The UK’s first landlord to be jailed for allowing smoking in his pub (and due to being unable to afford the fine), has been released after a few days.
Anna Racoon’s campaign via Old Holborn’s PayPal account raised more than enough needed to pay the remainder of Mr Hogan’s fine. £8,664.50 in cash was handed in [...]

I haven’t posted for a few days. Sometimes I don’t see the point, such is the craziness of the modern world. Other times, writing seems like the only thing I can do, for exactly the same reason.
For example, the bastardisation of the word equality seems to be limitless. Now, it is vegans who are the [...]

Tom Harris has posted this video of Gordon Brown listing New Labour’s “achievements”.
I imagine it sounds very convincing – to those who allow themselves to be drowned in the sea of grand ideas and emotion.

This is what I told Tom:
Any thinking person would question almost everything on this list of ‘achievements’. I don’t have the [...]

Leg-iron reports on the first publican to be jailed for allowing his customers to light up.
Nick Hogan, 43, from Lancashire, was sentenced to six months in prison for repeatedly refusing to pay a fine imposed for flouting the legislation.
As Leg-iron says,
In this wonderful free country where everyone has the choice to do as they are [...]

I think a lot of bloggers will pick up on this story.

A company selling “Anyone but England” T-shirts for this year’s World Cup has rejected suggestions it is racist after police in Aberdeen visited its store.
Police warned Slanj, which also has stores in Glasgow and Edinburgh, that a window display featuring the shirt could cause [...]

In a very unbelievable and silly speech in Coventry today, the Gorgon set out his vision for a fairer Britain. It sounded well done, actually, so that millions of gullible folk will fall for it yet again, in a sort of “fair-for-families” Groundhog Day way.
I left the following comments on Tom Harris’s blog:
Oh, Tom, it’s [...]

We’ve had a laugh over the various party political posters so far, so you would think that New Labour’s actual election posters would have been thoroughly thought out. Instead, wee Dougie Alexander has come up with this slogan:
A future fair for all
Less than an hour after the unveiling, the joke posters are on the internet.

After thirteen years of New Labour mismanagement (to put it mildly), what are you hoping for when Dave becomes Prime Minister in a couple of months’ time?
A referendum on the Lisbon Treaty? Forget it. A more sensible relationship with our EU ‘partners’? Not very likely. A better NHS? Schools that educate rather than indoctrinate? A [...]

I left a long comment on Leg-iron’s post, The Tory vote-losing technique, which I am reproducing here. He is talking about the modern phenomenon of shouting down your opponents and calling them names rather than engaging them in intelligent dialogue. He asks whether those, like climate change ‘atheists’ and those warning about mass immigration, were [...]

When I was at school, I learned about the great British men and women who changed our country and the world into a better place to live. There was William Wilberforce, who ended black slavery and the prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry. There were the great inventors, many of them Scottish, of course (the list is [...]