You'll never believe this but I'm actually having a hard time articulating just how incredibly angry I am at the situation in this country ( Read more... )

Here's a very interesting article by one of my childhood favourites, Michael Rosen ( Read more... )

I think it was Tiberius who said (and pardon my Suetonius if I'm wrong) "Let them hate me, so long as they fear me ( Read more... )

So I'm finally reading War of The Worlds. I've never actually finished it. I remember trying to read it when I was about eight, with a dictionary on standby. Obviously I didn't get very far.

The other sunday the old George Pal version was on TV and me and Man gleefully sat down to watch and reminisce about just how loud we screamed when that ( Read more... )

The BBC are doing a very bad job at masking their utter, knuckle-biting, wriggling schadenfreude at the ever deepening levels of shit piling up on the floors of the News International offices.

I can't exactly blame them.

It just keeps getting worse. By this time tomorrow it'll be more of a question of which bereaved families haven't been hacked ( Read more... )

Now, I'm taking this (LJ link - won't take you anywhere dirty, if you know what I mean.) with a pillar of salt since it comes from the mendacious, pearl-clutching ninnies at the Daily Fail, but it's not entirely out of character for Dave and you know me; I can never resist an opportunity to take a pot-shot at the hollow, opinion-poll operated ( Read more... )

Pardon me if I start the day off bitching, but I've just had my first encounter with the reality of Dave's fucking benighted, bullshit Big Society. A guy came to my door canvassing for donations to a friend's favourite charity, the Inshore Rescue. The IR is a volunteer organisation and a registered charity and does what it says on the tin - it ( Read more... )

Still deeply in the realms of Brainwrong but I daresay it's due to post-Christmas apathy. The whole fucking season is just tooooooooo long these days. They start screaming about the countdown to Christmas some time after the kids go back to school and then once Christmas finally creaks round then you have to endure that marathon session of eating, ( Read more... )

In case you hadn't noticed, it's winter. It snowed quite a bit. Obviously, this is unusual because Britain is a country known for its boring and predictable weather which nobody ever talks about. Ever ( Read more... )

In a schools white paper published today ministers said government funding would cease for graduates who did not have at least a 2:2 degree from September 2012, while the government would explore paying off the student loans of graduates in shortage subjects who wished to enter teaching.Another impressive piece of incompetence from the most ( Read more... )