It appears, from an article by Ian Parker-Joseph, that
Alan Duncan, the UK’s first openly-homosexual Conservative politician and the Shadow Leader of the House of Commons is rebuffing criticism for saying on a comedy show that he would kill Miss California, Carrie Prejean, for her remarks against homosexual “marriage”… The Metropolitan Police have received [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Oh, for pity’s sake, shut up, the lot of you
Posted in religion, tagged gay marriage on 30 April, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Can’t have it both ways
Posted in tyranny, tagged ID cards, internal passports on 29 April, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Longrider reports that rather than have ID cards, the remarkable Mr. Blunkett now prefers the idea of internal passports (like in the old USSR). I assume that one has to carry one’s passport all the time.
Unless, of course, one’s name is Pudsey Bear, who is evidently too frivolous to be allowed a passport at all.
To [...]
Cock-up
Posted in Admin, tagged Errata on 28 April, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Overwhelmed by mere vanity, I forgot the link. Obliged to Counting Cats in Zanzibar. Also I cocked up the source: it was ill and ancient (now added to things).
I am late. More, perhaps, even later.
Living proof
Posted in internet, tagged blogging, libertarians on 28 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m back, though there will be a crisp minimalism to proceedings while I catch up with everything else.
Oh, the irony.
Brian Micklethwait did a list of libertarian bloggers. I wasn’t on it.
Then Liberty or Dearth did the same thing again, this time with computer assistance, four-part harmony and feeling.
On LOD’s list I came out at no. [...]
Off
Posted in Admin, tagged absence on 25 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blogging will be off for a while owing to the usual things. Were it to be owing to something unusual, I should doubtless say so.
Resign! Resign!
Posted in Politics, tagged Brown, petition, resign on 25 April, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I don’t do online petitions either, but I did this one.
When I did so more than 5000 people had signed it.
More = merrier.
Gurkhas: here we go again
Posted in Army, tagged ghurkas on 24 April, 2009 | 5 Comments »
ITN reports yet another devious, shameful and globally humiliating measure on the part of the government to exclude from residency in the UK members of the Brigade of Ghurkas.
There is such a marked discrepancy between the government’s treatment of these fine soldiers and its treatment of those very much less deserving of residence here that [...]
Two anniversaries on a blog, early afternoon (attribution dubious)
Posted in British, tagged Shakespeare, St. George on 23 April, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Nostalgic reminiscences from Anna Raccoon:
Time was when every man, woman, and child could have told you … that today was Shakespeare’s birthday, and St George’s Day, patron saint of England.
Just to vary the somewhat overly flaggy theme, this is the insignia of the St. George Society:
Provided by the patriotically irrepressible Herstmonceux Castle, to whom I [...]
Two campaigns on a blog, late morning, 2009 (digital media)
Posted in Campaigns, tagged Red Friday, Shirts on 23 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two campaigns:
First, the sending of the shirt from off one’s back to Gordon Brown, proposed by Old Holborn and seconded by everyone*;
Second, the Red Friday campaign recently proposed (or reported as having been proposed) by Andy at Adur Brewery (you see, it does work!).
Andy says:
I’ve got very mixed feelings about the wars in Iraq and [...]
Drink Me
Posted in British, tagged Adur Brewery, Nanny-baiting on 23 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am most chuffed by a remark in the comments from adwelly, at the really-ought-to-be-famous Adur Brewery (got the RSS to work now), who said:
…we are about to do a beer label along the lines you suggested just after Christmas.
This all arose from some element of the diabolical Nanny State interfering, or at least attempting [...]
