Baccy growing experiments
Just before we reach the end of Octabber I thought it about time to post a short summary of my Tobacco production experiments so far this year. I entirely blame the inestimable LegIron for this...
View ArticleA tale of two walks – pt 1.
So November the 5th rolled round again and I went for a gentle stroll around Westminster, a whole bunch more people went for a march later as well – I’ll get to them later. As has become traditional I...
View ArticleA tale of two walks – pt 2
It’s taken me a while to get back to this, but as promised previously here’s an account of the gathering of the “Million mask march” which took place later in the evening on the 5th. I first became...
View ArticleLast week else where
I may yet get the hang of this, now just to actually do this at the start of the week and I might begin to look like a proper blogger. Mark reckons he’s leaving the LibDems and with good reason The EU...
View ArticleThe security Jobsworths
For those of you that are regular readers you may remember the other day when I went for little walk, that the police took interest in my interest in the various security features around Westminster....
View ArticleWhitby floods
It hasn’t made much news but Whitby has recently experienced rather a bit of flooding leaving quite a few people with homes far less habitable than they previously have been. Given Scarborough councils...
View ArticleCrime and policing bill reaches the Lords
Quite a while back I wrote about the crime and policing bill, this horrendous piece of legislation has finally reached the Lords. None of the political parties sitting in Westminster are kicking up...
View ArticleUKIP, UAF and reporting
Yesterday UKIP had a rally in central London and the UAF protested it, as apparently they think that UKIP are a racist and fascist party. Normally I don’t go to part political meetings and in fact...
View ArticleUnspeakable – Laurie Penny
This isn’t about Ms.Penny’s latest tome, nor am I going to comment about someone who has protested Amazon having legal tax set ups selling their wares via the same company *. Rather I’ve found the...
View ArticleSelective memory at bexley council
This is slightly old news but I just found out about it from Bexley Councils shiny propaganda sheet. Some of you may recall that Olly Cromwell got into trouble for trying to film the council so much so...
View ArticleWell meaning but…
I work in IT and I’m sure I’ve made decisions that have puzzled people or made them wonder what sort of special idiot I am. Fortunately for me most of what I’ve done hasn’t really had significant real...
View ArticleGreenpeace enviromental vandals
I’ve written about Greenpeace before and it’s safe to say I’m not their greatest fan. However their latest self serving publicity stunt is a whole new level of stupid even for them. To “send a message”...
View ArticleGreenpeace vandalism follow up
Since Greenpeaces wanton vandalism of the Nazca lines the increasing coverage and anger has forced even apologists like the Guardian have back tracked. Greenpeace have apologised sort of, they aren’t...
View ArticleFacebook blackout day
Recently Facebook started enforcing its real names policy, in a particularly cack handed fashion. Facebook has for an awfully long time had an “authenticate name policy. It’s a slightly confused policy...
View ArticleJe Suis Charlie
I was meaning to write an article this week to join in the general condemnation of the calls for Katie Hopkins to be arrested over a tweet. For anyone who believes in free speech the idea that you...
View ArticleThe perils of jazz hands #nuswomen15
The NUS Women’s Conference has caused a bit of a stir on twitter recently. The conference could well have gone unnoticed as many of these things do except they were using Twitter as though it were a...
View ArticleStraight men can’t wear dresses #NUSWomen15
I honestly thought that the Yesterdays article would be all I had to say about the NUS Womens conference – it’s certainly more than I really wanted to write. I’d actually stopped following the...
View ArticleMillion mask march
So I gather from the news that Anonymous are back in Trafalgar Square having some sort of anti-capitalist shindig. Whilst the million mask web site suggests it had something to do with freedom of...
View ArticleA tale of two trains
Yesterday a man was deliberately pushed under a tube train at Kentish town station and thankfully a man has been arrested in relation to this. This was reported in the news, but if you look on twitter...
View ArticleNot really news and God willing never will be
In amongst all the news stories about the floods, the papers are reporting some really quite sterling work being done to help those affected by the floods by many members of the community and all sorts...
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