Chicken Yoghurt has posted his thoughts about yesterday’s article in the Independent about the UK government’s response about the use of napalm in Iraq by the US army. (How’s that for a convoluted sentence? In short: the US army used/did-not-use* napalm in Iraq, and lied/did-not-lie* to the UK govt about it. Chicken Yoghurt is not […]
It’s Friday afternoon. Time for some amusement. If you have kids, or babysit for others, read them this modern fairy tale by blood & treasure. Start them young, teach them well.
Miss Eclectech and Mr Doghorse have yet another excellent animal video: a tribute to Charles Clarke, paragon of NuLab. (via Chris Lightfoot) Eclectech also has a site detailing communication with the local MP and the profoundly deaf Home Office. It is the card that proves you have a national identity! Indeed without one you’ll a […]
Have I slipped into some cross-dimensional wormhole? Chicken Yoghurt gives some attention to a largely ignored leaked memo from Downing Street, and highlights the scariest excerpts of the transcription by the Sunday Times. While this is no joking matter, and provides further evidence of Tony Blair’s duplicity, the whole sordid affair could almost be fictional. […]
There’s an excellent post by Nosemonkey on The Sharpener on the subject of Britain’s EU rebate. I’m very glad of the existence of The Sharpener, with contributors from more than one political angle. It’s where the best posts of other blogs end up if they’ve been good and brushed their teeth before bedtime. And while […]
It’s Friday afternoon, and I’m in a flippant mood. Have a read of Freedom and Whisky’s suggestion here. Me, I’d call it in. In the ensuing stock market crash, we could revert to the Dark Ages and feel free to wear hoodies again.
From BBC news: Jack says no to poll. Chicken! Also from the BBC, an idiot’s guide to the EU constitution: Division of Responsibilities What the constitution says: The EU already has rights to legislate over external trade and customs policy, the internal market, the monetary policy of countries in the eurozone, agriculture and fisheries and […]
From a letter to the Guardian (emphasis mine): Abolish the debt burden Today is World Debt Day. As on every day, poor countries will pay $100m to the rich world in debt payments. And preventable poverty will kill 30,000 children. This injustice must be stopped. Seven years ago today, 70,000 people formed a human chain […]
Singabloodypore discusses my mother tongue: Singlish Under Attack Again, and makes the observation that “Sometimes I think certain leaders have some sort of inferiority complex or are they ashamed of their own people?”. To quote from a quote from the post: Singapore’s prime minister launched the country’s latest behaviour modification campaign on Friday, urging teachers […]
Switched on BBC Parliament to watch the new Parliament being sworn in, and the election of the Speaker of the House of Commons. According to parliament.uk, the Speaker does not campaign on party issues when seeking re-election at the GE, a point that Alex Salmond drew attention to when referring to Michael Martin’s overwhelming majority […]
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