Hadn’t seen this before. The BBC have produced on of those fancy graphic thingies where you get to slide a button along a bar and then it tells you how evil you are. Of course if you believe any of it you’re thicker than whale omelette, but that’s the way […]

From the Currant. (Update: linky fixed)

Thoroughly enjoyed this bit of in-your-face high handed buggeroffishness: An ex banker to the Queen has urged a public enquiry to close part of Chaucer’s Pilgrims Way that runs over his estate by telling inspectors they should remember they are not in Zimbabwe, Cuba or Scotland. Timothy Steel who is the […]

No, really. If you are right of centre it’s the fault of a result of having air conditioning. Refrigerated cooling has been a major boon to the Republican Party. The advent of A.C. helped launch the massive Southern and Western population growth that’s transformed our electoral map in the last […]

Well to start with, we can reject the depressingly unhelpful and unconstructive attitude on display from this Dutch Nurses’ Union: AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard […]

It looks like a clever twist on the barter system has reared its head in the Western Hemisphere: slavery. And who are the slaves? The crown jewels of Cuba’s highly-touted medical system: doctors and nurses. Seven Cuban doctors and a nurse sued Cuba, Venezuela and the state-run oil company Petróleos […]

In Brazil, socialists have been taking advantage of the World Social Forum as an opportunity to denounce economic development and demand that poverty be imposed on everyone. Complained union thug Arthur da Silva Santos: There are just a few hundred companies today that hold all the cards for the global […]

Channel 4 ‘Dispatches’ this evening will be bringing us a heartwarming tale of Care In The Community. This old gentleman used to spend hours on end sleeping through his day in a purpose-built nursing home in the heart of W1 with only the company of other geriatrics peacefully snoring on […]

Just as you’d expect from two unelected unwanted dictatorships, the EU is cuddling up to Cuba. You know, the same Cuba voted a few months ago as 7th Happiest Place To Live – a fact neatly explaining the hordes of Cubans trying to leave the place on converted lorries, surfboards […]

Zut alors! Did you read that French workers are barricaded inside their bankrupt car parts factory after threatening to blow the plant up with gas canisters unless they receive a bigger pay-off. “Are we capable of blowing up the factory?” asked CGT unionofficial Guy Eyermann during a meeting of about […]