What will Tony Blair’s legacy be? It is too early to tell.
xD.

Responding to my response about the possibility of America ending the Visa waiver for Britons of Pakistani descent, Matt Sinclair has two points to make; firstly, that ‘Pakistani’ is not a race and secondly a misinterpretation of the Pacifico incident and the indivisibility of citizenship.
Matt says that “… ‘Pakistani’ isn’t a race. You can’t adventure [...]

I don’t often post about Guido Fawkes/Paul Staines, but his latest post is so poor it deserves mention. He says that he has
got his hands on a private campaign briefing prepared a few days ago for supporters of Hilary Benn’s campaign for the deputy leadership. It details how popular Benn is polling with activists (pdf [...]

The Sun attacks giving some migrants more rights and the possibility of staying in the UK in light of the Strangers into Citizens protest. It reads
But critics said the move would ANGER low paid workers, place more STRAIN on Britain’s dwindling housing stock and ENCOURAGE foreigners to come to the UK
which doesn’t make [...]

A photo of the stamens of a stargazer lily taken with some macro rings that arrived over the weekend from eBay. I’m quite pleased with it.

Click the photo for a larger version. Macro rings are tubes that go between the camera body and the lens and allow you to go for close-up shots without buying [...]

The Daily Telegraph is having a debate on whether the US should require British citizens of Pakistani origin to have visas; that is to say, on the basis of their religion and ethnicity, be denied access to the visa waiver scheme.
There are a few problems with this. I sincerely hope that this BBC report in [...]

People who know me in real life will know that I (almost) always wear a hat. I’ve taken pictures of my hats and there is now a rotator that shows pictures of some of my hats in, well, rotation. Feel free to nick the script.
The pictures were edited in an open source graphics programme called [...]

I consider myself a liberal; so long as it doesn’t affect other people, you should basically be allowed to do what you want. It’s a rule of thumb and there are shades of grey, but that’s where I’m coming from. There is an opposing tendency that becomes outraged at the idea that there are people [...]

This is a very good argument for always having “Re-Open Nominations” (rather than “None of the Above”) as a candidate. Essentially, Corsham Town Council in Wiltshire is made up of people who don’t stand on party political platforms, in the main. There is a ward with one councillor and one Michael Simpkins has been elected [...]