratoire Garnier (because he isn’t worth it) was asked about the “bedroom tax” on the early evening “entertainment” creature called “The One Show” on the BBC and he wrinkled his [...]
The Second Coming…
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
- William Butler Yeats.
Yeah, like whatever because you don’t [...]
Hugo…
From The incomparable Daily Mash
Meanwhile, tributes were also paid to Chavez by the usual arseholes.
Ken Livingstone, George Galloway and Gerry Adams all said he was a great man, which is pretty much all you need to know about Hugo Chavez.
Oh and Sean Penn and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were there too. Apparently they are going to pickle [...]
Total Fucking Barbarians…
From The Guardian…
One of seven Saudis due to be put to death on Tuesday by crucifixion and firing squad for armed robbery, speaking over a smuggled mobile phone from his prison cell, has appealed for help to stop the executions.
Nasser al-Qahtani told Associated Press from Abha general prison on Monday that he was arrested as [...]
The Tatchster
Do you want me to explain precisely why I am on Peter Tatchell’s mailing list?
Nah, thought not. Now Tatch is a rum bugger. He often has good points but mires them by a descent into equality politricks that takes up 2,000 words. I reckon I wrote three essays in my entire post-16 puff and then [...]
One Way or Another…
I was speechless - literally - when I heard of this cultural malfeasance. It was like some scrote had drawn a cock and balls on the “Rokeby Venus” with a magic marker and then sniggered. This is sheer musical vandalism.
The epically crap “boyband” One Direction have “covered” (under the aegis of the deranged and [...]
In a hole in the ground…
…there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted [...]
There’s a Cr-App for that…
Now what exactly do we need to invent? Better treatments for cancer? Absolutely! Cheap orbital access? For sure! Room temp superconductors? Of course!
But no! Instead human ingenuity has given us this. Behold!
With recent figures showing a huge rise in the number of toddlers being given iPads and other expensive gadgets, the iPotty - a [...]
Diane Abbott partly to blame for breakdown in joined-up thinking.
She’s at it again! Diane Abbott flaps her gums and spews weapons grade bollocks. According to the headline she reckons that broken families, obesity and alcoholism are partly down to people like…erm…herself.
Scratches head. That can’t be right, can it?
Oh, wait, this is what she said…
Ms Abbott, the shadow public health minister, urged the left to [...]
