Another turn of the screw
Making every journey... hell? What a great photograph! During a family gathering a few nights ago, we were reminiscing about travelling through Europe in the fairly recent past and describing how...
View ArticleUnder the radar
A number of commenters are suggesting that the News of the World story is a distraction that has been, or will be, appropriated by the politicians to divert our gaze from something more unpalatable....
View ArticlePot and kettle
Speaking at a conference in Paris, Clegg said the phone-hacking scandal that prompted Rupert Murdoch to close Britain’s biggest selling Sunday newspaper, the News of the...
View ArticleAnother day, another ban
Police are hoping to stop a group of off-licences in Leicester city centre selling the strong and notoriously cheap alcohol favoured by street drinkers. Eight shops have been identified as regular...
View ArticleThe Freedom Fighters of Stony Stratford
I am not a smoker and have never been a smoker. However, as somebody who places liberty above most else, I’ve never believed that the world should be fashioned entirely in one image – as such, I abhor...
View ArticleEverywhere in Chains
It’s Sod’s Law, I suppose, that has given us the greyest, wettest day of the summer for the Stony Stratford uprising: the greatest of respect to all those involved for defending our real interests....
View Article21st Century Love Story
Your eyes meet across the crowded room. You turn away. Moments pass – you glance again. She smiles. Love’s dance has begun. “I have to go.” “Can I give you a lift?” You pull up outside her block....
View ArticleThe new untouchables
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has issued a report on the failings of Castlebeck’s Winterbourne View Hospital following the exposé broadcast by the BBC’s Panorama programme. Unsurprisingly, it...
View ArticleThe BBC – actively stifling dissent
Apparently, this story is sourced from the Daily Telegraph but I’m unable to find it online. The Daily Mail’s version doesn’t make too much sense but it does appear to suggest that the long-awaited...
View ArticleOne law for some
Daily Mail - 29 July 2011 Ministers have abandoned an inquiry into the rise of secretive Sharia councils that deal in Islamic justice – because the Muslim courts refused to help. The...
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