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2009-11-30
Learning To Grow Hashish At College

by ianrthorpe

It had to happen, there have been courses available in subjects such as Klingon studies, the Jedi Philosophy and...

2009-11-29 Cockermouth and Penistone - Not A Scary Willy Story
by fatsally

Today, for the first time ever, the towns of Cockermouth in Cumbria and Penistone in Yorkshire are united, being mentioned in the same article by....

Exclusive: Pebbles Wants To Move
by fatsally
2009-11-28

You will all have had your memories refreshed regarding SuBo of Britain's got an X Factor, as her debut album has gone straight to number one with the highest...

Golf and Marriage are Dangerous Games.
by ianrthorpe
2009-11-28

Golf and marriage may seem to have little in common but they are in fact both very dangerous games. In golf you can easily lose your ball and in marriage a man may easily lose his balls both...

2009-11-27
A Job For The Boys: Lap Dance Researcher.
by ianrthorpe

The University of Leeds School of Social Science is advertising for a researcher to undertake research into "The rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption in the

2009-11-26
Harrassed In The Hindu Kush
by ianrthorpe

Barack Obama is rehearsing the speech in which he will tell the American due to the brilliant success of his stategy he can now announce

2009-11-25
If Ali G met Belle De Jour
ianrthorpe

In her first press interview since outing herself as the real Belle De Jour, research scientist Dr. Brooke Magnati who used earnings from prostitution to fund her...

2009-11-25
The Strictly General X Factor Celebrity Election
by fatsally

In the previous post Ian wonders how much lower reality television can sink, likening it to the Roman circus, with the public lapping up the ritual humiliation invoked by progs such as I'm a desperate-attention-seeking-has-been-who's-bit-hard-up-for-cash-and-daytime-chat-show-offers, LOOK AT ME...
READ ALL The Strictly General X Factor Celebrity Election

2009-11-24
Bread And Circuses TV (more reality from the celebrity jungle)
by Ian R Thorpe

Boggart Blog has said it before (we probably haven’t but who remembers every word we have ever published?) but the march of civilisation has definitely gone into reverse. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of low budget “reality” television or Bread and Circuses TV as it is...
READ ALL Bread and Circuses TV

2009-11-24 Quick Thinking Criminal or Slow Witted Plod?
by fatsally

We normally bring you stories of really stupid criminals, like the man who drove the getaway car sporting his own personalised registration plate, or the chap who ...
READ ALL Quick Thinking Criminal or Slow Witted Plod?

2009-11-23
Afghanistan, Financial Crisis, Climate Change - Forget it, Katie Price has quit the jungle.
by ianrthorpe

Big news today is nothing to do with any of the major crises happening around the world, not with a government in meltdowm or the most frightening story, the one about new EU Prez. Van Rumpy Pumpy pledging to steer the union towards a ...
READ ALL Afghanistan, Financial Crisis, Climate Change - Forget it, Katie Price has quit the jungle.

Rompuy - Pumpy Rules EU
The newly reformed, even less democratic than before European Union has its first President. But will Herman Van Rompuy achieve anything or will his name just inspire rumpy-pumy jokes?

2009-11-21
Monty Python and the Brussels Sprouts
by ianrthorpe

Controversy rages over the choice of Herman Van Rompuy (pronounched rumpy to rhyme with pumpy) to the EU presidency. Stung by British Rumpy Pumpy jokes the French-language Belgian regional newspaper La Capitale printed a list of our... READ ALL Monty Python And The Brussels Sprouts

We wish you a merry Christmas (but not in Dundee)
by ianrthorpe

2009-11-21

Christmas will not be Christmas in Dundee this year. All references to the religious holiday have been dropped from the switching-on ceremony for the city’s festive lights. Instead of the traditional Christmas Lights switch-on, residents will be ... READ ALL We Wish You A Merry Christmas - But Not In Dundee

2009-11-20
A Fit And Proper Person
by ianrthorpe

The dark forces of football oligarchy are ganging up on little Chester City but it looks like one rule for the minnows, another for the big clubs. The FA have ordered Stephen Vaughan, Chester’s owner and main financial prop to sell his shareholding because he is not a “fit and proper person” to be...READ ALL A Fit And Proper Person

2009-11-19
Playing Politics With The Dear Old Queen
by ianrthorpe

The Queen’s Speech by convention, wile setting out the government’s programme is not about party politics nor is it supposed to be about a failing government shafting the opposition that will soon replace them by making it impossible for the new lot to...READ ALL Playing Politics With The Dear Old Queen

2009-11-17
The Real Queen's Speech Redux
by ianrthorpe

It is well known that every year HM The Queen writes her own speech for the state opening of parliament and that every year The Government goes to great lengths to ensure the draft is lost and Queenie has to read the speech prepared for her by the Prime Minister. Last year one of Boggart Blog's unseen reporters managed to obtain...READ ALL The Real Queen's Speech Redux

2009-11-17 A Pretty Maid Must Show 40% To Get Laid.
by ianrthorpe

I'm an unlikely Daily Mail reader but this link, sent to me by a mate who knows how much Boggart Blog loves pointless research stories, pricked my curiosity. It will take you to an item that claims a "scientific" study has revealed that a woman should show 40% of her flesh if...READ ALL A Pretty Maid Must Show 40% To Get Laid.

2009-11-16
President Rimmer Obama
by ianrthorpe

Looking around American blogs today I see there is a kerfuffle about President O's deep bow to the Emperor Of Japan. Typically the Politically Correct Thought Police...
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2009-11-15
Octomum
by ianrthorpe

To avoid misunderstanding the title is not a new Bond film or a character from tonight's (eagerly anticipated) Doctor Who adventure...
READ ALL Octomum 2009-11-14
Things Just Keep Getting Better!
by fatsally

The other day Boggartblog brought you the news that we're just not drinking enough, tipping the unfinished bottle down the sink wastes an incredible amount of the old Mucho Collapso and so we should all ensure that we drink every last drop, a practice Boggartblog has advocated for years. But things just keep getting better...

READ ALL But Things Just Keep Getting Better

2009-11-13
Swine Flu - No worries, you'll just gain a few pounds
by ianrthorpe

The government of control freaks are keeping up their fear and panic campaign to turns us all into gibbering wrecks who cower in fear of swine flu. Boggart Blog has always said this scare is simply about making...

2009-11-12
Marking Computer Says No AsTop Writers Fail Their English A Level.
by Ian R Thorpe


Boggart Blog makes it our business to invigilate the progressive education lobby for sings of loonyness. An we have to be honest, they keep us busy.
One of the most crackpot ideas to come out of the academic clique that supervises the dumbing down of standard was the recruitment of a marking computer to assess A level papers.
On being given samples of writing by great authors including... READ ALL Marking Computer Says No

2009-11-11
Simon Cowell Secret Revealed
by Ian R Thorpe

Boggart Blog has not been following The X Factor this time round because, well let’s be honest, we have done all the cheap jokes in the past. Also the biggest X Factor joke this year is...READ ALL Simon Cowell Secret Revealed

2009-11-11
Bottoms Up!
by fatsally

Good news for drinkers - the Waste and Resource Action Programme has estimated that Britons are pouring £470 million worth of wine down the plughole...READ ALL Bottoms Up

2009-11-10
Going Batty For A BJ
?Very Short Post but funny enough to be worth a visit

2009-11-09
Evolutionary Science Classes In Junior School Might Be Counter Productive.

A new plan to reform the primary curriculum proposes teaching evolutionary science to kids aged 4 to 11. This article shows how such an approach might be counter productive.

2009-11-08
Bloggers Who Stare At Goats
by ianrthorpe

You have all seen adverts for the new Hollywood film release Men Who Stare At Goats. Well no need to waste your money to find out what it is all about...

2009-11-08
Google Pledge Not To Be Creepy
by ianrthorpe
Speaking on American television Google CEO pledged that his company would not become a creepy gang of world domination freaks like Microsoft did some years ago.
Asked by the interviewer how from their dominant position on the internet Google could avoid this Schmidt adopted a really bad Russian accent and said...

2009-11-06
The Fag Drag - Will Banning Cigarettes Spawn A New Industry?
by Ian R Thorpe

Still detmined to be the killjoy government Labour are passing new anti smoking laws. But do they really think banning the display if cigarettes in shops will stop anybody from smoking?
2009-11-05
Kidman’s Alien Sex Fetish
by ianrthorpe

Statuesque blonde Australian actress and sex symbol (if you like that sort of thing) Nicole Kidman has confessed in a celebrity interview with GQ magazine that in one of her love affairs she had explored “strange fetish stuff.” Though Kidman

2009-11-05
.... The New Guy Fawkes
by ianrthorpe

Where are Catesby and his co - conspirators when we need them? Where is our gunpowder plot this bonfire night? Not that I'd want the buggers to blow up The....

2009-11-04
Stimulating The Radio Active Rabbits
by Ian R Thorpe

An American friend sent me this list of some of her favourite items funded by money from the US Government's stimulus bill.
•$300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at...

2009-11-03
Stupid Criminal Of The Week Returns
by ianrthorpe

It is with great pleasure we announce the return of the Boggart Blog stupid criminal of the week award. In the early days of Boggart Blog we would feature this occasional series whenever we encountered a news story about...READ ALL Stupid Criminal Of The Week Returns

2009-11-02
The eXtacy factor
by ianrthorpe
Well Professor Nutt certainly kicked things off with his claim that drugs like E, Cannabis and LSD are no more dangerous that alcohol and tobacco. While we agree... READ ALL The eXtacy factor

2009-10-29
E versus J & B
I know we say this quite frequently but where would this blog be without those whacky folks who feed us material by doing pointless research. The latest finding, announced by the appropriately named ... READ ALL E versus J & B

Tonguing Willie
by ianrthorpe

What a headline!!! Worth 3 exclamation marks. Well every now and them we Boggart Bloggers like to show up the Tabloid headline writers for the rank amateurs they really are.
So as this story is not going to concern hot celebrity head action what... READ ALl Tonguing Willie

2009-10-28
Old Chinese Proverb: Beware Jumped Up Dictators With Ill Thought Out Scheme
by fatsally
Lord Stern of Brentford, who is quite possibly a climate change czar, or at the very least a marquise, called yesterday for everyone in the world to cut out meat in an effort to... READ ALL Old Chinese Proverb: Beware Jumped Up Dictators With

2009-10-28 The King Is In His Altogether....
by fatsally

Anatole Kaletsky, writing in The Times today applauds the creation of an Institute for New Economic Thought, claiming that this is a direct result of ... READ ALL The King Is In His Altogether

Classy Comic Or Rampant Rabbit
There is no doubt Michal MacIntyre is one of the top stand up comedy acts around at the moment. He has a good personality, quickfire delivery and some ...

You Wanna Show A Liddle Respect Or You get A Visit From Mr. Baseball Bat
by fatsally
2009-10-26

This story came to light last week and it has troubled me, probably because as a teacher I have had parents say the same thing to me.
15 year old Daniel Walton was sent home from school because he refused to...
READ ALL You WannaShow A Liddle Respect

2009-10-24
Trees For SPAM
by ianrthorpe

You may have been under the impression that goal of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December is to agree a binding treaty to fight global warming, I know I certainly was. We have been misled however. According to leaders of a militant

2009-10-23
ASDA Sat Nav Can't See The Wood For The Trees
by ianrthorpe

We love Stat Nav disaster stories at Boggart Blog so when we found a report of an ASDA delivery van driver showing a level of blind faith in science and technology that would ... READ ALL Asda Sat Nav

2009-10-22
Blue Blair’s New Nazi Best Buddies?
by Ian R Thorpe

To be perfectly honest I never held out any hopes that the Cameron led Conservatives would be much different to New Labour’s “progressive left” neo nazis. David Cameron, a slick, silver tongued, smooth face ex public schoolboy for whom spin mattered ... READ ALL Blue Blair's New Nazi Best Buddies

2009-10-22
Things Not To Do In The Delivery Suite: A Guide For Prospective Fathers
by fatsally
When I were nobbut a lass, there were many jokes, cartoons and comedy sketches involving birth. In all these instances birth was depicted as something that took place behind closed doors whilst the husbands paced up and down in the corridor, awaitng the news ... READ ALL Things Not To Do In The Delivery Suite

2009-10-21
The First Aid Technique Formerly Know As Heimlich Manoeuvre
by ianrthorpe

It was a surprise to hear sometime in the past few days that we are no longer allowed to refer to that trick where when someone is choking on a fishbone, pretzel or.... READ ALLFirst Aid Technique Formerly Known As...

2009-10-21
Biscuitgate
by fatsally

As speculation grows once again regarding plans to oust Gordon from the leadership of the Labour Party and therefore the Prime Ministership of the UK you have to wonder where the loyalty of his...READ ALL Biscuitgate

2009-10-21
The First Aid Technique Formerly Know As Heimlich Manoeuvre
by ianrthorpe

It was a surprise to hear sometime in the past few days that we are no longer allowed to refer to that trick where when someone is choking on a fishbone, pretzel or...READ ALL First Aid Technique Formerly Known As Heimlich Manouevre

2009-10-20 Adipose Offsetting
by fatsally

Well, not only do we have several Olympic gold medalists, hold The Ashes and boast the current and elect Formula World Champions but also, according to The Sun, Britain is home to the world's fattest man...REAL ALL Adipose Offsetting.



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The Himalayas has lost no significant ice over the past decade, according to a new study, that found melting ice from glaciers is having a much smaller effect on sea levels than previously thought. Previous studies relied on physical measurements of ice caps and glaciers on the ground. It's ironic that people who have relied on high tech modelling techniques to conceal the reality of what is going on are now exposed (again) as crooks and liars by new high tech methods of measuring glaciers ...

Bank Of England To Print Money To Avoid Recession
Monetary policy policy-makers at Bank of England have unveiled plans to inject an extrat £50bn of stimulus money into the economy in an attempt to avert a second recession. Before we go on to look at how much harm this wil;l do there are one or two things that must be understood. When we talk about printing money in a modern economy it is not simply a question of buying paper and printing ink and setting up the presses ...

Greek trump card fails as stronger Europe shrugs off break-up threat
The European Union's strongest economies and institutions for the first time gave a clue that they are willing to risk a Greek default and the departure from the European Monetary System (EMS aka The Euro) if Athens refuses to comply with austerity demands. The governments and central banks calculate that the eurozone is now ...
Lay Off Our Adele, Limpdick.
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Can The Euro Survive If Greece Leaves The Single Currency System?
Away with banners and air horns and out with batons and knuckleduster in Athens this afternoon as a wave of public protests agiants the EU imposed austerity measures and the hijack of Greeek democracy by European bureaucrats swept the country.. Greek police have been trying to disperse protesters with tear gas, leading to a few violent clashes outside parliament. Police say up to 8,000 people ...

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UN Veto On Military Action Against Syria Shames The West Says Hague
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Mrs Obama and the most expensive knickers in the world. The Currant Bun las week was full of news and comment about Mrs Obama going on a spending spreed in sexy undies shop Agent Provocateur that ended up with her spending £32,000 ($50,000) on sexy knickers. In one way this is hrad to believe. Why would the first lady lash out on ... [ more comedy and satire posts ]

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Argentina accuses Britain of using the Falklands as a distraction from economic woes


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Environment Minister Resigns. Environment Shouts 'There Is A God' Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne resigned this morning from his role as Energy Secretary after being charged alongside his ex-wife Vicky Pryce with perverting the course of justice over speeding cover-up allegations. Mr Huhne and Miss Pryce have both been charged with the same offence after Miss Pryce allgeged that he asked her to take speeding points ...[UK Politics]

Green Policies Will Not Save The Planet But Are Costing Poor Families The Earth>
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Globalisation can work, but only with a unified international plan says Will Hutton. WRONG!
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>We need global economic and social institutions working across national borders economist Will Hutton who now appears to have been re educated and started working for The New World Order argued recently. If only it were that simple. Unfortunately globalization is the enemy not the trigger of the kind of economic recovery we need ... [Money - Finance]

Egypt Football Riot kills dozens
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No Jobs For The Masses In The New Economy Despite University Education
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More Old People Are Falling Through Gaps In The Care System Old people are increasingly being let down by a lack of co-operation and communication between the NHS and council-run social care, MPs looking at the crisis in care will reporert this week.
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Not Qualified To Press A Button
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Drivers Cool About Electric Cars
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Let's Learn From Libya Before We Get Involved In Syria
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India Disses UK Aid: 'More Importasnt To Donors Than Recipients'.
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London Atheist And Secularist Societies Under Attack From Islamists
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Unemployment at 8.3% Still Leaves A Vast And Destructive Jobs Deficit Robert Reich, The Guardian
The most significant aspect of January's jobs report is political. The fact that America's labor market continues to improve is good news for the White House. But as a practical matter, the improvement is less significant for the American workforce.
President Obama's only chance for rebutting Republican claims that he's responsible for a bad economy is to point to a positive trend. Voters respond to economic trends as much as ...

Much Media Ado About Nothing What connects seemingly disparate works such as The Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, Mad Men, and Seinfeld? It is the philosophy of nihilism, first popularized by Friedrich Nietzsche in the late 19th century. But in the last few decades, how did it become the dominant worldview of Hollywood? Dawn Of The Ice Age Signals The End Of The Global Warming Scam Back then, the media and activists trumpeted the arrival of a new ice age, with the specter of ice sheets and glaciers covering half the northern hemisphere, and brutal winters in the remaining ice-free zones. The fact that the media and popular culture and academia have veered from one panic-inducing disaster scenario to another one which completely contradicts the first one is funny enough in its own right. But reading The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age opened my eyes to an even more significant aspect ...

Hundreds of Independent Bookshops Face Closure
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Solar Panels Subsidy Was The Most Ridiculous Green Scheme Deramed Up
A plan to subsidise solar panels on homes was “one of the most ridiculous schemes ever dreamed up”, a Government minister has said.
Lord Marland, an Energy minister, hit out at the cost of so-called feed-in tariffs, which the Government has axed as part of the cuts programme. Last week Court of Appeal ruled that the sudden axing of the tariffs ...

Goodbye Great Britain
Recently, there have been two powerful challenges to the conventional wisdom about the United States. First, Robert Kagan published a lengthy essay in The New Republic, arguing that predictions of America's decline as a global power are woefully premature. .Is it possible, I found myself wondering, to do something similar for Britain? Robert Colvile has a go in this Daily Telegraph article ...

Our rising debt levels are becoming unsustainable – soon we may be talking about wealth confiscation (By Daniel Knowles, Daily Telegraph)
Debt, debt, debt; we’re drowning in it. This morning, the Office for National Statistics published the latest estimates of public sector borrowing. Though borrowing is falling faster than anticipated, thanks to the fact that spending cuts are finally beginning to kick in, the national debt has risen to 64.2 per cent of GDP. More significantly,…

The Obama administration knifes Britain in the back again over the Falklands - By Nile Gardiner World
In yet another display of disdain for the Anglo-American Special Relationship, the Obama administration has weighed in on the mounting tensions between Great Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands. Just two days after Prime Minister David Cameron issued a robust statement in the House of Commons vowing to defend the sovereignty of the Falklands,…

Drones In The Hands Of The Paparrazi - It's an ethical minefield
America's use of drones for targeted killings is serious enough. But commercial and law enforcement uses are on the horizon. Whether you view them as model aeroplanes for grown-ups or the handmaidens of the killer robot, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are taking off in earnest. ...

The Observer uncritically regurgitates Trotskyist smears against Katharine Birbalsingh- By Toby Young, Daily Telegraph
There’s a disgraceful attempt to smear Katharine Birbalsingh in this morning’s Observer. Under the headline “Katharine Birbalsingh criticised over ‘wasteful’ free school project“, the paper’s policy editor Daniel Boffey tries to create the impression that there’s growing local opposition to the Michaela Community School – Birbalsingh’s free school – which is due to open in…

We’re being sent the bill for the euro crisis again – this time by the IMF - By Daniel Hannan First it was individual banks; then whole industries; then entire countries; now it’s the world. Western leaders have reacted to the failure of each bailout by decreeing a bigger one. Unable to admit their mistake, slaves to the defunct economist whose thinking dominates our economics faculties and central banks, they act like so many Nick Leesons,…

The Three Parent Family More on the progressive left's war on the family and the scientific dictaorship's attempts to dehumanize us all. Babies with three biological parents could be born within three years. Scientists have come up with an IVF technique that uses the undamaged DNA of a third party when couples risk giving their children a genetic conditions such as muscular dystrophy or ataxia. The Wellcome Trust has funded the research (the figures vary between £4 million and six million …

As Obama Positions Himself For A War In Syria We Learn That Like Gadaffi, Assad Is Popular With His People
Most Syrians back President Assad, but you'd never know from western mediaAssad's popularity, Arab League observers, US military involvement: all distorted in the west's propaganda war. Suppose a respectable opinion poll found that most Syrians are in favour of Bashar al-Assad remaining as president, would that not be major news? Well one did and we never heard a word of it in the Obama felching western media ...

Bullshit Sherlock
While other blogs are full of how great the cliff - faller ending of Sherlock Holmes was I felt a bit let down. The fake suicide was telegraphed all through the show. And the coda assured us Sherlock had survived. We should not forget of course it was the habit of ...

Will bringing back grammar schools boost social mobility? by Toby Young Daily Telegraph
The possibility that England may shortly see its first new grammar school in over 50 years has, predictably enough, re-opened the debate about selective education. Yesterday, for instance, Allison Pearson came down firmly in favour, while Fiona Millar shot back with an instant rebuttal. I’ll get into that argument in a moment, but first let’s be…

So Why Read Books Anymore
There is great “truth and beauty” in Homer’s Iliad, but I would not try to make his sale on such platitudes. Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remains a classic. But I confess it can be hard to get through. Conrad’s Victory or Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil, if authored by writer X this year, would be trashed on Amazon.So what are the reasons, in this age of ...

Eric Holder and the Chicago Way In America Obama's Brownshirts are getting hysterical as they try to make race the major issue in the election campaign.

Dystopian Prophecies Are Coming True - The Government Will Soon Choose Our Wives
Thinking of this entertaining new literary award – “the Hatchet Job of the Year” – it was natural to turn to Macaulay’s Essays, for few reviewers have ever been less reluctant to wound. I had in mind two long review-essays, one on Robert Montgomery’s Poems, the other on The State in its relations with ...
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