Cameron spoof removed from YouTube (Guardian)

Link to YouTube.

Booooingggg!

< shrugs > You can tell I'm bored... and no, it's honestly not worth watching.

There's a large local bike shop I've been going to for a while. They are a bit of a candy store - they do things like a titanium and carbon fibre bike frame for £1700 (budget at least another £1500 for the bits to put it on the road ( Read more... )

He has really have brightened my day... This is what The Guardian reports he has recently said:

Yesterday the religious broadcaster apologised for his remarks ( Read more... )

News of the London bombings went round the world in minutes. Then this ( Read more... )

Cautious grounds for optimism - many of the interviews and phone-in's I've heard indicate people are still
opposed to ID Cards. Thursday hasn't scared people into buying the governments line that they'll help stop terrorism.

The government's thinking in a nutshell... 'we're having problems with falling election turnouts and voter apathy. Why bother re-engaging the public's interest in politics? It's easier to just fine or imprison the bastards ( Read more... )

Feeling thoroughly miserable thanks to a combination of a summer cold and hayfever. Thanks to a pollen influx - or plant bukkake, as fluffymormegil charmingly puts it. I must have lead a sheltered life as I only recently discovered what that meant.

Oh God! Not a thing I should be thinking about when I'm feeling slightly ill!

Just read Y The ( Read more... )

I went to see the German movie Downfall last night. I highly recommend it. It seems to have got some flack for failing to portray Hitler and his cronies as one-dimensional monsters - ie bad stereotypical movie making as mandated by political correctness. Instead, they're shown as human beings, who had monstrous ideas and did monstrous things ( Read more... )

Cycling home yesterday, I saw outside people's houses ( Read more... )

Oh dear...

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