I came to the conclusion a long time ago that I’m a voyeur, a sideliner. The classic blogger of stereotype and satire, who cheers on from the sides and never gets involved in the big events. That’s just a reflection of my personality; I’m a fringe person. It’s hard for me to be the centre […]
I am reading a book by an author named Jasper Fforde, a rather clever writer who creates… worlds. I can’t describe it more than that. He’s surreal, and a little unhinged I’d wager (the second book in his Thursday Next series had the entire world created from strawberry angel topping), but immensely clever and much […]
I am no environmentalist, and I shall explain why. In my unhuble opinion the current environmental movement has very little care for environments. No environs, just mental, that’s how it seems to this poor sod. Still, even I can get worked up about environmental issues from time to time, and right now there are thousands […]
Over the years I’ve been more-or-less aware of the great class struggle that supposedly takes place all around the world, if you believe what Marx wrote. The proles constantly fighting against the rich landowners and fomenting revolutions. Now I can see where such a struggle might be justified; perhaps in a land where the common […]
With an unprecedented assault of on civil liberty by the New Labour project, and ever increasing loss of democratic control to the European Union, the case for a truely democratic republic for England is becoming , in my view, the only option for us to truely preserve our hard won freedoms.
English Republic
As a monarchist you’d […]
Sounds confusing doesn’t it? Yet that’s the way the world is these days. Language is devolving, and words that have a certain meaning are no longer used in that way. Racism becomes “anything I don’t like”…
I recently saw a post on Groklaw about communism or something, and Microsoft (and indeed Google and everyone else) selling […]
The links that weave and so on. For whatever reason I was looking through Kirsty MacColl songs when I found her cover of “Perfect Day”, which got me thinking about the Children in Need version of that song that was run in 97. At the time I didn’t realise it but it was run as […]
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Here’s one for the books. My brother’s wife is being threatened with deportation. They married some time last year, in Paraguay, and then came here. They’ve since had a baby which I may or may not have mentioned - need to put up some pictures of him. He’s cute.
Recently they found out that their marriage […]
Is this fair? Knowing how Islam has treated the national monuments of previous nations it conquered, perhaps it is…
Likely? We’ll see.
I found this today in one of those random fortune cookie scripts. Those things are full of cool little tidbits and silliness, but now and then pure random chance throws up something worth pondering…
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to […]
