Those Whom The Gods Would Destroy Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. It's a phrse politicians would do well to remember, especially politicians in the UK Labour party whose obsession with soicialist ideology and creating a fair society has led to their losing touch with reality...
Sex Education Kerfuffle
Sex education in schools is always a provocative topic, on the one hand religious groups think there should be none, on the other the Politically Correct Thought Police believe there should be lots, with practical demonstrations. And what can government officials do when caught between the two sides? Turn somersaults?
Just Drive
Drinking coffee, reading a newspaper or book, playing sudoku, putting on make up, surfing the web, shagging, you'd be surprised what some people get up to while drtiving their cars.
The World's Strongest Beer
So what is the world's strongest beer? Carlsberg Special Brew, Tennants Super, HSL which is a kind of Ace for the seriously brain damaged? For those not in the know about beer or Viz characters Ace, a weak, cheap beer best drunk when fortified with barbecue starter, is the poison of choice for Octavius Tinsworth (Eight) Ace. Well wrong, wrong and wrong. The strongest beer in the world now is Sink The Bismarck at 41% Alcohol By Volume from Brew Dog brewery in Aberdeen...
Is Iran Becoming A Military Dictatorship?
If there is one thing we love doing at the Daily Srirrer it is to predict the news months ahead of when it happens. As U.S. Secretary of Stare Hillary Clinton warns that Iran is on the way to becoming an Islamic Military Dictatorhip we can again say 'told you so,' because we predicted last summer this would be the outcome of Barack Obama's meddling in Iran's domestic affairs.
Labour's Orwellian Tendency Out Of The Closet.
In the dying days of Gordon Brown's government labour's "ministry of truth" propaganda managers are becoming more and more desperate to frighten us off voting for anybody else and thus the authoritarian tendencies of The Labour Party are coming furher and further out of the closet...
Never Mix Science And Politics.
When Prof. David Nutt the Labour government's chief scientific adiser on drug misuse and related health problems openly criticized government policy on drugs his resignation was inevitable. Prof Nutt was not wrong in what he said and we're no fans of politicians but there is more than pure science to considr when making political policy.
SATS - The Science Of Dumbing Down
The government and education academics have been obsessing about SATS tests for a long time, believing intelligence can be measured by examination results. All this pseudo - scientific bullshit has achieved is a meaurable dumbing down through a teaching to test mentality in which exam results give a false impression of school leavers intelligence.
Teaching English As A Native Language
Teaching English as a foreign language has always been recognised as a speciality in education. But has English become so difficult that teachers are now having difficulty teaching it to those born as native speakers of the language. Is this because there is too much academic bullshit and not enough good teaching in the education system.
Robin Hood Tax
As the sycophantic Gordon Brown busies himself telling the world "universal support is growing" for Barack Obama's idiotic notion of a "Robin Hood Tax", a levy on financial transactions "to help the poor." Obma along with fan in chief Brown and all his other delusional worshippers of the Progressive Left are forgetting if the plan does not have ...
Two Left Feet
We are told we must trust healthcare professionals although after the swine flu fisaco it is not going to be easy for the medical authorities to win back public trust. And stories like this one of an amputee who was given two left feet by a prosthetics "expert" will not help the cause.
Our Car Of The Year - The Toyota Scadenfreude
It turns out their much hyped Prius, the car of choice for the kind of B list celebrity who likes to talk publicly of how green they are but when they have to go anywhere hire a chauffeur driven limo, as well as not being very reliable is not very green. Scroll down to read how the green credentials of the Toyota Prius fall short of the target...
Smack in the gob for supernatural sceptics
Isn't it annoying when you are having a bit of fun talking about ghosts, monsters, hairy beasties and such and some twat announces he's a scientist and starts talking as if you are stupid and believe all that stuff. Well here's a monster story that will leave such people gobsmacked
Former Government Adviser Condemns Green Scaremongering.
Some people accuse The Daily Stirrer of being anti - science. This is not so, we are simply endowed with a healthy scepticism about all things. Thus the trend among people who like to label themseves "scientists" to brush aside criticism from highly educated and well informed individuals outside their specialist field by saying "You're not a scientists, you don't understand science," arouses deep suspicion. We are rght to be sceptical and suspicious ...
A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing
It was the poet Alexander Pope who coined the phrase 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing'. Pope had no idea how true his words would become in a world where anyone can get a qualification in anything and people can sret up in business as tree surgeons without having to know anything about trees.
Labour's Minimum Wage Scam
When you hear of a Conservative politician praising Labour for creating a 'flexible job market' that benefits British employers it does not ring true. What Lord Freud was really praising the government for was letting bosses screw their workers by turning a full time job into a part time job. Not the sort of jobs policy you expect from Labour but we're always said they are more Tory than the Tories.
Authoritarian Box Ticking Culture.
by Ian R. Thorpe
Among the things that have alienated people from the Labour party apart from generakl incompetence, is their arrogant and patronising conviction the public are resady to believe anything the government tells them so long as it is dressed up in statistics and delivered by some fresh faced, smooth talking Labour spinmeister. It is very like the authoritarian regime of Orwell's 1984
Teen Binge Drinking Crisis
Politicians, medical experts and church leaders here in Britain are panicking about the binge drinking antics of teenagers. All around the country young people are getting rat-arsed and behaving in an offensive and embarrassing way. I've read things are pretty much the same in the other English speaking nations so we must wonder is something going on, is there some social trend that is...
A Little Bit Of Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing
by fatsally
I know times are hard and people are setting themselves up as small businesses and that is all well and good, much better to work than to get depressed being fucked about by the Jobcentre, but you'd think people would...
Change You Can't Believe In
by James Dahlberg
For his first contribution to The Daily Stirrer James looks at how the popularity of Barack Obama, the Yes We Can" man has collapsed from the record levels seen right after his inauguration as President to the latest polls that make him the most unpopular president ever after a year in office. The economy, unemployment, the disatrous health reform bill and weakness on foreign polcy have played a big part but how much is due to the failings of man himself.
Massive Overdose Protest
by Ian R. Thorpe
Te Merseyside Skeptics Society (or more accurately the selective Skeptics Society as they only seem to be skeptical about what it is fashionable to be skeptical about) are going to protest about homeopathy today by gathering outside Boots Chemist, Liverpool and taking massive overdoses of homeopathic remedies...Right, who gives a shit, but this is a very funny post on the irrationality of the protesters without supporting homeopathy Homeopathy: Massive Overdose Protest
Poverty: Labour Succeeds Where Thatcher Failed.
At last, a success New Labour can claim as their own. Under the party's rule over the past twelve years the gap between rich and poor in Britain has gone bak to the level of 50 years ago. We get a view from the MP for Rawtenborough since 1832 Hector Gobbett - Broadsides on what this means for unemployment, the revovery and the election prospects of conservative and labour... [ Ian at Authorsden ]
Keep Health Out Of Politics
Have those government sponsored health scares about fats, alocohol, chocolate and ciggies ever got up your nose? No? They would if you knew the special advisors dreamed them up over brandy and cigars after a jolly good lunch.
The Truth About The Economy, Crime And Everything Else.
by Ian R Thorpe
2010-01-26
The Labour government has been telling lies again, about unemployment, the economy, education, and crimes. And they are really really angry that us ungrateful oiks refuse the believe the official statistics that prove what a good job the government is doing.[ Greenteeth Blogs: [Greenteeth at Yahoo ] ... [ Boggart Network News ] ... [ Boggart Abroad ]
Snack Science Reveals Unsuspected Crocodile Intelligence
Recently we have reported extensively on mouse related science involving the use of snacks to get mice to behave in ways that appear intelligent to scientists. We have confined ourselves to reporting projects involving mice and snacks only while important work has been going on involving crocodiles and the science of snacks.
Quis Custodiat Custodes (Who watches the watchers)
Living in the surveillsance society. Governments keep announcing plans to increase the surveillance ability of security forces, the latest outrage being the proposal that military drones of the kind used to kill civilians in Afghnistan and Pakistan be deployed to overfly British cities taking high definition photos of everyday life.
Diabetic, Unconscious and Dangerous
We live in dangerous times but when the anti - terror squad are called to deal with comatose diabetic of mass destruction we have to wonder what kind of world we live in. Diabetes is a terrible thing in mant ways but it is not, to the best of our knowledge, likely to make people explode in public places
Mouse Science Reinvents The Wheel (Again)
Scientists love to reinvent the wheel and if it involves mouse related research, even better. Here's our take on a project involving science, mice, snacks and a wheel to prove exercise makes humans more intelligent. So how much running does Setphen Hawking do?
Willy Wonka-Kraft Lands On Cadbury Chocolate Factory
The takeover of British Chocolate Maker Cadbury by American cheese into plastic food processor Kraft has gone through. But how will it affect our favourite treats. Boggart Blog's fatsally speculates...
Money Fruit
When we were young we were all told Money dies not grow on trees. The message did not get through to gordon brown however. His lastest insane spending plan is to give free computers to the needy...
Millions of Americans Are Giving Up Looking For Work (and things are just as bad in Britain)
News that many unemployed Americans are simply giving up looking for job openings and resigning themselves to long term unemployment should come as no surprise in Britain where the number of real jobs in the economy has been blatantly massaged by creation of public sector vacancies, closure of many careers to people without Uiversity degrees and the policy of pushing people into higher education.
BBC Weathermen To Be Sacked?
News that BBC weathermen may be sacked for always getting the weather forecast wrong is wecome. This unfortunate breed of humans are an example of what happens when scientists become besotted with their science and lose contact with reality. Weather forecasts are not that big a deal but when the arseoles cannot correctly tell us what the weather is like outside by looking through the window we have to ak are they worth their salary
Science Can Seriously Damage Your Mental Health
Do you get pissed off with all those reports issued by scientists about how the food you eat or lifestyle choices can damage your health. The thing is whatever on scientific report says be it on diet, drink or drugs, the next one is sure to contradict it. Well now Boggart Blog Central has produced a report of our own. We did not look at diet related factors, drugs of choice or alcohol comsumption Our scientists' work reveals too much science can turn you into a mentalist.
Privatise The Profit - Nationalise The Losses.
Governments and politicians of all shades like to talk of gbeing fair, equal opportunities for all, an aspirational society with upward social mobility. How does that equate though to the fact that for many years taxpayers will be paying interest on money borrowed from China and India in order to bail out our failed banks and financial insitutions. Being unfair to the rest of us so they can be fair to the bankers who got right by stealing from ordinary people does not equate to equal opportunity in our view
Pigeon Racing - Sport Or Business
Breaking news, pigeon racing, the favourite hobby of many working class men for generation is to be downgraded in status from a sport to a leisure activity. We interviewed two raging pigeons, old timer Percy Feathers now enjoying a well earned retirement and rising star Jason Woodcock who represents the new celebrity culture of the pigeon racing world...
Spunky Internet Entrepreneurs
There is nothing you can't buy on the internet these days. Several online entrepreneurs will even offer a DIY artificial insemination kit comprising a turkey baster and a shot of sperm. CAll us old fashioned if you like but we thinkhere's a lot to be said for the traditional way of making babies. Still, for the young woman in a hurry......
Frightening Lack Of Imagination And Merit
While we old dinosaurs at Boggart Blog and The Daily Stirrer grump and grumble about bogus science (stopping mice getting alzheimers disease by giving them mobile phones for example) in fact the creation of useless science projects is linked to the work of another government department that is in the forefront of creating jobs to drive the economic recovery, the Ministry of DOISBUM...
The Jobless Economy
Politicians, economists and others with an interest in talking up the economy to get us all spending and taking on debt and mortgage loans again may rave about recovery. With our industrial base so depleted where will the jobs come from that we need to lead a recovery?" They may call it fiscal prudence, we call it loonytoons economics...
12 January 2010
Politicians Just Don't Get It About Change
Why do politicians keep banging on about change when it is clear people do not want change. Talk of change will not win the election for Labour or Conservative, the electorate are sick of change, they want security.
Survivors: Gordon Brown Cancels Election, Declares State Of EmergencyAs a new series of the television science fiction drama Survivors begins we can't help but look at our increasingly chaotic, catastrophic, dystopic world where fear and panic rules and wonder is the show a post apocalyptic drama or a lightweight domestic sit - com?
11-Jan-10
What Are You, Man Or Mouse?
What should we make of a claim by scientists in South America that they have grown human sperm in mice? Ought we to be amazed at the brilliance of scientists and the advances in medical science or should we say WTF? What will they think of to waste taxpayers money on next?
9 January '10
More Demented Mouse Science
What we love most about scientists is that like religious fanatics they are totally unable to give up titally6 bonkers ideas. One such is the notion that making mice bhave in innatural ways will teadh us something about human health problems like Alzheimer's disease...
8 January '10. Science - Who To Believe
We are all aware of how the climate change scientists kept insisting in response to anybody who pointed out their sums did not add up that "the science is settled", resistance is futile. It has had theeffect of making most people a lot more sceptial about science and...
7 January '10.
Human Mothers To Bear Intelligent Mice?
A new science reports tells us parents who want to have brighter babies should make sure the mother easts plenty of fried food during pregnancy. Problem is the method has only been tested on mice.
The Ship of Dead Dreams. (The Fate of X-Factor Losers)
The X Factor ended another run in December, the winner had a hit record, No 2 in the pop music charts, the other finalists up will get their moment or fifteen as the show goes on tour but what of the rest. For them the New Year is a ship of dead dreams.
The Craziest Doomsday Cult Ever?
America is known as the spiritual home of crackpot religions. There are hundreds of tree worshipping churches, people who pull snakes out of each others' arses, Old Testament goat shaggers and post modernist computer worshippers. People seem to be so needful any control freak with a world domination complex can set up a religion or cult, find some followers who will hail this person as the prophet of their faith, lead the poor saps into the mountains or desert and turn formerly straightlaced people into enthusiastic Jesus loving debauchees. And so long as they invoke God or Jesus often enough nobody seems to mind. They are a bit more suspicious of Hindu's Buddhists, Pagans and other no Abrahamic belief systems. At least not until the kool aid has been handed round and it is all too late...
Things Are Getting Weirder On Planet Guardian.
It is three weeks since the Daily Stirrer editor cancelled his subscription to the Guardian newspaper. The paper, once famed for its independence and unbiased reporting has recently fallen into the trap of mixing opinion and comment with factual news. This is most noticable in reporting politics or science and technology....
Interesting Times - Which Way Will The Global Economic Crisis Go In 2010?
Which way will the economic crisis go in 2010? Cracks are apearing in the Europen Single Currency scheme and China which has massive holdings of US treasury bonds is making unhappy noises about the dececits being run up by the Obama administration as they pursue loonytoons economic policies....
Just Say Grace by Esther S.
Amongst other things The Daily Stirrer is dedicated to highlighting the idiocies of poltically ncorrrect thinking in public services. Today a guest writer, Esther S. from Texas tells us of a situation in her own family in which politically correct policies and a refusal to considere real evidence have combined to create an injustice. The Grace whose name appears in the title is no angel but she is not a child abuser and even if she did...
31 December 2009
Fondue Of Terror
The war on terror could be coming to a suburban living room near you very soon as new food related weapons of mass destruction are developed by Al Qaeda. Boggart Blog has already reported on dangerous cheese, exploding gravy, sauces of fear and panic and the soup of death. But now we must bring news of a worse threat.
28 December 2009
The Little Cellphone - A Christmas Story
What happens to all those cellphones that have given loyal and efficient servive only to be abandoned to their fate at Christmas when a newer model with more bells and whistles, apps and software widgets replaces them
What Am I Bid For The Gold Plated Dog Turd
Boggart Blog reports in its usual inimitable style on the auctioning off of various heavy metal tat from the redundant Hollywood home of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne...
23 December 2009
Join The Christmas Resistance
Ever felt like asking yourself what this annual insanity called Christmas is all about and then taking yourself off to a Buddhist monastic retreat from December 21st to Jan 6th thus letting Christmas pass you by completely? More and more people are rejecting the idea that we can all be happy if we buy loads of stuff we do not need, will never use and after it has cluttered up our living space for a year will throw out just before next Christmas to make way for next year's Christmas tat? If you have you are not alone. Welcome to the Christmas Resistance.
link url: Join The Christmas Resistance
Defying the Tyranny of Consumer Christmas
Manipulation is everywhere from the X Factor to Christmas, media hype is the tool that influences the sheeple to think what their masters want them to think. The careers of people as diverse as Michael Jackson and Barack Obama as well as the political success of Tony Blair are all built on nothing more substantial than spin. Repeat the lie often enough, that Michael Jackson is the most talented performer ever, that Barack Obama represents the dawn of a new era in politics, that Saddam posed a threat to the west, and enough people will believe it. So what can you do to regain your freedom. You can start by resisting the tyranny of the consumer Christmas
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A Child Is Born On The Bog
The people who run television channels have a weird idea of what will entertain us at Christmas. Or do thhey perhaps understand better than we do that what the public wants amid all the Bacchanialian feasting and Lupercanian unsrestrained shagging of the modern Christmas festival what we really want is Roman Circuses?...
A Child Is Born On The Bog
January Is Getting Earlier Each Year
Maybe it is we who are getting older but it seems while Chistmas lasts longer, January comes a little earlier each year...
January Getting Earlier
22 December 2009
Climate Change:How Much Blame Must Science Take?
After the Copenhagen climate summit failed to agree a plan of action to combat climate change the science lobby have been quick to blame capitalism, business, politicians and the public. But a critical and objective analysis reveals there is oly one culprit. Science alone is to blame.
21 - December 2009
Cheque In To A Future Of Medieval Serfdom
