Dizzy Thinks has an interesting post this morning on the travesty of justice that is the CPS decision not to prosecute a policeman for causing the death (according to the evidence of two out of three experts) of an innocent, if intoxicated, bystander at the G8 protests a couple of years back. He goes through [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Why The CPS Is, Unfortunately, Wrong
Posted in cps, keir starmer, Law, Legal, police on 23/07/2010 | 3 Comments »
Brown vs Cameron: The Contrast
Posted in Blair, Brown, cameron, Obama, US, where's wally on 20/07/2010 | 2 Comments »
There’s Dave… Sky News’ Jon Craig has posted an interesting piece on the latest Brown-sighting this evening. After Cameron’s highly adroit – even deft – performance in the US, it’s becoming pretty clear that, in absolute fact, Britain is far better off, both at home and abroad, now that she is finally being represented by [...]
Blair To Blame For Brown
Posted in balls, Blair, Brown, burnham, diane abbott, Labour, leadership, leadership election, lies, mandelson, milibands on 18/07/2010 | 3 Comments »
Quite aside from all his other disastrous decisions, mainly on foreign policy, it seems perfectly fair to me that Blair be blamed for not seeing while he was Prime Minister that Britain wasn’t saddled with a successor he himself thought was unfit to govern. This is, according to Andrew Rawnsley in his extraordinarily excoriating assault [...]
Brian Clough: What A Legend
Posted in bbc, brian clough, broken britain, football, society on 17/07/2010 | 2 Comments »
Just watch this video and realise that not only does English football urgently need a man like Brian Clough, British public life generally does too. A sense of fair play, a respect for authority, a deep understanding of genuine priorities – what’s really important (like taking the initiative when someone’s being an idiot and stopping [...]
Hunt Declares War On The BBC
Posted in bbc, bias, conservatives, licence fee, reform, waste on 16/07/2010 | 4 Comments »
Not a moment too soon it actually looks like the BBC’s cosy world of unaccountability, an appallingly cavalier attitude to income it does not earn but extorts from the general public for whom it has constantly shown nothing but contempt in recent years, and a severe political bias that has penetrated every level of the [...]
Inside the Bunker
Posted in Blair, Brown, bunker, campaigning conservatives, coalition, iain martin, insane, Labour, prime minister on 16/07/2010 | 4 Comments »
Iain Martin has provided, presumably from his sources inside the civil service, a fascinating and chilling insight into Brown’s autocratic, paranoid and hopeless (mis)management of day-to-day Prime Ministerial business. If you haven’t already read it, click through here. It will take a lot of effort to work out just how much damage three years (or [...]
Mandelson Spins His Own Memoirs
Posted in Labour, lies, mandelson, memoirs, spin on 15/07/2010 | Leave a Comment »
New Labour Spin Twins: currently out-lying each other Hardly surprising, I know, but since they have not been entirely well-received by his own party it was necessary for Mandelson to spin his memoirs for all he was worth upon their publication today in the face of what I predict will be pretty poor sales – [...]
Badger Culling Doesn’t Work
Posted in agriculture, environment, farming, health, liberal democrats, pembrokeshire, peter black am, wales on 14/07/2010 | 3 Comments »
Not guilty! Farmers today have described the suspension of the cull of Pembrokeshire’s badger population, ostensibly to combat bovine TB, as a ‘disaster for farming’, according to this report. I’m sorry but I just do not for one moment buy that. The link between bovine TB and badgers is merely accepted wisdom based on, at [...]
We Need Troops In Afghanistan, Not Just Timetables
Posted in afghanistan, armed forces, army, Brown, coalition, insurgency, Labour, liam fox, military on 14/07/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mission accomplished? Hardly I must say, I’m afraid I found Liam Fox’s explanations and justifications for the combat drawdown timetable in Afghanistan on Radio 4 this morning rather unconvincing. At one point he started to remind me of various Labour defence ministers (you can pick one) in his attempts to service the argument that the [...]
Another Day, Another BBC Online Pro-Labour Report
Posted in balls, bbc, bias, corruption, government, Labour, michael gove, schools, waste on 13/07/2010 | 6 Comments »
200K London Superhead? Yer ‘avin a larf in’t ya? I know, I know – if you wanted to read about how bad the BBC is, you’d make your way to the first rate “Biased BBC” blog. But I just can’t help it, mainly because every day with relentless regularity, the BBC – particularly its online [...]
