Is the Luftwaffe still operating?
Only this past week, I found myself in a polite but rather pointed political discussion with one my elderly clients about the issue of ID cards. She was all in favour of them because, “we had them...
View Article“Stewed prunes tonight. Your favourite.”
Even in this era of intense news management and political spin, a public figure will still occasionally (and often inadvertantly) let a few morsels of truth slip out. For the past two decades or so,...
View ArticleBe still my beating heart!!
Three cheers and hip, hip, hooray for London will indeed host the 2012 Olympics. Sing halleluiahs and hosannas for mere, prosaic words alone cannot even begin to express the happiness that courses...
View ArticleUpdate London 07/07
Things look pretty normal round here but then I am stuck in the North London ‘burbs and the carnage is all concentrated around Central London and the West End. My mobile telephone appears to be working...
View ArticleLondon 07/07 Unfolding
For anyone who may be worried about relatives or friends in Central London, the Police Casualty Bureau hotline number is now open on 0870 1566 344. UPDATE: 33 fatalities now confirmed. I hope this...
View ArticleLondon 07/07 – continuing
The German magazine ‘Spiegel On-line’ is reporting that something calling itself ‘The Secret Organisation of Al-Qaeda in Europe’ has claimed reponsibility for this morning’s attacks on London....
View ArticleAs evening falls…
The official casualty roll from this morning’s attack now stands at 37 dead and 700 injured to varying degrees. It now appears that there were four separate explosions, three of them on undergound...
View ArticleHot or not?
I have just had my attention drawn to this rather startling claim: Preliminary reports from a source inside the Pentagon indicate that one of the operatives involved in this morning’s bombings in...
View ArticleIt’s yesterday once more
I can only assume that Michael Moore was too busy: Nearly four years after the collapse of the World Trade Center, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone will direct a film based on the story of two...
View ArticleWho are we to judge?
Could this be linked to anything? Plans by an alliance of rightwing extremists and football hooligans to exact “revenge” on Muslims after last week’s bomb attacks are being monitored by police. The...
View ArticleSomeone needed to cool off
Now this is what I call ‘global justice’: A thirsty thief is being blamed for downing a bottle of water, valued at £42,500, at a literary festival. The two-litre clear plastic bottle containing melted...
View ArticleMother Nature wreaks havoc again
A powerful tornado has swept through the city of Birmingham in the West Midlands. The twister struck earlier today, cutting a swathe of devastation through the districts of Kings Heath, Moseley,...
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