Yesterday legal action was launched against the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire. For the moment I won't go into details. Suffice to say I have...changed my position on the UK membership of the ECHR ( Read more... )

The idiot who put up a few SS flags outside the mosque in Dunmurry ought to have done some homework. One flag is the 3rd Division "Totenkopf", the other is the 25th "Arrowcross" Hungarian Division ( Read more... )

Much is being made of the new alliance/axis between the Kremlin and two vastly differing Islamic states, quasi secular Turkey and theocratic Iran.
This poor old donkey here in Ireland is trying to figure out what happens next.
Very damned hot.

More details are emerging of the fatal knife attack on Sven Badzak in Maida Vale. Either he approached black males to "chat them up" and was knifed to death, or they began a homophobic assault on him and it ended as a murder. Either way, social meejah Twitter have banned details. Here is one, Philip Merrils Dearn, legal boss of Twitter UK/Ireland ( Read more... )

Much is being made of Alexei Navalny's return to Russia, but who, really pulls his strings? Outrage from the west (who don't mind Julian Assange being a political prisoner) point to Sasha being a puppet of the Pentagon, perhaps? Could it be a case of my enemy's enemy is my friend?
Poll Is Navalny a stooge and shill?

Islamic State are beginning to see that by taking Damascus they can win a war of territiory. Now plod in Britain are afraid something wonderful, within a couple of months Westminster and Whitehall will face a far graver threat than some half arsed home grown plots ( Read more... )

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A comment by notorious and revered airmarshall set me to thinking. Years ago U.K passports were cheap, easy to obtain, and useful. Now they are highly expensive, subject to all manner of intrusion and quite dangerous to carry. I decided to renounce my British citizenship, now I had thought this was (at  best) writing a short note to Lunar House. Oh no, one ( Read more... )

It is exactly a year since I was abroad, in Belgium on the Ypres salient where my paternal Grandfathers eldest brother's luck ran out in the pre-dawn darkness in 1915. Why should a bullet shot by a German (or Bulgarian or Turk?) miss my Grandfather yet kill the man beside him? Happenstance or guardian angels take your pick. I visited nearly all the ( Read more... )

 The war of Mr Joras washing-machine. He lives by the Dragonja river, the Croat-Slovene border. Joras is a Slovene and bought a washing machine, then refused to pay Croat border duty. Croatia claims a sliver of land on the banks of the Dragonja where his house stands. Further along there is the Zumberak mountain dispute (who owns the summit?) and ( Read more... )

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