Aesthetically unsuitable

This silly story from the BBC, via the Ambush Predator:
Street names for new roads in an East Sussex town such as “Hoare Road” and “Typple Avenue” are to be banned…the district council cabinet… said names “capable of deliberate misinterpretation” are to be avoided… “Aesthetically unsuitable” names… must also be avoided…
Oh, for crying out loud!
The [...]

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The play’s the thing

It says in the Times that St. Obama is going to use the late A. Lincoln’s Bible for his ceremonial oath of office. Apparently he regards Lincoln as a rôle-model.
The late Sir Arthur C. Clarke, in 2010, offered by way of an American character the following:
Lincoln? Goddam! Every time a President’s gonna get us into [...]

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It’s done it again

I have just had another lengthy draft discarded by WordPress because I tried to preview it. There is no point in complaining because they certainly won’t fix it; they have just posted a self-congratulatory piece about their ‘improvements’.
I have had enough and am taking the rest of the day off, having by now had well [...]

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“…and they were armed…”

Once again the police are made to look foolish (and ignorant) by a combination of their own box-ticking procedures and the effects of years of brainwashing (h/t: Ambush Predator).
Someone was so frightened by a pair of poppy-sellers (this is apparently quite true) that they called the police.
The police know perfectly well that if they don’t [...]

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“Even if you are badly damaged, keep going.”

The Times announces a new police power to conduct random breath tests.
At present, police can test drivers only in three circumstances: after a collision, after a traffic offence or when they have “reasonable suspicion” that a person is drink-driving.
Some forces, including North Wales, interpret “reasonable suspicion” more broadly than others and set up roadblocks to [...]

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Nice one, Jan

From PJC Journal, reference to the success of a new German ‘eurocritical’ party, with the remark
People in the UK have just got to stop watching soaps and drinking the tap water, then maybe they too will wake up, snap out of their apathy and start fighting back.
Wishful thinking, in my humble opinion. However, I applaud [...]

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Don’t touch that dial

Being one of those deplorably macho types who has an Army-looking watch and sets it regularly, I put on Radio 4 shortly before what I hoped might be a time signal.
There was this old dear waffling on. It was about how we should all be cheerful despite the prospect of economic collapse because Britain still [...]

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Black street gangs

Nightjack, on the subject of the race-relations industry; its cost, its corruption, and its apparently complete ineffectiveness in dealing with black street gangs. It is from the mouth of the horse.
I am so absurdly old now that every time someone mentions Black Gangs I am very sorry to have to admit that I tend to [...]

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Longrider on CCTV

Longrider differs with Neil Harding on the subject of CCTV.
He says:
For the stupid, the obtuse and the plain authoritarian, the difference between the amateur photographer snapping a crowd scene and the state monitoring of the public is one of intent.
I disagree. I am an amateur (no longer paid as a pro). My last posting made [...]

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Halfwit journalists

I am a former private pilot. I still have the licence, but the requisite medical certificate will never be renewed.
Today there was an air accident involving a mid-air collision between two aircraft. One was a twin-engined type widely described as a ‘Cessna 407′. The other, which is reported to have disintegrated, seems to have been [...]

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