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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Hazel Blears and The Fabian Society on Political Correctness
I never thought I’d say this about any Labour government minister, ever, but … three cheers for Hazel Blears! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7909258.stm People must be more willing to challenge ideas that conflict with core British values, the communities secretary has said. Hazel … Continue reading
Hate-filled unelected Muslim peer Lord Ahmed jailed for just 12 weeks for killing father of 2
A little bit of good news in a morning filled with sadness for David Cameron and the incident with the crashing plane at Amsterdam Schipol airport. Lord Ahmed has been jailed for killing a father of two. How long did … Continue reading
Shameless bankers and the myth of free market capitalism
What the hell is going on?! We now know that Taxpayers may become liable for £500bn worth of bad loans and investments made by Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group. And now, Sir Fred Goodwin, having run the bank appallingly, … Continue reading
Twittering at last!
I’m tweeting at last – and only about 8 months behind everyone else, so it seems. Here’s what I’ve learnt over the last few weeks: You’ll need a client, either Tweetdeck or Destroy Twitter (note: it doesn’t!) http://search.twitter.com/Search tweets http://hashtags.org/ … Continue reading
MMR, Bad Science, tall poppies and Gail Trimble
Britain seems to be having a bout of “Tall Poppy Syndrome“. You see, we have this bright young thing on University Challenge. She slaughters the competition, and allows herself a smile when she gets the right answer. Except, people hate … Continue reading
Why I can’t stand Angela Eagle
This is Exchequer Secretary Angela Eagle giving interviews to the BBC last on Thursday 19th Feb 2009 First of all on Radio 4′s The World at One [Audio clip: view full post to listen] and later talking to Five Live … Continue reading
phpbb.com down or hacked?
I noticed my phpbb forum dashboard has being saying “connection refused” (when checking updates) for 24 hours now, and phpbb.com has been unreachable. Google’s most recent cache at 1 Feb 2009 04:43:49 GMT says: SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Table ‘phpbb.community_users’ … Continue reading