Yesterday, dramatic new targets to reduce the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least one-fifth from today’s levels in just over a decade were proposed by the government’s Climate Change Committee.
Why is the UK continuing with its self-flagellation over energy policy? Do the government not realise there is a recession, and people are going to [...]
Archive for the ‘Political correctness’ Category
UK Energy policy, a rush to self destruction?
Posted in Climate change, Economics & Finance, Political correctness, Politics on December 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Damian Green – why the arrest?
Posted in Civil liberties, Police, Political correctness, tagged arrest, budget, damian green, immigration on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So Damian Green the Conservative Immigration spokesman has been arrested in connection with a series of leaks about immigration statistics from the Home Office. Well if that’s to be the case I sincerely hope that as much attention will be paid to those in government, who in recent days were clearly leaking details of Alistair [...]
Poppies
Posted in Life, Political correctness, tagged poppies, Remembrance day on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Years ago the wearing of poppies in advance of remembrance day was left to the individual. In recent years I’ve noticed that when it comes to the television media, poppies all break out at precisely the same time. If one person appearing on a TV programme wears a poppy then everyone does.
Now whilst I applaud [...]
Entente not so cordiale – or France: get over it.
Posted in Life, Political correctness, tagged agincourt, france, revisionist, saint crispin on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The revisionist historians are at it again. After nearly 600 years the French have finally worked out an excuse for losing the battle of Agincourt on St. Crispin’s day in 1415. It’s all down to beastly behaviour and ‘war crimes’ committed by Henry V’s troops.
Ironically it was the French who put St. Crispin to death [...]
Prisoner ‘contracts’
Posted in Life, Political correctness on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What on earth does Gordon Brown think he’s about? Today on the BBC Radio4 Today programme, after he had blocked plans to give prisoners a 37.5% pay rise, (there couldn’t be any local elections tomorrow could there?), he was burbling on about how important it is that any pay rise must be based on a [...]
Patronising instructions. An open letter to Rooney Anand, CEO Abbot Ales.
Posted in Life, Manners, Political correctness, tagged Abbot Ale, beer, Life, Manners, patronising on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good evening,
Tonight, whilst enjoying my usual Friday night beer and curry at home with my wife, and in an idle moment, I happened to read the label on my usual bottle of Abbot Ale. Not something that I usually do since I’m usually paying more attention to savouring its contents.
However, read the label I did, [...]
UK Immigration – the Hastilow article.
Posted in Civil liberties, Political correctness, Politics, immigration, tagged immigration, Political correctness, Politics on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Nigel Hastilow was, until he stepped aside this weekend, the prospective Parliamentary candidate for the Halesowen and Rowley Regis constituency in the UK’s West Midlands. He stepped aside after being summoned to a discussion with the Conservative Party chairman Caroline Spelman.
The reason he has stepped aside is because he refused to retract the comments he [...]
A little light please.
Posted in Climate change, Political correctness on October 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In 2009 the European Commission are intent on framing a directive to phase out the sale by 2012, of the traditional incandescent tungsten filament light bulbs. The sort of bulbs that have been around since Thomas Alva Eddison invented them 130 years ago.
In typical fashion, and wanting to display their eco credentials, the UK government [...]
Mind what you say….
Posted in Civil liberties, Political correctness, Politics, tagged CCTV, European Union, surveillance on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow sees yet another attack on our civil liberties here in the UK.
Under a European Union directive to “…ensure the investigation, detection and proscution of serious crime”, a direct result of the terror attacks in Madrid and London in 2004 and 2005, it will become compulsory for telephone companies to make available the time, [...]
Microsoft – who do EU think you are?
Posted in Political correctness, Politics, tagged European Union, Microsoft on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Who does the EU think it is?
I am constantly astounded at the interfering nature of the EU, so I’m not entirely surprised to see that the EU’s Court of First Instance is now meddling in the affairs of Microsoft. I though the West was essentially a capitalist society, where people and companies take the [...]
