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Entries from October 2008
October 24, 2008
Eco-Surveillance Agents To Scan Homes
Guardian
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Essential surveillance kit for the new green police: the Energy Saving Partnership has taken out a patent [...]
October 20, 2008
Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones
…and no doubt ID cards at a later stage. Of course it’s all to keep us safe from the ‘terrorists’. Sure [...]
October 18, 2008
Victory for the Metric Martyrs as Government does a U-turn
Aptly named, the Metric Martyrs were prepared to sacrifice their livelihoods to stand up for what they believed [...]
October 13, 2008
EU to ban traditional light bulbs, but at what cost to health and the environment?
Several sources have been reporting the imminent demise of the incandescent filament light bulb throughout the EU bloc.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband seemed [...]
October 11, 2008
Why is Labour so afraid of the BNP?
First of all, I don’t usually comment on the BNP for the simple reason that it is hard to tell fact from [...]
October 10, 2008
The smack of too much government
First off, I must concede that I pinched the title from Tom [...]
October 4, 2008
Under New Labour, “democracy” and “equality” should be rationed*
Labour MEP for London, Mary Honeyball, has recently seen controversy over her opinions of the beliefs of Roman Catholics.
The MEP is a “passionate campaigner for women’s [...]
October 3, 2008
Mandelson to return to Government
The biggest news so far in today’s Cabinet reshuffle (a good word for a pack of jokers!) is that Peter Mandelson [...]
