Archive for March, 2009

 

Petition: 10,000 united against the BNP

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Further to my last post on the BNP claiming Jesus’ vote, Searchlight are running a petition on their Hope Not Hate website:
The BNP are preparing a high profile billboard campaign claiming that Jesus Christ would support their policies of racism and hate were He on earth today.
Statements like these – designed to cause offence and [...]

 

Who would Jesus vote for?

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

The BNP think it would be them; they’re running a billboard campaign suggesting that Jesus would vote for the BNP. That’s Jesus Christ – believed by Christians to be the Prince of Peace (Isiaah 9:6) – being used by the BNP – that’s the racist, Nazi, Holocaust-denying, criminal British National Party.
I’m guessing this is coming [...]

 

Twitter Updates for 2009-03-31

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

I forgot to change the time on my wrist watch. I’m still confused. #
CPI Basket: Single cream has been removed in 2009 to be replaced by double cream,although both products represent cream.http://bit.ly/10QDtg #
Hurray for the PM Programme! #
‘If there is a member of the BTP at the station, please go to the control room.’ Not [...]

 

The nine nations of North America by Joel Garreau

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

The thesis of Garreau’s 1981 book, The nine nations of North America, is deceptively simple. Not only, he argues, are the borders between the states of the USA and between that country and Mexico & Canada are artificial constructions – they clearly are – but that they are irrelevant. There are commonly recognised regions with [...]

 

Twitter Updates for 2009-03-30

Monday, March 30th, 2009

It’s so nice that it’s light an hour later. I’d rather have the light in the evening than the morning – farmers in Scotland be damned! #
Grey hair. Right at the front of my head. Bugger. #
No, it’s age that’s making my hair go grey. The hard work is just making it fall out. Not [...]

 

Don’t take tax advice from Iain and Donal

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Iain Dale and Donal Blaney are terribly upset that Jade Goody’s estate is liable for £1.8m inheritance tax on its value of £4m. I wouldn’t take their advice for the minor detail that the liability isn’t £1.8m, but £1,350,400. The sums are below the fold.
Oh, crocodile tears.
Donal refers to the PM as ‘Gordon the grave-robber’ [...]

 

Twitter Updates for 2009-03-29

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

I always end up confused when the clocks change. It jumps straight from 0200 to 0300, doesn’t it? #

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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-28

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

“I’d like to see The Credible Hulk. He’s big, but not that big”. RT from Peter @Serafinowicz #
Viva la Porchetta! #
I’m going to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History this pm. Should be a lot of fun. #

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The Draper-Staines mudfight: Staines won

Friday, March 27th, 2009

I wasn’t going to comment on yesterday’s very unedifying willy-waving contest between Derek ‘Labour List‘ Draper and Paul ‘Guido Fawkes‘ Staines as it was, predictably enough, a deeply unedifying slanging match. Everyone has pointed this out and a few people have pointed out that it did particular damage to political blogging and that we don’t [...]

 

Unionstogether: why we matter

Friday, March 27th, 2009

David Cameron wants the UK to withdraw from the social chapter.
David Cameron wants to scrap the legal guarantee that gives us four weeks paid holiday.
David Cameron wants to scrap the right to be consulted about changes at work.
David Cameron wants to scrap our entitlement to parental leave – denying the legal right for parents to [...]