I'm taking some time off work - because I have to. I also should but I'm doing mostly because the company has decreed that we can't all just sit around building up our holiday time. So I have a week to catch up on all of those things I've been putting aside and so far I have not managed to catch up at all. I have, however, started several new ( Read more... )

I hardly write a thing. Maybe because no-one reads anything here and though I intended to put more here I end up writing it on paper and in notebooks more - or I hang out at a forum called whyzzat.com that is populated by netizens I've mostly known for over a decade ( Read more... )

Excuse my excitement but ... Rebekah Brooks has been arrested!!

Who knows what will happen next - maybe nothing - but at least some light is being shone on some nasty people - if the gangrene has progressed far enough then perhaps the whole rotten body will burst open and spill its guts.

Oh boy, dammit, yes - it looks like Murdoch's engine is on fire and he's going down - spiralling to the ground and I just hope his canopy sticks.

Telegraph's live blog

Including such gems as:

15.56 Extraordinary new allegations from The Guardian's Nick Davies on the Gordon Brown hacking. Among the details, not only were Mr Brown's Abbey National bank ( Read more... )

In honour of Douglas Adams who died 10 years ago on May 11th (the first towel day was commemorated two weeks after his death). Grab a towel. Keep it with you all day. Know where your towel is.

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livejournal embedding seems to have been "improved" and I can't figure out how to get it to show this at the proper size without clipping the right edge off. Might as well just click through to youtube.

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Will the Syrian government fall from the protests, or will NATO have to step in as in Libya? Well, let's see ( Read more... )

Come into my parlour ( Read more... )

It's not like we didn't already know but someone lifted a rock recently and this crawled out.

In March 2003, just before Britain went to war, Shell denounced reports that it had held talks with Downing Street about Iraqi oil as "highly inaccurate". BP denied that it had any "strategic interest" in Iraq, while Tony Blair described "the oil ( Read more... )

The operation against Libya took considerable planning including agreements on overflight, asset use, airfield and command agreements and all the other international relations that have to get sorted out before countries cooperate on such things ( Read more... )