I love history, granted it's not everyone's cup of tea, but something that fascinates me. I'm pretty much interested in everything, however it's mostly English history that fascinates and intrigues me, all the way back to [...]
Avoiding the elephant
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Beer sales were up for the first time in 4 years hurrah! It's thought that the world cup and a warm summer has helped, according to a report in the Quarterly Beer Barometer.The problem being of course that beer sales only went up in Supermarkets, not [...]
Bigger does not mean better
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There's speculation that by the year 2050 Britain will be the biggest country in the EU.Telegraph.Britain will be the biggest country in Europe by 2050, overtaking both France and Germany, according to official projections. Britain will see [...]
Sting in the tail
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In the next few years the government is going to waste more of our money give a £5000 subsidy on electric cars to promote a green lifestyle no doubt. In other words like most governments they are going to try and buck the market with probably the usual [...]
Power to the people?
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I suppose it's typical in a way that the party that did its utmost to politicise the police (Yes New Labour we're looking at you) objects to the public actually being given a chance to have some control over the police.BBC.The government's planned shake-up [...]
Bad laws
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Doesn't seem to matter which political party is in power when they call for swift repatriation of illegal immigrants, for all their good intentions (seemingly) they founder on the rock of the legal system.Sky.A Home Office policy allowing the speedy [...]
A good day to be an Englishman #6
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Considering our utter failure in the football I as an Englishman have had to look far and wide in our wonderful land to find a "sporting" hero worthy of praise.Step forward Dean Gould 45 of Felixstowe, Suffolk holder of the world record in beer mat [...]
May the force be with you..............soon
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I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later, but it seems as if Darth Vader is now a bank robber.Express.MAN DRESSED AS DARTH VADER RAIDS BANK A CCTV image of the armed robber dressed as the baddie from Star [...]
Size apparently does matter...
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I'm often amazed at some of the things judges fall for when they hear from barristers or solicitors in the courtroom, but this is a new one.Express.A PINT-SIZED thug has escaped jail amid fears he could be bullied.Andrew Watson – who is just 4ft 11in [...]
Own goal
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The establishment "Righteous" simply can't seem to help themselves, mortified by the progress of the BNP and its assumption of privileges that they see as only being for the "Righteous" simply because the awful proles voted for them during the EU elections, [...]
Tilting at windmills
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A lot of people like me like to buy stuff online, it's cheaper (usually) and you can often track down stuff that is simply impossible to find in the local high street. What a lot of people don't realise is that the safe and secure credit transfers weren't [...]
Photo Shoot with the Model at Your Studio
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In order for both of you to feel at ease, it would be ideal if you set a meeting before the actual shoot. The meeting can be formal such as discussing the photo shoot with the model at your studio. If you do not have [...]
The right to protest
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A lot has been said about the removal of the "Peace Village" on parliament square and the view of human rights and the right to protest. Well I don't have any problem with the right to protest, so long as you accept my right [...]
Tax surcharges, or making motorists the equivalent of sex offenders.
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It's a well known fact that the previous government looked upon motorists as a cash cow to be milked by the system by any means possible, including the infamous Victims Surcharge scheme to help fund more rape crisis centre, which was added on to existing [...]
Out of touch #2
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They still don't get it, but by God they are determined to ram anthropomorphic caused global warming climate change down our throats despite its poisoned chalice reputation. They really do think we're stupid and that flash [...]
Out of touch
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Jug Lugs (aka His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Knight Companion [...]
The true cost of socialism revealed
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) today released a study revealing that the public purse after Labour's disastrous rule will be faced with £4.84 trillion of liabilities compared with the current public sector net debt figure of £903bn. This [...]
We have our reasons
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According to a report only 38% of us would intervene if we saw a bunch of teens wrecking a bus shelter as opposed to 52% of our European cousins. The only real surprise is that 38% of us would, still I suppose it depends on the area you live in. Mostly [...]
Pandering
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I read somewhere that Moslem's make up about 5% of the population (and seemingly cause over 95% of headlines about intolerance) And again they are in the news because some do gooders in the Stoke-on-Trent City Council have produced an 11 page document [...]
Bureaucratic Idiocy
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Anyone who has had the misfortune to travel on the West Coast Main Line knows just how crowded the trains are, they also know just how bad the line and multiple stops are compared to the East Coast Main Line, which is by far the better route. That the [...]
English Heroes #8
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An occasional series recording Englishmen, women and children who have done great things for themselves or others and reflected well on the country of their birth.Step forward Alice Hipkiss ( Age 6) her family and the medical team at Great Ormond [...]
Doing my bit for climate change
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Well, having experienced the coldest winter since the last coldest winter (yonks ago) and having struggled to get my car out of the street in the snow I have decided to do my bit for global warming climate change. My old [...]
Parish Notice
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Blogging will be light to non-existent for the next couple of days, I have to make my bi-annual trip into London today to see my doc about my ex cancer plus my car is still acting up in the mornings. I think I'll enjoy the trip and sell the car, but [...]
Well that's a novel use of the NHS
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There are some things you see when you trawl various news items to see if there's anything worth blogging about that cause you to wonder.BBC.A "big budget" pornographic film was shot in a London hospital when it hired out one of its wards to a film [...]
Minor inconveniences and irritations
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There are some days it just doesn't pay to be me, last night I worked a 12 hour nightshift, wasn't a bad shift as these things go, but by the end of it you just want to go home and sleep and that's where the problems started. The damned car wouldn't [...]