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Election Round-Up

1) Who cares about the seagulls squabbling over the carcass? It makes no difference on so many key policy issues who gets into bed with whom. When it comes to policies on immigration, law and order, the Uman Rites Act and so on, our position is dictated by the EU and it is irrelevant who wakes up to boiled egg and soldiers at Number 10. The el [ Read More ]

General election and what's being talked about?

Same old shit! Where's the MP's talking about fuel costing £1.20 a litre and what they're going to do about it? Where's the MP's talking about the roads being in the worst state I've ever seen them in and what they're going to do about it? Gas and electricity prices going through the fucking roof? £390 in 8 weeks for fucks sake, gas [ Read More ]

English Airways

To be honest, I don't have much sympathy with BA over the planned strike by cabin crew. Not because I support the unions position - I don't. As far as I can see, this strike will probably result in a lot more of them losing their jobs and having to take pay cuts as it will probably be the final nail in the airlines coffin - but if they want to [ Read More ]

Cameron flip flops again

David Cameron has backtracked on Tory "policy" once again by saying that a government under his leadership will not make "swingeing cuts" in their first year of office sparking rumours of a rift between Cameron and the Shadow Chancellor, Boy George Osborne. To be honest, it doesn't surprise me that Cameron has flip flopped once again as the [ Read More ]

Missing the point on profiling

As airports are set to introduce more and more stringent and intrusive methods to determine whether or not little old Granny Smith is really a suicide bomber with 5lbs of Semtex hidden in her balls of wool, the debate about "profiling" starts up again. Some say it won't work because not all those who have tried to explode a bomb on an aerop [ Read More ]

I Tweet. Please Rob Me

Quite possibly the funniest application and use of geo-location information leakage on Twitter, the incredible Interweb brings you, Please Rob Me which will let you know exactly when Twitter users have left home thanks to them being stupid enough to have geo-locationing enabled. As I type there are now 58 "new opportunities" for burglary avail [ Read More ]

Forbidden Fruit - Drinking Infront of Kids

I blame the parents. The influences that surround young people in the home have a significant effect on the way that person grows up. In many ways you would think then that Sir Liam Donaldson's latest advice is sound: Don't let children drink before they are 15 and don't permit drinking in front of children. This is based on scientific researc [ Read More ]

The Blitz Spirit - It's Only SNOW!

It took me just under an hour to drive the eleven miles into work this morning. This was entirely due to the adverse weather conditions. However, it usually takes me just under an hour to drive to the office due to the adverse traffic conditions - so nothing was lost. Away from the main roads the surface was slippery and treacherous, but on th [ Read More ]

0870 Numbers

Let make this simple, these numbers should be banned FULL STOP. Can you imagine buying a sweater at M&S and finding out something is wrong, so you go back to see customer services, when you get there as soon as you enter the queue they start asking for money, that is exactly what these companies are doing. Of course the funny thing is th [ Read More ]

Drugs Less Dangerous Than Alcohol?

Professor David Nutt, the Government's chief drug adviser, was sacked yesterday after claiming Ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. Prof Nutt attacked what he called the "artificial" separation of alcohol and tobacco from other, illegal, drugs. He said Cannabis was "not that harmful" a drug and repeated his warning to parents abou [ Read More ]