A little video of an episode of the US version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, spotted by one of The Waspsnest's Estonian co-conspirators (tere Rain) has the following sickly display of a the presenter fawning like a teenager and getting away with a hell of a lot...
Just how tied up in EU legislation are we?
Whilst idly trawling around the Statutory Instruments (SI) website looking for something interesting I came across the following example of just how tied up in EU rulings this country has become. A rather substantial SI titled The Trade in Animals and Related Products...
Where is the Protection of Freedoms Bill?
A news article on today's The Supreme Court ruling that the current ACPO DNA retention guidelines are unlawful mentioned in passing that legislation on the retention of DNA was going to be part of the Protection of Freedoms Bill. I had actualy forgotten about that...
The Arizona Heart Attack Grill – just imagine the righteous tizz that would ensue here.
I have spotted the Arizona Heart Attack Grill mentioned a few times in articles usually relating to one of their artery clogging offerings but have finally paid a visit to their website and was not disappointed : The Heart Attack Grill® is a hospital themed restaurant...
US Congress discusses new Worldwide War powers – for ten minutes in the middle of the night.
Via the US ACLU, it seems that the US congress is about as useful as our bunch of troughing thieves when they spend all of ten minutes in the middle of the night discussing new powers to authorise worldwide war : As we blogged last week, a hugely important provision...
Trust me – I am a politician.
Theresa May earlier. From the government that makes all the right noises only to go on to fuck everything up with the details : Parliament will be forced to vote on extending the pre-charge detention of terrorism suspects to 28 days without knowing the details of the...
Unintentionally amusing news articles.
A little snippet spotted in a Telegraph article about the Olympic ticketing process : One caller to the BBC said he had ordered £36,000 worth. Stephen Hunt, an insolvency expert, believed his odds of getting all tickets were akin to "getting twenty heads (in heads and...
USA joins Ireland and Hungary in raiding the pension funds to make ends meet.
Only 14,300 of these piles are needed to pay off the USA debt (see footnote). Some time in coming but with an annual budget deficit measures in trillions, it was almost inevitable that The United States would run headlong into it's legal debt ceiling and have to find...
Israel’s Golan Heights invaded from both Syria and Palestine.
Israel seems to be getting some pressure from both sides according to The Electronic Intifada: A dramatic video published by the website baladee.net shows the moment when hundreds of Palestinian refugees and Syrians break through the border fence from Syria into the...
Quote of the day – I do not understand.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair, in I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935)