What the News International scandal really means
In 2003/4 the police raided the offices of two private detectives, John Boyall and Steve Whittamore, who had been selling illegally gained information to journalists. Much of this information came […]
2011
Gordon Brown gets it totally wrong again
Just now the chattering classes are all in a frenzy because it has been revealed that the gutter press are in the gutter. Quelle surprise, next we will be hearing […]
Junk mail from Avaaz
I received a junkmail from an organisation called Avaaz who are using online activism to try and change the world. They say “Avaaz empowers millions of people from all walks […]
Who polices the police?
So the News of the World was hacking mobile phones as a tool of journalism. We know that the red top newspapers are utter scum so this comes as no […]
Just how doomed is the Euro?
So the European Union is considering the terms for lending Greece yet another massive tranche of money. The most that they can possibly succeed in doing is to delay the […]
The coalition U turns
So now Ken Clarke’s much needed and very well thought out penal reforms are going to be watered down, the latest in a series of government moves that, whilst not […]
Is our free speech about to be reduced even further?
The standards of free speech in Britain are abysmally low, worse than in most dictatorships. London is the libel capital of the world and the nefarious rich abuse the system […]
Balls switches from the left to the right, overnight
Firstly a small recap. The last Labour governments, under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, lost control of spending and in an unprecedented inept profligate splurge wasted hundreds of billions of […]
The Greeks really are revolting
So the people of Greece are enjoying their strikes and their demonstrations just as they enjoyed the good life when they were spending very many billions of other people’s money. […]
Plan A seems to be working
Ed Balls is having a torrid time at the moment, his ridiculous economic ideas had cold water poured on them by the IMF, highly incriminating papers got into the hands […]
Despicable Bahrain government abuses British libel system
Everyone knows by now just how despicable the Al Khalifa dictatorship in Bahrain is, they torture and kill their own citizens and deny them basic human rights. Everyone also knows […]
Are we about to experience runaway inflation?
So inflation remains at 4.5% (or 5.2% if you take retain price inflation), more than double the 2% target that the government is supposed to work to. Without drops in […]