The secret state

“Secret military/intelligence documents and laptops seem to have an alarming tendency to end up accidentally left in pubs or abandoned in ditches.”
This blog report by Guardian News blogger, Mark Oliver is fascinating…and well worth a quick read.

Happy Birthday Dubya

George is 60 today
Pic from a Voice for Freedom
Bizarrely, I was reading The Times of India online ( I honestly have absolutely no idea why) when I discovered that George Bush is 60 today. According to the newspaper, Bush has been commenting on his advancing years at every opportunity and even addressed the matter [...]

Blogger freedom?

boingboing is one of the blogs I visit regularly - eclectic, amusing, and usefully informative.  They picked up on a story about Singapore’s most famous blogger ‘Mr Brown’ - but it was the extract from a government spokesman’s announcement which interested me particularly
“It is not the role of journalists or newspapers in Singapore to champion [...]

Ingerland fightback?

History is a curious thing. Portugal is our oldest ally and rivalry between England and France, in many different forms, goes back to the time of the Norman Conquest. Yet not one of the ten or so watching Portugal lose to France in The Swan appeared to be supporting Portugal. The papers, of course, [...]