Monthly Archives: January 2010

Does anyone seriously believe that if the England World Cup football team found themselves in a situation where their coach came under gunfire, killing two members of the party, and that in that situation they then decided to return to … Continue reading →

Mrs P. and myself went to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery today to view the excellent Birmingham Seen exhibition, with paintings and photographs of the City over the last couple of hundred years. Looking at some of the beautiful … Continue reading →

I suppose I’m not really the right person to be writing this, because I never liked the bloke anyway, but over the last week I think we have seen the way Tony Blair will be remembered by history. Those who … Continue reading →

It may not be Google and China, but….Censorship and the Methodist Blogger.

I’ve said before that one of the problems the Tories have is that outside of their Bullingdon boys, no-one really knows who Cameron’s ‘team’ actually are. Unlike 1997 when the likes of Prezza, Mandelson, Straw, Blunkett, Cook, Beckett and Short … Continue reading →

Well, whadya know. Via the uniquely exclusive Timothy Worstall, I discover that… HowManyOfMe.com There are people with the name Robert Piper in the U.S.A. How many have your name? We’re here, we’re there, we’re every f…… where!

When Tony Blair and his small band of ‘New’ Labour modernisers swept into power in 1997 they had all sorts of wild and wonderful plans for Britain. In one area though, Tone and the Gang were decidedly conservative in their … Continue reading →

Unity fixes his forensic eyes on to the people behind ‘Nurses for Reform‘ only to find we have more people looking to line their own pockets out of privatising the NHS than actual nurses.

A very moving ceremony of remembrance this morning for Holocaust Memorial Day in West Bromwich. Mrs. Magda Bloom, and 80-year-old survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen, frail and bent, made an emotional speech about how she had lost her entire family … Continue reading →

Michigan Republican Thad McCotter was once quoted as saying… ‘You are being asked to choose between bread and freedom … the American people have chosen freedom’. That’s as may be. Stephen Kinzer in The Guardian poses the same equation for … Continue reading →