Over at the England Project, John has realised he’s a Scorched Earth blogger. It’s a grouping of people who’ve had enough of politicians who excel at being, well, politicians.
I don’t really write enough about politics to be a political blogger, but if you’re of that persuasion, go over there and give it a look.
I’ve tried […]
Remember how once I might, possibly, indirectly, have inadvertently given the impression that Virgin Railways were really, really great in comparison with Deutsche Bahn? Let me just clarify my position on that one….
Of all the rail companies in Britain, Virgin used to be the absolute worst. Calling them shit would have been insulting to […]
When Thatcher was removed, I didn’t dance naked in the street (okay, I did, just for different reasons), but I wasn’t exactly displeased. Now, whenever I watch the long, slow death of Tony Blair being reported on TV news or in the newspapers I just don’t give a toss.
Whether this is due to age: at […]
As the number of letters from potential employers containing the words, “…despite your obvious potential, we regret to have to inform you that…” piles up and the amount of freelance work that I brought with me from Germany decreases, the idea of following the advice of my local Morrison’s financial advisor (Reason 237: Bigotry at […]
Both Squander Two and the Devil have been discussing the joyous experience that is being English and living in Scotland. Squander Two gets the bizarre dichotomy of living in fear of physical attack for being English and loving the country for its people just about spot on. And, despite the recently publicised stories being pretty […]
Well okay, just the one. And you’ll have to click on it to get a large-scale version, if pussy cats and bunny rabbits are your kind of thing…..
One of the things that I did miss when I lived a metropolitan life in Germany was having pets – most specifically a dog. However, it just […]
Rory Bremner has been heard to lament that the Boy Cameron is impossible to impersonate because he has no identifiable personal tics, unlike his predecessor, the MP for Jekyll and Hythe, who “took five minutes to ‘get’, max, especially after the sun went down.”
I thought Cammie-boy was going for the yoof vote until he […]
I’m not really a big fan of religion; I think it ranks up there with astrology, spoon bending and shamanistic quackery. Of course, it’s susperstitious nonsense in general I dislike, rather than any specific faith, and religious people in themselves certainly don’t seem any more or less agreeable than atheists, well apart from the Archbishop […]
If, whilst reading the reports about any EU negotiation, one ever comes across the words “French President Jacques Chirac praised the British Prime Minister” then it’s a pretty fair bet that Tony Blair has, once again, fucked up utterly.
It seems to be that kidnapping “important” foreigners (i.e. North Americans and Europeans and not just Turkish truck drivers) is big in the news from Iraq again. A German archaeologist called Susanne Osthoff has been kidnapped and Spiegel, at least, is describing it as “Merkel’s first big test“.
In the absence of the KSK finding out […]
