On 28th April 2008, there was a public meeting at the Nightingale Hotel, South Marston near Swindon on the subject of the Future of Britain. The speaker was Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party and covered a number of areas including Europe, but also many aspects of national and local politics too.
After the […]
Curly has some great blogging about becoming as suspect at a fun fair after taking some pictures. Austin Mitchell had something similar happen and tabled an Early Day Motion on the subject and the whole thing’s been brought out into the open on the news and the BBC. Ministers have now made a clear statement […]
The Guardian
“These include expressing concern about the involvement of serious crime in the cannabis trade and sending a signal, as a government and as a society, that this drug is a danger to health.”
Ah yes. We’re such children that we have to be “sent a signal”. We can’t just be informed of the risks and […]
A bit tired, so I’ll keep it brief, but will post more tomorrow. Went to a meeting in South Marston (near Swindon) tonight where Nigel Farage, UKIP leader was speaking about Europe. Excellent speech, and a Q&A session where I felt that the questions where answered in a straightforward manner.
Have some editing of pics before […]
The Irish Heroes Pledge
In a nutshell, if the Irish people vote against the constitution treaty, a thousand of them will get a pint of Guinness and a £5 bet on the horses.
It’s a start… pass it on.
OGC unveils new logo
It cost £14,000 to create, but clearly no-one at the smart London design outfit that came up with the new logo for HM Treasury thought to turn it on its side.
Englishman’s Castle 5 days ago
Try rotating it 90 degrees as I have below…
Carol Midgely in The Times
I would like to raise a toast this week to Barney, a blue and gold parrot at a wildlife sanctuary in Nuneaton, who during an important civic visit told the local mayoress to “f*** off”. Not content with mortifying his keepers with merely one outburst, he then turned to two […]
From Crunchgear
InPhase today announced that it has begun bulk shipping its 300GB holographic storage disks. The platters are 1.5-millimeters thick and cost $180 each. That is on top of the initial $18,000 investment for the Tapestry HDS-300R drive. InPhase says that the drives should expand to capacities of 1.6TB by 2010.
OK. Very expensive stuff right […]
From SeattlePI.com
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer called Windows Vista “a work in progress” on Thursday, but he stopped short of committing to extend the life of its predecessor, Windows XP.
I recently bought myself a new PC. I had a Mac and I didn’t see eye to eye with it. So, I asked around lots of […]
From The Guardian
Kohnstamm’s story (about Lonely Planet) went everywhere because it challenged the belief that reference books, reports in serious newspapers, magazines, academic papers and journals are the result of a reliable process which produces accurate results.
The result of a reliable process which produces accurate results? Maybe that’s the standard that Nick Cohen sets himself, […]
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