Exclusive +++Nick Hogan – Without those Walls!

March 10, 2010

Nick Hogan is safely back behind bars. Not the bars which the government sought to contain him behind for failing to act as an unpaid policeman and report his customers for smoking – even when he was not on the premises to witness them to doing so – but the bars, the snug, and the [...]

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Break out the air conditioning

March 10, 2010

Yes, folks, global warming strikes again. Although it make be that global warming is on strike again, I can’t really be sure.
Thousands of commuters were left scrambling for an alternative way to get home after the blizzard forced the suspension of bus services in Barcelona and the closure of five suburban train lines in the [...]

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It’s 8 AM, do you know where your daughter is?

March 10, 2010

It’s rare that I see something that makes me positively queasy, but this little snippet certainly managed it:
Although a rise in teenage pregnancy rates is no longer a big issue in western society, a new trend is emerging in England and Wales regarding early conception that would still shock Britons.
According to data from the Office [...]

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‘Brown’ Sugar, and other euphemisms.

March 9, 2010

Southern voters might be surprised to learn that the Labour heartlands are not the romanticised ‘green valleys’  surrounding the far from romantic pit villages of the Rhonda Valley that the wind-bag Neil Kinnock liked to promote as the seat of Labour Power.
Nor are they the teeming back alleys of Liverpool surrounding the now redundant Mersey [...]

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Dog bites man

March 9, 2010

Once again our glorious government has (dare I say it?) screwed the pooch with some new, knee-jerk legislative proposals:
Every dog owner in the UK would have to take out insurance against their pet attacking someone under government proposals to tackle dangerous breeds.
Police and local councils could also get new powers to force the owners [...]

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Consider this

March 8, 2010

The BBC says that the Met Office says that there is much stronger proof that man is causing climate change.
The Met Office says that it will no longer be offering seasonal forecasts “because it’s very difficult to forecast that far in advance”. Despite them being proven wrong over the weekend (forecast on Friday for Saturday [...]

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Mobile Mendacity.

March 8, 2010

A Freedom of Information request has revealed that a stunning £450,000 worth of mobile phone bills belonging to employees of Notts county Council are being paid by taxpayers.
Why?
Councillor Reg Adair, the county council’s cabinet member for finance and property, said the mobile phone was an essential tool for day-to-day work for many council employees.
He said [...]

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