Crocodile Mania

A Russian man who took his pet crocodile with him to the Black Sea beach resort of Anapa was arrested .... No surprise there really.

Crocodiles On A Lead Make For Nervous
Owners .... As Well As Song And Dancers

The surprise was perhaps that he thought he wouldn't be arrested, after he let children on the beach stroke and pet it.

PETA Wool Worrying

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) the animal rights group, are prone to moments of ridiculousness which harms their cause.

The World Record Wool Weight For Unshorn Sheep - 40kg

They seem to think that sheep object to being sworn at, and that shearing sheep is some form of sheep cruelty (have they ever seen a sheep that isn't shorn?).

The Wheels Of Justice Are A Slowly Burning Fuse

Back in February 2015 .....

A Life Prison Sentence For Zacarias Moussaoui
(Some Jurors Weren't Convinced Of His Guilt)

..... the only man convicted of being a 9/11 bomber, and also of being a member of the Bin Laden al-Qaeda terror organisation, Zacarias Moussaoui, made claims that the Saudi royals 'funded 9/11 attacks.' 

Drugged Responses

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" .... Albert Einstein

Insanity Doesn't Stop Bad Decisions .....

As this blog has posted on a number of occasions, we need to adopt a completely new approach to tackling the drug crisis in the West.

Open Letter To Boris

Dear Boris

When the Conservatives won the election I was fairly optimistic for the future ....

   Churchillian Poses And Tones, Are Just So Much Hot Air And Bluster ...

.... but then came Covid19, and the governments increasingly flailing response.

Talking Heads

Apparently there are 'Evil Geniuses' out there.

Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Doesn't Mean Intelligence

An example of this was that someone who really needs to examine their soul, set two Google Home Chatbots to talk to each other, and any other person interested in interacting with them.

Home Is The Best

According to Drayton, a heating firm that commissioned a poll, the 'perks' of working from home during the Coronavirus pandemic includes amongst other things ....

Pyjamas At Work - A Dream For Many - A Reality Now!

 .... being able to wear pyjamas all day if you want to.

Multicultural Mistakes

In many Western countries (including the UK), it's hard to argue against the proposition ....

Integrated or Threatening?

.... that we have a major integration issue with some immigrants. Some groups appear to have simply refused to assimilate with Western values in any meaningful way, even when they are second or third generation.

Separated By An Ocean And A Language

With the revelation that Donald Trump, President of the United States, and leading nation in NATO apparently didn't know that the United Kingdom was a nuclear power ...

Fox News - Intelligence Source For Pres Trump?

..... and that we were in fact the third nuclear power, we perhaps shouldn't be surprised by the misconceptions of our country that the US media hold.

Herr Today And Gone Tomorrow

Its been reported, that just 49 minutes after passing his driving test .....

It Can Happen To The Best Of Us .......

..... a German teenager had his licence suspended for 4 weeks, and faced extensive (and expensive) retesting before he could drive again.

Winter Woes

In December 2018, a judge told Twitter that they had to give up the identity of the people who had set up a false Twitter accounts that purported to be (or parodied depending upon your view point), the official Wetherspoons brewery/pub chain account.

False Twitter Accounts Can Damage A Business  .... This Was One Of The False Twitter Posts.

The impostor account had tens of thousands of followers, but often posts abusive messages to customers, and gives false news updates e.g. stating that staff wouldn't be wearing remembrance poppies because of Multiculturalism.

Passing The Asylum Buck

In northern France, despite the camps being closed, there are still hundreds and possibly thousands of what the PC driven BBC likes to call 'migrants' ....

Northern France Awash With Illegal Migrants ... UK Bound.

..... but whom most of us would call illegal immigrants, are still gathering to try and enter Britain.

Defending Secularism

One of the threats to the hard won freedoms of the West ....

The Age Of Reason Is Being Challenged .....

.... are the attacks on secularism.

Strange Encounters Of The Implausible Kind

The 'cigar shaped object' spotted hurtling out of our solar system, and which prompted speculation that it might be an alien craft leaving our space .... wasn't.

"Nothing To See Here .... Just Passing Through!"

Nicknamed 'Oumuamua' it was just a huge rock, about a quarter of a mile long with, surprise, surprise, 'no evidence of artificial signals emanating from it'. .... 'bugger' say another group of UFO believers ... they just can't get a break since Roswell can they?

New Tech Take Up

Its amazing sometime how fast new technology captures the public's imagination .....

Young England Annual 1911/1912

After all, computing devices were invented during the second world war, but never really entered the general public's consciousness until the 1980's.

Law And Disorder

The UK’s courts often fail to protect the lawful and but are usually even worse at protecting the emergency services ....

Thugs Assault Two UK Police Officers In London.

..... and only 13 per cent of those who are charged with assaults on police and the emergency services actually receive jail sentences. The two above were both jailed, but its a comparatively rare event.

Undocumented Immigrants

Immigration figures have not been in the news a lot recently because of coronavirus, and interest in them waxes and wanes, as the issue makes the news such as the recent channel crossings.

Illegal Immigrants Cause Voter Anxieties .....

However from the UK Brexit referendum, through the Turkish threats to let Arabs stream in to Europe, and the forthcoming US Presidential Election and beyond, they will feature .... so although the Coronavirus response has pushed it lower down the political ladder it still cause concerns.