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party | election | labour | clegg | liberal democrats John Kampfner supports Li...
simon wilson

Today the well-respected political commentator John Kampfner launched the pamphlet, Lost labours, with Nick Clegg.He comments, "As somebody who has a long involvement with the Labour party, including editing the New Statesman magazine, I have been a...

street view | google street | view coverage | google maps | uk Google Street View Covers...
Technology Blog (UK), Hi-...

Initially, Google Street View was fairly controversial with many people complaining about invasion of privacy and such issues. However, those concerns have not stopped Google from expanding the service, because as of tomorrow (11th March 2010), you ...

playstation move | motion controller | controller sony | playstation eye | ipad Preview: HTC Desire. Does...
UK Gadget and Tech News, ...

Here at Gaj-IT, we often talk about phones living up to their names, and being called Desire gives HTC’s latest Android release a lot to live up to. So does this big brother of the Google Nexus One get us hot under the collar? Let’s find out. ̷...

world cup | david beckham | cup promo | league | watch potato Martin Tyler Interview: ...
EPL Talk

BSkyB’s Martin Tyler was voted Premier League Commentator of the Decade. This summer, he will be the lead commentator for ESPN’s coverage of the World Cup in the United States. On this edition of the EPL Talk podcast, the broadcasting...

ashok kumar | middlesbrough south | mp ashok | east cleveland | labour mp Labour MP Ashok Kumar Fou...
Rhod on Public Affairs

Police and doctors are investigating the death of a Labour MP whose body was found at his home today.Dr Ashok Kumar, 53, had been working as normal, with major commitments as parliamentary private secretary to Hilary Benn, the environment secretary....

israel | cardinal sean | joe biden | sean brady | peace Biden condemns Israel ove...
The Guardian World News

• 1,600 homes to be built in East Jerusalem settlement• Vice-president says the deal undermines trustJoe Biden, the US vice-president, condemned a plan by Israel to build 1,600 homes on occupied Palestinian land in an East Jerusalem settlement.The ...

expenses | david chaytor | jim devine | harry cohen | elliot morley Expense charge MPs: we sh...
The Guardian World News

David Chaytor, Jim Devine, Elliot Morley and Lord Hanningfield say the workings of parliament should be dealt with by parliamentThree Labour MPs and a Conservative peer facing charges over their expenses appeared in court today to argue that their c...

nick hogan | anna raccoon | old holborn | christopher gill | hogan freed Nick Hogan Released -Offi...
Libertarian Party UK

It took the blogosphere just four days to raisethe near £10 000 to secure the release of Nick Hogan, imprisoned forsix months for flouting the smoking ban in his own premises and failingto act as the States unofficial Policeman.It took a further fiv...

ed balls | balls mp | balls admitted | marginal norwich | screaming eagles It’s time for the Tories ...
Labour Matters » Labour P...

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is today urging people to take a long hard look at the Tories plans for schools. He is challenging the Tories to come clean on how they will pay for their two flagsh...

march 2010 | tv debates | clegg gear | places everyone | lg 24 Reminder Win an LG 24 Inc...
Geeky-Gadgets

Just a quick reminder to all our readers, there is still time to enter this weeks Geeky Gadgets giveaway. This weeks prize is a brand new 24 inch LG W2486L Gaming Monitor. The contest is free to enter, and open to Geeky Gadgets readers from anywhere...

indigenous british | racist | bnp rules | members | still discriminating BNP plans to vet would-be...
The Guardian World News

Party's revised constitution would require all applicants to submit to a two-hour home visit, court is toldThe British National party plans to send officials to vet all would-be members in their homes, a court heard today.A clause in the far right g...

afghanistan | wootton bassett | bikers | killed | tribute nearly Corporal Stephen Thompson...
Rogue Gunner

It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Corporal Stephen Thompson from 1st Battalion The Rifles (1 RIFLES), serving as part of the 3 RIFLES Battle Group, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday 7 March 2010.Corporal Thompson di...

polar bears | bluefin tuna | tuna trade | atlantic bluefin | international trade US throws weight behind p...
The Guardian World News

Melting sea ice in the Arctic will kill thousands of bears in coming years, the US says, and continued commercial trade must not be allowed to make the situation worseIt is a familiar story in the climate change debate. The US government is at odds ...

ashleigh hall | facebook | social networking | peter chapman | dangers social Facebook threatens to sue...
The Guardian World News

Social networking site fears reputation permanently damaged by false claim that it let older men pressure teenage girls for sexFacebook has threatened to sue the Daily Mail for damages after the paper wrongly claimed in a piece published on Wednesda...

hadrian's wall | route hadrian's | volunteers holding | illuminate hadrian's | wall heritage People's army to light up...
The Guardian World News

Thousands using gas flares will illuminate the whole course of Britain's biggest historic monumentInteractive: Lighting up Hadrian's wallAn army that would have astonished the emperor Hadrian is set to take over his Roman wall tomorrow night, lighti...

dangerous dogs | responsible dog | dog owners | dog control | dog tax New Labour are barking up...
The Lone Voice

Alan Johnson and Hilary Benn have produced a report which proposes that all dogs in this country should be micro-chipped and that dog-owners should have compulsory third-party insurance. Story Dog owners face a new pet “tax” in a government in...

sex abuse | benedict xvi | pope benedict | liz cheney | christoph schönborn NOT WANTING TO SIT IN THE...
CALEDONIAN COMMENT

In the UK yesterday 3 New Labour MP’s and an opposition Conservative member of the House of Lords insisted that they should not be tried in the courts when they appeared before a judge on charges of expenses fraud. Elliot Morley, David Chayto...

afghan | afghanistan | political settlement | jirga | kabul Start Afghanistan peace t...
The Guardian World News

Foreign Office officials believe elements of Taliban ready to talk but fears grow of long Afghan conflict, and growing casualtiesBritain will today urge the Afghan government to put more effort into the pursuit of peace talks amid fears that the war...

strike | cabin crew | unite | striking union | brown’s spin Last-ditch offer as BA st...
The Guardian World News

• BA accepts partial repeal of staff cuts on flights• Union mulls counter-offer as 5pm deadline for talks loomsBritish Airways has tabled an 11th-hour counter-offer as peace talks over a looming cabin crew strike go to the wire.The airline has respo...

georgia | invaded | imedi tv | russian tanks | panic Panic in Georgia after in...
The Guardian World News

Imedi TV broadcaster provokes panic with report claiming Russian attack in progressSwitching on their TV sets at 8pm on Saturday, Georgians were greeted with incredible news – Russia had invaded. The pro-government Imedi TV station reported that Rus...

james bulger | jon venables | prison | bulger's mother | james bulger's Venables posed trivial ri...
The Guardian World News

Evaluation of Venables before his release in 2001 concluded the likelihood of the killer re-offending was minorA psychiatric evaluation of Jon Venables carried out before his release from prison concluded that he posed a "trivial" risk to the public...

christopher chope | three conservatives | debt | poorest countries | bill passing Fury as Tory sabotages po...
The Guardian World News

Campaigners demand David Cameron identifies member who killed bill protecting developing world from vulture fund bankersPressure is growing on David Cameron to identify the mystery Tory MP who deliberately scuppered a landmark anti-poverty bill that...

total politics | nick griffin | interview | boycotting total | bnp We’ll huff and we’ll puff...
Though Cowards Flinch

As huffing and puffing seems to be what lefties are best at, in the eyes of the Right-blogosphere at least, we at Though Cowards Flinch thought it might be fun to try some. It has come to our attention that the magazine ‘Total Politics’ ...

defence spending | cut defence | gordon brown | spending cathy | cuts took You can't buck the narrat...
EU Referendum

There are several things I try to do with this blog. In bringing you a diet of posts each day, one of my aims is to avoid being derivative. My preference is to bring genuine, new or little-known information to the table, or to add fresh thinking o...

phone 7 | windows phone | windows mobile | 7 handsets | reviewed google Windows Phone 7 Game Scre...
Geeky-Gadgets

Microsoft [MSFT] has shown the guys over at Engadget some screenshots of 3D games on the new Windows Phone 7 platform, and from the looks of the photos the games look pretty impressive. The new Windows Phone 7 handsets will feature NVIDIA’s Te...

old man | youths causing | man collapses | steel thistles | orchard keeper Old Men on Bikes
Cycling UK

I hope when I’m an old man, (in roughly 65 years or so….) I hope that I won’t be a grumpy old man I’ll still be riding my bike. I will still be racing a bike. Many people who do time trials are ‘Vets’ – p...

calcutta cup | six nations | murrayfield | saturday's calcutta | england Robinson banks on Scotlan...
The Guardian World News

• Scotland coach looks to Nick De Luca for midfield strength• Robinson not surprised at flak received by Johnson's EnglandAndy Robinson prepared for his first Calcutta Cup match as Scotland's head coach by talking up England ahead of Saturday's enco...

power2010 | power 2010 | against democracy” | transparent parliament | harrow east Tony McNulty his days are...
The Lone Voice

DEMOCRATIC reform lobbyists are trying to unseat a Harrow MP who they have labelled a benefits cheat. Power 2010 has been putting up posters across the borough and handing out leaflets accusing Tony McNulty, Labour MP for Harrow East, of “crim...

junta | nld | burmese | suu kyi | aung UN calls for war crimes i...
The Guardian World News

Special rapporteur on human rights details 'pattern of gross abuses' as junta unveils restrictive electoral lawsA senior UN official has called for Burma's military rulers to be investigated over allegations of crimes against humanity and war crimes...

pentax 645d | 40 megapixel | format camera | x 33mm | dual sd Pentax 645D 40 Megapixel ...
Gadget Venue

Pentax have launched their latest digital SLR camera called the Pentax 645D. The 645D is a medium format camera that has a 40 megapixel CCD sensor along with a 3.0 inch LCD that can display 921k dots.The new 645D is also compatible with existing 645...

 

It’s your time to go when… via A Welsh View March 16th, 2010 at 12:05

a plane lands on top of you whilst you're running on a...

New at Worldwide Fred via designers block March 15th, 2010 at 16:48

image Fun stacked cups just for the hell of it,Post-it notes that even I could live with ( I have a personal hatred of the yellow ones) anda sewer cover for your sink. All at Worldwide...

Jon Ronson Meets The Man Who’ll Welcome Aliens via LinkMachineGo March 15th, 2010 at 00:01

[ufo] First Contact: The Man Who’ll Welcome Aliens … Jon Ronson meets the chairman of Post-Detection Taskgroup … …you can tell the abductees are lying or delusional because their descriptions of the aliens and their craft are always so unimaginative. As he writes in The Eerie Silence, the giveaway is the banality of the aliens’ putative agenda, which seems to consist of grubbing around in fields or meadows, chasing cows or cars like bored teenagers, and abducting humans for Nazi-style...

Top ten cheapest places to live in the world via Wulfweard the White March 14th, 2010 at 14:08

Calculated on the cost of living of the world's top 10 cheapest cities in relation to the following categories: alcohol and tobacco, clothing and footwear, domestic services, food at home, food away from home, personal care, household supplies, sports and leisure, transportation and utilities. 10. Tunis, the capital of the Tunisian Republic. 09. Winston-Salem in the U.S. state of North Carolina. 08. Montevideo, the capital and chief port of Uruguay. 07. Santo Domingo, capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic, and the largest city in the Caribbean 06. Buenos Aires, capital and largest city of Argentina. 05. San Jose,capital and largest city of Costa Rica. 04. Johannesburg, largest city in South Africa (until the World Cup) 03. Karachi, main seaport and the financial...

Do you leave it up or down? via Wulfweard the White March 12th, 2010 at 22:49

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The things that kids read these days via Wulfweard the White March 12th, 2010 at 16:24

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Girl Identifies Star Wars Figurines Using Her Mouth via A Welsh View March 10th, 2010 at 21:45

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Hurry up summer via Wulfweard the White March 7th, 2010 at 13:59

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The cats whiskers via Wulfweard the White March 6th, 2010 at 22:50

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Top Ten ‘Retired’ Olympic Sports via Wulfweard the White March 6th, 2010 at 22:45

10. Live Pigeon Shooting (1900) 09. Rope Climb (1896, 1904, 1906, 1924, 1932) 08. Pistol Dueling (1906) 07. Solo Synchronized Swimming (1992) 06. Club Swinging (1904, 1932) 05. Tug-of-War (1900-1920) 04. All-Around Dumbbell Contest (1904) 03. Motor Boating (1908) 02. Running Deer Single Shot (1906-1936) 01. Long Jump for Horses (1900) Comments...

Top ten ‘Yo Momma’ jokes for nerds via Wulfweard the White March 6th, 2010 at 15:15

10. Your momma's so fat that the probability that she is in an arbitrary point in a room is 1. 09. Your momma's so fat that her weight can't be estimated using a t-distribution, since her fatness doesn't provide any degrees of freedom. 08. Your momma's so fat that Schrodinger found her to be both inside and outside of the box. 07. Yo mamma's so fat, she sat on a binary tree and flattened it to a linked list in constant time. 06. Yo momma so fat, her total gravitational attraction exceeds her total Van Der Waals bonding force! 05. .yomama .ass {width:120%; border-bottom:thick; max-width:auto; size:landscape; } 04. Yo momma's so fat that when I used multiple integration to find the volume under her curves, it turned out she was a hypervolume and could not be graphed. 03. Yo momma is...

Brilliant tattoo via Wulfweard the White March 6th, 2010 at 10:21

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Oh how things have changed via Wulfweard the White March 5th, 2010 at 17:29

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Small Ads via Wulfweard the White March 5th, 2010 at 11:57

FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER. 8 years old. Hateful little bastard. Bites! FREE PUPPIES 1/2 Cocker Spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbour's dog. FREE PUPPIES. Mother, A Kennel Club registered German Shepherd. Father, Super Dog . . Able to leap tall fences in a single bound. FOUND DIRTY WHITE DOG. Looks like a rat. Been out a while. Better be a big reward. COWS, CALVES for sale (NEVER BRED) Also 1 gay bull. JOINING NUDIST COLONY! Must sell washer and dryer £100. WEDDING DRESS FOR SALE Worn once by mistake Call Stephanie. And the best one: FOR SALE BY OWNER Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica All 45 volumes in ‘as new’ condition no longer needed got married last month and it turns out wife knows f *g everything! £200 or near offer. Comments...

Trololololololololololo.com via A Welsh View March 3rd, 2010 at 20:35

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Foetus necklace… just in time for mother’s day via BitterWallet March 3rd, 2010 at 11:00

image You know what you need around your stupid, stupid neck? No, apart from a noose. That’s right! You need a foetus! Yup, this ceramic not-yet-a-human could dangle lovingly beneath your neck and perhaps serve as a painful reminder of the child you had that made every second of your life an absolute misery. You can fondly look back on a time when they were in the womb as opposed to slouching and tutting all over your house, making a mess and bleeding you for every penny you earn before shitting in your lunchbox. This piece can be bought from Etsy (where all the deranged artisans seem to hang out) and is described by the vendor as being “a ceramic fetus pendant thing that I made,” before adding “you don’t even have to use it as a necklace, do what you will with it!...

Forgetting to take your medicine? Prepare to be nagged by it via BitterWallet March 2nd, 2010 at 11:30

image Medicine. No-one likes taking it. Even if it comes with a spoonful of sugar, people just can’t be arsed. Most of the time it isn’t a problem because you’ve got a jar full of placebos anyway because your GP either thinks you’re a hypochondriac or he actively wants you to die because you’re annoying. However, if you’ve got high-blood pressure or diabetes (and want to live), then it’s pretty important that you take your pills because you’ll either explode or lose a limb or something. People with chronic conditions are seemingly the worst offenders when it comes to the whole Not Being Arsed To Take The Medicine. So what’s the solution? Well, some company called Express Scripts Inc., is testing an electronic pill container in the US that...

Exploding Bananas via A Welsh View February 28th, 2010 at 20:51

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Wow, that was good sex…. via Wulfweard the White February 28th, 2010 at 13:54

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Don’t scare me via Wulfweard the White February 28th, 2010 at 10:32

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Scary via Wulfweard the White February 28th, 2010 at 10:17

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i-pod, i-phone, i-pad what next? via Wulfweard the White February 27th, 2010 at 21:48

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I will never look at a fly zipper in the same light ever again via Wulfweard the White February 27th, 2010 at 18:34

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Ouch that must have hurt via Wulfweard the White February 27th, 2010 at 12:26

image A hen in Ipswich layed this egg which is about 9cm (3.5in) high and has a circumference of 21cm (8.3in). This is by no means the biggest as a spokesman for Guinness World Records said: 'The largest hen egg was a five-yolked egg measuring 31cm (12.2in) around the long axis, 22.8cm (9in) around the short and weighing nearly 340g (12oz). It was laid by a Black Minorca at Mr Stafford's Damsteads Farm, Mellor, Lancs, in 1896.' Comments...

Web site of the day via Wulfweard the White February 26th, 2010 at 20:30

image http://www.style-your-garage.com/ Spruce up your boring garage doors. and http://www.style-your-door.com/ for you inner doors Comments...

The man in the stovepipe hat via The Spicy Cauldron February 25th, 2010 at 07:00

image As promised yesterday, here’s the second strange but true story from the archives first published in July 2006 and now redrafted with the original comments presented below it. I was inspired by correspondence over my encounter in the early 1990s with the phenomenon known as the ‘black stick man’ to write about a much earlier experience. If the story of the black stick man freaked you out and gave you bad dreams, as it well might for some, then don’t read this entry because it tells of an apparition that acted malevolently towards those who encountered it. This is the story of when myself and others met the man in the stovepipe hat, another figure reported around the world. He’s dangerous and if you ever see him, run. In the autumn of 1988 I was 21 and began...

The true story of the cut-out black stick man via The Spicy Cauldron February 24th, 2010 at 06:49

image Have you ever seen something so far outside your normal, everyday experiences you are at a loss to explain what you saw? What follows is a true story—in that nothing is made up, though I cannot vouch for what is real, or a waking dream—of an extraordinary encounter with an apparently alien presence in urban surroundings. In the early hours of a weekday morning when I was living in London as a student back in the early 1990s, I was walking back from a friend’s house with another friend, Sue. She and myself had spent the whole night talking and revising with a group of other students. No drugs or alcohol had been involved other than tea and coffee—I must make this clear, because the story I am telling may lead you to wonder, and you’d be wrong to think that we...

Lost Nazi Uranium Found In Dutch Scrapyard via LinkMachineGo February 23rd, 2010 at 14:43

[war] Lost Nazi nuke-project uranium found in Dutch scrapyard … ‘Forensic nuke scientists at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) traced two pieces of metal – described as a cube and a plate – back to their exact origins and dates. Apparently both came from ores extracted at the “Joachimsthal” mine in what is now the Czech Republic, though the two are from different production batches.The cube, according to specialists at the JRC’s Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU), was produced in 1943 for the Nazi nuclear programme and was used in the lab of famous boffin Werner Heisenberg (of uncertainty principle...

10 oddest people in the world via Wulfweard the White February 20th, 2010 at 15:41

1. Hai Ngoc from Que Trung Vietnam hasn't slept in 37 years since going down with a fever in 1973. 2. Sanju Bhagat from Nagpour India carried his twin brother inside his own body for 36 years. 3. Shoichi Yokoi a Japanese soldier who spent 28 years in the jungle of Guam without knowing that the Second World War had ended. 4. Mehran Karimi Nasseri who 'lived' at Terminal One of Charles de Gaulle Airport from 1988 to 2006 and may have been the basis for the movie The Terminal. 5. Mitsuo Matayoshi a Japanese politician who says he is Jesus Christ reborn. 6. Lal Bihari from Uttar Pridesh who was officially died from who was officially dead between 1976 and 1994 and had had to fight Indian governemnt bureaucracy ever since to be recognised as still being alive. 7. David Icke from England...

Dante’s Internet via Wulfweard the White February 14th, 2010 at 14:08

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Baaaaaaah via Wulfweard the White February 13th, 2010 at 22:06

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Trees are taking over the earth, very slowly via Wulfweard the White February 13th, 2010 at 15:55

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God’s got his eye on you via Wulfweard the White February 13th, 2010 at 12:10

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Top 10 funniest domain names via Wulfweard the White February 13th, 2010 at 11:31

01. www.accesstherapist.com 02. www.cumstore.co.uk 03. www.dollarsexchange.com 04. www.expertsexchange.com 05. www.mammotherection.com 06. www.penisland.net 07. www.speedofart.com 08. www.viagrafix.net 09. www.whorepresents.com 10. www.wtf.org Comments...

How to shine your helmet via Wulfweard the White February 12th, 2010 at 23:11

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Jerk up via Wulfweard the White February 12th, 2010 at 19:43

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The difference between a stud and a slut via Wulfweard the White February 12th, 2010 at 17:47

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Paintings of unicorns doing it? This way sir… via BitterWallet February 12th, 2010 at 15:00

image Unicorns... at it... in space... yesterday Remember the ‘Celestial Soul Portraits‘ that were featured on these very pages? If you don’t and you’re not bright enough to work out that the differently coloured words in the previous sentence was a link to them, then chances are you could end up buying one for yourself. If that’s your thing, then you’ll love this latest bit of outsider art (that’s being kind I guess) that’s been ferreted out. What we have here is the work of Chaz Vitale who, quite obviously, is as mad as a box of frogs. The image features a two-headed (and “doubly sweet” according to our painterman) unicorn spunking out a rainbow whilst stood on a cloud. ‘Spunking’ isn’t nearly cuddly enough for our...

Fun under the covers via Wulfweard the White February 12th, 2010 at 13:59

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Even Super Heros get old via Wulfweard the White February 12th, 2010 at 12:29

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