Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Most of you should be out there in the sun taking in the Vitamin D and getting a tan. But for those who aren’t, this thread is here to ask: why not?
The Devil's Kitchen (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
(nb. I am not the Devil's Kitchen) No. 1 - We are drinking more than ever and 1 in 4 people are drinking at hazardous levels This claim has been made regularly since May of this year, based on data from the Office of National Statistics. The Telegraph 's report was entirely typical: One in four drink too much, official figures show. Ten million people in England – one in four adults – are...
Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The Chief Constable of West Yorkshire police has highlighted the threat of neo-Nazis in Britain, noting that in a recent operation, rocket launchers, grenades and other weapons have been seized. (Via Edmund Standing at Harry’s Place)
Ambush Predator (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Or has Bernie Ecclestone been sniffing the petrol ? Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone last night provoked outrage by praising the policies of Adolf Hitler in an extraordinary interview. The 78-year-old billionaire criticised modern politicians as 'weak' and praised the former Nazi leader's ability to 'get things done'.
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I wasn't going to return to this subject, but Angela Eagle's performance on the Today Programme merits some discussion, not least because she told an absolute whopper about the Gay Hatred legislation and the Conservative attitude to it. If I was feeling uncharitable I’d say it was a lie. Listen to the discussion HERE - scroll in to 1hr 41 mins. It is not true to say that the Tories voted against...
Tom Harris MP (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
DOES anyone else share my surprise that no-one has thought to fill an apparent gap in the market in Middle East countries? Every time they have a demonstration, their flags end up going up in flames! You would have thought that by now someone would have produced a flame-retardant flag. Time for someone to step in [...]
RantinRab (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Image courtesy of G.O.T.The Director General, (what kind of self important job title is that'), has 'admitted' that the licence fee (tax) that we pay (unwillingly) to fund the BBC (and the hopeless twats in it) could disappear.He has suggested a splendid alternative to the licence fee. It could be funded by council tax, income tax or even a levy on the electricity bills we pay.What a complete
Miss S B (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Fresh Squeezings from the veins of the internet! Pride Central ! Gay-pride.org.uk is a central resource for finding out about pride events local to you. London Pride ! Today is, of course, Pride Day for those of you who live in That London. Have fun, if you're going, and if you see a really gorgeous mixed race girl in devil horns, give her a smile, for she is ginasketch . Bi Pride ! djm4 has an excellent...
The Appalling Strangeness (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Good news from the others side of the Atlantic, where slightly mentalist politician and former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has resigned as Governor . Whether this means she will actually be out of politics for good remains to be seen, but we can but hope. Assuming it is now safe to write Palin's political obituary, it has to be said that she was a disaster. Nothing to do with her gender,...
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
So, we already have too many cats as a result of one semi-feral cat not being done in time. But we did then have her and her four daughters done. So, while too many, not increasing in number. Until about 4 am this morning, when another semi-feral that we’d seen around for a couple of weeks announced [...]
Ambush Predator (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
...in Ferndown , Dorset: Council chiefs fear stringing up the tiny, colourful plastic flags between sturdy metal posts could make the columns topple over and injure people . No, it's not April 1st again. They claim this really could happen: Rod Mainstone, Dorset County Council’s street lighting manager, sent guidance notes to town and parish councils which stated: ‘Street lighting columns...
Ambush Predator (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Energy company Calor has moved to allay residents’ fears after campaigners claimed Canvey could suffer a similar gas explosion to the one that killed at least 14 people in Italy. This must be some new definition of ‘similar’ that actually means ‘nothing like it’… A massive explosion caused houses to collapse trapping people in the rubble when a train carrying liquid...
Miss S B (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... but WHAT THE BLUE BUGGERY FUCK is Our Glorious Leader doing writing for LabourLost? Seriously, who thought that would be a good idea? He's pissing off the Labourites (Google for the post and look at the comments, I'm not linking to it and bumping up LL's Wikio ranking) and he's pissing off his own party . Lose/lose. If you're going to put something up on the site of another party, here are some...
The Appalling Strangeness (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I'm not sure whether I'm just being pointlessly cynical, but I don't think we really need this TV series : Only Fools and Horses wide-boy Derek Trotter is returning to BBC One in a comedy drama about his teenage years. Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Chips, set in 1960 and written by Only Fools scribe John Sullivan, will also focus on Del's "tarty" mother, Joan, and father, Reg. So, after a couple...
Richard Willis's Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Today the Gay Pride march and party takes place in London. Tens of thousands of gay people and their families and supporters will join in the festivities. However, the run up to the event has been over-shadowed by some rather unfortunate remarks by Labour Ministers Chris Bryant and Ben Bradshaw, both of whom have sought [...]
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