Trident: corporate America milks British cash from nationalist woodies
Thanks be to US defence secretary Ash Carter for bigging up Britain on the international stage. According to reports, Carter has said that the UK needs to keep its Trident…
Travelling at the speed of purple: the design secrets of the 500 Type EVA Shinkansen
By AN O’Bergine, special correspondent for purple things, Osaka, Japan So have you seen the ads for the very new, very fast, Shinkansen train? They are all over JR stations…
The secret and sinister fate of the Titanic
Today the startling truth was revealed about the fate of the infamous cruise liner the Titanic. For over 100 years it was thought that the Titanic hit an iceberg in…
Official notice: deportment while under government surveillance in the home
The NSA and GCHQ would like to remind you to smile when they are spying on you through your webcam. Indiscriminate surveillance is a pretty thankless task and it would…
The horror, the Tepco horror
Fukushima: back in March after the tsunami, it was ‘The power station is OK. There has been no meltdown.’ Then in the summer it was, ‘Well, actually there were four…
Refounding Labour? Veni, vidi, dunnit before, innit
Mr Miliband — Ed, mate — Refounding Labour: it’s been done before. Tony did it. New Labour; scrapped clause IV, which formerly committed the party to, er, socialism, thus making…
Britain’s train travellers, read this and revolt
In the wake of the riots, Mr. Cameron has decided to fix a broken nation by raising rail fares by 8 per cent. Many people think that rail fares are…
Milibollocks
Since Ed Miliband became leader of the Labour Party in September last year, the jury has been out on whether he was going to be the person to restore credibility…
The Shaft
Poor old David Cameron. It seems that no one is happy with him. The Archbishop of Canterbury has claimed no one voted for his policies. Tory Blair won’t endorse them…
False prophet, real death
I’ve been chuckling about the antics of Family Radio’s Harold Camping and his recent prophecies of the end of the world. No longer. It seems that Camping’s delusions have been…