Monthly Archives: November 2005

There are weapons of mass destruction…. then there are OUR nuclear weapons…. and our friends nuclear weapons. Atomic Hypocrisy…Tony Benn comments on the distinction. If I don’t post anything for the next few days, send out a search party to … Continue reading →

A good postscript to the 90-day detention debate. “a fear-driven society will always find something unique about the latest way that its members might be killed.” Goodness gracious! Peter Hain says something I agree with. And in a good day … Continue reading →

Every year the CBI gather for their beano with dark threats of mass unemployment if some piece of progressive legislation is introduced, or if employers are asked to do anything to consider their employees welfare. So, the National Minimum Wage … Continue reading →

Ahh… poacher turned gamekeeper… or ‘scoop’ journalist turned spin doctor. The Council spokesperson in this article, Daniel Slee, is a sad Stoke City supporter who used to be gainfully employed by the Express and Star writing harsh, cruel and deeply … Continue reading →

The craze for this sort of thing seemed to start around the Millennium… certainly around here anyway. Do these mini-illuminations exist across the country, or are they a West Midlands phenomenon? This tasteful little number, complete with a Santa’s Grotto, … Continue reading →

Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of the demise of the Wicked Witch of Finchley. The BBC has commemorated the event by devising a rather clever graph thingy… try comparing champagne imports to coal production. Just when did Cawol Thatcher become … Continue reading →

Like Galaxy… you’ll love the Lib Dems. Fortunately, I loathe the muck (chocolates and Lib Dems). Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.).

As someone who has ploughed his way through every edition of The Benn Diaries I suppose it would be hypocritical of me to complain about senior civil servants giving their views of events. What I do object to however, is … Continue reading →

“It was the flies that told us. There were millions of them, their hum almost as eloquent as the smell. Big as bluebottles, they covered us, unaware at first of the difference between the living and the dead. If we … Continue reading →

Another Chavez takes on the might of the United States… and wins!