Monthly Archives: November 2011

Despite all of the media horror stories about the strike action tomorrow (often from the same people who cheered the beanfeast held to celebrate the wedding of a couple of rich kids earlier in the year)… it turns out that … Continue reading →

When Aston Villa footballer Stan Collymore went missing before an FA Cup game in the late 1990′s he revealed he was suffering from depression. Collymore had cost Villa an estimated £9 million pounds and was earning good money, had a … Continue reading →

Steve Bell… the man is a genius.

Health Minister Simon Hugh McGuigan Burns isn’t the brightest lamp in the street. Despite a privileged public school background, Burns left Oxford University with what amounts to a ‘pass ‘ degree – a Third Class Honours degree, which is the … Continue reading →

Very sad this morning to hear of the death of Basil D’Oliveira. A fine cricketer, and a giant of a man who carried himself with the sort of dignity that the cricket administrators and white supremacist South Africans couldn’t even … Continue reading →

It seemed strange to me that Andrew Lansley thought that GPs could be trusted to virtually run the whole of the National Health Service single-handed, but couldn’t be trusted to adequately diagnose long term illnesses. But on reflection, I suppose … Continue reading →

…it should hardly come as a surprise. As Mehdi Hasan points out, their neighbours are all puppet regimes of the United States… Imagine, for a moment, that you are an Iranian mullah. Sitting crosslegged on your Persian rug in Tehran, … Continue reading →

…a ‘source’ close to Andrew Lansley says about Andy Burnham’s announcement that he will roll back the Tory/Liberal privatisation of the NHS: “Andy Burnham has shown his true colours. He wants to turn the clock back to 1948, destroying the … Continue reading →

I will preface this post by saying I think Silvio Berlusconi is a complete wretch. An unmitigated disaster whose personal life has been peppered by allegations of corruption and womanising which, if only a fraction were true, should have made … Continue reading →

At Wembley last night…