In another scary incidence of Tory Party control freakery and discrimination against anyone with a mind of his own, Philip Lardner, their candidate for North Ayrshire and Arran, has been suspended by the Party.
His crime? Writing on his website that he believes homosexuality is not normal and that it should not be promoted to schoolchildren.
We [...]

A MAJOR environmental battle is looming over plans to open Scotland’s first gold mine within a national park.
Owners of the Cononish mine, near Tyndrum, expect to extract up to 73,000 tonnes of ore per year for a decade to cash in on demand for the precious metal, which has soared in price over the last [...]

On Monday, I noticed another two shops in town had closed and lie completely empty. They are adjacent and in a street facing three other empty shops, right in the centre of town. Visitors would be forgiven for thinking that we are trying hard to win Ghost Town of the Year 2010. Instead of tumbleweeds [...]

In my last post I discussed just how awful the Lib Dems’ ideas are. I hadn’t heard of this one which the Telegraph has just warned about: Nick Clegg’s plans for VAT on new homes attacked.
The tax of between five and seven per cent would add up to £14,000 to the cost of buying an [...]

The Leaders’ Debate on the telly has prompted huge support for the Lib Dems. Not only does a YouGov survey for the Sunday Times suggest that Nick Clegg is now the most popular party leader since Winston Churchill, but a BPIX poll for The Mail on Sunday puts the Lib Dems in first place: a [...]

I was in town with a friend yesterday evening and we bought a Chinese takeaway and started walking back to my place. We passed New Labour’s constituency office and spotted our MP/candidate, Russell Brown, heading there from across the street.
As you can probably imagine, I was seething with anger just at the sight of him. [...]

Just before the 1983 General Election, Neil Kinnock uttered these ominous words,
If Margaret Thatcher wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.
He could equally have been warning about the state of the [...]

I meant to do this more often. The first one was nearly three months ago. Anyway, here goes. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the incredible Tom Mullica…

He says that he only does this trick in public because the laughter helps him cope with the pain.
Now, Keaton Simons always gives his best – even when [...]

My parents used to holiday in Bulgaria and Romania during the Communist era and made friends with some of the locals, even keeping in touch by letter for years afterwards. The locals said that they had to watch what they said in public because “the walls have ears”.
They were afraid of being overheard by those [...]

Two posts ago, I wrote about Chris Grayling’s comment that B&B owners should be allowed to choose who stays in their premises. Leg-iron left a link to a hotel in Blackpool which is only open to homosexual men. He went on to blog about it himself.
I left a rather lengthy comment on Leggy’s blog comparing [...]