Haven’t seen much in the UK press about the buildup of British forces in the seas around Libya…except for HMS Cumberland and the obvious jibes about her imminent scrapping. However locally there are signs of more activity than that. Yesterday and for the third time within the space of a […]
Question Time tonight, on the day of the Barnsley by-election, comes from Derby. On the panel we have Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith MP. Fresh from her recent victory over Cathy Ashton in the regional heats of International Face Like A Horse, there is the local Labour MP and […]
Amazing stuff from the never-to-be-missed East Anglian Daily Times where we learn of exciting news from Beccles in Suffolk. It’s got to be the best three line news item in the history of history. Beccles: Firefighters called to report of person trapped under sofa A confused resident called out fire […]
Ohferchrissakes, this is the election literature for today’s Barnsley by-election. Sent out, remember, by the party which complains when anyone says that the current economic mess might just have had a tiny bit to do with one G Brown. Move on, they whinge. Margaret Thatcher. Remember her? Not necessarily. Many […]
Romanian MPs have almost bested Labour in the eternal government effort trying to screw money from obscure parts of society. From the ever peculiar Austrian Times we learn that Romanian MPs have backed off on an attempt to make witches pay tax….after they threatened to curse anyone who supported the […]
The Bulgarian census finished on 28th Feb and already preliminary number crunching as been completed. The website, by the way, is rather good. Clear, easy to navigate, and full of interesting facts if you like that sort of thing. One rather interesting statistic, though, is that an astonishing 600,000 Bulgarians […]
A thought provoking article on the dangers (perhaps) of being too civilized and the rights and wrongs of intervening in the affairs of other countries. We are rightly proud of the accomplishments of western civilization over the past 500 years. We have not been perfect – not by a long shot. […]
What should you do when you really, REALLY have to ‘go’? Make important life decisions, maybe. Controlling your bladder makes you better at controlling yourself when making decisions about your future, too, according to a study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Ohferchrissakes. What an embarrassing list of failures, wannabes and never-will-be types. WikiLeaks and the Internet are among a record 241 nominations for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize that also includes Afghan rights advocate Sima Samar, the European Union, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, Russian rights group Memorial and […]
Might as well just reprint this article. It’s very….educational…. Cannabis fed to ducks by French farmer for ‘deworming’A French farmer has been given a one-month suspended jail sentence and fined 500 euros (£428) for feeding his ducks marijuana to rid them of worms. Police arrested Michel Rouyer after they discovered […]
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