Leave Sir Fred the fuck alone

Sir Fred Goodwin – or Fred the Shred as he has so wittily been christened by certain sections of the media – has been in the news a lot lately and, quite frankly, it’s pissing me off a bit.
It’s not because he’s managed to trouser a £16 million pension pot with the aid, so it [...]

Prison buggery and open source software

So Lord Ahmed is now slopping out and trying to avoid the common incarceration game of ‘hide the salami’ – although as that’s a pork comestible I doubt that will be served up to his Conship somehow…
That’s not a very PC thing to say, I know, but hey – Hazel Blears wants us all to [...]

Whoa!

We can help the failing UK banking sector to the eventual tune of £1.3 trillion but we can’t spare a poxy £30 million to save 6000 jobs with the van manufacturers LDV?
The bankers’ bonuses of £340 million that the taxpayer is now funding at RBS would pay this paltry amount and leave plenty over.
Talk about [...]

Gordon’s crystal balls

FFS…
We now have a new government web site that’s going to save all our sorry asses.
It’s called realhelpnow.gov.uk.
I gather from sources close to Number 10 that the first choice of name was howthefuckcanwegetre-elected?.gov.uk but it was rejected as it had too many letters for the average net user to cope with…
Here’s the preamble to get [...]

Ignorant parents

Just when you thought you’d come across most aspects and examples of ignorance something like this comes along…
Essentially, there seems to be a rather loose campaign amongst some parents to get a one-armed TV presenter off our screens because they claim she’s scaring their children.
I can only assume by such intolerant, pathetic and offensive attitudes [...]

Tory bullshit

It may be naïve of me, but I assumed that with a General Election not too far away the Tories might wheel out a few ideas that would set them apart from Labour.
This story would suggest otherwise.

Tories may ‘ground’ troublemakers
Young troublemakers could be confined to their homes, outside school hours, for a month under [...]

More shit you couldn’t make up

Yes everything, including common sense, goes straight out the fucking window…
It’s not often that you read a story in the news that has it all – drama, slapstick, police forensic prodedures, terrorist attacks, Parliament, bathos, pathos, Aramis, d’Ar-fucking-tagnan – or that touches on the zeitgeist so readily – terror, paranoia, insecurity, health anxieties, delusion, folly [...]

A tale of 3 women

Labour seems to have gone to ratshit very quickly in a couple of days and I can’t say much of it gives me any hope whatsoever for the future…
There’s Jacqui Smith about to be asked to justify her expenses claim on her homes – I’m not too upset about that.

“I’m grinning like a shithouse rat [...]

Mine’s a Guinness!

This, apparently, is how to tell if the beer you’re drinking is American made.
A whole bleedin’ page of it.
Rather redundant, I’d say.
My method is far simpler.
If it’s very pale and tastes like ice cold piss then it’s American made…

Nonsense

The recent interview of ex-MI5 head Stella Rimington got me thinking further about the erosion of our civil liberties brought about by our present government.
One of the questions I found myself asking was, ‘When should we have taken the threat to these liberties seriously?’
Then I remembered Walter Wolfgang.
In brief:
Walter Julius Wolfgang (born June 1923) is [...]