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2009-09-09 Hands Off Our Spotted Dick by fatsally County council catering staff in Flintshire have re-named Spotted Dick, the currant sprinkled suet pudding.
They claim its name results in smutty remarks from customers
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2009-09-09 Do Sex Shops Smell Of Piss?
by ianrthorpe

Mobile phone networks are to be asked by London City Hall to cut off pimps and prostitutes during the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games, by...READ ALL Do Sex Shops Smell Of Piss.

2009-09-08
Who Would Have Thought It? by fatsally

In the past Boggartblog has brought you news on Pies of Mass Destruction and Cheeses of Evil Intent, but now a more terrifying threat from the world of food.

Along with allegedly being the most popular biscuit with British consumers, Custard Creams have been identified as the most dangerous... READ ALL Who Would Have Thought It

2009-09-08
Little Nicky Sarkozy
by Ian R Thorpe
Nothing to do with our companion blog that goes by the name Little Nicky (Machiavelli) today we have to comment on the lengths French President Little Nicky Sarkozy has to go to in disguising... READ ALL Little Nicky Sarkozy

Return Of The Flesh Eating Zombie Bacteria
Actually the story linked is crap bur we couldn't not write the headline

2009-09-03
2009-09-06
Cat Woman And The Insanest Thing Ever
by Ian R Thorpe

I'm not a great fan of cats. So what was I doing watching a program on television that was devoted to the vile creatures. Well Joanna Lumley was presenting it, nuff said.

Anyway I'm glad I did because I saw the most insane...
READ ALL Cat Woman and the insanest thing ever. 2009-09-05
Big Brown Bag O' Shite
by Ian R Thorpe

Last week I posted an article to remind you all what a bag o’ shite Tony Blair is. The purpose was to make sure the truth is out there as Blair tries to reinvent himself as The World’s Greatest Catholic. The responses to the post included along with the usual witty banter from regular readers some outraged whines from fans of Tony Blair. These sad little people were, with one honourable exception, they are the type who create an e-mail address solely to comment in one thread so their comments have no value at all. But I would not want the nerds to think they are not appreciated. You see, being nerds they just couldn’t let things lie, they had to try to impose their views on Boggart Blog. This meant we got a bumper crop of comments which kept the thread attracting traffic for several days.

Let’s see if we can pull off the same trick with Gordon Brown who has been nominated this week’s bog o’shite of the week. Why has he been awarded that title you might well ask? It is because he continues to believe we are all too stupid to know that when he talks of green shoots of recovery he is just trying to get us.
READ ALL Big Brown Bag O' Shite at Boggart Blog



2009-09-04
Most Of Michael Jackson Buried.
by Ian R Thorpe

The funeral of most of Michael Jackson has taken place in Los Angeles. Although it has not been widely publicised by news media, one of the reasons it has taken for Jacko’s body to be interred is that as paramedics fought to save the singer following... READ ALL Most Of Michael Jackson Buried Incandescent Rage
by Ian R Thorpe

Enthusiastic reader Ian Thorpe pleads for his incandecent light bulbs to be given back, for reading lamps at least.

2009-09-02
A Degree Of Punishment
by ianrthorpe

A charity that campaigns and works for prison reform has said that prison officers should be required to have a University degree.
Successfully completing a degree course in beating people lightly with iron bars, administering electric shocks and performing body cavity searches will...READ ALL A Degree Of Punishment

2009-09-01
Wuthering Heights - Condensed Version
by Ian R Thorpe

Boggart Blog has often slated politicians and senior civil servants for drawing big fat salaries without having done any work to earn them. There is one profession however who are worse than even politicians when it comes to being paid for doing nothing and yet these people seldom come in for criticism. They are newspaper television critics.

Come on, how often have you read a review of a new show and thought “that bugger wasn’t watching the same programme I saw”. In fact he wasn’t watching anything, he was down the pub with his mates. The review is a thinly disguised version of the TV company press release.

The show that brought this to mind was the dreary, plodding adaptation of Wuthering Heights shown in two
READ ALL Wuthering Heights - Condensed Version

2009-08-31
No Flag, No Country
by Cleo Hart

Now then. China. They are generally unhappy about anything relating to the Dalai Lama, spitting in the direction of any country who welcomes a visit from him. This week they are unhappy about the Dalai Lama's visit to typhoon hit Taiwan in a bid to... READ ALL No Flag, No Country

2009-08-31 Blair 2 - Tony, The Papal Emmissary.
by Ian R Thorpe

What have we learned recently about Tony Blair? Well, that he’s a c ....; yes but we’ve always known he’s one of those, I was going to say that he’s a Catholic. A very recent recruit to the Catholic Church in fact. So as most Catholics are still practising after half a lifetime we have a right to expect Tone would have spent a bit more time learning the ropes before...
READ ALL Blair 2 - Tony The Papal Emissary

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2009-08-31 Nude Models Of Paris Are Revolting

The bare naked ladies of Paris are not revolting in the sense of being disgusting and repellant. As far as we know they are in that sense at least as charming as ever. No they are up in arms about their terms and conditions of employment. Click the button to read the full story...

2009-08-30

Unhappy Hour Again
by Ian R Thorpe

– 15:57:32 Forget all that bullshit about Cool Britannia, Things Can Only Get Better and Twenty Four Hour drinking if you hadn't already. It was never anything but public relations puff. Revealing their true colours at last The Labour Perty have.. CLICK HERE to learn about Unhappy Hour Forward Psychic Soldiers
It is well know the United States Military has a physchic warfare unit. What is not quite so well known, nor discussed in the mainstream media regularly is that the people running this unit do not live on planet reality...

They Didn't Think It Through (Again)

Don't you love it when a story that ought never to be of interest outside the local papers makes world news because people who consider themselves very smart just haven't thought things through properly... 2009-08-29
Atheists get the Christian bird (or dog or cat or tortoise)
by ianrthorpe

In yet another of those “only in America” type stories we learn that a group of atheists have show humanist charity in offering to take in pets left behind on Earth when Christian families float up to heaven after all their clothes fall off in the event Christian writings refer to as... READ ALL Atheists Get The Christian Bird (or dog or cat or tortoise) 2009-08-28
The Only Reason You Will Ever Need To Hate The Toyota Prius...
by Ian R Thorpe

What is it that makes Ian R Thorpe hate the Toyota Prius. Is it the smug, self righteous bastards that drive them, the dubious statistics used to establish the green credentials of the car, the fact they look like a mororised turd or something else? Click on the button to find out



2009-08-26
Obama’s Middle East Breakthrough – Status Quo Preserved
by Ian R Thorpe

The cold light of reality is starting to shine on those who gathered in the newsrooms of media organisations to worship at the shrine of The Obamessiah. While the more fundamentalist members of the news community are today proclaiming the great “breakthrough” achieved by the...READ ALL Obama's Middle East Breakthrough...



2009-08-25
Illegal Downloaders to have broadband disconnected?
by ianrthorpe

Proposed laws published by the government today indicate a much tougher approach in future to people who persistently downloads music and video from free file sharing sites. The government proposal will protect the intellectual property of internet content creators by terminating the broadband service of persistent downloaders without...READ ALL Illegal Downloaders To Have Broadband Disconnected

2009-08-25
Why Is It Taking So Long?
by fatsally

Well good grief, The Ashes have been won for forty eight hours now, so why are the Government dragging their feet so? Where is...READ ALL Why Is It Taking So Long

Are We Becoming A Nation Of Cat Swingers.
by Ian R Thorpe
2009-08-24

Last week a report on Britain’s housing crisis , highlighting the unfit-for-purposeness of many new build “starter homes” quoted details of an offering from one well known house builder. We will not name and shame them because the rest are as bad and anyway if we’re going to get sued we want it to be for insulting some pseudo – celebrity or accusing a well know politician of taking backhanders from Colonel Gadaffi. The “home” in question featured living room of just 3m x 3m. Assuming there is a door that makes fitting in a...
READ ALL Are We Becoming A Nation Of Cat Swingers

2009-08-22
Conservatives' "Bottoms Up Carrots" Housing Policy
by Ian R Thorpe

Aren't The Conservatives brilliant! Just when their popularity is soaring in the polls and they should be charging towards an overwhelming election victory they produce an upper class berk to remind us the next Tory Government will be just as...
READ ALL Conservatives "Bottoms Up Carrots Housing Policy

21 August 2009
X - Factor Returns - Keep Smiling Danni
by Ian R Thorpe
After a few weeks of absolutely dire Saturday night TV during which I was reduced first to watching Casualty and then to reading the gardening pages in the weekend magazine from my Saturday newspaper, the return of The X Factor tomorrow night...
READ ALL X - Factor Returns, Keep Smiling Danni

20 Aug 2009
Gender Testing For Athletes - What A Load Of Bollocks

Jenny’s success, a triumph of perseverance and determination after coaches had written her off as too delicate to compete in an event like the 800m at the highest level, is all the more notable as it came in a race that involved people with beards and quite possibly bollocks. The race was won by...
Gender Testing For Athletes - What A Load Of Bollocks

How To Embarrass Your Teenage Daughter #163
1) Go to a large DIY store.
2) Send her off to the paint aisle.
3) Wait patiently for ten minutes...

2009-08-19
Piracy On The Silly Season Seas - BREAKING NEWS
by Ian R Thorpe

With news breaking every few minutes on the story of the Russian freighter Arctic Sea which disappeared as it steamed through the Baltic en route for Algeria and turned up a few days later 4000 miles away off Cape Verde, we go straight over...
READ ALL Piracy On The Silly Season Seas

2009-08-18
Secreting Weapons On Your Person Can Be Dangerous
by fatsally

Following an incident where an obese prisoner endured three searches but still managed to keep the 9mm handgun he had concealed in his rolls of flab hidden from the searchers...
READ ALL Secreting Weapons On Your Person Can Be Dangerous

2009-08-17
Allies Neutralise Afghan Beards of Terror
by Ian R Thorpe

Boggart Blog was the first mainstream news network to report fully and fearlessly the role played by beards in the war being waged by funny mentalists and people of Evelyn Tent against the civilised world. Beards are a weapon integral to the...
READ ALL Allies Neutralise Afghan Beards Of Terror

2009-08-17
We Don't Need No Edukashun
by fatsally

Whilst the nation's teenagers await their forthcoming exam results with baited breath, Boggartblog is able to bring you details of the government's latest plans for ensuring that everybody gets at least 12 A* passes (or equivalent) at...
READ ALL We Don't Need No Edukashun

2009-08-16
Fighting Back Against The Food Fascists.
by Ian R Thorpe

All too often in the past when we have reported on the activities of scientists who labour on behalf of Nanny State and her cohorts Big Pharma and Big Food it has been to warn you of their latest wild adventure in spreading fear and panic by...
READ ALL Fighting Back Against Food Fascists

2009-08-15
More Teachers Than Pupils Drop Out Of School.
by Ian R Thorpe
Earlier this week we had a New Labour clone drop in on one of our old education related posts to tell us Boggart Bloggers what evil people we are for making fun of those wonderful people who staff our schools and deliver... CLICK HERE to find out why more teachers than pupils drop out of school

2009-08-14
Me Doc? I Never Touch A drop!
by fatsally
Great news this week for anyone who imbibes on a regular basis but daren't go to the doctor with an ingrowing toe nail for fear of getting told off about the danger of...
READ ALL Me Doc, I never Touch A Drop

2009-08-14 Olympic Womens' Boxing, Another Resounding Triumph For Feminism
by Ian R Thorpe
Those redoubtable campaigners for women's rights have won another notable victory against the dark forces of masculine superiority. In the next Olympic games women will box competitively for
READ ALL Olympic Womens' Boxing, Another Resounding Triumph For Feminism

2009-08-14
Taliban Agree Ceasefire
by ianrthorpe

Great headline isn't it, one we all welcome but don’t get carried away. Though not noted for their commitment to the cause of freeman moxy The Taliban have agreed to a temporary ceasefire to allow the Presidential elections in Afghanistan to take place next week. Afghans will be able to go to the polls on election day without fear of being gunned down by the militant Muslim militia members.

A Taliban spokesman told Boggart Blog “ We, the Taliban, have no official candidate in the Presidential election so in the interests of fairness we decided to suspend hostilities in order to allow supporters of actual candidates to intimidate voters.”

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Olympic Womens' Boxing, Another Resounding Triumph For Feminism
by Ian R Thorpe
2009-08-14

Those redoubtable campaigners for women's rights have won another notable victory against the dark forces of masculine superiority. In the next Olympic games...
READ ALL Olympic Womens' Boxing, Another Resounding Triumph For Feminism

2009-08-13 The Lost Generation - Youth unemployment
by Ian R Thorpe

News today that one in five eighteen to twenty four year olds is unemployed is indeed terrible. Are we to suppose this figure represents those actively... CLICK HERE to read The Lost Generation

2009-08-12
The Cure For Swine Flu – Clutch At A Straw.
by ianrthorpe
Nu Labour Health Minister the boyish Andy Burnham, as he tries to assure us the government is on top of the pandemic of fear and panic they generated about Swine Flu increasingly takes on the air of desperation of a... READ ALL The Cure For Swine Flu at Boggart Blog Bogoff Mr. Brown
by fatsally
News yesterday that the government wishes to prevent supermarkets from using BOGOF promotions in an effort to cut down on the huge amount of food thrown... READ ALL Bogoff Mr Brown at Boggart Blog 2009-08-11
Premiership Priorities
by ianrthorpe

The football season is with us again and though in the face of a global recession players wages and transfer fees are more inflated than ever it is good to hear of one Premiership clubs...READ ALL Premiership Priorities

2009-08-11
What's new Pussycat?
by fatsally

Well, on his return to government Boggartblog noted the resemblance of Peter Mandelson to the older guy out of...READ ALL What's New Pussycat

2009-08-11 Beware Greeks Bearing Lighter fuel
by fatsally

Oh dear, it's not easy being a "lad" these days is it?
There you are, off your face in a Greek bar. You see a tasty bit of local tottie, so what do you do?...
READ ALL Beware Greeks Bearing Lighter Fuel

2009-08-10
Who’s More Nazi Than The Anti Nazi League?
by Ian R Thorpe

One of the little ironies that gave sharp witted observers of the world much pleasure over the years was the fact that the most Nazi organisation in Britain was the Anti–Nazi League.
Yes, wherever your friendly local right wing extremist group tried to exercise their democratic right to demonstrate peacefully in support of their point of view, the anti – nazi league rent-a-mob would not...READ ALL Who's More Nazi Than The Anti Nazi League

2009-08-10
Cameron "All Sizzle And No Substance" by the man who would know.
by Ian R Thorpe

It is reported today that Barack Obama describes David Cameron as "all sizzle and no substance" adding that Gordon Brown is a man of substance.

Cameron should take this seriously, Obama, a man for whom...READ ALL Cameron all sizzle and no substance

2009-08-09 Politically Correct Thought Police To Abolish High Heels?
by Ian R Thorpe

During the Trade Union Congress (doesn’t that sound like a sex technique from The Kama Sutra specially for factory workers ?) annual conference this week the New Labour Politically Correct Thought Police (chairperson Hattie Harridan) have sponsored a debate about whether women being forced....READ ALL Politically Correct Thought Police To Abolish High Heels? RELATED POSTS: The Party's Over Are Labour washed up or is it the two party system that puts people off politics?
Women In Labour A bleak vision of a post apocalyptic world run by New Labour women.

2009-08-08
Spreading Fear And Panic, It’s Just Not Cricket.
by Ian R Thorpe

So England’s much hyped chances of clinching the Ashes series against Perfidious Bruceland at Headingly this week took a very rapid nosedive when Albion’s finest forgot which end of the bat they should get hold of.
Many things arse being blamed for...READ ALL Spreading Fear And Panic? It's Just Not Cricket

2009-08-07
Just What Don't They get?
by fatsally

Well it's happened again.
We get to the fourth test, Two draws and one win.
The press start up, lauding in this instance Freddie Flintoff, and guess what? He has to pull out, hurt.
The press are undaunted, they bang on about... READ ALL Just What Don't They Get at Boggart Blog

2009-08-06
Midsomer Mishaps
by ianrthorpe
I like Midsomer Murders, now don’t start some of you – I know you think I should spend all my television time watching documentaries on BBC2 but of an evening I like the kind of shite that does... READ ALL Misomer Mishaps at Boggart Blog

All Animals are Equal, But Some are More Equal Than Others
by fatsally
So Harriet Harperson thinks that men are no good.

Well I have to relate this little incident, it ranks along there with us girls not being able to read a map (I can cos I'm a tomboy); not being able to tell our left from right, and not being able to go to...READ ALL Harriet Harperson Thinks Men Are No Good

2009-08-05 The New Cow Tipping Is Smart
by fatsally

Have you ever heard about cow tipping? I'm not quite sure if this is urban or rather rural myth, but rumour has it out in the sticks bored youths will get together in gangs of three or four, and, probably fuelled by Special Brew, proceed to the nearest incline on which cattle are... READ ALL The New Cow Tipping Is Smart at Boggart Blog When Bill Met Kim by Ian R Thorpe
Former U.S. President bill Clinton travelled to North Korea yesterday for talks with the "dead leader" Kim.

Mr. Clinton was said to be disappointed to find himself confronted by a seventy year old despot. He though he had a date with the actress who played Samantha in Sex An The City.

2009-08-04 Life Is Just A Bowl Of Soap Suds.
by specialcorrespondent

Often when I mention that soaps are watched in our house people express surprise: “You don’t watch such nonsense do you Ian!” they will exclaim. Leaving aside the fact that just because the soaps are playing on television does not necessarily mean I am watching (although I might take more interest when...READ ALL life Is Just A Bowl Of Soap Suds


2009-08-04
RIP Benson: Star Of The Carps
by fatsally
Boggartblog is saddened to report the death of Benson the carp. Benson lived in Bluebell Lakes, near Peterborough and was a firm favourite with the anglers. She was introduced into the lake in 1995, as a twenty pounder, when the owner thought she was about five years old. Over the ensuing years she continued to grow, eventually weighing
READ MORE about Benson The Carp

2009-08-02
Harriet Harridan slams male bias in Labour leadership.
by Ian R Thorpe
As former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin steps back from her high profile politcal career citing sexism in the media and American politcs as her reason for quitting the Labour Party deputy leader Harriet Harridan has launched an attack...
READ ALL Harriet Harridan slams male bias at Boggart Blog
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September 2010
Ryanair To Let Passengers Fly Planes? (Humour, satire)
News that in a cost cutting move budget airline Ryanair were considering abolishing the role of co - pilot and training cabin vrew to fly planes was greeted with disbelief. We wondered why, the travel industry has been hit hard by the recession and ruthless efficiency is necessary for survival. A Boggart Blog investigation revealed however that there may plans to go even further and let passengers fly planes.

Blair's Journey
(political comment).
Tony Blair's memoir of his political career, A Journey, is a must read for fans of another politician whose ambition and lust for power far outstrips his ability and experience. Solipsistic and self regarding, Tony Blair takes us through how he saved the Labour party and led it to power, how he charmed the traditionally conservative middle classes, how he spoke to the traditional Labour voters and earned their loyalty and support for his Thatcherite policies and how he saved British businness from economic catastrophe. Strangely he does not mention how he untimately betrayed all those groups.

Uptight - The Blood Donor Experience
(humour, satire)
Once upon a time giving blood was easy, the atmosphere relaxed and people were encouraged to feel as is they were doing something good and worthwhile. Now, acording to fatsally's latest experience, a visit to the blood bank to offer a life saving armful is like The Prisoner meets Orwell's Big Brother. Bureaucracy has taken over and nobody is allowed to fel relaxed. Rules are rules.

August 2010

2010-09-01
Hello Saillor
(humour, satire)

The chattering classes are up in arms about the news that Britain and France are to pool their resources and share aircraft carriers.
The Mail today carries an excellent ...

Court Victory For Anti - MMR Campaigners.(social comment)
It is the medical scandal that refuses to go away. Since its introduction controversy has surrounded the MMR vaccine because in a small number - and we must stress, a small number - of cases children develop serious and permanent side effects after reveiving the vaccine. Now at last, after following a tactic used successfully in the USA and keeping the word autism out of their case, lawyers working for the family of Robert Fletcher have won the first award of compensation for 'brain damage' reslting from the MMR vaccine.

Property Prices To Fall Again?(politics, society))
Despite government eforts to talk up a recovery the economy remains stubbornly stagnant. It is unsurprising really, the UK economy still relies far too much on the housing and property market and with incomes being squeezed and house prices remaining so high they are beyond the reach of first time buyers there is little change of increased activity while unemployment continues to rise.

Food Will Cost The Earth(politics, society)
A bid by Australian mining giant BHP Billiton to buy Potash Corp of Canada draws attention to food price inflation, rising commodity prices in world markets and an impending global food supply crisis. It is not just potash, essential in food production, but other finite resources like oil that corporate giants are bidding to gain control of that should concern us. It's The Smell Of Alpha Males That Attracts Women(humour, satire)
Women Can't Resist The Smell Of Alpha Males according to new research reported in today's Daily Mail science section. (If you think DSaily Mail and science should never appear in the same sentence just read on, this is good stuff.)
Alpha males have a smell all of their own, one that triggers certain hormonal reactions in women, the research paper reports ...

Last Of The Summer Whine
The zombie of British television will finally be decapitated and laid to rest this weekend, thirty years after the show was pronounced dead by everybody under ninety. The final episode of this ‘national institution’ will be shown sometime over the weekend but I don’t know when ...

... Conflicting Views On The Economic Recovery Little Nicky Machiavelli writes: Nobody seems to know what is going on in the global economy. Take these two articles on the state of the recovery ...
read full post Conflicting Views On Economic Recovery

Cameron in Babygate Puzzle
The birth of a healthy child is always a happy event but the birth of a child to the wife of a serving national leader is bound to attract close scrutiny. So do certain contradictions in reporting of circumstances surrounding the birth of David and Samantha Cameron's daughter mean the conspiracy theorists will soon be at work?

Do We Need GM Salmon
US authorities today began the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has been called a "frankenfish" by critics. The approval process could take less than a year, and if it gets the green light the fish could be on the market in 18 months.
Environmentalists and scientists see the decision as marking a threshold. If it is approved it is likely to open the door to a large range of ...

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Will America Ever have Another Black President? During the 2008 political campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama called for a national discussion on race. Later, Attorney General Eric Holder called us a nation of cowards for not having such discussions: He said that that “certain subjects are off-limits and that to explore them risks at best embarrassment and at worst the questioning of one’s character.” So let’s try to honor these doubtless well-intended requests.
It’s entirely possible that President Obama has poisoned the well for at least a generation. It has nothing to do with the fact that he is black; it is because he is ...

America's Monetary Policy The White House is floating a new stimulus, though the Fed chief seemed to rule it out. But does he have any other tools?
Everyone was pretty glum about US GDP growth between March and June, when it was thought to be 2.4%. But due to the wonders of statistical revision, it now turns out that it was only 1.6%. Of course, those out of work do not care what the statistics say because they know exactly what the economy feels like to them now. All the same, these numbers are no doubt confirming people's fears that the dreaded second dip (of on-going depression) is on the way...

We Must Learn Morality From Each Other Not God
The latest outbreak of hostilities between atheists and believers rehearses the same old confusion about what God stands for

US Jobs Market Still Reeling
Markets eagerly awaiting the latest US non-farm payroll data today amid fears of a double dip recession in the world's largest economy. Fresh evidence of the stuttering nature of America's recovery from its deepest postwar recession will be provided by the labour department in Washington today when it reveals the latest figures for job creation in the world's biggest economy.
Stephen Hawking Can't Use Physics To Answer Why We're Here Eric Priest, The Gurdian
Stephen Hawking makes the claim that it is not necessary to invoke God as the creator of the universe and the assertion that physics alone made it. Obama Heading Down TheSame Road As Carter
This week’s historic Gallup poll will have sent a shiver through the White House at the end of a summer of discontent, and is yet another key indicator that President Obama is likely to end up a lame duck president following the mid-term elections in November. The latest Gallup poll shows the Republicans in pole… He may be correct in his first statement, but to rule out a possibly important role for God is in my view unjustified. It is certainly possible that God sets up and maintains or underpins the laws of physics and allows them to work, so that being able to explain the big bang in terms of physics is not inconsistent with there being a role for God. As a scientist, you are continually questioning, rarely coming up with a definitive answer. The limitations of your own knowledge and expertise together with the beauty and mystery of life and the universe often fill you with a sense of profound humility. Thus, unequivocal assertions are not part of a genuine scientific quest. Blair's Job Was Done By 1997 Says Simon Jenkins in an article claiming Blair's agenda was to kill Labour thinking and enshrine Thatcherite free market economics and social policy: Who said books are dead? Did he blog or tweet, video or iPad? No, Tony Blair wanted to get a message across, so he wrote a book. He smeared the black stuff on trees, stitched it together and made people go out to buy it. Good for him. Blair's mildly engaging stream of auto-eroticism shows him memoirising much as he ruled. He uses the first person singular a million times. He stages everything. He fixes on a theme and controls the narrative. The intention is to smother an Iraq apologia in endless quotables on Gordon Brown and his emotional idiocy and general hopelessness. It is cruel, but has worked a dream. Dumb Science Story Of The Week: Old People Forget Things
This week's bombshell from the world of science comes in a study of the behaviour of old people. One of the things the study looked as was the way old people repeat the same stories over and over. The scientists concluded this is because as people get older they become more inclined to forget things.

64% of Women Would Release A Sex Tape To Get Ahead
According to a survey of Generation Y users of the dating website Can Do Better, 64 percent of women would release a sex tape if it would help advance their careers.
The survey found that 45 percent of women also answered that they would sleep with their professor to pass a

Ageing Star Wallows In Steam Bath Not a celebrity sex scandal but an astronomy story as the Herschel telescope reveals a cosmic mystery that challenges existing ideas about the Universe

Hawking Says God Not Needed The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded. The scientist has claimed that no divine force was needed to explain why the Universe was formed. Crisis Boosts London's Dominance In Currency Trading
London, the world's leading centre for foreign exchange, increased its dominance of currency trading during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression The average daily turnover in the City this year was $1.85 trillion (£1.2 trillion) - or 37pc of global turnover, according to a three-year report into currency dealing by the Bank of International Settlements.
Around $4 trillion changed hands around the world every day in April, up from $3.3 trillion in April 2007. ..

Brown Was Maddening Says Blair

Main talking point in today's news is the publication of Tony Blair's memoirs of his time as Prime Minister. Everybody in politics has been eager to find out what Blair would say about his successor Gordon Brown and their relationship during the ten years Brown served as DChancellor while Tony Blair was Prime Minister.

William Hague Denies Relationship with a man

Is There A Need For HD Audio
We wrote some time ago on the marketing of HD TV as the latest 'must have.' and on the great internet scam which involves development in internet technologies putting pressure on users to constantly upgrade hardware and software.

Darwin's Secret Experiment Acenscion Island is a lush tropical paradise 1000 miles from Africa and 2000 from South America. According to the laws of nature it should be barren and so it would be had the orginator of evolutionary science Charles Darwin not begun a great experiment there, one that is still running almost 200 years later...

The Frogs Are Starting To Simmer In The Land Of The Free
Savez Vous Que Vous Parlez Tres Mal Francais
Philip Salter at the Adam Smith Institute laments the lack of French taught in schools, and attributes this to schools preferring that children take easier subjects that will reflect well in the league tables.
There may be an element of truth in this, in that French or German at ‘O’ level is on a par with mathematics – there is either a right or a wrong answer. ‘Religious Studies’ on the other hand, require that you ...

A Solution To Company Pensions Crisis
The latest dismal news about company pensions should not obscure the simple fact that if you want to be sure something is done properly you should do it yourself. Saving for retirement is no exception to this rule. If you rely on your employer or pension scheme managers to do the job for you, the…

Obama Caves To UN Over Arizona Immigration Law
There can be few sights more humiliating for the American people than that of a US president kowtowing to a foreign leader or to supranational institutions. Continental Europeans are used to this sort of thing after decades of dominance by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, and have grudgingly accepted over time the gradual and undemocratic erosion…

The BBC Pretended To Be Balanced On Climate Change
I have just been listening to Uncertain Climate, the first in BBC “Environment Analyst” Roger Harrabin’s two-part Radio 4 investigation into the politics of climate change. The announcer introduced it as a programme “on an unusual aspect of global warming that you won’t have heard in the news headlines”. This was touching, but would only… 31 August
Labour Leadership Soap Opera as Millibands Battle Each Other
As a major union hints that it may withdraw financial support for the party if either David Milliband or Ed Balls is elected as leader Labour leadership candidate Ed Balls has criticised the "daily episodes" of the "soap opera" surrounding fellow contenders Ed and David Miliband.

House Owners In Negative Equity For Another Four Years
Homeowners who bought their houses at the top of the prtoperty boom could face face four more years of negative equity, a housing group said.
The National Housing Federation (NHF) said the average buyer in England paid £216,800 for a home in 2007. Those people may now have to wait until 2014 before prices recover enough to make their homes worth more than they paid the federation added.

Afghan Bomb Attack Kills Four US Soldiers A roadside bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed four US soldiers, Nato sources revealed yesterday.AFP quoted spokesman James Judge as saying that a home-made bomb, one of the main weapons of the Taliban, was used in the attack.The attack comes a day after seven US soldiers were killed in two bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan.These deaths add to the rising trend of casualties for Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf). June and July were the worst months for foreign troop deaths since the

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