As noone reads this blog, I feel quite comfortable posting this. This isn’t how I feel at the moment, but if I continue as I am, I could see me feeling like this in the future. PR man’s ballad(with thanks to George Orwell) We are the dead,The faceless army that crowds,Onto the number eleven bus. [...]

The AP reports via the Guardian: A British National party election candidate and a dentist appeared in court yesterday accused of possessing an explosive substance. Robert Cottage, 49, of Colne, Lancashire, and David Jackson, 62, of Nelson, Lancashire, were charged under the Explosive Substances Act after chemical components were allegedly found at Mr Cottage’s house. [...]

Mozilla have released Firefox 2.0. Take back the web at getfirefox.com xD.

I meant to post this letter a few days ago, but only just found it again. I came across it in a local paper, the Tamworth Herald. Stop Paving Madness I think it is time the council did something about the colours of the pavement slabs in Sutton. The situation has been going on for [...]

Former CPGB member John Reid has announced his five-year plan (actually, I think it’s a seven-year plan) for immigration from Romania and Bulgaria when they join the European Union. Something like 600,000 Poles have come to the UK since their state acceeded to the EU. They were able to go to only three of the [...]

The Party of European Socialists is running an online declaration that anyone can sign as part of its Diversity YES Intolerance NO campaign.From the declaration: We are appalled by the rise of the far right across Europe– and the racism, homophobia and hatred that spread with it! There is a realrisk that the lunatic fringe [...]

“Clare Short, the Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood since 1983, has announced that she has resigned the Labour whip and will sit in the Commons as an independent for the remainder of this Parliament. “Since resigning as International Development secretary in 2003 – in opposition to the Labour party’s stance on the Iraq War – [...]

Matt Sinclair sent me a link to Tim Worstall posting about Cato’s frequent appeals for the destruction of Carthage. A decade of studying Latin mean that I was able to point out some errors… for posterity, my post appears below. 1. The Latin for union is conventus 2. As conventus is a 4th declension neuter [...]

I’m not going to criticise Madonna’s motives for adopting a young Malawian. I actually think her motives are entirely altruistic, although I think she opens herself to the charge of orientalism. However, it’s worth noting that the GDP of Malawi is US$2,016,000,000, according to the BBC. Estimates of Madonna’s wealth range from US$365,000,000 to US$700,000,000, [...]