Curious Snippets

Lord Pearson in The Express - AT midnight on Monday Britain ceased to be a sovereign nation in full charge of its own destiny. That is when the fully ratified Lisbon Treaty came into ...

A whole raft of shit policies, badly implemented and poorly enforced. - From The Evening Standard: *Eighty illegal migrants have been arrested after a crackdown on unlawful working at the London Olympic site. Half were caught ...

Friday Caption Competition (Left Foot Forward Edition) - Tagged: Caption Contest

ClimateGate: Follow the money - (NB, It's me, the P-G) I am struggling, manfully, to resist the temptation to reply to the ever-pertinent question: Cui bono? with the answer: Bono? It...

Friday 4th December 2009 - 4.15pm WATCH: The Spectator's Fraser Nelson debates climate change with an "hysterical" Bob Ward from the LSE 3pm The Conservative 2010 manifesto - conferenc...

Bercow's grammar school headache. - The main part of Sally Bercow's interview that is going to seriously hurt the Speaker, John Bercow's chances of getting re-elected in Buckingham next year...

Give MPs Something To Do - Douglas Carswell has proposed an excellent reform to further keep the executive in check... *Here's a simple idea. Require every Whitehall department - ...

Farmer Giles banned from using combine harvester - An EU law bans British farmers from using their combine harvesters on wet soil

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