Under Labour, the poor crap-out while the rich hit jackpot

Interesting piece in the Guardian today on Britain’s gambling habit. Apparently punters lose £10 billion a year on gambling, a figure up 50% from 1999.
The cause has been attributed to deregulation of the industry by the government (i.e. Brown) in the form of the abolition of betting tax and the Gambling Act 2005. Not to [...]

Simon Heffer’s Moos Round-Up

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After a week of McCann, Lib Dem conferencing, Burmese demonstrations and world rally car driving champions dying in helicopter crashes, there is one thing that is now certain unequivocally, irreverently, irrationally and above all irascibly in my mind: The Real Fascists are On The Left.

The Ants and The Termites

It’s a known fact that the Ants and the Termites are loath to tolerate each other. Thousands of years hating each other, ridiculing the size of each others antennae, whose queen is better etc. Mostly this began when the Termites rebelled against being called White Ants, a name change eventually recognised by the National Geographic, [...]

Derek and Clive: A Tribute

I can’t say I’ve ever had to retrieve lobsters from Jane Mansfield’s bum. Neither have I tried to get into the Guinness Book of records for the longest trail of suspended snot. It might also be worth mentioning that the Pope has never given me the horn and I have never written to the Catholic [...]

The Daily Mail and Half Naked Women

What a love paper the Mail is. Hate, fear, despair, blame, anything to get you to be anti-everything and cynical. The knock effect of course is a country that won’t let it’s children out to play, drives them to school, weeps at the slightest incident and feels that it was all so much better years [...]