Monthly Archives: June 2009

He's not been dead for long, yet…

It had to happen. The conspiracy theories have already started. I don’t think the world will ever get to know what really happened to Michael Jackson.

Two icons leave the earth….

Goodbye Michael, and Farrah. We’ll miss you both.

Published expenses 'censored'

Oh, here we go again!

Our MPs simply don’t get it. What the people want is a complete and open disclosure of their expenses, not more censorship.

Maybe the reason  for this is that the juicy bits may have already been exposed in public, so we’re just been left with the scraps.

The cover-up that is Iraq

An inquiry into the Iraq war will finally be held…. in private. This is disappointing news for those who desperately want to know what lead to the government making the case to invade Iraq in 2003.

What is puzzling is that some of those same MPs who supported the original invasion are backing such a move. This article from Spiked’s website today  points out the clear hypocrisy of their conduct then compared to the present day.

We need a proper independent inquiry, one which is free from political interference, and one which clearly legally holds those current and previous members of the Labour government to account,  and which they are forced to explain and defend their decisions in public.

We shouldn’t stop there. There may be overwhelming evidence that those same politicians, including the former Prime Minister Tony Blair and the current one Gordon Brown, could be tried in court as war criminals. All of them must be summoned and face prosecution, or even prison time. That way, we can then lance this festering boil off the nation’s collective conscience.

Do we really need faster internet?

One of the main talking points of the recently-published Digital Britain report (PDF) was a proposal to impose a 50p a-month levy on every household in the country to fund upgrades to the UK internet service.

But do we really need faster internet access at a time where the existing infrastructure is creaking because of a combination of bad management and government interference?

Any government plan to impose such a levy should be opposed. The telephone and internet companies should foot the whole bill for these upgrades themselves, not by increasing prices, but by actually delivering a service.

Having faster internet access is not a vital issue. The Iraq war inquiry, rising unemployment, swine flu, MPs expenses, poor transport, rising crime and many others are far more important to this country right now. We need to tackle these…. and other basic issues… first.