As a teenager when I heard the Sex Pistols on old analogue radio for the first time, I knew, with many of my contemporaries, that I was hearing history in the making, even out in nowhere-near-anything-north of England. That day burned bright in every teenager’s consciousness – radio had allowed us to activate in a [...]
Wise lad. He’s off to the USA for a bit. Good to see him out of the clutches of the users and begrudgers.
Can you believe Labour’s latest plan - they’re supposed to be trying to talk Glasgow Airport porter John Smeaton into standing for Westminster against David Davis on a pro 42-day detention-without-charge ticket. They’ve already all but destroyed this poor, brave sap. They’ve pulled his head over the parapet. Gordon Brown has used Smeaton as a [...]
It’s not the right to detain for 42 days without charge nor the requirement to have an ID card that are the problems. The worry is what the Government would do with these rights once it had them. If they get these powers it’s you and me who’ll be locked up - to shut us [...]
The Ministry of Defence ordered eight Chinook military helicopters in 1995, took delivery of them in 2001 and have yet - in 2008 - to get a single one into service. Why? The reason given today is that ‘the wrong software was fitted’. Would it be misguided to wonder about the specifics of this ‘wrong’ [...]
So Max Mosley - son of the fascist Blackshirt leader Oswald, has done whatever deals he must to stop the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) from calling for his resignation as President, following his dressy-uppy, allegedly Nazi role playing, with some prostitutes. Never mind that this will - has already - thrown the world of [...]
Well - she voted for the Iraq operation (without reading the papers, she said - and how is that a plus?).
And she didn’t have the bottle - or the flexibility - to go for George Dubya-Tony-Blair’s-money at the half way mark, when there was both a need and an opportunity for a strong opponent.
