Last Post (possibly)
Well, I've not had much time to update this blog for some time - I've a half finished redesign, and plenty of other changes floating around my computer which I'm realistically never going to complete....
View ArticleFIFA, Russia and Vengeance
Hands up who was terribly surprised we didn't get the World Cup? Has not years of Eurovision not taught you yet that the world generally doesn't like us? That such decisions are made by corrupt...
View ArticleThe Fall of the Libertarian Blogosphere and the Libertarian Idea?
We've lost/sort-of-lost several excellent libertarian bloggers of late - Obo, Constantly Furious, Anna Racoon and Mr Eugenides have all gone (although Obo does occasionally raise himself from the...
View ArticleCompare and Contrast
Try killing one of us, get 5 years.Try killing one of them, get life.Justice is blind? Yeah, right.
View ArticleThe Prisoners Voting Thing
I thought I'd be outraged by the decision to give prisoners voting rights, but really I'm not.Can anyone explain to me why people like Sylvia Hardy, Donald Allison or Nick Hogan ought to be denied...
View ArticleThe Things That Happen in Toilets
Last night I was rather fortunate there wasn't any sniffer dogs at the pub I was drinking in.Having a number 2, two lads entered the cubicle next to me and proceeded to deal in a bit of coke and pills...
View ArticleThat Housing/Social Cleansing Pseudorage
I can't help but feel some of the 'oh noes, the unemployed only be given £400 a week to spend on housing' may involve some suspicion that in the pricey areas where the unemployed/unemployable are...
View ArticleGeorge Osborne
I've not gone through the Spending Review yet, but I'd still like to point out that he is, visually, the most punchable man in politics.He could make Ghandi look like Raoul Moat with saintly and...
View ArticleLIverpool FC Court Case - It Keeps Getting Worse!
Just read the latest twitter update from Dan Roan, and well, looks like Hicks and Gillette have tossed a considerable cat amongst the pigeons.As it stands, if RBS win, the club gets sold to NESV, if...
View ArticleTackling Unemployment
One of the many bulls heading towards the coalition will be unemployment, the burning of the quangos and the cuts will cost jobs, and whilst in the long term that's a good thing it isn't a vote...
View ArticleAnother One Bites the Dust :(
Yet another blogger who inspired me start up appears to be sodding off, Obo seems he's going to pack in blogging for the foreseeable. The web needs the mix sweary rage and well constructed arguments,...
View ArticleA Few Changes
There may be some faffing about over the next few weeks!I've created a dedicated email account for the blog, and thus created a new author (also Obsidian) and set it as the admin and removed my old...
View ArticleHave the Coalition Taken Over Cuba?
Well, after Fidel Castro's recent admission that the great revolution may not have been that great, and the model he and his brother have ruthlessly implemented over the last half century may no longer...
View ArticleStrikeback?
Given the TUC are threatening a new Winter of Discontent, perhaps it's time to organize against that? Nothing too drastic, maybe prepare for Flashmobs to appear at strike sites, playing disorientating...
View ArticleOh the Irony
Not long back, the local police were unable to chase some motorbike thieves as they weren't wearing helmets. No, you didn't misread that - if you plan to steal the Crown Jewels just remember to escape...
View ArticleTime for the Police to Quit Their Jobs?
The always readable, if not necessarily agreeable, Inspector Gadget think society has a lot of blame on it's hands over the PC who assaulted Pamela Somerville.Now, it's hard not to see his point, but I...
View ArticleFair Play to ParcelForce
So yesterday I bitched about the parcel delivery service I was using, and I have to say today they impressed me - rang them up, they apologized and upgraded the service gratis.That is customer service....
View ArticleFun with Parcel Deliveries
So I sold a computer on eBay, now the selling bit was somewhat painful - and I suspect the pain is not yet over - and I sorted out delivery.First the website threw up a heap of warning because I'm on a...
View ArticleAlien Invasions
On the BBC's news website, under the Most Popular Read stories is one going back to April, where Stephen Hawking warned against alien contact.Apparently if we meet aliens they may raid us for our...
View ArticleHow Difficult Can It Be To NOT Be A Cunt?
Had a very good day yesterday, a few drinks round Manchester culminating with watching Muse - the closest thing modern music has to Queen, and who can be like U2 without the twattishness - the only...
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