Archive for May, 2009
Stupid newspaper columnist 'defends' MPs
In all the continuing public and media revulsion over our MPs’ expenses, one newspaper columnist wrote this nonsense in today’s Guardian defending them. Joan Smith whines on about how politicians have been treated in this crisis. Claiming to ‘have a partner and friends who are MPs’, she said: “It doesn’t matter whether you’re a minor [...]
Premiership ups and downs (Part Two)
At the end of the current football season, Newcastle United and Middlesbrough were relegated along with already-down West Brom from the Premiership. Sunderland and Hull City stay up. Meanwhile, Wolves, and Birmingham City are promoted, as well as Burnley, who return to the top flight after 33 years, after beating Sheffield Utd 1-0 in the [...]
More on the expenses scandal
The civil servant who helped leak the MPs expenses to the press said that he didn’t have any regrets about releasing the information. John Wick had also told the BBC that after the revelations, ‘Parliament will be a better place, society will be a better place’. I’m not so sure about this. Meanwhile, one Conservative [...]
Who's afraid of the BNP?
Every election time, commentators and political activists constantly warn of the threat of one party being on a verge of a breakthrough… that party being, of course, the British National Party. What is it about the BNP which brings out anger and delight in equal measure? Maybe it is because, unlike the mainstream parties, they [...]
England bids to hold Football World Cup in 2018
I see that there is going to be a bid for the 2018 World Cup tournament to be held in England. Why? England won it in 1966 on home soil… and it has been hanging like a noose around the country’s neck ever since. We are already struggling financially in trying to get to grips [...]
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