The home of political correctness
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2009
Jacqui Smith, our esteemed Home Secretary, is now shown to be the latest Labour MP with her snout in the trough. I find that words are starting to fail me as we learn that we are all paying for her husband to watch porn movies. The newscast I saw this morning suggested that the people [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2009
I have always had a lot of respect for the Australians in standing firm on their values. Sure they can be blunt but sometimes you just need to cut to the chase. So I applaud the recent statement from Kevin Rudd, their Prime Minister, asserting the values of the country and making it clear that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2009
Looks like the G20 summit is going to provide a splendid opportunity for all the anti-capitalist, nihilist, rent a mob idiots to get out on the streets again. Never mind that none of these dingbats has a single practical idea about finding a way out of this crisis or in fact anything useful to contribute at all. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2009
How long before we are obliged to install cameras in our homes to make sure we are behaving ourselves? Certainly with Google streetview it has reached the front door. The truth is that surveillance of the population is already happening on a massive scale. Surveillance of us going about our normal business and living our lives. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2009
I am going to have to disagree with Paul Theroux about Singapore. I am still reading his latest book - Ghost train to the Eastern Star - and his account of the changes in Asia are fascinating. In particular Cambodia post Pol Pot and Vietnam after the Americans mercilessly tried to bomb it into smithereens. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2009
I do not know how many millions we are investing in overhead information signs on our motorways but it is not money well spent. Given the network of cameras to record traffic conditions you would think the information displayed would be accurate. But, as Terry Wogan has been heard to comment on more than one [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2009
Is it just me or has Kevin McLoud’s programme gone off? It used to be full of all kinds of fascinating projects that were really different and resulted in buildings/conversions that were pleasing on the eye.
Now though we seem to have a rash of modern boxes of little architectural merit plonked down in the countryside [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2009
Apparently many couples now want a green wedding instead of a white one - in a carbon neutral sense that is. Somehow I doubt that it really is ‘many’ and I am just a little sceptical at this earnest desire to save the planet given that the average wedding now costs a staggering £21,000!
But I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2009
Cambridge university has decided 3 straight As at A level is not enough. To get a place you will now need at least one A*. And guess what, they are now being criticised for being elitist and blocking out ‘ordinary youngsters’. The Sutton Trust, which apparently campaigns to reduce inequality in education, thinks that this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2009
Brighton has always been a bit wacky round the edges and now has a new first for the UK - the divorce show. You’ve heard of wedding shows, so why not a divorce show? It claimed to offer everything a divorcing couple might want, as well as some things they might not have known they [...]