Its almost an early morning, 9.00am isn’t too early nor too late but its okay seeing as I had a good night and fell asleep with a copy of The Republic covering my face, its still there when I wake up. I’m up and out in less than twenty minutes to meet a couple of friends [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Just a Perfect Day
Posted in Meaningless Rambling on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Going down swinging
Posted in Political, UK politics, democracy, tagged Glasgow East By-Election. Labour getting trashed again on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was thinking of using the title of this post as the jumping off point for a script for a pornographic film that I would put together using much of the college drama department, it would have an ironic ring to it seeing as I’d be banged up behind bars (that really is an unpleasant [...]
Back to basics, Minimum wage
Posted in Economy, Free Market, Political, UK politics on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s get back on track, I have not had a good argument in too long, it has been nothing but the rather pointless philosophical point scoring of a class full of people that get confused between the search for truth and meaningless arguments in which the only objective is to win, no matter how wrong [...]
A Tragically Early Middle Age
Posted in Meaningless Rambling, tagged Bad Dreams on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Has anyone else lucky enough to be acquainted with Lamotrigine noticed a sudden and almost unaccountable tendency to gain weight? I’m unsure as to whether it is simply the end of the charmed life I led as a Teenager and the beginning of the long, slow descent into middle age or if it has something [...]
Some interesting information about Hampshire Conservatives regarding expenditure.
Posted in UK politics, democracy, tagged East Hampshire County Council on July 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In 2008 the Conservatives who run HCC increased council tax to 4.5% and have promised to cut council tax to 3% in the year of the election (whenever that may be). The 4.5% increase was unnecessary and led to a budget surplus of £120 million, which is now being stashed away by the Council possibly in [...]
Provocation, an interesting concept
Posted in Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Political, UK politics, US Politics, War, World on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Iran has come under fire for test firing nine missiles, including a new Shahab-3, with a range of 2,000km (1,240 miles). The missile could potentially reach the Israeli city of Tel-Aviv and naturally combined with the concerns of an Iranian military nuclear program has provoked condemnation from Israel and the US.
The BBC Diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus voiced the opinion that
“The [...]
Murder He Wrote
Posted in Meaningless Rambling, tagged Detectives on July 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I, like most people in the world, quite enjoy reading detective novels, it all started when I read a childrens book about a schoolboy who was a detective, I forget exactly what the title of the book was but I remember that it made me want to be a detective and find out exactly why [...]
Thoughts on the Henley By-election
Posted in Political, UK politics, democracy on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll apologise outright for the lateness of this post, I have unfortunately been a trifle wrapped up in keeping the band ticking over and the all important business of sleeping until one in the afternoon, if ever I needed to simply admit that laziness and procrastination have been getting the better of me then now [...]
Because we are in the right
Posted in Government, Iran, Middle East, Missile Defence, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Political, War, World on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The continued development of the Ballistic Missile Defence system by the United States comes a little closer to reality as US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice travels to Prague to gain assent to a treaty which will allow US bases within the Czech republic. The system which will see the involvement of a Pan-Atlantic selection of nations [...]
