PC Bloggs explains that the most likely reason that police officers occasionally fail to display their numbers is that they don’t usually have enough numbers to go round all of their numerous changes of kit.
This has for me the ring of true plausibility.
Of course PC Bloggs does not appear to be in one of those [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Caption competition
Posted in LoL, tagged Police on 23 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nightjack wins Orwell Prize
Posted in internet, tagged Orwell Prize on 23 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Nightjack:
My representative at the Orwell Prize Ceremony has just rung me with the news that I have won.
Surprised? Not I. Congratulations to the Writing Detective. He deserves it.
I have a work of fiction to write.
As the assassin fellow says in Total Recall:
“It’s about goddam time!”
Told you so, didn’t I? I did.
Budget Day
Posted in economy, tagged budget on 22 April, 2009 | 10 Comments »
According to everyone, it is Budget Day.
The VW’s fuel tank is full and we have as much stock of baccy and beer as we can afford.
Rather than sit here and observe the finishing touches being put to the wreck of the British economy I am going to the dentist’s for the first instalment of some [...]
Top 5 rock albums
Posted in music, tagged Rock Top 5 on 22 April, 2009 | 5 Comments »
According to Old Holborn, everyone is already doing this, so I am probably late.
Top 5 rock albums:
1 Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Emerson, Lake and Palmer
2 Magma: Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
3 Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
4 Yes (with Patrick Moraz): Relayer
5 Premiata Forneria Marconi: Photos of Ghosts
Pretentious, complicated and classically-based: now that’s what I call [...]
Deviousness award winner: the BBC
Posted in media, tagged bbc on 21 April, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The loyal and ingenious BBC have come up with a new scheme.
Pretending as hard as they can to be ‘concerned’ about CCTV cameras, they asked shortly before the Radio 4 1800 news for people ’sharing’ this ‘concern’ to write in (naturally), giving a description of their route to or from work, school, etc., and the [...]
Wait and see
Posted in libertarianism, tagged LA, lpuk on 21 April, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I note with considerable interest the proposal of David Davis, at the Libertarian Alliance, that (among other things)
…the Libertarian Alliance wishes to see, will henceforth actively work online for, a government administration formed by the LPUK…
I have no idea what the response of the rest of the Libertarian Alliance might be to this proposal, nor [...]
Closed shop
Posted in photography, tagged NUJ on 21 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The British Journal of Photography quotes a Mr. Jeremy Dear of the NUJ as saying:
‘Professional journalists carrying the press card should be free to work without harassment and intimidation.’
Unlike amateurs without press cards, Mr. Dear?
A closed shop, enforced by the police. Every union leader’s wet dream.
These guys are not on our side.
Glitch
Posted in internet on 21 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WordPress is wiggy again. More later, with luck. I think instead I’ll go and visit the baby rats.
Air ‘force’
Posted in defence, tagged availability, Tornado on 21 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I would hate further to disappoint the already depressed Obnoxio the Clown, but personal experience of the merry ways of aeroplanes and the people who look after them suggests strongly to me that if there are a total of twelve Tornado aircraft left to defend Britain then the continuous availability of eight would be an [...]
