The Spanish police have been ordered to remove from sale all copies of the satirical newspaper El Jueves as it carries a cartoon (appears right) depicting Crown Prince Philip and his wife having sex.
The cartoon refers to the proposed policy of paying €2,500 for each newborn child in an effort to increase Spain’s declining birth [...]

Oh dear, oh dear. The Tories are trying to choose their candidate for Mayor of London, but their much-vaunted primary has ended up looking like a rubber-stamp for Boris Johnson.
The news item on the Conservative website can hardly be called unbiased: it has a picture of Boris (reproduced right) and reads
[...] Other [...]

Paul ‘Guido Fawkes’ Staines is, unsurprisingly, supporting Boris Johnson for Mayor of London. I don’t that Mr Johnson would want the support of someone who advocates copyright theft is beyond me; I’d have expected Staines to be in favour of property rights, but it would seem that does not apply to people he doesn’t like.
One [...]

Guido Fawkes has been blogging lately at some length about Boris Johnson standing to be the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London.
The Conservatives’ website has a news story that reads
Boris Johnson, the Henley MP and former Shadow higher Education Minister, was the last to put his hat in the ring before Monday’s noon deadline for [...]

Vélib is one of the best ideas I’ve heard of in some time. Attention please, Mr Livingstone. Using the equivalent of an Oyster card, you can hire a bike from an automated station around the city and return it to any other station. The first thirty minutes are free.
More information from BBC News and Vélib. [...]

The Conservatives have come up with the idea that families are good and better if they’re married. In their attempt to promote marriage, they have suggested a £20 a week tax break, effectively putting a price on what should be a contract you enter into for love and not financial reward or other convenience.
Aside from [...]

…is that you feel a lot happier about opening the box to repair it. My computer’s RAM went, and having put it together in the first place, it was pretty straightforward to replace it with a new set.
A nice thing about Ubuntu is that it’s very easy to reinstall…
End geekiness.
xD.

I start a new job tomorrow. I’ve had a couple of weeks off, during which I’ve been to my brother’s graduation (a first in physiotherapy from Cardiff, with the highest mark in his year for the final year: 93, where the average was 54) and the wedding of Polina Obolenskaya and Barend Janse van Rensburg. [...]

Apparently, on the way back from Glastonbury, there were problems with the trains and so there was a large group of people waiting in a very muddy field. Some wag started saying it was like a concentration camp - at which point someone in a uniform arrived to tell them that they could get on [...]

My friend Matt Sinclair has pointed me to the Tax Payer’s Alliance blog. I should declare an interest here - I am a taxpayer and no, I don’t just mean VAT.
The latest post is a round-up of recent press coverage that the TPA like. It runs
Hollywood hard-man Bruce Willis interviewed in The Guardian:”Q. Which living [...]