Politics

Exclusive: BBC incites offences under the Protection of Children Act?

February 7, 2012
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Delicious! I have taken the precaution of some screen shots, perchance the BBC should realise what they have done before you read this. It all started so innocently. Leo Kelion, one of their technology ‘experts’ discovered that feeds from thousands of Trendnet home security cameras have been breached, allowing any web user to access live [...]

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The Compensation Culture and the NHS.

February 7, 2012
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The Treasury has had a nasty shock this week, bought on a fit of the vapors, it has. “Claims for clinical negligence outstanding at 31 March 2010 could cost £15.7 billion, or 15 per cent of the government’s total provision for future expenses arising from events that have happened in the past,” the report warns. [...]

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Global Warming and British Pensioners.

February 7, 2012
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Now that global warming has covered the whole of Europe in a thick blanket of snow, will the Prime minister finally accept that the thousands of pensioners who moved to Europe over the past two decades do NOT live in a ‘hot’ country? As recently as last December, we had the Daily Mail trotting out [...]

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Something for the Week-end, Sir?

February 6, 2012
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Like a couple of days off? Nothing divides the Serfs from the Masters so much as whether your working ‘week’ includes Saturday and Sunday or not. In the Hospitality Industry, expecting a day off to occur at the ‘week-end’ would have them rolling on the floor laughing. Wanting a Bank Holiday free from work would [...]

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Too Stupid for Sex – Episode 2.

February 6, 2012
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Mention the name Enoch Powell, and within minutes someone will reference his ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. Arguably, and sadly, that speech did nothing to change the marching speed of the progressives. It was not the only speech Enoch made, another, that had a dramatic effect on the British social history, is rarely mentioned. Enoch was [...]

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Huhne Dun It? A Liberal Judge Sums up in the Trial of a Liberal Politician.

February 5, 2012
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Bankers, bonuses, bandwagons, the crisis of capital and the failure of government

February 5, 2012
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Stripping Fred the Shred of his honour and vilifying Stephen Hester shows politicians at their most irrelevant. An effective banking system is essential for a healthy economy. The free movement of capital in has funded the projects and industries which over the last 200 years have, with some obvious calamities along the way, driven the [...]

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