An article in yesterdays print edition of the Telegraph (for some reason the article doesn't appear online so no link I am afraid) regarding a Hospital worker found straddling an unconscious patient left me wondering what exactly they teach medics these days. A Health...
Greek Bailout Intrigue.
A very interesting article today over at Zero Hedge on the shady deals being done within the Eurozone to avoid Greek collapse : Days into the latest round of European bailouts we finally start to get a glimpse of the scrambling within the EU's top ranks over the past...
Say what you mean.
Foreign news publications, where English is not the first language, tend to have rather more straightforward stories than we get here in the UK and the frankness makes a nice change from the usual bowdlerised nonsense. Todays example comes from Pravda (meaning the...
BBC – pushing the righteous health line?
An article in todays Telegraph concerning a BBC Panorama programme looking at childhood health problems seems to have been written by either Andy Burnham or Liam Donaldson rather than an objective journalist. It starts off with the usual health epidemic warnings :...
Words fail me.
Trawling around the internet usually brings a fair share of surprises and the occasional "fuck me sideways" outburst but the following news article from Ghana is beyond description - if only our newspapers were as frank in their reporting : Another Pastor fondling...
Labour fucks up – Cats is furious.
Counting Cats is rather annoyed (to say the least) over Labours mail shot to cancer patients : You profound fuckpig Burnham. And you know you are. I’ll tell ya Burnham something about morality. The end does not justify the means. I can think of no political tactic as...
That Advert should be banned!
The following selection of complaints received by the Advertising Standards Agency demonstrate to me that some people should stop whining and find something more useful to do with their sad little lives : Ad A poster for Coco Pops featured a picture of the cartoon...
Online Crime Reporting US Style.
Wandering around the internet on a lazy Saturday evening, I found the online crime reports page of the Mephis Daily News. Having seen a few mentions of proposed UK crime reporting tools promised by people of various political persuasions they ought to look at this...
The Ugly Future.
One reason I read Zero Hedge is for the writing style and today the following introduction to an article on the BIS report on sovereign debt projections is a damned good example (emphasis mine) : It's one thing to hear fringe bloggers raving breathlessly against the...
Stampede in Barnsley.
NHS officials today reported a stampede of young Barnsley females wanting to block book testing appointments for every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday over the next year at the Kendray hospital Genito Urinary Medicine clinic after the following report appeared...