Back from holiday, and one of the first things I hear about (apart from an inbred getting engaged to his girlfriend) is this"The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald's and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on ( Read more... )

In case there are people out there who see nothing wrong with Pastor Terry Jones' threat to make a bonfire out of the Qu'ran (hmm, another thought - are marshmallows halal? :P), despite all the outcry from various talking heads/religious leaders, consider this: How would you like it if someone was going to burn large piles of your holy book? (Note ( Read more... )

Read this.

I am presently too open-mouthed to make any kind of rational comment, other than perhaps to suggest that having the army patrolling the streets didn't work particularly well last time it was happening in the UK...

(Interesting musical coincidence, the lyrics seem to fit my feelings about politics & life in the UK at the moment.)

So. Apparently Cherie Booth has decided that someone convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm (a broken jaw) should be given a suspended sentence because he is a religious manNotwithstanding that she obviously didn't get the memo from Harriet Harperson stating that the use of such gender-specific terms is sexist & will lead to the end of ( Read more... )