November 2010

Hardly world-shattering news - who'd'a'thunk that rank and file Liberal Democrats might be quite liberal and pro-democracy? Not Nick Clegg, oddly, for whom the fact that his own party has voted to support itself is being characterised as something of a warning shot.

Toby Young can't take a hint - in fact I doubt he'd take a hint if you tattooed it onto his cranium with a meat-axe, so the long war against Teh Stupid continues.  Foremost in the fight are the Local Schools Network, who have been going through the admissions process:

Now, many more cowardly commentators might fall into the trap of not using an argument based on human rights legislation on the basis that it is commonly held in the UK that 'uman rights are the root cause of crime, social breakdown, childhood obesity and Ordinarydecentbritons not being able to call wogs wogs any more, and what is the world coming to?  Well, bollocks to that, here's a little something for IDS to chew on with his morning cornflakes:

The problem with Phil 'Petrolhead' Hammond's avowed intent, at least when talking to tabloid journalists, to end the 'war on the motorist' is that there wasn't really a war - the idea that a speed camera represents an intrusion into the motorist's ability to drive is more than a little tenuous given that by definition it has to be installed next to a public highway and calibrated to permit free passage at the legal maximum speed for that highway.

Looks like we were right: BAE is just cracking on with production of the Nimrod MRA4 aircraft. The latest idea appears to be just to scrap them.

If they have the balls to do that. Remember Tony Benn and the blueprints.