Dodgy governments

Big Brother is still out there

June 1, 2010

In amongst all the excitement of the new coalition government, it’s important to still remember that much of Labour’s big brother legislation is still active. The awful Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (or RIPA), which sounds like it controls and limits the state’s ability to spy on us, actually empowers vast swathes of jobsworth prodnoses [...]

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The Labour Manifesto

April 12, 2010

One may indeed be all a-flutter that our rulers have once again deigned to grace us with their aspirations for creating a fairer, more just and better society in the United Kingdom. However, sadly for the Labour Party, it is not all that long ago that a solicitor, acting on behalf of the Labour Party, [...]

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The ‘Go Fourth and Multiply’ Bandits.

May 3, 2009

Over on Plato’s blog I caught up with her piece on the ‘typo’ in Alistair Campbell’s blog. It rang bells, ‘Go fourth and multiply’, I’d heard that phrase before. It wasn’t until I got round to reading John Prescott’s defence of the Prime Minister’s YouTube performance, that the penny dropped. How slow am I? John [...]

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Watching the Defectives.

May 2, 2009

In May 2007, along with several thousand other people, I was invited to join in the search for young Madeleine McCann. The past two years has been an extraordinary journey, largely conducted on-line, with the occasional physical foray to Prai da Luz. I have learnt a great deal, of human beings, and human responses, to [...]

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You-Tube if you want to, the Laddie’s up for Gurning……

April 29, 2009

The Prime Minister announced today that he would continue to provide much needed mirth and merriment to the swine flu ridden electorate by appearing on You-Tube when he had important announcements to make to parliament. There is no longer any need to attend your local MPs constituency surgery; no longer any need to read a [...]

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Cardsharps and Mudslingers…..

April 23, 2009

Like a Hollywood villain (but without the maniacal laughter) the mask of Nu Labour was peeled back to reveal…well The Labour Party actually. The touchy feely, cool Britannia, things can only get better era was conveniently shoved to one side. By raising the upper tax rate to 50%, a line in the sand was firmly [...]

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The Right Honourable Prime Minister is ‘pickun an kewins’* again.

April 22, 2009

Gordon Brown’s curiously animated appearance on YouTube yesterday can only have been as a result of the Susan Boyle phenomena; someone had told him that it no longer matters what you look like, the world will pay attention when you open your mouth on YouTube. They forgot to tell him that this relies upon the world [...]

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