Not very sincere when you do not exist “Mrs. Adams” An interesting revelation today that 10 Downing Street has been sending out fake correspondence for the last 6 years under the guise of Health and Safety : Downing Street has told the BBC it uses false names on letters to [...]  “He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future”. I wrote yesterday about a letter in the Wall Street Journal from Timo Soini, leader of The True Finn party, who was rather scathing about the bankrupt European system : Timo Soini (pictured), new leader of The True [...] Scribbling back in March on the “green deal” plan to create more jobs than there are people to fill them (or something similarly deluded), I suggested that those jobs would not last very long at all without some form of compulsion : Not a very long lived green economy in my view but [...] Something of a revelation in this medical study reported by the BBC I think : A person’s age can be used as effectively as medical tests to predict the risk of heart disease or stroke, according to a new study. The report says offering treatment to all those over 55 would achieve [...] Obviously not wanting to be left out, the meat wagon service is now joining the ranks of the shroud waving medics and bansturbatory charities with a message to watch your drinking so that you don’t deprive someone else of their trip to the infection centre hospital : Revellers celebrating the royal wedding over the [...]
Your papers please! Presented with little comment as I am more or less speechless at this crap but first, an apt quote : “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” — George Washington From the BBC, the kind [...] I suppose it was only a matter of time before the EUSSR got around to considering this one : Broadband providers have voiced alarm over an EU proposal to create a “Great Firewall of Europe” by blocking “illicit” web material at the borders of the bloc. Anti-censorship campaigners compared the plan to China’s notorious [...] Bizarre adverts causing ructions in catholic circles from The Telegraph : The Catholic Church has criticised an Italian television advert in which a half-naked man resembling Christ tries to ward off the advances of an overweight dominatrix dressed in suspenders and stockings. The advertisement, for a type of mobile phone earpiece, shows the man [...] Reading the headline that caffeine and alcohol are more dangerous when mixed I was expecting some horror story from the righteous but this really takes the biscuit : Researchers found that while physical and mental impairment were no different with the combination, the feeling of intoxication was higher. This heady mix could lead to [...] One from The BBC that would have been damned amusing to get a photograph of : An advertising firm has apologised for placing a billboard for a TV show called The Walking Dead on the side of a funeral parlour. The unintended, “unfortunate juxtaposition” caused raised eyebrows in Consett, County Durham. The roadside [...] Having avoided looking at most UK news for the last two weeks, a quick peek at the BBC website this morning reveals that sloppy journalism is alive and well whilst shroud waving medics are still banging on about the dangers of exceeding made up drinking limits. The BBC article itself has the following guff [...] Being one of the filthy smoker underclass in the UK, I was amused to find out that Estonian cigarettes are far less dangerous than their UK equivalents or at least you would think so from the health warnings on the packets : The translation being “Smoking may kill”. Somewhat different I think you [...] An interesting report from The Telegraph on the results of the governments review of drink driving legislation which removes a suspects rights to independent verification of their positive breath test : Drink drivers lose right to demand blood tests Motorists who are marginally over the limit are to lose the right to demand a [...] Piracy : Maritime piracy, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982, consists of any criminal acts of violence, detention, rape, or depredation committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or aircraft that is directed on the high seas against [...] Some authoritarian type demonstrating the size of his member earlier A brilliant way of setting a minimum price for alcohol via The Telegraph : Drink strength cut in alcohol “pact” to tackle bingeing epidemic The alcoholic strength of one of Britain’s bestselling drinks is to be cut by up [...]  |
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