There was a follow-up article of sorts in The Sun today to the one yesterday. It's somewhat sinister IMO.

Deva Kumarasiri from Sri Lanka is a Nottingham postmaster and Lib Dem councillor, and he refuses to serve customers except in English. ( Read more... )

Apologies for the general lack of activity over the past week or so. I’ve been busy with attending a local conference and dealing with moving out of my current lodgings.

Thanks to a link from ceirdwenfc, I read this Guardian column about James Bond, wherein Theo Hobson tells the left-of-centre world how much he dislikes the Bond films & books. Given that I ( Read more... )

This story (or non-story, pretty much) is about various Welsh MPs etc. getting riled because the chief constable of north Wales, the controversial (though I quite admire him) Richard Brunstrom, has apparently made off-hand comments that police cars in the area, which currently have both 'Police' and 'Heddlu' (the Welsh word, which is a compound of ( Read more... )

This is kind of fun. In the superhero mood given the imminent release of Dark Knight, I sought on the Interweb to see if there were any rich/bored/mad people in the Real World who thought dressing up in spandex and fighting injustice is a good idea. And, lo and behold, there are.

Some of them, like Superbarrio, are more figureheads (perhaps of ( Read more... )

And the Least Surprising Verdict of the Year Award goes to...

...in by far my favourite news story of the week, forward-thinking preachers at an American Baptist church have mused on the issue of how to attract more young people to their congregation, and have finally looked in their hearts and asked themselves: What would Jesus do?My favourite quote? A toss between: "the event featured 21 hours of preaching ( Read more... )

(Apologies for misuse of terms such as jack, flag &c. in this post; as a pedant it irks me, but as a lazy bastard I can't be bothered to correct it.)

In the House of Commons yesterday, a Welsh Labour MP made calls for adding the red dragon to the Union jack. It's not a new idea; indeed, there are Facebook groups which have the same ambition. Ian ( Read more... )

I love living in north-west Wales. There is never, ever anything riveting that BBC News can find to say about the area, which resulted in the following non-story being the headliner in the appropriate section of the BBC website. Try reading the article and replacing the words "Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales" with "East Berlin" and it becomes a ( Read more... )

So the first UK "supercasino" will be in Manchester. I confess to being a bit hazy as to how exactly they're defining these supercasinos--is it to do with the size, or the limit(lessness)? Or that you can have alcohol and betting in the same building? One of the reasons they're saying it needs to be in Manchester is that the Beswick area needs " ( Read more... )