It has been many months since I last did a "double post" 15th July 2010 in fact, but I have a titbit that notorious and revered blogger Bob might be interested in. Initially I was going to e-mail him but where is the fun in that? I always did like to skate on thin ice. Well, enough suspense. Was Fred The Shred involved in a gay tryst? No, but ( Read more... )

Poll Westminster council wishes to ban soup runs for the poor, homeless, dispossessed cardboard dwellers within it's remit. One cannot have the poor clogging up central London and spoiling tourists shots of Big Ben. Is this Cameron's "Big Society"? Ought we to adopt Mr Sproate of Hackney and fed him as one would a pet? I do not know if Cameron will ( Read more... )

Freedom cannot be quantified nor qualified. The "Queens speech" sits ill at ease with the treatment of modern hero Brian Haw. I had the honour and pleasure of meeting Brian in July 2005 (see previous posts) and found him to be a decent man. I may not agree 100% with him but there was certainly no reason for the thick blue line of the Metropolitan ( Read more... )

Disappointing to see Brown still clinging to his last chance at keeping his regime afloat. The Purple revolution gathers pace, with slogans such as "My Vote Counts" (not in the U.K, comrade), and valiant attempts by organisations such as Power 2010 to bring about a better future. Electoral reform is now taking centre stage and will herald the ( Read more... )

For my 500th post I shall look at the Kubatan controversy. Darren Day has been arrested for carrying one. I had a kubatan when I was on my University Karate squad a decade ago. Going through Heathrow on my way to deliver a conference paper in Scandinavia some mind dead cretin called over P.C.Plod as my martial arts "keyring" set off an alarm. It ( Read more... )

My first blog today concerns Jeremy Moulton. Will he be allowed into America? Yes hopefully as political "crimes" are not classed in the same light as well, criminal ones. What heinous act did Mr Moulton (19) commit? He erected a sign at his local Army Cadet Force centre condemning violence. One would have thought that such an action would merit ( Read more... )

One of the good things about Britain is that we should not have police shouting "Ausweiss schnell" at us. That is why my grandfather was in the trenches and my cousin at El Alamein. Johnson is trying to wriggle out of his blunder with Identity cards (which can be forged) and states that those applying for passports will have to be on the ominous ( Read more... )

Why was the news late last night? So that we could see Andy Murray (again) make the quarter finals and (again) be knocked out. Note to Minister for Sport - if one does not invest in facilities one cannot expect Blighty to win anything. I started off despising Murray - all that kissing his biceps (not exactly Serge Nubret is he?) Then I saw a ( Read more... )

"War is the continuation of state policy by other means" Von Clausewitz. A cursory reading of him will show the dichotomy between strategy and tactics. Perhaps New Scotland Yard are perusing him now? Stalingrad was not just house to house combat but room to room. The forthcoming summit in London presents the authorities with a dilemma. They must ( Read more... )

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