This all happened shortly before the terrible events at the Boston marathon…
I am rarely on Twitter these days and about three weeks ago I wondered if Tom Harris, Labour MP for Glasgow South, had blocked me, like several of his comrades have. I tweeted to him:
“Testing. Am I blocked?”
To which he replied,
@stewartcowan Where the hell [...]

The Daily Mail thinks so, as they rename the House of Commons the House of Twits. I’m sure that the name is appropriate generally, but I happen to think that the new social media, like Twitter and Facebook, not to mention MPs’ blogs, are a handy way for us to communicate with MPs and replies [...]

Nine years ago, Labour MPs decided to join in the USA’s war for corporate empire in Afghanistan after the Neocon’s “New Pearl Harbor” happened on 9/11. This year, some of them have recorded very brief Christmas messages of support for our troops.
(For some reason, they have used WinkBall to host these videos.)
The first video I [...]

Ed Miliband made his maiden speech to Conference yesterday as new Labour leader. Not “New” Labour leader, i.e. not new New Labour leader, just new Labour leader.
This is very important, because New Labour is dead. This Party is no more; it has ceased to be, etc…
But Mr Miliband is not a Norwegian Blue pining for [...]

Glasgow South MP and wannabe front bencher, Tom Harris, tweeted this the other day…

I kept some extra tardises in (if that’s the plural) for effect. Tom is probably more famous for his love of this TV programme than he is for his part in destroying the UK during his two terms as a New Labour [...]

I had the privilege and pleasure of talking to Dr Ian Paisley in December after he helped install a new minister in the local Free Presbyterian church. I was keen to know what he thought about climate change. Well, I thought I was angry at the skulduggery!
Anyway, Tom Harris tweeted last night that he had [...]

Not just me, but I left what I consider to be a brutally honest comment (is it still legal to be brutally honest?) under his blog post about his latest presentation of Veterans’ Badges and Normandy Bars to constituents who risked everything to serve our country in our armed forces.
Tom writes that he is [...]

Leg-iron wonders why bans work. Is it because people love to be nannied? Do people fall for the propaganda; the over-hyping of dangers like second-hand smoking? Are law-abiding folks generally used to being treated fairly and so don’t know how to deal with ridiculous new legislation, like banning the public from photographing policemen?
Why won’t people [...]

Sometimes I feel like being silly. Tom Harris’s post Let’s play The Remake Game invited ideas for who should play the lead roles in film remakes.
I suggested a remake of ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still‘ starring Gordon Brown as Gort, the indestructible robot.
Ah, but Gort’s mission was to make us Earthlings live in peace [...]

The UK’s intervention to bring democracy to other countries (i.e. install puppet governments who dance to the US regime’s tune) looks particularly disingenuous when you consider incidents like this:
Teens from Okeechobee church deported from England after running afoul of anti-terror law.
One photograph taken by a 14 year old resulted in her camera and mobile phone [...]