Dodgy governments

There is a case for full disclosure by any public body of any document … which would shed light on the disaster and its aftermath.

April 19, 2009

Andy Burnham was not talking about the disaster in Downing Street, but of the Hillsborough disaster. Today, instead of sitting on a sofa with her husband watching a movie or two, Jacqui Smith was hard at work, trying to garner some good publicity before being grilled tomorrow in the  House of Commons over the bungled [...]

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What every young McBride should know before marriage……

April 19, 2009

It won’t make a vas deferens now, but perhaps someone should have warned the young McBride that ‘cooking up’ stories with ‘tough as old boot leather’  Balls, he was liable to get his fingers burnt. The Sunday Times today is printing ‘heavily denied’ allegations that Ed Balls was the mastermind behind the  “dark arts” operation [...]

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McBride, McCann, McSpin and McSmear

April 16, 2009

There has long been speculation regarding the high level of support the McCanns received from within the government when their daughter Madeleine disappeared. It has been defended as ‘normal government support’ for a family in distress – but was it government support or Labour Party support? The recent revelations of a high level ‘dirty tricks campaign’ [...]

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‘Heading off’ a diplomatic disaster.

March 21, 2009

I had a dream…… I know what caused it; late last night I was reading a report from the Dutch news service ‘Radio Netherlands Worldwide‘, concerning the discovery of the head of an executed 19th-century Ghanaian king in the Dutch hospital where it was being kept. “The head was discovered four years ago in the [...]

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The Great Firewall of Australia.

March 18, 2009

The Australian Minister for Censorship Stephen Conroy, has previously claimed that his proposed Internet censorship regime was focused on blocking ‘illegal sites’.  Until now. At a Senate committee on Monday, Conroy said that the trial of the filter now underway was based on blocking ‘illegal sites’, but the censorship of other legal content would be [...]

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Too little latitude.

March 14, 2009

Google’s new people-tracking software, Latitude – charmingly pegged as a way to “keep tabs on someone special” – is receiving what has become today’s typical response of ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ and ‘grave concerns about the erosion of civil liberties’.  How ironic that ‘latitude’,  a word once used to indicate freedom has now [...]

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Re-definitions – Nu-Labour speak; Issue 2

March 13, 2009

Noun. A Peer – Oxford English Dictionary definition. 1 A nobleman. 2 A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment. Noun. A Peer – Nu-Labour definition. 1 A man elevated to the peerage by his Nu-Labour cronies. 2 A man who a-peers to threaten parliament with an army of 10,000 Muslims. 3 A [...]

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