Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Bonkers

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Alan Duncan, the Tory MP for Rutland and Melton, got rather carried away in his opposition to the plans for more congestion charging in the ...
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Not just in Shropshire

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A few weeks ago the Guardian carried a piece on a campaign against California's 'three strikes and you're out' law. Amo...
Monday, March 29, 2004

Lunch interval

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David Milliband is growing up. He thinks it would be a good idea if pupils remained in school during the lunch break. For what it is wor...

Save our orchards

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A depressing item from the Guardian (come to that, most items from the Guardian ...). So much green discourse is busy dealing with ...
Sunday, March 28, 2004

British justice

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Yes this is really is about Shropshire, England. From the Shropshire Star : A Shropshire man who was jailed for life after stealing T-shi...

More on public space

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An essay on the CABE report after my own heart. It is written by Josie Appleton on the Spiked website.

House Points

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I have just posted my latest House Points column . "Cavanagh has much in common with this column. A reviewer described him as a cont...

That's enough snuggery (Ed.)

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James Graham points us towards a particularly good example . I have also added a neat summation of the case against snuggery in the Spec...
Thursday, March 25, 2004

Meanwhile in the desert...

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I'm gonna get you in my tent tent tent tent tent Where we can both experiment ment ment ment ment With acknowledgement to Neil Innes ...
Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Why snuggery matters

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Today's Guardian reports: "Twitchy local authorities, obsessed with safety and frightened of compensation claims, are turning ...
Tuesday, March 23, 2004

More snuggery

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From the Daily Mail via India: "I think banning ball games in the playground is a sensible idea. These days everybody is looking f...
Monday, March 22, 2004

Snuggery

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In my House Points column for 30 January I invented a new word - "snuggery" - defined as an exaggerated concern for safety. It...

Lord Bonkers: "It could be me, couldn't it?"

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If I have got the hang of Blogger, a cartoon of the old brute by Howard Woodall will appear here.

Lord Bonkers' Diary

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I have just posted Lord Bonkers' latest diary on his website. Please click here and then on "The Latest Diary" when you ge...
Sunday, March 21, 2004

Mad world, part 94

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Fears sparked by new Jesus movie Shropshire movie-goers are to be offered counselling sessions amid fears that they will be emotionall...

A waste of time

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Discuss the connection between these two stories: Charles may be quizzed in Diana probe Britain's top policeman has indicated tha...

House Points

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I have just posted my latest House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . "Viewed in this light, the Palace of Westminster rese...
Thursday, March 18, 2004

So farewell then Barrie Blower

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The head of Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust has resigned after saying that agency nurses "kill more people than they bloody save". ...

Saxon is the new Roman

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These days I fall asleep in front of The Time Team . This is the second sign that you are getting old. (The first is when you start watching...

Today's Grauniad

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I'm not among Simon Hoggart's greatest fans. Mostly it's jealousy, but I do find him a little too keen on easy targets. I suspec...