Gurkha Victory

According to this report , from Sky, the Gurkhas have won their latest battle, against the British government! They have won the right to settle in the UK. Great news.

No doubt the fantastic Gurkha Welfare Trust played an important role and deserve our continuing support.

More here from the BBC.

Oetzi

In February 2007 we went to Italy and visited Bolzano. There you can visit the Iceman of Bolzano also known as Oetzi. He is 5,300 years old and his body was only found, extremely well preserved, in 1991 by a couple of Alpine walkers.

Unbeknown to us when visiting this awe-inspiring museum, there was a financial battle going on with the discoverers fighting for a financial reward from the Italian government.

Here is the BBC report on the latest developments.

EU Crapping Themselves?

I think the EU busybodies must be crapping themselves. Here they are trying to blacken Declan Ganley's reputation by trying to link his Libertas organisation with the CIA and the Pentagon.

And here is a piece from the Irish Times about the EU trying to soften up the Irish populaton by sending over "consumer-friendly" commissioners on a PR exercise.

Add to te unpopularity of the EU throughout Europe an economic recession, that is yet to really hurt, and bang, the pieces of a timebomb that could blow the whole EU project apart are falling into place. No wonder they are crapping it.

Why, even the Tories' William Hague is coming over all Eursceptic again here.

Rubbish Riots In Naples

I suppose I should now say: "actually I thought they were great myself", but I won't.

Here's a link to a BBC video of a riot in Naples. Whereas we whine and write to the local newspaper about rubbish, in Naples they have a bloody good riot. In days gone by we used to be good at rioting, seems nobody can be mitherd any more in the UK. Shame that, it's such good fun.

Bog Off

New Labour really is taking us back in time.

Students in Manchester, according to this article, seem to have gone back to the days of the worst excesses of political correctness.

If the students' union wants to be taken anything like seriously, which it never actually will, it should not have a 'Steve Biko Building'.

Furthermore, if people are transgendered then surely they just use the toilets of their chosen gender. Why confuse all genders by putting ludicrous, uninformative notices on the doors?

Yet again pinko liberals manage to piss everybody off. Pun intended.

Howard Marks Live

Following my post yesterday about ecstasy I have perused Howard Marks' website, and he has only one live show in the next couple of months. If you have not seen him live I can recommend him, his shows are superbly entertaining but, if you have short hair and are 40 something, prepare for the more paranoid audience members to ask if you are a copper, it happened to me twice a couple of years ago when we saw him in Skipton. Actually, it didn't happen when we saw him in Morecambe so maybe it was just paranoid Yorkshiremen.

Anyway if you are in Manchester, or can get there on October 8th, give yourself a treat. Full details here.

More Data Stolen

This time the data has been stolen from a 'high security' area of a Gloucestershire air base. Here is the BBC report.

If you're still daft enough to think ID cards and state databases will make you secure then visit No2ID.

Ecstasy Downgrade Considered

According to this story from the BBC.

Would legalising drugs really have a detrimental effect on 'our children' as those opposed to legalisation like to claim? I don't think it would be any worse than having legalised alcohol. Indeed legalisation would largely remove the malign influence of those who sell all kinds of stuff to people illegally. Just a thought.

And if you want to know what 'Mr Nice' thinks then visit Howard Marks' website.

Hazel Blears Is Healthy

I caught the back end of Question Time last night. It was very strange and I really thought Hazel Blears had some serious illness. Her expression was deadpan, almost like what was known as the 'Parkinsonian mask' before political correctness. It also seemed to be affecting her voice or throat. She had a strange kind of guttural, nasal twang.

But as I watched it suddenly dawned on me. The spin doctors had told her to drop that ridiculous smile she usually has painted on her fizzog. And the voice problem? QT was coming from Manchester and she had decided to adopt an Oasis style Manchester accent. Patronising old bag!

Must remember to miss the programme next week. It will probably be even more annoying.

From Ananova

A Chinese airport shocked passengers and flight crew - by sending 30 workers to push a faulty plane off a runway.

It took them nearly two hours to push the CRJ7 plane, with 69 passengers and seven-strong crew on board, less than half a mile to a side lane.

"Thank God, it was only a 20 tonne medium-sized airplane. If it had been a big plane, it would have knocked us out," said one man, who said he had never experienced anything like it in ten years working at the airport.

Airport officials explained that plane's front hydraulic system was faulty and meant it could not be attached to a tow truck.

It happened at Zhengzhou airport where the flight from Guilin had a rocky landing because of the mechanical failure.

"Luckily the airplane was able to brake on time and all the passengers are safe," a spokesman told Henan Business Daily..

Crew and passengers watched in amazement as several vehicles arrived with sirens blaring, and 30 people jumped off the trucks and started to push the airplane.

The plane is still parked in the side lane, waiting for technicians to fix the problem.

We Now Have ID Cards In The UK

Here is the full story.

So they start with foreigners, where are the cries of racism?, but be sure, we will all end up having them then God knows who will be able to access all your records.

When will people wake up and get in touch with No2ID?

Actually we won't all get them. Some of us will go to prison instead!

A True Sporting Legend

'Legend' is a word much used, and abused, in the world of sport and elswhere. In my view it can be used in truth and honesty about very few without it sounding cliched and trite.

One man it can clearly be used to describe is Lance Armstrong. To come back from cancer to win the Tour de France is truly the stuff of legend. To win the most gruelling sporting event in the world 7 times without previous health problems warrants legend status, so ovecoming testicular cancer, that had spread to his brain, puts Armstrong's status as legend beyond debate.

Next year he will be doing Le Tour again, joining the Astana team currently led by Alberto Contador, Le Tour winner in 2007. Here is the full story.

Having seen part of Le Tour in 2005, the last time Armstrong won it, I suspect we will be in France on holiday next July to witness the great man's comeback.

The main reason he is returning is to promote Livestrong, the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Empty Rhetoric Awards

This one's for Barack's old mate Gordon Brown.

They're After Us!

Those EUfascists are at it again. Now they're trying to regulate blogging because so many of us are EU-critical. Of course free speech is at the heart of the EU, as long as you agree with them!

Read all about it here.

Fat Bottomed Girls

The woman in this story obviously had a very memorable bottom, if a little on the large side.

The moral of the story is that even if you intend to rob a bank other than squeezing through a small window, or a hole you have blown in the wall, lose weight first.

The pictue of Michael Moore is just gratuitous abuse. He's a fat bum too!

Police State

Yet again the government has sneaked out its latest ruse to brand us all with ID cards. This time, at a fringe meeting in Manchester, they have let it be known that they are planning to try forcing under 16s to carry ID cards.

Full story here.

If you don't already then it really is time you supported No2ID by clicking here.

Fortress Manchester

My hot air balloon flight was cancelled, for the fourth time this morning, so it was off on the early train to join SPUC distributing leaflets to delegates at the Labour Party conference.

I say delegates, they were more like cloned zombies or some kind of mass produced politico-robots. I would love to know where the production line is that produces these people. Some of the wimmin delegates seemed to have retained some element of individuality, although there were few obvious skinheads in dungarees like they used to attract when they were a socialist outfit.

The most awful part for me was the security. A whole section of the City Centre, around the Bridgewater Hall, the old Free Trade Hall and Central Library is virtually sealed off. The police presence is bigger than I have ever seen at any major event. The most sinister aspect of this heavy duty policing was the presence, in large numbers, of 'Police Evidence Gatherers'. These are the prat police who wander around taking photographs and videoing people handing out literature or holding placards. Perhaps I'll be dragged from my bed at 4-00am for dissenting, PC David Bailey having gathered the photographic evidence to blow my defence out of the water.

But the bizarre element of all this was the way the zombies and clones (delegates) were pompously strutting around Manchester as if they owned the place. I have never seen so many complete and utter twonks in one concentrated area. It seems to me that not one of them realised that this whole Guantamo Bay style security was to protect them because they are so loathed and despised by the population. They seem to think that having to hold their conference in Stalag Luft Manchester Central is some kind of a badge of honour. It actually shows how hated you are!

No you muppets, you are why politicians and the political class are so despised. Real people have to be kept away from you because they might harm you, it's not because you are so loved you might get mobbed like some kind of pop culture superstars.

Millionaires Being Repossessed

This story is about a millionaire in Nottingham who handed his house back to the bank because it was haunted. Yes, course it was.

This story is of a millionaire, hit by the credit crunch, who has had his mansion repossessed by the banks.

Which is the likeliest to be a true reason do you think?

Defective Defector

I normally feel quite compassionate towards the sick, but not in this case.

Hot Air

Here's a dilemma. I am booked on a hot air balloon flight on Tuesday morning, the previous three being cancelled because of poor weather. There is also a demo on Tuesday morning by the pro-life organisation SPUC outside the Labour conference in Manchester.

The decision is whether to cancel the balloon flight to go on the demo or not. Who knows, maybe the weather will intervene again. If interested the demo will last all morning and will be around Mount Street in the City Centre. Think I'll be there.