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String Theory Unravels (Science and technology)
Physicists have relied too much for too long on string theory and it's derivatives, superstring theory and M theory to lead them to understanding of the secrets of the universe. But as string theory can never be tested is it not just a dead end for theoretical physics?

Theosophy for Beginners(Philosophy)
Theosophy, a popular belief system that head understanding of the divine could be gained through study and learning, is atracting new interest. So have the ideas of Helena Blavatsky anything to offer or was her Thosophist order just another quasi religious personality cult?

British Education Failing British Children
As a row brewed over the immigration issue which was the number one priority in the minds of voters at the last election but was kept out of the campaign by the cosy consensus of politically correct wusses who have wormed their way to positions of power in the ...

So How Is It Going For Barack Hussein Obama? Remember Barack Hussein Obama, the Obamessiah, the anointed of God, the peacemake, unifyer, the healer of nations, the walker on water who liked to give the impression he would heal the poor, lead the sick and feed the blind. Apart from his abysmal failure to address America's economic problems which we have reported and commented on many times, how is that 'President Of The Entire Universe and everything else besides' project going? ...

Scientists Caught Trying To Play God Again
The genetic code of mice has been “edited” by "scientists" in a breakthrough that they claim could lead to new treatments for some hereditary diseases in humans. The researchers managed to modify cells in mice to repair a faulty gene but, instead of ...

God Comes Down To Glastonbury
Boggart Blog on another human who thinks he can be God.

Outrage Over The Injustice Of The Justice System There is widespread anger today over how brutally the deefence lawyers representing Levi Bellfield who was on trial for the brutal murder of 13 year old Millie Dowler. Bellfield's lawyers used the accused's lurid fantasies which he had invented in an attempt to...

Gay Marriage legalised in New York
Well whoop-de-doo, the turd burglars can have big white weddings (and don't they love to put on a show) and all's well with the world - not.

FESTIVAL! With such a lot of sorting out to do after our fallout with the ISP coincided with our webmaster Ian transferring all his stuff to a new computer, things are a bit slow. Still, it's Glastonbury time so we can dig out one of our old posts.

Eurozone Crisis Nears Meltdown
"Sovereign and banking strains are the most material and immediate threat," the Bank of England Financial Policy Committee chaired by Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor, said in its inaugural report. The committee called for banks to be more transparent in disclosing their exposure to sovereign debt problems. Mr. King also warned ...

Hackers Bring Down More Government Websites After recent cyberattacks from hckers group LulzSec took websites of the US Senate, the CIA, the International Monetary Fund and several other international organisations offline, the group claims their latest attack took down sites belonging to ...

Free Speech and the right to offend
Our right to free speech is under threat from intolerant, authoritarian left wingers or 'progressives' as they like to style themselves who are determined no body will ever be able to say or do anything that may offend s member of any racial, sexual or social minority. This kind of fascistic tyranny is justified by invoking politically correct ideals, but it is having a deeply damaging effect on human society.

This Vaccine Madness Will Cause More Problems Than It Solves
A conference of world political leaders aiming to formulate a global policy on mass vaccination to 'eradicate killer diseases' takes place this week. But the developing nations can't feed their populations now so what will happen when infant mortality rates are vastly reduced.
Cameron's Green Conservatism Is Not That New. Cobbett was there 200 years ago.
Nineteenth century radical and social refomer William Cobbett opposed violence but supported the machine wrecking luddites because he took a broad view of the disruption of rural communities and problems caused by use of machine power at the cost of human jobs. Cobbett was a radical conservative in his time but with green leanings. Where would he stand in politics now?

Green Dreams of Baby David: Cameron's Energy Policy Leading To Disaster.
When the coalition came to power they promised an end to stealth taxes. So why did George Osborne's budget contain the biggest and most socially harmful stealth tax ever. In the name of green energy policiy of course, it's about cutting carbon emissions and subsidising wind turbines...

Mad Science And Insane Ethics or Mosquitos Of Mass Medication
A new advance in medical research by Japanese scientists, a plan to use a genetically modified mosquito to vaccinate humans against disease shows how far out of touch with reality, ethics and economics modern scientists really are. This critique of science in the cause of corporate profits shoots down this latest lunancy and other impractical and unethical plans to medicate the world against our will. (contains strong language)

Lowry - a biography: We've been lax in posting updates lately having suffered the bane of all controversialists on the web, a hack attavk by people who want to silence us. Quite why our few thousand hits a day shoukd be significant we can't tell unless of course we were getting too near the truth.
We return with something non controversial, a page dedicate to the works or artist L. S. Lowry but will be bavk up to our iconoclastic, shit stirring best very soon.

What Kind Of Reception Should Obama Get In The Country He Has Insuted So Much?
President Barack Hussein Obama of America visits Britain this week. The fawning media are singing his praises of course, the Obamessiah is come to bless us. But what kind of reception should he get given all the calculated insults to Britain. Should David Cameron overlook the shabby way Obama threated aGordon Brown, the way Bammy has denounced Britain's claim to the Falklands, they way he has tried to belittle us and undermine our sovereignty in Europe?

Wither Euro? How Long Can The Single Currency Survive?
After the pantomime of toxic debt, dodgy bankers and Collateralised Debt Obligations, anything the clowns of the credit-rating agencies say about Europe's sovereign debt crisis should be treated with the same indifference as Harold Camping's Apocalyptic prophecies. Unfortunately we have little alternative than to use the ratings agencies as there re few available ways to accurately assess the health of a nation's ...

The Great Wind Turbine Con Trick
A detailed and damning critique of wind turbine technology, renewable energy scams, green lobbying, the dodgy science behind the case for sustainable power and the politicisation of concerns about the environment. The whole thing looks more and more like a confidence trick by academics, politicians, big business and the New World Order ...

Welcome To New World Order
Is there really a shady group of super rich individuals, George Soros, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Mauruice Strong and others less well known but just as powerful who are collaborating to overthrow the free nations and establish a global oligarchy, Novus Ordo Seclorum, the New World Order,. You have heard all the conspiracy theorie, now see the evidence.

Millions Not Saving
by Ian R Thorpe.
Four out of ten people in the age range from 45 to 54 have found themselves unable to save any money in a retirement fund because of the twin financial burdens of aged and infirm parents and young adult 'boomerang' children.

Young Hope For Housing Crash
The burden of student debts imposed on young people by a misguided education policy that has left the nation with a surfeit of media studies graduates and a shortage of practical skills is also having dire social consequences in other ways.

Google Algorithm Scam
According to Google PR spin their lastest algorithm changes were aimed at downgraing content farms rankings and rewarding ' good quality' content. It seems however some content farms have done well out of the changes while a lot of sites and online businesses that do provide good quality content have experiencesd a drastic fall off in internet traffic...

Electric Cars Are Too Expensive
Ford's chief financial officer has warned predictions of a surge in electric car sales are "very ambitious", as next generation vehicles dominate the Geneva Motor Show.
John Major Supports Call For military Intervention In Libya
As the uprising against the rule of Muammar (Mad Dog) Gadaffi looks increasingly likely to turn into full scale civil war and a humanitarian crisis former UK Prime Minister Sir John Major has joined current leader David Cameron and other European leaders in calling for military intervention ...

Supermarket Rip Off Causes Food Price Inflation
Supermarkets are ripping off British shoppers by ramping up food prices ahead of inflation, the investment bank UBS has warned in a new report. It is not long of course since the leading supermarkets faced a government inquiry into allegations that they were operating a cartel.

Manufacturing Recovery
The rapid recovery in British manufacturing industries held at its record level in February and factory costs rose little on theJanuary survey's level, suggesting inflationary pressures are continuing to build in the economy

EU Equality Laws End Cheaper Car Insurance For Women
Women face higher costs for car insurance premiums following a decision by the EU to ban using gender-based pricing for financial products. Rises of up to 25% will hit women drivers while men will find payments they receive from their pension plans will decrease. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that using differences between men and women as a risk factor in setting premiums for car and medical insurance and pension schemes breaches EU rules on equality.

Food Fascists, Meat Me Halfway
by Ian R Thorpe.
The food fascists are on the mrch again, demovising healthy meat eating, promoting a diet high in starches, chemicals and all the foods evolution had not prepared our bodies to deal with. Forget the fake science, if you eat a happy meal it is the bun and fries that will kill you, not the burger ...

Universities Should Not Be Asked To Repair Society
Should university education provide therapy for damaged children from deprived homes, a teacher asks as the politically correct though police demand the system be skewed in favour of the fuckwits and under achievers in the name of 'equality.'

Doctors Too Quick To Prescribe Fever Medicines For Children
This story looks at the eagerness of doctors to prescribe temperature lowering drugs for very slight fevers rather that advising parents a raised temperature is one of the body's ways of fighting infection.

Google Algorithm Scam
According to Google PR spin their lastest algorithm changes were aimed at downgraing content farms rankings and rewarding ' good quality' content. It seems however some content farms have done well out of the changes while a lot of sites and online businesses that do provide good quality content have experiencesd a drastic fall off in internet traffic...

Electric Cars Are Too Expensive
Ford's chief financial officer has warned predictions of a surge in electric car sales are "very ambitious", as next generation vehicles dominate the Geneva Motor Show.
John Major Supports Call For military Intervention In Libya
As the uprising against the rule of Muammar (Mad Dog) Gadaffi looks increasingly likely to turn into full scale civil war and a humanitarian crisis former UK Prime Minister Sir John Major has joined current leader David Cameron and other European leaders in calling for military intervention ...

Supermarket Rip Off Causes Food Price Inflation
Supermarkets are ripping off British shoppers by ramping up food prices ahead of inflation, the investment bank UBS has warned in a new report. It is not long of course since the leading supermarkets faced a government inquiry into allegations that they were operating a cartel.

Manufacturing Recovery
The rapid recovery in British manufacturing industries held at its record level in February and factory costs rose little on theJanuary survey's level, suggesting inflationary pressures are continuing to build in the economy

EU Equality Laws End Cheaper Car Insurance For Women
Women face higher costs for car insurance premiums following a decision by the EU to ban using gender-based pricing for financial products. Rises of up to 25% will hit women drivers while men will find payments they receive from their pension plans will decrease. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has ruled that using differences between men and women as a risk factor in setting premiums for car and medical insurance and pension schemes breaches EU rules on equality.

Food Fascists, Meat Me Halfway
by Ian R Thorpe.
The food fascists are on the mrch again, demovising healthy meat eating, promoting a diet high in starches, chemicals and all the foods evolution had not prepared our bodies to deal with. Forget the fake science, if you eat a happy meal it is the bun and fries that will kill you, not the burger ...

Universities Should Not Be Asked To Repair Society
Should university education provide therapy for damaged children from deprived homes, a teacher asks as the politically correct though police demand the system be skewed in favour of the fuckwits and under achievers in the name of 'equality.'

Doctors Too Quick To Prescribe Fever Medicines For Children
This story looks at the eagerness of doctors to prescribe temperature lowering drugs for very slight fevers rather that advising parents a raised temperature is one of the body's ways of fighting infection.

More News On The Public Sector Fat Cats
As the left wails about how the coalition governments cuts will hit the poor we notice Labour councils are sacking nurses, teachers and refuse collectors but fighting to keep overpaid execuitives in their highly paid no work required jobs.

My Google, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Internet search engine company Google says its latest algorithm update is aimed at downgrading the ranking of content farms such as demand media and associated content. It seems however that the small, independent site web site owners are the ones being hit hardest. Is this any surprise as such sites cannot afford to pay Google to diect traffic that way. The move reduces blogging to glorified social networking and drives unusual content to the margins of the web

Will America Cope With The Fall Of It's Middle East Empire
by Ian R Thorpe.
America has suffered a second traumatic blow to its global political hegemony as the regimes it has propped up for decades in the middle east crumble. Mubarak in Egypt and Gadaffi in Libya were unsavoury tyrants to be sure but they were pro America and willing to collaborate with the west. Now on the heels of the financial meltdown we face a global oil crisis.

Once More Unto The Breach Dear Friends
For bloggers who like to take a less than serious view of the world the last few days have been dire. Lybia, Yemen, Inflation, the terrible Earthquake in New Zealand which although it is about as far away is is possible physically feels very close to home because we share a language and culture and many of us have friends or relatives living there.I was seriously thinking of giving the blog a few days off and getting on with another project. Then my spirits were lifted when I saw ...

Families £9 a week poorer
News out today reveals families UK are on average £9-a-week poorer than they were a year ago as a result of the the rapidly rising cost of food, fuel, travel and utility bills. An average family was estmated to have disposable income after food and essential bills of £174 a week in January, down from £183 in the a year ago. The decrease, which was revealed in the monthly Income Tracker survey carried out for Asda supermarket represents the 13th consecutive monthly decline in household spending power and is ...

Financial Madness
Was the credit crunch as the media called it really caused by the geed and incometence of the banks and the inabiliy of us ordinary punters to manage our affairs. Or was it all due to the financial madness of politicians who engineered a a system that depended on infinite growh in a world of finite resources.

Voters Cool On Change To AV
The Daily Telegraph seems to think the voters do not care about the referendum on a switch to Alternative Votes in General Elections and this will mean a 'No' vote even though the Conservatives are showing little enthusiasm for supporting the ...

The Failure Of Finance
Was the credit crunch as the media called it really caused by the geed and incometence of the banks and the inabiliy of us ordinary punters to manage our affairs. Or was it all due to the financial madness of politicians who engineered a a system that depended on infinite growh in a world of finite resources. Shock, Horror! Coalition Spending Cuts Cuts Will Mean 50,000. NHS Job Losses Predictably the left are screaming about the claimed 50,000 jobs that will have have to be axed by NHS trusts across the nation to meed government budget reduction targets. What NHS managers are doing however is following in the footsteps of Labour controlled councils and rather than losing the candy - floss jobs created by empire building bureaucrats are slashing front line services to punish users of the service for ...
Interest Rates Must Start To Rise Very Soon
The Daily Stirrer has warned you to brace yourselves for rises in interest rates. As it is the Bank of England has kept rates at an insanely low level for far too long in the face of evidence that their policy had completely failed to achieve its stated aim and boost the economy.

Now with the economy stagnant, the jobless figures flatlining but likely to increase as public sector jobs are shed and inflation

The Downfall Of Lybian Tyrant Poses Another Threat To The West
And as Gaddafi's 40 year rule draws to an end in what increasingly appears to be a bloodbath we offer a roundup of the best comment from foreign correspondents in the national press about the world's reaction ad particularly that of the man in the White House who only two weeks ago was preening himself as he posed as a liberator of the ...

Scientists And Politicians Attack The Food We Love, But Is It Science Or Just Control Freakery
A sustained campaign of misinformation by politicians, scientists, bureaucrats and the media have tried to brand fat and salt as the twin demons of the modern diet. Both however are essential to our wellbeing. So what are the bureaucrats, government and science lobby up to. What is the politics of food fascism. Are they just behaving as control freaks must or are they softening us up for extra taxes and government regulation of our dinner plates and the food we eat.

Acohol Abuse Will Kill 250,000 A Year Unless Governmnt Acts say Control Freak Doctors
As many as a quarter of a million people will die from alcohol abuse over the next two decades unless the Government takes the problem as seriously as it did smoking, health experts have warned. Deaths from liver disease have doubled in Britain in recent years while other countries such as France have seen “profound” falls thanks in part to “strict” rules on ...

Council Fat Cat On £500,000 A Year
The Daily Stirrer had learned that highest-paid public sector employee last year was the outgoing head of one of the country's smallest district councils. 54 year old Phil Dolan trousered £569,000 of taxpayers' money in salary, pension and redundancy payments after accepting a gloden nandshake deal to leave his post as chief executive of South Somerset district council. He is now working as a freelance consultant for other ... related items [ The Muggers ]

Sarko Calls For Action Against Inflation
As leaders meet for another pointless, obscenely expensive jolly high level meeting of world political leaders and heads of government finance, French President Little Nico Sarkozy warned delegates inflation poses a "great threat" to global growth, risking dangerous unrest if food prices soar out of people's reach, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, warned the War On Council Non Jobs
Local authorities around Britain have hired an extra 180,000 workers since 1997, with the total number of town hall workers not employed in traditional front-line roles now standing at almost 750,000, according to ministers in the coalition government. The government is highlighting the figures at a time when local authorities ...

The Middle East Meltdown
Another 'We told you so' day for The Daily Stirrer. Look back over our Egypt posts and even further to the protests against the ruling theorcracy in Iran and you will see we have consistently predicted that wherever the Idiot - In Chief, President Of The Whole Universe And Everythong Else Besides, Barak Husserin Obama fans the flames off rebellion against autocratic or repressive regimes the result will be the emergence of ...

Coalition Partners Cameron And Clegg Go Head To Head Over Voting Reform
David Cameron and Nick Clegg will go head to head over voting reform today as they make their first high-profile speeches of the campaign to move to an alternative vote (AV) system. Mr Cameron will warn that a Yes vote in May's referendum will lead to regular hung parliaments, while ...

Climate Change Act: An Inspired Way To Waste £400 Billion.
As the attempts of the science lobby and government (whose strings are pulled by the New World Order) to force us to believe the hopelessly flawed and totally discredited case for carbon driven global warming here is some clear thinking on the question of climate change.

And While We Are still On The Subject
Well we're not still on the subject, but we were with a couple of consecutive posts last week, Global Warming - Keep It Under Your Hat and Climate Science Why Can't The Met Get It Right? - I'm sure Ian will ...

Workers Hit By Wage Cuts As Prices Rise
Earnings have dropped to a five-month low, the Office for National Statistics said. Average weekly earnings in the UK stood at just 1.8pc against a notional base in December 2010, down from 2.1pc the month before. Workers were paid an average £456 a week in total in December.

Price Of Crude Oil Rises
On top of yesterdays bad news about inflation anf jobs we now learn that the price of crude oil, , having hovered just below $100 a barrel for several weeks has broken through the psychological barrier and looks set to race towards its previous peak of $120 a barrell. 'Crude' is the essential raw material on which industry, acriculture and the commercial sector all rely. It's price affects the price of everything else so on top of Baby Boomer Generation Must Fund Their Own Old Age Care And Pensions A story in today's Daily Telegraph warned that inflation and rising prices as well as hitting working families and the unemployed are going to make life very hard in retirement. We Daily Stirrer old gits, all being past sixty, have commented many times on the ageing population and the economic timebomb that presents ...

Getting Naked In The Financial Markets
If you've heard of hedge funds and toxic debt you might well think these are the most evil manifestations of the financial markets that plunged our economy into the abyss. Unfortunately there are far more fearsome demons, arbitrage, short selling and naked short selling. Anyine wanting to know how insane pertsonal gred has made the people who are supposed to prudently invest our savings and pension fund money in currency, bond, commodities, stocks or any other financial market this is a must read.

Inflation Surges Ahead As Economy Stagnates
In line with predictions The Daily Stirrer has made for many months the official inflation figure has not hit dounle eht the Bank Of England says is acceptable. And remember, our writers have told you again and again the official statistics are manipulated to conceal the true inflation figure which is two or three percentage points higher.

Egypt's Military Rejects Swift Transfer Of Power - Leaders Resistant To Change
The ruling military council in Cairo intends to retain power for six months or longer while elections are scheduled and will rule by decree. The Egyptian military has rejected the demands of pro-democracy protesters for a ...

Football Is Becoming A Game For Wimps or Who Banned All The Pies Boggart Blog 110212

News that a football stadium has gone vegetarian is never going to do the game's already tarnshed image much good. We get the feeling there soon will be a day when grizzled old pundits will be more likely to remark, cor, nice arse about the Ref rather than his comely female assistant. Football ued to be a man's game,there was a kind of poetry involved in the play of Tom Finney, Johhny Haynes, George Best and the other greats but it was the poetry of ...

Egypt Crisis Beginning Not Ending
The Daily Stirrer
After almost three weeks of protest and pressure from inside and outside his country, Hosni Mubarak has finally resigned as Egypt’s president. The fall of the ruling regime in the Arab world’s most populous nation is a game changing development but its consequences in the short and long term for Egypt and the middle east for a country are ...

If The EU Has It's Way We Will All Be Prisoners Of Bureaucracy
The Daily Stirrer
The British Parliament makes its decision by the votes of its members who are in turn elected by the votes of a majority of their constituents. Without the power to enact laws that shape the lives of British people and the direction of our nation Parliament is nothing. So when Parliament votes on a proposal and that vote make the new measure law or consigns it to oblivion in a dusty filing cabinet somewhere that is the resolution of the matter. That is what we mean by The Sovereignty of Parliament. Its decisions are ...

Is Farting A Crime Or A Basic Human Right?
Boggart Blog 2011-02-09
We were gobsmacked to learn earlier in the week that the government of Malawi has made farting a criminal offence. Boggart Blog has always considered freedom to fart as a basic human right and a civil liberty. In the past farting was seen as an art form and a popular ...

Rise In Factory Gate Prices Fuels Inflation Fears
The Daily Stirrer
Interest rates could still rise soon, economists said, as the biggest leap in the prices factories pay for their materials in more than two years underlined the inflation threat. Input prices at factories rose 13.4pc in the year to ...

Portugal Threatened By Debt
The Daily Stirrer
Portugal looks set to become latest eurozone member to be threatened by speculative attacks in the bond markets as borrowing costs soar. The European Central Bank (ECB) has stepped in to the financial markets to buy Portuguese bonds on Thursday amid growing fears that the eurozone's rolling crisis is about to claim its third victim. Policymakers in ...

New World Order - IMF Boss Calls For Global Currency The Daily Stirrer
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, thinks a new world currency would calm economic instability and curb the dollar's power. M. Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has called for a new world currency that would challenge the dominance of the dollar and help curb future financial instability ...

Oil Shale Salvation
The Daily Stirrer
Recent discoveries of huge gas and oil bearing shale deposits in the USA, CAnada, Russia and under Britain's territorial waters as well as off the Falkland Islands and in the Antarctic are raising false hope of an early end to the energy crisis and food price inflation. What is the reality of these new oil and gas reserves, do they really offer the economies of the developed world salvation and a return to business as usual.

You Can Keep Your Hat On - If You Want To Beat Climate Change.
Never go out without a hat in cold weather was Grandma's wise advice. Turns out the old girl was right. Gooing outside without a hat may be contributing to global warming ...

Malawi: Where Farting Is A Crime.
We in the west have endured the gradual erosion of our civil liberty, human rights and personal freedom in the name of politically correct thinking but while we look to the developing world as offering a simpler, more common sense approach to life it seems their situation is worse. A new law in Malawi has made farting a crime. At least in the west we can still fart at will.

Soaring Oil Price Threatens US Economy
In recent weeks, the price of oil has climbed above $90 per barrel. As chaos spreads through the Arab world, we could soon see much ...

Middle East Peace Process Endangered By Egypt Crisis - The Daily Telegraph
The peace process in the Middle East is under serious threat as a result of the political instability in Egypt, William Hague has claimed. The Foreign Secretary said Israel's negative reaction to the turmoil in the Arab state is poised to exacerbate tensions and stall the already ...

Britain Faces Dementia Catastrophe
Britain faces a “dementia catastrophe” unless Alzheimer’s is tackled with the same aggression as the fight against Aids, charities are warning.

More people fear being diagnosed with the debilitating brain condition above anything else than fear cancer or death itself, research shows.

Are The Cultural Poles FlippingReligion and Science (which some people have turned into their religion) have failed to provide the certainties, the sense of security, that many people seek. First religious convicion was eroded by science and then faith in science collapsed when it's certainties dod not stand up to the logical tests of the real world. Can existentialims offer a third way or is its acceptance of uncertainty to challenging?

George Osborne's Levy On Bank Profits Slammed by Ed Balls
Coalition Chancellor George Osborne was accused of "moving the tax goalposts" by banks and of introducing a "damp squib" by Labour after increasing a levy on bank profits to raise £2.5bn this year...

It's The Car Of The Future - And It Runs On Petrol
How long have those research grant phishing, statistics rigging, peer review fiddling sciencyheads been telling us the car of the future would be powered by electricity? This was despite their best efforts after Squillions of Dollars, Pounds, Euros and Yen only having produced a hybrid that required both an electric motor and an internal combusion unit to ...

At Last The Left's Politically Correct Agenda Is Being Questioned - We Can Discuss Poverty, Race and Single Patenthood
With Germany's leader Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron both recently declaring multiculturalism dead and many commentators starting to question the Politically Correct orthodoxy on issues like race, sexuality and single parent families are we al last smashing down the barrier that has prevented the sensible policies on many social problems being adopted.

Wikileaks: American President Gave Britain's Secrets To Russia To Secure A Deal
Daily Telegraph Exclusive: The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose...

Cameron Says Multiculturalism Has Failed: Muslims Must Embrace Our Values

British Muslims must subscribe to mainstream values of freedom and equality, David Cameron will say as he declares that the doctrine of multiculturalism has “failed” and will be abandoned. Entering the debate on national identity and ...

Wikileaks: Brritain Faces New Wave Suicide Bombers
MI6 has warned that Britain faces a “unique” threat from a generation of home-grown terrorists who are not on the intelligence services’ “radar”, secret documents have disclosed.
British-born radicals who undergo terrorist training and become “suicide operatives” will leave ...

US Says Obamanomics and Quantitative Easing Is Not To Blame For Food Prices Rising
Ben Bernanke, the head of the US Federal Reserve, yesterday rejected suggestions that the central bank’s policies of deficit spending and printing moneyt are to blame for the rise in global food prices and commodity to record highs that have contributed to political unrest in Egypt and other developing nations.

Mr Bernanke said the rapid rise in living standards in developing economies was behind the increase in food prices, rather than Education Oversold We have been told for years that higher education leading to a university degree is the surefire route to career success and personal fulfillment after graduation. As resentment grows because with graduate unemployment on the rise the burden of student debt is crippling young people for many years we ask has university education been oversold for the sake of political expediency?

The Flight From Freedom
Fleeing from freedom seems like a contradiction, after all we usually asdsiciate flight with escaping from captivity. In this first part of Existentialism for Beginners however the author identifies a human instinct that predisposes us to seek illusory safety by conforming and being part of the crowd rather than embarking on the lonely life of the free thinker, the person who truly makes their own decisions and follows their own path.

Egypt Gets Ready For Biggest Protests So FarWestern businesses and intelligence agencies are concerned that Egypt's public insurrection may have a knock on effect, inciting protests in other middle east nations, particularly the Shia region of Saudi Arabia where the world's richest oilfields are located.
"Yemen, Sudan, Jordan and Syria are all experiencing unrest with dissatisfaction among both secularists who want to live in a more westernised society and ...

Government Should Slow Down On Cuts, Raise Pension Age.
At the Daily Stirrer we seldom hve anything positive to say about adacemics, particularly those academic who feather their nests by wheedling their way onto government advisory panels by laying claim to expertise only real life experience can bring. I lecture in engineering at degree level so am familiar with such people. And that makes me less inclined to defend them than ...

Crisis In Egypt As Murbarak Regime Crumbles
... In the event of Mubarak's resignation, the Muslim Brotherhood (see picture below) are well organised and would do well in any open electoralprocess. While the more moderate political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood will contain the more extreme elements in the group, they are ...

Would You Eat Meat Grown From Grey Goo?
... following that example (above) of good science here's an example of the science we at the Daily Stirrer do not like.
(from Reuters) In a small laboratory on an upper floor of the basic science building at the Medical University of South Carolina, Vladimir Mironov, M.D., Ph.D., has been working for a decade to grow meat in a petri dish...

The Debt Threat To Our Way Of Life
Japan's Triple A credit rating has just been downgraded, that of the USA is looking a long way short of secure.What is going on in the world of finance when economic powerhouses like these are in trouble? Is the continuing financial criis and the threatened meltdown in the bond market just a knock on effect from 2008's problems or is something bigger going on?

Coalition Government Urged To Make PFI Profiteers To Repay Funds
Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, claimed that many PFI deals were "ghastly" and imposed an unfair "penalty" on schools, hospitals and other public services. It is understood that Cabinet Office and Treasury officials are examining PFI contracts worth billions of pounds, looking for ways to claw back money for taxpayers. Signalling an end to the era of PFI, Mr Maude said the Coalition's plans for a ...

Trouble Escalates In Egypt
At the time Barack Obama made one of his famous speeches in Cairo his suppoters hailed it as a great move towards building bridges between the west and the Islamic world. A couple of years later Palestine is still on the verge of meltdown, Iraq is frangmenting into ethnic and sectarian microstates, Tunisia is in turmoil and Egypt is trying to overthrow its undemocratic remine.

UN Chief Back Off Climate Change Campaign It seems the leaders, or figureheas at least, of the New World Order elitists are getting the message at last. We will not be tricked by the trumped up claims of the climate science Warmageggonists or the fear and panic generated by media scare stories of impending doom into allowing ourselves to be enslaved.

Inflation Tax
Inflation is the cruellest tax, it hits the cautious, prudent and hard working, rewards the feckless, reckless and downright foolish. We have a bout of inflation under way, engineered by governments to reduce their unsdustainable levels of debt incurred in the business of buying otes to stay in power. What will be its effect on ordinary people?

Gambling In The Euro Casino At Vegas on the Med
The Daily Stirer has warned of the collapse of the Eurozone and the death of the single currency before. It was not a hard call to make, tying traditionally weak economies to a strong one like Germany's and thus blocking off the traditional route to eliminating debt in the weak nations, devaluation and inflation, was bound to wreak havoc with the economic basket cases of Southern Europe. The single currency has only survived so long because Germany has been willing to prop it up.

Coalition Government Urged To Make PFI Profiteers To Repay Funds
Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, claimed that many PFI deals were "ghastly" and imposed an unfair "penalty" on schools, hospitals and other public services. It is understood that Cabinet Office and Treasury officials are examining PFI contracts worth billions of pounds, looking for ways to claw back money for taxpayers. Signalling an end to the era of PFI, Mr Maude said the Coalition's plans for a ...

Trouble Escalates In Egypt
At the time Barack Obama made one of his famous speeches in Cairo his suppoters hailed it as a great move towards building bridges between the west and the Islamic world. A couple of years later Palestine is still on the verge of meltdown, Iraq is frangmenting into ethnic and sectarian microstates, Tunisia is in turmoil and Egypt is trying to overthrow its undemocratic remine.

UN Chief Back Off Climate Change Campaign It seems the leaders, or figureheas at least, of the New World Order elitists are getting the message at last. We will not be tricked by the trumped up claims of the climate science Warmageggonists or the fear and panic generated by media scare stories of impending doom into allowing ourselves to be enslaved.

Inflation Tax
Inflation is the cruellest tax, it hits the cautious, prudent and hard working, rewards the feckless, reckless and downright foolish. We have a bout of inflation under way, engineered by governments to reduce their unsdustainable levels of debt incurred in the business of buying otes to stay in power. What will be its effect on ordinary people?

Gambling In The Euro Casino At Vegas on the Med
The Daily Stirer has warned of the collapse of the Eurozone and the death of the single currency before. It was not a hard call to make, tying traditionally weak economies to a strong one like Germany's and thus blocking off the traditional route to eliminating debt in the weak nations, devaluation and inflation, was bound to wreak havoc with the economic basket cases of Southern Europe. The single currency has only survived so long because Germany has been willing to prop it up.

Osbone and Balls Square Up Over The Economy John de Roe comments: All economic News today and we suspect it will dominate the news in the coming months. As The Daily Stirrer warned we are now seeing that all the talk of recovery was just hyoe aimed as conning consumers into running up unsupportable levels of personal debt to reinflate national economies.

Bank Of England Warns Living Standards Will Fall Dramatically

Households face the most dramatic squeeze in living standards since the 1920s, the Governor of the Bank of England warned, as he reacted to the shock disclosure that the economy was shrinking again. Families will see their disposable income eaten up as they “pay the inevitable price” for the financial crisis, Mervyn King warned. With wages failing to keep pace with rising inflation, workers’ take- home pay will end the year worth ...

Warmageddon: To Feed The Planet We Need More Carbon Dioxide by Ian R Thorpe.
Warmageddonists are always whining about hoe raised levels of CO2 in air will destroy human society. It is very well known however that most animal life can happily breathe much higher concentrations. Another fear is failure of food supplies. But others argue raising CO2 levels would nullify the case for another science sacred cow GM food crops. So wh is right? ...

Apple Launches Its iPerv App
Apple launched the latest App for its gadgets this week, a bit of software that monitors internet connections for signs of paedophiles trying to contact kids. If it is not called the iPerv App it should be. We foresee problems however. It will take the average kid about five seconds to learn how to disable it

GM Frankenfoods versus Thomas Malthus.
Yesterday we commented on GM Food Needed To Avert World Food Crisis
The GM Foods Nazis are revving up for a good whine again. Professor Sir John Beddington said there was no scientific quick fix to the ''enormously serious'' problem of producing enough fod to feed the world's rapidly growing population in the future as we face problems such as [ ... ] Today Daily Telegraph science writer and self confessed nerd writes on Beddington: ...

A Good Pair Of Pins On Her A furore in the football world this weekend, when two arseholes, er sorry, commentators, Andy Gray and Richard Keys, made sexist remarks about a match official. She was, of course, female. Officiating in the Liverpool vs Wolves match Ms Massey fell foul of ...

Wealthy Nation Lifestyle Links To UK's High Cancer Rates
Women in Britain are more likely to be be diagnosed with breast cancer than those in most other developed countries because of their unhealthy lifestyles, according to a new study. Analysis of data collected by the respected World Health Organisation shows Britain has higher rates of the potentially fatal disease than the USA, Australia, Germany and Spain. In only 10 of the 50 countries assessed by the researchers do women have a higher chance of ...

GM Food Needed To Avert World Food Crisis
The GM Foods Nazis are revving up for a good whine again. Professor Sir John Beddington said there was no scientific qick fix to the ''enormously serious'' problem of producing enough fod to feed the world's rapidly growing population in the future as we face problems such as climate change, population growth and energy shortages. He told BBC Breakfast News: ''If there are genetically modified (GM) organisms that actually ...

The Truth Is Not Out There
There is no hope of finding alien life in space because conditions on all other planets are too hostile, a leading astronomer has claimed. This goes against recent, almost hysterical claims from research grant phishing astrophysicists who claim the 'photographs of neighbouring galaxies' (in fact CGI images constructed from measurements of radiation coming in from certain parts of outer space) have 'proved' 'the truth is out there' and there could be many planets capable of ...

There's A Book In There Somewhere
As I work in the tourism industry I see a lot of what people are reading at the moment, and at the moment everyone seems to be reading something about some celebrity or other. I can probably count on one hand the amount of ...

Can We Change? Mystics Say Yes, Science Says No - Or Does It?
Medical science has always insisted we cannot change the way our brain works but now that view is changing. A number of scientific studies have proved various things that have nade a lot of science fanatics look silly. The brain can be rewired after traumatic injury, meditation can change the way we think, prayer, riyual and superstition are all beneficial and the placebo effect is a powerful healing tool.

A Stroke Of Luck
Ian Thorpe's memoir of his remarkable revovery from a massive Brain Haemorrhage is a must read for Stroke Survivors, their relatives and those health care professionals looking after people whose lives have been derailed by stroke or brain injury, probably the most devastating of all health failures. In this book, free to read online or download in a printable version, somebody who has been through the process shares his experience. Honest, hilarious, often funny because as the author will tell you a sense of humour is the most important item in the survivors toolkit.

University Bosses Become Fat Cats As Student Fees Rise
The pay packets of Britain’s university heads rocketed by as much as a fifth last year, just as institutions lobbied for a huge hike in student tuition fees. More than 950 university staff, including all vice-chancellors, were paid more than the Prime Minister – an eight per cent increase on the year before. One senior administrator at Oxford was given a salary of almost £600,000, thought to be the highest-paid university post in ...

Dubai and Hubris

Now we are not cruel people who write Boggart Blog, nor are we the types to indulge ourselves with schadenfreude. But sometime you've just gotta, haven't you? Remember that archepelago of artificial islands that was constructed off the coast of Dubai a few years ago, where all the super rich people bought houes to take advantage of Dubai's tax haven status ...

Children Are Bring Given Chemical Cosh For Shyness
Children are being prescribed mind-altering “chemical cosh” drugs for conditions such as shyness and mild social anxiety, behaviour experts have warned. Young people are routinely being given medication to treat normal childhood conditions, it was claimed, despite fears over their long-term health. The disclosure came as it emerged that the number of eight- to 13-year-olds on drugs such as Ritalin has soared seven-fold since 1997. In many cases, pupils are being put on medication amid fears from parents, teachers and doctors over a serious deterioration in ...

Tory Chief Attacks Bigotry Against Muslims
Islamophobia has “passed the dinner-table test” and is seen by many as normal and uncontroversial, Baroness Warsi will say in a speech on Thursday. The minister without portfolio will also warn that describing Muslims as either “moderate” or “extremist” fosters growing prejudice. Lady Warsi, the first Muslim woman to attend Cabinet, has pledged to use her position to wage an “ongoing battle against bigotry”. Her comments are the most high-profile intervention ...

Pigeons, The New Mules (humour) A new growing crisis threatens the streets of Britain and no, it's not Katie Price on the lookout for a new husband to have that much wanted baby with. The problem is the avian population. Last week we brought you news of the drink problem identified by ...

Latest Unemployment Figures Suggest Jobless 'Double Dip
(comment -jobs)
Unemployment figures released today will represent a "real test" of the government's economic strategy, according to a thinktank. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) warned the risk of an employment double dip remained "very real" in the face of cuts in the public sector.

Millions Taking Statins Needlessly (comment - health)
Up to 3 million people are taking statins needlessly, doctors warn today in a comprehensive study that suggests they are ineffective in many cases and could be doing more harm than good.
An authoritative review shows there is little evidence that the cholesterol-lowering drugs

Whisky Drinkers Will Turn In Their Graves( humour, drink)
Whisky purists will be horrified. True afficionadoes of Ouisce Beath are very fussy about how their favourite tipple is handled. The drink must be treated with ...

Not Intelligent Design But A Designer Universe. (comment - science, philosophy)
At the risk of making to sciencyheads kick off about intelligent design we must enter the argument between science and creationism to pose the possibility that the universe did have a designer - not a god such as the creation myths describe but a race of intelligent (?) beings who, live ourselves could not resist meddling with things they did not fully understand thus incurring unforeseen consequences.

Financial Alchemy ( comment - credit crisis)
For three decades it was alchemy. Banks and corporations pullede off the equivalent of turning lead to gold by turning liabilities to assets and then using those very dodgy assets to secure loans. It could not last of course, sooner or later someone was bound to work out how the illusion of turning debt to wealth was performed. Find out how here...

Clear Night - metaphysical poetry Look at the sky on a clear night and you can see all the way to the centre of your being.

By 2015 Credit Cards Will Cost Families £1800 a year (comment - family finance). Last week The Daily Stirrer warned that rising inflation meant interest rates would have to rise sharply very soon. Today as we learned that by the so called factory gate price measure infkation has gove over 4% the economic pundis of mainstream media are as usual playing catch up.

Head Of Major Food Producing Corp Warns Of Food Crisis (comment - food crisis)
The chief executive of one of the world's largest food producers is to warn that the global crisis in food production is reaching "dangerous territory" with prices soaring and demand outstripping supply. In a speech scheduled for Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011 Paul Polman, the chief executive of Unilever, will say that market distortions created by European Union subsidies work against ...

China's Economic Bubble About To Burst?
For his first-ever speech as Britain’s new Minister of Trade & Industry last week, Lord Green faced a formidable audience of 400 Chinese and British business delegates. The former chairman of HSBC declared that China’s economic growth figures over the past five years represented an “extraordinary historic event”. Green didn’t need to go over Britain’s experience during the same period for most to agree that ...

Dubai and Hubris

Now we are not cruel people who write Boggart Blog, nor are we the types to indulge ourselves with schadenfreude. But sometime you've just gotta, haven't you? Remember that archepelago of artificial islands that was constructed off the coast of Dubai a few years ago, where all the super rich people bought houes to take advantage of Dubai's tax haven status ...

Children Are Bring Given Chemical Cosh For Shyness
Children are being prescribed mind-altering “chemical cosh” drugs for conditions such as shyness and mild social anxiety, behaviour experts have warned. Young people are routinely being given medication to treat normal childhood conditions, it was claimed, despite fears over their long-term health. The disclosure came as it emerged that the number of eight- to 13-year-olds on drugs such as Ritalin has soared seven-fold since 1997. In many cases, pupils are being put on medication amid fears from parents, teachers and doctors over a serious deterioration in ...

Tory Chief Attacks Bigotry Against Muslims
Islamophobia has “passed the dinner-table test” and is seen by many as normal and uncontroversial, Baroness Warsi will say in a speech on Thursday. The minister without portfolio will also warn that describing Muslims as either “moderate” or “extremist” fosters growing prejudice. Lady Warsi, the first Muslim woman to attend Cabinet, has pledged to use her position to wage an “ongoing battle against bigotry”. Her comments are the most high-profile intervention ...

Pigeons, The New Mules (humour) A new growing crisis threatens the streets of Britain and no, it's not Katie Price on the lookout for a new husband to have that much wanted baby with. The problem is the avian population. Last week we brought you news of the drink problem identified by ...

Latest Unemployment Figures Suggest Jobless 'Double Dip
(comment -jobs)
Unemployment figures released today will represent a "real test" of the government's economic strategy, according to a thinktank. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) warned the risk of an employment double dip remained "very real" in the face of cuts in the public sector.

Millions Taking Statins Needlessly (comment - health)
Up to 3 million people are taking statins needlessly, doctors warn today in a comprehensive study that suggests they are ineffective in many cases and could be doing more harm than good.
An authoritative review shows there is little evidence that the cholesterol-lowering drugs

Whisky Drinkers Will Turn In Their Graves( humour, drink)
Whisky purists will be horrified. True afficionadoes of Ouisce Beath are very fussy about how their favourite tipple is handled. The drink must be treated with ...

Not Intelligent Design But A Designer Universe. (comment - science, philosophy)
At the risk of making to sciencyheads kick off about intelligent design we must enter the argument between science and creationism to pose the possibility that the universe did have a designer - not a god such as the creation myths describe but a race of intelligent (?) beings who, live ourselves could not resist meddling with things they did not fully understand thus incurring unforeseen consequences.

Financial Alchemy ( comment - credit crisis)
For three decades it was alchemy. Banks and corporations pullede off the equivalent of turning lead to gold by turning liabilities to assets and then using those very dodgy assets to secure loans. It could not last of course, sooner or later someone was bound to work out how the illusion of turning debt to wealth was performed. Find out how here...

Clear Night - metaphysical poetry Look at the sky on a clear night and you can see all the way to the centre of your being.

By 2015 Credit Cards Will Cost Families £1800 a year (comment - family finance). Last week The Daily Stirrer warned that rising inflation meant interest rates would have to rise sharply very soon. Today as we learned that by the so called factory gate price measure infkation has gove over 4% the economic pundis of mainstream media are as usual playing catch up.

Head Of Major Food Producing Corp Warns Of Food Crisis (comment - food crisis)
The chief executive of one of the world's largest food producers is to warn that the global crisis in food production is reaching "dangerous territory" with prices soaring and demand outstripping supply. In a speech scheduled for Tuesday, Jan 18, 2011 Paul Polman, the chief executive of Unilever, will say that market distortions created by European Union subsidies work against ...

China's Economic Bubble About To Burst?
For his first-ever speech as Britain’s new Minister of Trade & Industry last week, Lord Green faced a formidable audience of 400 Chinese and British business delegates. The former chairman of HSBC declared that China’s economic growth figures over the past five years represented an “extraordinary historic event”. Green didn’t need to go over Britain’s experience during the same period for most to agree that ...

Everything They Said Is Bad For You Is Good For You.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the pleasuredome Nanny State's Politically Correct Thought Police are now using CAll Me Dave's Dave's nudger try to nudge us towards being better citizens, eating more shite and refusing things we like, drinking less booze, smoking less ciggies, avoiding dangerous sports like bowls and tiddleywinks, driving less miles in a less cavalier fashion and being less idle (unless of course being idle is the alternative to driving, boozing, eating or enjoying yourself by doing things the Thought Police do not like.
Not much in the way of satire or current affairs today as the Greenteeth team have been getting a new collection of anarchist / hedonist poety ready to go online. Here are the first three titles: The Aspirational
This poem is a hectic anti - materialim rant written with an insistent rhythm, in performance it is a poetic earworm. Another incitement to reject convention from a writer who should have been one of poetry's bad boys except that the Arts establishment Politically Correct Thought Police do not like bad boys or individuals now.
On The Imminent Marriage Of A Former Lover
Poets and writers used to be hedonists, Byron was described as mad, bad and dangerous to know, Coleridge was a drug addict, Dylan Thomas a hellraising drunk many other were prodigious drinkers, shaggers, promiscuous homosexuals and compuslive gambers. More recently however poetry and literatute like so much of cultural life has been hijacked by The Politically Correct Thought Police. The fightback starts here. This poem is about feral passion and rule breaking sex in the well ordered world of suburbia.
Devil Raise Me From The Grave
Poets and writers used to be hedonists, Byron was described as Mad, bad and dangerous to know, Coleridge was a drug addict, Dylan Thomas a hellraising drunk many other were prodigious drinkers, shaggers, promiscuous homosexuals and compuslive gambers. More recently however poetry and literatute like so much of cultural life has been hijacked by The Politically Correct Thought Police, the righteous hand wringers who would turn all of us into unthinking automatons, slaves of the all powerful state. In Devil Raise Me From The Grave a man looks back from middle age, yearing for the life he imagined would be his...
Retirement At 65 by Default Ends
Fulfilling a pledge in the Coalition agreement, Employment Relations Minister Ed Davey heralded the end of the default retirement age. Age campaigners have long called for it to be scrapped [ ... ] That's going to do wonders for the young jobless. The economic mismanagement of governments over the past thirty years has created a pensions time bomb. Many people who responded to the exhortations to 'save for a comfortable retirement' are now finding that having denied themselves luxuries in order to provide security in retirement for themselves, their pension funds have been eroded by inflation, stock market boom and

Tobogganing Teacher Sacked
The Politically Correct Thought Police read their ugly heads again as a teacher in a secondary school is sacked for putting pupils at unnecessary risk by letting them do a bit of toboganning in the recent cold, snowy weather.

And Starlings Will Fall - Bladdered -From The Heavens
Odd, and we mean really strange, stuff happens all the time. The world is a strange place. Sometimes when strange stuff happens God fearing types start yelling about the end of the world and the raptures when all our clothes fall off and we ascend to heaven Nothing happens of course. Scientists say science wil provide the answer and it doesn't because the world is not scientific. And all the time only Boggart Blog knows what happened.


Many of the most famous schools in the world – including Eton, Marlborough, Harrow and Dulwich College – registered lower results than some of England’s worst-performing comprehensives because of technicality. According to the tables, no pupils at 142 schools achieved five A* to C grades including English and maths, while a further 26 scored below 10 per cent. The rock-bottom ratings come because most independent schools have dropped conventional GCSEs in some subjects and ...

The New Most Dangerous Place On Earth - America
Here’s something to think about when you’re planning your next vacation: you’re more than thirteen times as likely to get killed in a shoot-out within walking distance of the White House than in terror-torn Pakistan. You would even be safer, incredible as it sounds, in Iraq or Afghanistan or Mexico. I’m serious: data I’ve compiled makes…

Ed Butt comments:
American society is absolutely FUBAR. I was looking at an American site today where the loony left (or liberals as they insist on calling themselves) had beenquick to blame "the gun crazy religious right" and in particular Sarah Palin for the atrocity. When it becan to emerge that the gunman was a crazy, obsessive loner who may have been associated with left wing

It's Thumbs Up From Both Of Us
Doctor's caring for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords are said to be delighted with her progress. Ms Giffords was said to be ...

And The Lord Said: "And Starlings Will Fall - Bladdered -From The Heavens
When I was a nipper one used to see Sandwich Board men, that is men walking about advertising things on a sandwich board worn over their shoulders. I have to admit they were few and far between, maybe saw one every now and again advetising Lewis's summer sale or something like that on our trips into Manchester. They frequently used to appear in cartoons though. A dishevelled chap in a grubby raincoat, flat cap and a fag dangling from ...

Proof Of Dumbing Down In GCSE Exams
Every year as the percentage of those achieving top grades in GCSE exams continues to rise and the number of GCSEs gained by pupils continues to rise there is the usual debate about whether exams are becoming easier or kids more

Tobogganing Teacher Sacked.
Fatsally post today demonstrates the extent of dumbing down in school examinations and now Boggart Blog will show how dumbed down the people who run our schools have become.
Mr. Richard Tremelling, a technology teacher at Cefn Hengoed Community School in Swansea, South Wales, has been sacked for letting ...

America's Debt Crisis Traps Less Well Off In Depression Conditions
News this weekend has been dominated by the assassination attempt on a Democratic Congresswoman and her companions in Tuscon, Arizona. As the story is everywhere there is little point The Daily Stirrer commenting other than to offer our condolences to those injured and the families of people who died in the attack. What this incident has done however is to focus the attention of the outside world on some very worrying social trends in the world's most powerful nation, namely the polarisation on political, racial and regional lines and the seething anger at most levels of ...

Back From The Other Side
Wow, back from the othr side, been lost in the ether since Dear Old Mum went home after Christmas. I don't know how she does this but it's not the first time I haven't been able to get an internet connection after she's been here. Lost one of our sharp knives as well, and that's not the ...

Cameron's Nudger Gets Really Scary With New Car Insurance Law
David Camerton is running around with his nudger out and thratening everybody with it. Now before you start rolling about on the floor clutching your sides and laughing hysterically at the idea that Dave's nudger might be something you should fear let me tell you that far from looking limp and a bit ...

Where not to find good food that is easy on your pocket.
Long before I cancelled my regular order for a print copy of The Guardian I had begun to wonder what planet the meeja types who write it actually live on. Today the Guardian website ran a feature titled Britain's best budget restaurants ...

Pakistani Men See White Girls As Easy Meat
Somebody needed to speak out about how ethnic minorities are getting away with, if not quite murder some very nasty stuff, thanks to the protection of the Politically Correct Thought Police who styling themselves 'progressives' have hijacked the national agenda. Well done to former Labour minister Jack Straw for braving the wrath of the rabid mob. The Daily Telegraph says:
The Blackburn MP has called on the Pakistani community to be "more open" about the issue after describing about a "specific problem" involving young Pakistani men's attitudes towards ...

Birds Fall From Sky It reads like something from The Book Of Revelations. After cavalcades of dead birds and fish from Arkansas and Texas to Sweden and New Zealand, tests are being carried out on the bodies of turtle doves in Italy after hundreds rained down near Ravenna. The turtle dove case is the largest incident to have hit Europe so far – in Sweden 50 jackdaws were found dead. Italian officials said ...

Boggart Blog predictions for 2011.
New Year is traditionally the time for predictions. So as 2010 fades into memory we give our Boggart Blog predictions for what will happen in 2011. How confident are we? Let's put it this way, we would rather bet one a one legged man in an arse kicking contest.

Technical Schools To Be Revived
Tens of thousands of children will be able to abandon academic study at 14 to undertake vocational training under plans unveiled last night.Up to 70 technical schools teaching youngsters practical skills from bricklaying to fashion are to be opened within the next five years. The scheme is one of the most radical shake-ups of the education system since ...

Terror Alert Lavel Raised
The terrorist threat level at major transport hubs in the UK has been raised to severe, it was reported today. Extra police have been deployed on the rail network and at Heathrow airport, according to the unconfirmed reports, but there was no suggestion of an imminent threat. The raising of the threat level from ...

Flu Deaths Hit Fifty This Year
More official bullshit from the Ministry of Fear and Panic. Quite what the aim of this is as most of the overbought flu vaccine from the bird flu scare of a few years ago, another pandemic that did not happen, are past their 'use by' date now and clinics are running out of vaccine. People need to be told not to panic, that (as Dr. Hilary Jones assured viewers on breakfast TV this morning, 'flu is a relitavely mild illness and only in a very small number of cases does it pose a serious threat to

Radio Telescopes Photograph Nearest Galaxy To Earth
A spectacular new photo of our nearest galaxy lit up like a neon sign has been captured by European astronomers using state of the art space telescopes. Regular Readers of The Daily Stirrer will know we are somewhat sceptical about 'science.' Now there is a lot of good and valuable work done in research and development using those accumulated bodies of knowledge known as The Sciences. But when people start trying to pass off speculative research or even unsubstantiated and unproveable theories as 'science' it is a sure sign we are dealing with research grant bludgers, Nobel Prize phishers and ...

Filth Is The Most Popular Thing In Suffolk
If you Boggart Blog readers, like us Boggart Bloggers Fatsally, Cleo Hart and myself, hate public relations campaigns and the whole industry that has grown up around telling us what we have to think and how we have to ...

Facebook Suicide
n a week in which the ever more fickle mainstream media have been heaping praise on Facebook simply because somebody who it either an idiot or an evil control freak is willing to pay around $25billion for this site that has never made a penny in profit despite its (very dubious) claims to have 600 million users worldwide and has no busimess model other than encouraging people to become addicted to the 'virtual' lifestyle it offers and thus abandon real life, we are saddened by this story of another ...

SHOCK HORROR! Cats More Manipulative Than Humans In another instalment of our Utterly Gobsmacking Scientific Revelation Of The Week series be bring you an item from MSNBC that reports veterinary researchers have found cats are even more cynical and manipulative creatures than was previously thought ...

Boggart Blog select vol 9
Another selection from the archives of the UKs top comedy anbd satire blog. Very funny posts from a while ago.

VAT increase comes into effect. Left warns it will cause the end of the world. by John de Roe The increase in VAT from 17.5% to 20% came into effect today although many prices will not increase for several weeks. Labour leaders and others with a vested interest in destabilizing the coalition government are screaming that the increase will lead to a financial Armageddon and would drive the low paid into penury.
Anybody who has the slightest understanding of how VAT works would know this is not ...

Record Manufacturing Growth Boosts Recovery Hopes
Manufacturing activity last month grew at its fastest pace since 1994 as exports drove new orders. The acceleration, reflected in the closely watched Markit/CIPS manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI), was sharper than expected at 58.3 – where any figure above 50 indicates expansion. Economists were expecting ...


European debt markets could be hit by a second credit crisis within months as fears grow over the huge volume of new bonds that must be sold by governments and banks in 2011.

Dumbing Down Has Destroyed Respect For Academics
Academic inflation is as dangerous to any country as its financial equivalent. When university degrees no longer represent a genuine assessment of a graduate’s abilities, the whole intellectual currency is debased. In Britain, as we report today, this insidious process has reached

Boggart Blog Predictions For 2011 Using the unique Boggart Blog technique of mathematical modelling, casting the runes and smoking herbal mixture the team, have analyzed events and trends in the global economy, the political system and the climate and can confidently predict that all the following things will probably happen in 2011 unless they do not happen in which case ...

Maternity Care On The Verge Of Breakdown
Maternity services are close to breaking point and care for mothers is worsening, the UK's leading midwife warns in a dramatic plea over the declining state of childbirth on the NHS. Labour wards are struggling to give women the proper quality of care under the "relentless" pressure of a record birth rate, staff shortages and increasingly complex births, says Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives. Writing in the Observer, Warwick warns that the situation in maternity units is so grave the ...

Rare Earth Mine Reopens - Triumph For Common Sense
Politicians and the science community rave about how carbon is destroying the planet. But what's the truth about how clean green energy will be. Rare earth metals used in digital devices, electric car batteries, wind turbines and many other processes that are being promoted as necessary to restart the global economy. Mining and refining the ores is a huge pollutant but new mining licences are being granted ever so quietly. This article tells why we need rare earth metals in spite of the environmentalists whines.

Climate Change Laughing Gas
Geoffery Lean: We know it as “laughing gas”, but it is getting beyond a joke. Nitrous oxide is reckoned to be the third most important greenhouse gas contributing to global warming after carbon dioxide and methane. And now “startling” new evidence of an overlooked source of it has just been published by by US scientists – providing further ...

The Swine Flu Scam Revisited
As the swine flu pandemic that did not happen last year refuses to happen again this year the fear and panic industry has gone into overdrive over a handful of serious cases of flu that might or might not be the notoriously elusive H1N1 variant. Like Ponzi schemes, health scares resurface with amazing regularity. Remember how last year the ...

Boggart Blog Select vol 1 Revamped, reindexed and still as funny, the Boggart Blog archives, the UK's foremost comedy and satire blog, have been made more accessible.

Cable Says Dance Competition "Bent As A Boxing Day Turd."
Vince Cable, the ballroom dancing big mouth business minister in the coalition government has been talking to a Boggart Blog undercover reporter who was disguised as water dripping from an iclcle about failure to win the Stictly Come Dancing special on Christmas Day. Kandi the Kelpie secretly recorded Cable in his dressing room after the show. Mistaking her for meltwater as he looked out of the window the minister told Kandi ...

Christmas Is Bollocks part 2.
For Christmas 2010 Boggart Blog has continued its long tradition off slagging off the modern, consumer oriented, shoddy, politically correct, conformist christmas if favour of supporting people who do their own thing.

You Get What You Deserve.
Are mobile phones, celphones as they are called in some parts, destroying good manners and the basic civility we need in order for ociety to finction? In the internet destroying our way of life? Are we becoming slaves to technology? Boggart Blog's resident technophobe Fatsally has a few things to say on that.

The Offcomer
A short verse reminding everyone to care for the birds in this current bout of "global warming" that has seen temperatures plunge to record lows in the coldest November and December on record.

Interest Rates To Rise Sixfold
Once again The Daily Stirrer says, "We told you so.

Death Of The Eurozone.
When the first treaty aimed at establishing the European Union was drafted by the bureaucrat Jean Monnet it stated clearly the aim should be to create a single European state with a single currency (the Euro) and eventually a single government. That part of the reaty was rejected by all European states and an economic community based on free trade and fee movenent of goods and labour formed. But the Eurocrats of Brussels did not give up their dream ...

The Fine Art Of Northern Understatement
When I first ventured out yesterday it was -8. The milk bottles were frozen to the floor, the tops raised up where the freezing liquid had expanded. Icicles graced the ...

Shock, Horror! Top Gear Presenter Sells Out Negotiating our way through the world has become like walking on quicksand, nothing is what it seems to be and what seems safe and solid can shift and reveal it is just an illusion in the wink of an eye.
Small wonder then that humans cling ...

Boggart Blog Select No. 8 Reprising posts from Boggart Blog, the UK's longest lasting and most populaR satirical blog since 2005.

Apprentice Speak: Talking Corporate Bollocks.
As the government tried to sell off last year's stock of swine flu by telling us the pandemic that did not happen last year had come back to not happen again this year. There is a pandemic running round at the moment though as evidenced by this year's UK run of The Appentice on television. If Lord Sugar's candidates were as good at getting things done as they are at talking management spek bollocks he's be on a winner.

Selling Swine Flu The Second Time Round

GPs have been reminded to offer all pregnant women flu vaccines this winter, amid growing concern that expectant mothers are being given mixed messages by medical staff.

Statistics, Graphs and Hockey Sticks. Ian R Thorpe tohough long forgotten by the literary establishment is one of the most widely read living poets in the English language. In this take on the global warming climate science controversy a combination of political and human insight, wry humour and willingness to "kick against the pricks" reveals why.

Will X Factor Winner Beat The Surfin' Bird.
After the latest run of The X Foctpr finishing last week with mediocrity triumphing over talent once again we eagerly away the announcement of the 2010 Chrustmas number one. Will it go to this years one hit wonder or will the latest Facebook campaign succed s well as last year and put Surfin Bird by The Trashment on top 47 years after it was first released. Go transhmen

Women In Labour - by - Ian R Thorpe
The UK Labour party, nominally a social democratic political movement has always had a tendency towards authoritarianism and as such attracts a particularly humourless type of activist. They are obsessed with equaity and rights but respect everybody's right to have the same opinion as they themselves do. In the equaities bill, passed just before the labour government was thrown out they surpassed themselves with an ant-discrimination bill that harms everybody (equally).

Statistics, Graphs and Hockey Sticks
The politicians and academics of "climate science" are screaming about saving the planet. It is very plain however that all their ideas involve the already mega rich making lots of money and us poor punters paying losts more tax. There is another, much more reliable, way ... and not a statistic, graph or hockey stick involved ...

Domestic Heating Oil Shortage

As snow began falling again across the country, the Government confirmed that the situation could become “very serious,” with some households already facing waits of up to four weeks before they can receive supplies [ ... ] With prices of fuel oil for domestic heating systems escalating rapidly as demand from developing nations puts pressure on the available supplies there is no respite in sight for consumers. As well as problems obtaining deliveries due to stocks running low and the difficulty of getting deliveries through to remote areas due to weather conditions there is a hidden problem here. Many households that rely on oil for ...

One in 11 boys struggles to read
One in 11 male pupils in England - and as high as one in seven in some areas - starts secondary school with the reading skills of an average seven-year-old or lower. According to data obtained by the BBC's News 9% of 11-year-old boys fell far short expected achievement standards in reading and comprehension.
Nottingham fared worst of the large cities that with 15% of boys having sub - standard reading skills and the situation was only slightly better in ...

Unemployment Falls, Number Not Working Rises, It's Magic.
How can it be that month after month the number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance falls but the number of people not working rises. FCould it be magic, the occultism of statistics or is it simply good old fashioned cheating.

Rogernomics.
It was the belief of economists (practicioners of the dismal science) in their own infallibility and the power of their mathematical models to override nature that got the world into its currect economic mess. Rogernomics is the science of blaming the previous government when the predictions of the mathematical models go horribly wrong.

Orthodoxy by Stealth.
It is a universal truth that a dumbed down, unthinking population would made life much easier for an authoritaian, control freak government to exercise the kind of bureaucratic control over people and businesses they so desire. But in a democracy voters would not stand for such a thing, would they? Probably not, which is why controls and enforced uniformity are being introduced by stealth.

It's Life Craig, But Not As We Know It.
Since the publication of Frankenstein and maybe before that it has been the ambition of many scientists to discover the science of life itself and thus create new life in the laboratory. Now modern adances in delusional thinking have led science to move beyond dreams into the realms of fantasy fiction and claim they have created artificial life when they have not.

Green Energy Will Send Domestic Bills Sky High
Energy secretary in the coalition government Chris Huhne will outline government plans today to encourage energy companies to develop low-carbon power plants, including nuclear power stations and wind farms.
Energy analysts say the Coalition's plans will put up to £500 a year on domestic energy bills...

Batteries Not Included
"Batteries not inclded" The dreaded words on the boxes of toys bought for Christmas presents. At first sight of those words Dad knew that stuffed with turkey, roasties and duff he was in for a trek round the destered streets on Chistmas day to find an open all hours. Now as governments and sciencyheads and green, three hugging weirdie - beardies whose love of science and the environment is more to do with religious zeal than reason and logic we are starting to the that the words "batteries not included will be even mkore terrifying when see in the small priint of the contract we have just signed for a new electric car.

Magic Hat Works For Me.
It does not take much to get the grumblies grumbling and mumbling. I'm talking about the sciencyheads and people whose irrational belief in logic, reason and order makes us pity them. Ten to one they will be getting their knickers in a twist about any mention of my magic hat. Well when I'd worn my hat to go out shopping for wine and it's magic helped me to pull a pretty girl of less than half my age, that's the kind of magic I can believe in. And the sciencyheads and pointyheads can fuck right off.

Normal, Fat, Obese?
Can it be true as one newspaper headline suggested this week parents do not know whether their child has a weight problem because they do not know what the difference between normal, fat and obese. But with the politically correct though police forbidding us to call somebody a fat bastard and medical professionals using terms like clinically obese (slightly over the ideal weight) and morbidly obese (a right tunb of lard) is it any wonder people are confused.

Obama Deficit Reduction by John De Roe.
We hear that America's AAA credit rating is likely to be downgraded because the Obama administration has embarked on a courseof increasing its public sector deficit and national debt rather than taking steps to reduce its debt burden. Bit at least some member of the Obama administration seem to have got the message that debt reduction is more important than Obie's beloved vanity projects.

Melly Hat Magic Works For Me
OK, I know some people get very tetchy at mere mention of the word magic. These are usually sciencyheads or religious fundamentatlists so they shouldn't be reading Bogart Blog. To be fair the sciencyhead brigade have been very quiet since the publication of a scientific study showed that superstitions, lucky charms, rituals and a bit of casual human sacrifice to actually work.b Well I'm not one for human sacrifice casual or ...

Batteries Not Included
News today that a range of nine electric cars are to be given goverrnment subsidies of 25%. This will make the price of an electric car with specification equivalent to a Nissan Micra only slightly more expensive than a mid range Merc or Beemer. Yes electric cars are the Apple iMac of the roads. You pay twice as much for ...

Climate Change Whitewash.
The climate science scandals such as climategate and the IPCC's dishonesty about the likely effects of certain trends was always predicatable. Climate science was always too tightly entwined with politics, power and big money. It has however led to the exposure of a deep and very nasty streak of dishonesty running through the entire academic community in the sciences.

The Real Danger To America Is Barack Obama
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president."

Normal, Fat Or Obese? 51% Of Parents Can't Tell The Difference
A stunning headline in The Sun today, but not altogether surprising when you think about it. 51% OF PARENTS CAN'T TELL IF A KID IS OBESE. According to a poll of 1,200 parents seriously overweight children are often regarded as just being a bit on the tubby side by their ...

American Concerns About British Muslims

US concerns that the UK was having difficulty containing the threat posed by home-grown extremism have been revealed in new Wikileaks cables. One cable said the British government made "little progress" in engaging with the UK's Muslim community after the 7 July 2005 terror attacks in London.The communication was delivered to Washington from the American embassy in London in August 2006.

Ban Terry Jones
As usual the Labour Loony Left are getting their knickers in a right old twist about somebody most of us might not care to have as a dinner guest being allowed into the country. When you hear the name Terry Jones you might think of phrases like 'He's not The Messiah, he's a very naughty boy,' or 'Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition,' but alas it is not the Terry Jones of Monty Python fame.

Coalition Are United Says Cable
Vince Cable has said the Lib Dems are "united" despite Thursday's rebellion over the rise in student tuition fees in England.
The business secretary, who drew up the plans to raise the maximum fee level to £9,000, told the BBC the coalition would be "stronger for the experience".

Insurance Firms Refuse To End Pensions Scam
Some of Britain’s biggest insurers – including Pearl, Scottish Mutual, and Legal & General – are dragging their feet on rule changes announced by the Chancellor in June, intended to give older savers more choice about how to enjoy their pensions.
John de Roe writes: The pensions scam was one of the main reasons I left my job in banking at the age of 52 for a position in local government. I retire next year and fortunately have a final salary pension from both those careers to rely on. The private pensions industry was always a fraud. In return for a tax break on contributions people had to contract to hand over all their savings to ...

Wikileaks Hacktivists Target UK
The 1,500-strong network of online activists has already sabotaged the websites of MasterCard, Visa and the Swedish government with millions of bogus visits ... Who the fuck do these people think they are. Anti - secrecy organizations my arse, WikiLeaks are not anti secrecy, they are anti privacy. So far only one of the leaked documents has told us anything we did not know or ...

Wikileaks Supporters Bring Down Visa, Mastercard Web Sites
A member of the Anonymous group of hackers, which has been targeting firms it sees as being anti-Wikileaks has said the campaign is not over. Speaking on the BBC's Today programme, Coldblood said that "more and more people are downloading the voluntary botnet tool". This signs them up to a so-called botnet, an army of machines that can then ...

You Just Can't Be Too Paranoid
The perfect poem for the WikiLeaks era. Comic verse from Ian R Thorpe.

Are We Becoming Internet Lab Rats

Not for the first time the ever Increasing amount of information thrown at us from the internet via computer and smart phone interfaces hasve been identified as the cause of “bottlenecks” in the brain, preventing any deep thought. This view comes in a new essat from Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.

Old Men Want Sex But Can't Get Any (Humour)
From our Gobsmackingly stupid scientific study of the week department comes news of a research project that has delivered to conclusion many old men can't get as much sex as ...

The Arrogance Of Ecomonists And The Stupidity Of Politicians by Ian R Thorpe.
It was the belief of economists (practicioners of the dismal science) in their own infallibility and the power of their mathematical models to override nature that got the world into its currect economic mess. Why are elected politicians stillm listening to them?

G20 Nations Divided On Deficit Reduction
After all the bollocks that was talked in Lodon last year about a global system of financial governance it is satisfying to sceptics and liberttarians such as the people who write the Daily Stirrer to lean that the latest round of gluttony, self indulgence and pervers acts with high class prostiutes high level talks - cannot agree on whether the smart move is to reduce spending or carry on printing money...

Pentagon Hunts WikiLeaks Founder by Ian R Thorpe.
Julian Assange the founder of the WikiLeaks web site is being hunted by United States militarty security forces following the release of classified documents on the internet. WEebheads are bleating about freedom as one might expect. What they need to remember is the golden rule of libersalism, SAME RULES APPLY. If Assange can post state secets on the web and get away with it what is to stop sombody posting details of your private life or mine? If you are one of those people who says you have nothing you would not want the world to know about, get a life you sad fuck.

Obama's Immigration Blunder Immigration has for years been the issue politicians don't want to talk about. As the human tide flowing into the west from poor nations continues to gather force the politically correct left, the gates and lesbians, the academics and the waily-gnashy-teethy, angst peddling guilt trippers call for the floodgates to be opened because we must welcome those underpriveleged ...

It's Life Jim But Not As We Know It (Humour). Scientists, those shallow, excitable people so to prone to hyperbole and easily moved to hysteria were last week claiming they had discovered alien life forms in the shape of arsenic eating bacteria in Lake Mono, California. Science and reality are often a long way apart and in the cold light of reason we wonder what the NASA astrobiologist who led the project was getting wound up about.

UK Education Falls Behind Third World


UK schoolchildren today plummeted down a major international league table after being outscored by pupils from countries including Estonia, Lichtenstein and Slovenia.
Teenagers slumped in worldwide rankings comparing standards of reading, mathematics and science in 65 developed nations. Figures published by the respected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development showed the UK fell from ...

Cancun Climate Conference: Gordon Brown Got It Wrong
John Prescott says Gordon Brown made a wrong judgement by trying to force the world into a climate change deal too early.
The former deputy prime minister said the chaos at last year’s climate change talks in Copenhagen was caused by the then Prime Minister trying to force the world into a deal.

Obama A Bigger Danger To US Security Than Wikileaks Says Robert Gates (The Guardian)
WikiLeaks has yet again flooded the internet with thousands of classified American documents, this time state department cables. More troubling than WikiLeaks' latest revelation of US secrets, however, is the Obama administration's weak, wrong-headed and erratic response. Unfortunately, the adminis>tration has acted consistently with its demonstrated unwillingness to assert and defend ...

New Gold Rush There is great excitement in financial markets at the moment about the price gold currently trades at, $1400 per ounce. Take this from the Daily Telegraph for example:
Investors and central banks are buying up the yellow metal at unprecedented levels, but will its allure last as ...

Help,I've Been Disappeared!
A snowy week meaning my southern wuss husband has been working from home, ergo I can't get on the computer cos he's up here for

Prince William and the World Cup. We noticed that after the World Cup fiasco during which he was one of our Knights Paladin, Prince William asked ...

U.S. Stock Market Wobbles As Jobs Figure Rises
America's unemployment rate unexpectedly rose last month, delivering a blow to recent optimism that a recovery in the world's biggest economy was finding some momentum. John De Roe comments:America has the same systemic problems as Britain but on a larger scale. Successive political leaders have been secuced by the siren song of ...

How To Criticise Science
The Daily Stirrer is no fan of scientists. Science we are OK with, it is often interesting and sometimes produces great benefits. Scientists however are ... well to describe them as a bunch of cunts is totally inadequate. And yet all around the western world scientists are trying to turn science into a religion. So how do we criticise them in order to cut them down to size. The Daily Stirrer's Ian R. Thorpe favours a medieval battleaxe approach, in a metaphorical sense we hope. Although with Ian you can never be sure ...

Britain Going Cashless?
by Xavier Connolly

Last year, for the first time, British shoppers spent more on plastic, credit cards and debit cards than in cash.
Pointy heads are predicting the death of cash of course, just as for decades they have predicted the death of print or the advent of computers that can think for themselves.

Russia' Wikileaks moment and England's fury
Yesterday was a day of mixed fortunes for Russia according to news reports.
The latest Wikileaks ... erm ... leaks told us that corruption, extortion and violence have made Russia a mafia state. This is a totally unsubstantiated ...

Liberal? What Does That Mean? What is a liberal? Is it something to do with the kind of politically correct thinking that obsesses over minority rights while seeking to marginalise mainstream society? Is liberalism an authoritarian system that seeks to impose politically correct left wing ideology on everybody. Or is a liberal, as is argued here, a very respectable political postion whose name has been usurped by people reluctant to acknowledge their inner Nazi.

Bankers Are All Wankers, Bankers Are All Wankers, Daa daa da Da daa daa da... Bank of England official and resident stimulus junkie David Blanchflower finally furnishes proof that Bankers are out of touch with reality in an attack on Bank governor Mervyn King.

It could only get printed in ...

E.U. To Investigate Google Monopoly


... my concern is not about Google or any other Search Engine Operator storing details of my searches, nor even using that data to point targetted ads at me (I'm totally ad blind on the web) but that my serches could, were I naive enough to use certain Google sevices, be seen by total strangers and friends alike.

Retailers Piss Off Grey Pound Spenders
Retailers risk repelling some of their wealthiest customers with excessive and poorly-designed packaging which older people find difficult to open or use, the charity Age UK claims. It says that people over

Cancun Climate Conference Will Ignore Big Questions
This years international conferrence on climate change is taking place in Cancun, Mexico this week. Will it be any more successful that last years fiasco in Copenhagen? Unlikely unless the politicians grpw some balls, kill the scientists, sideline the limp wristed politically correct wimp Obama and face up to the read causes of climate problems which all come back to one thing, TOO MANY PEOPLE.

Climate Scientists And The Honesty Question
As the world's media turns its attention to the latest shenanigans of world leaders and climate scientists in Cancun, Mexico, The Daily Stirrer's Ian R Thorpe invites us to look at the basic homesty of the carbon trading industry. In the run up to Cancun there has been a flurry of activity in the climate science community, including contributions from those discredited crooks and liars the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit trying to push the old line that people who see through the climate science scam "are not scientists and therefore cannot understand the science. Should we take any notice of people who have demonstrated they have serious integrity issues...

The Most Stupid Ad Campaign Ever, Probably
I went out for a walk today in the cold, cold snow.
Up through the woods, across into the Fall, then out into the next village and along the road for a short while before picking up a spur of the Trans Pennine Trail to take me back home.
It was lovely, just enough snow to be pleasant without making ...

Fat Bloke Sits On Politically Correct Grinch, Saves Christmas
Coalition minister Eric Pickles declared the "war on Christmas" over, urging local authorities to stop avoiding the festival's Christian basis.
"We should actively celebrate the Christian ...

Defending Keynes
The name of a great Englishman, John Maynard Keyes, is being trashed by that jug eared steak of piss and racist hater of all things British Barack Obama in attempts to give the failing Obama administration's loonytoons economics a veneer of sanity. Keynes recommended governments should use publc spending to sustain their economy during periods of recession. He did not say, as Obama's supporters claim he did, that nations already way past the point of bankruptcy should continue with reckless poublic spending projects.

Milliband: Labour Will Demand Equal Rights For Toothpaste.
New Labour leader Ed Milliband pledged at his press event relaunching the party under his leadership that Labour will lok after the "squeezed middle." The press, broadcast media and the world of politics have been speculating about what this means. Only Boggart Blog can bring you the exclusive, Ed was talking about family values, sibling rivalry and toothpaste.

Wikileaks Threatens Global Sanity
Reports from Washington say the US government have warned several nations that secret documents made available online by Wikileaks may contain revelations embarrassing to ...

The Most Stupid Ad Campaign Ever, Probably
I went out for a walk today in the cold, cold snow.
Up through the woods, across into the Fall, then out into the next village and along the road for a short while before picking up a spur of the Trans Pennine Trail to take me back home.
It was lovely, just enough snow to be pleasant without making ...

Fat Bloke Sits On Politically Correct Grinch, Saves Christmas
Coalition minister Eric Pickles declared the "war on Christmas" over, urging local authorities to stop avoiding the festival's Christian basis.
"We should actively celebrate the Christian ...

Defending Keynes
The name of a great Englishman, John Maynard Keyes, is being trashed by that jug eared steak of piss and racist hater of all things British Barack Obama in attempts to give the failing Obama administration's loonytoons economics a veneer of sanity. Keynes recommended governments should use publc spending to sustain their economy during periods of recession. He did not say, as Obama's supporters claim he did, that nations already way past the point of bankruptcy should continue with reckless poublic spending projects.

Milliband: Labour Will Demand Equal Rights For Toothpaste.
New Labour leader Ed Milliband pledged at his press event relaunching the party under his leadership that Labour will lok after the "squeezed middle." The press, broadcast media and the world of politics have been speculating about what this means. Only Boggart Blog can bring you the exclusive, Ed was talking about family values, sibling rivalry and toothpaste.

Wikileaks Threatens Global Sanity
Reports from Washington say the US government have warned several nations that secret documents made available online by Wikileaks may contain revelations embarrassing to ...

The 99ers: Death Of The American Dream.
The 99ers are a new social class createde by the economic recession in the USA. This new demographic, not one the advertizing industry will be interested in are jobless people whose unemployment benefit (job sekers in UK parlance) benefit has run out and thus who have dropped off the unemployment statistics. But even for people who are not 99ers times are hard scross the pond ...

Country Folk Have No Reason To Love The Coalition
During thirteen years of Labour misrule country people became paranoid about government. The consevative - liberal democrat (lib dem)coalition, while having made a good start on cutting out of control public spending and the spread of debilitating bureaucracy does not yet appear to have a firm grasp of rural problems ...

Coal Fired Power Stations Win Reprieve
In what looks like a u-turn on green energy policy the coalition government have abandoned plans to support and subsidiese operators of sustainable energy generating plants. While environment activists and green campaigners are calling this a betrayal the case may well be that in the harsh reality of governing claims made by green energy firms look totally unrealistic ...

Going with the flow.... Recently some regular readers have wondered why I'm watching trash like I'm a Celebrity and X Factor.
American Satirical Blogger Allahpundit has been forced to blog on ...

Google Stormtroopers Pelt Homes With Eggs
German home-owners who have chosen to opt out of Google's Street View service appear to have become the unsuspecting victims of anti-privacy vandals. Local media report that homes in Essen, west Germany have been pelted with eggs and had 'Google's cool' notices pinned to ...

Aspirin For Everyyone
"Evidence is building that the benefits for many healthy middle-aged and older people “far outweigh” the side effects, according to the academics. The experts were speaking at the Royal Society of Medicine a month after research ..." Once again we return to this fascistic idea of medicating the entire population with compliance enforced by threat of legal sanction. Fortunately there has been a mixed response from the more level headed members of the medical establishment to this latest piece of control freakery in support of ...

Whatever Happened To The Green Cross man?
An astonishing statistic in the paper today:One in ten school children has been hit by a car.
Whatever happened to the Green Cross Code and its eponymous advertiser, The Green Cross Man?
I can't believe that myself, all those kids I taught all those years and I only ever came across one who had been hit by ...

Love Like Chains To many people love is the thing that sets them free but to some it is a prison. This poem by English poet Ian R. Thorpe looks at how some women in particular are slaves to jealousy and wear their love like chains.

A Celebrity Human Rights Violation Is Not Entertainment
I'm ashamed. With my shoulder giving me gyp all yesterday and a load of shite on TV last night by 9 p.m. I found myself watching I'm a Celebrity. Now I feel very guilty.A person of my sensibilities should not be enjoying watchings human rights violations being presented as ...

UK Offers Loan To Help The Irish Republic In Financial Crisis
from BBC News:The UK has offered a direct loan to the Irish Republic in addition to contributing to an international rescue, Chanellor George Osborne has said.
Negotiations are continuing over terms but the chancellor told the BBC Ireland was a "friend in need" and it was in Britain's national interest to help. Asked if the UK contribution would be about £7bn, he said "it's around that". The Irish Prime Minister has ...

Ed Milliband Plans To Change In Labour
"Profound" changes to the Labour Party on the scale of Tony Blair's New Labour reforms of the mid-1990s have been promised by leader Ed Miliband.In a Guardian newspaper interview, as he returns from two weeks' paternity leave, he warned his party that it faced a "long, hard ...

20 Shaven Havens Please
The anti smoking police in the government must have noticed tax revenue from cigarette sales is falling. Their latest idea to reduce smoking has to be their worst ever...

Football Club Sold. Cheep As Chips says buyer.
In a piece of news that came in too late to make yesterday's Boggart Blog we learned that Blackburn Rovers F.C. have been bought for ...

Anti - Social NetworkingThe people who are grabbing control of the internet, Schmidt, Page and Brin, Zuckerberg et al should make us afraid, very afraid. They are all nerds you see. Now we all know some geeks, they're harmless, a bit obsessed with science and technology they spend too much time hunched over their computer ... Nerds are different however. They want to control the technology so they can control the internet so they can control the information so they can control the world. And then they want to programme us all to be like them.
You Get What You Deserve by fatsally I was in a shop yesterday, a proper shop, with a counter and a man serving. It was an electrical shop, so the transactions were not exactly brief, not like being in the newsagents where you just pick up the organ of record of your choice and hand it over to be scanned, make your payment and leave, not even having to indulge in the social niceties if you so choose.
And it wasn't a big superstore shop, just a little independent electrical goods shop in a little independent market town.It was quite busy, there was someone purchasing a new T.V., then a chap waiting to buy a specific type of bulb, me browsing for ...

SAS - Satnav Antipathic Soldiers and The Misadventures Of Suzie From The Isle Of Skye
Boggart Blog loves Sat Nav stories. We love all stories that make those people trying to turn science into a religion and make technology one of its idols look stupid. Not that we are against science and technology, we are simply against the kind of people who try to tell us what we can and can't think. And if we give up map reading slikks and the power to think for ourelves then when the machines go wrong as sat nav often does, we're fucked. As a young friend of ours found out.
Coalition Big Spenders On Consultants And Jollies
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

Conservative Spokesman Lord Young in Recession Gaffe
The problem is Lord Young is right. Thanks to the ridiculously low and if they continue much longer they will be harmfully low interest rates many homebuyers whose jobs are reasonably secure are finding they are better off than they have ever been ...

Guardian's Editor Warns Against BskyB Broadcasting Monopoly
We have spoken out on this before and Little Nicky Machiavelli has speculated that the seemingly unstoppable advance of News International brands in their push to dominate all significant areas of UK information media was part of a deal made ...

Did China Hijack World Internet Traffic">Did China Hijack The World Wide Web
from The Daily Telegraph:

China "hijacked" 15 per cent of the world's internet traffic for 18 minutes earlier this year, including highly sensitive email exchanges between senior US government and military figures, a report to the US Congress said. A state-owned Chinese telecommunications firm re-routed around 15 per cent of all web traffic through its own servers during a brief period on April 8.
The Daily Stirrer's Intrrnet Technology expert Ian Thorpe and science and engineering commentator Xavier Connolly have commented many times on the inherent weakness of the internet as a tool for ...

Ireland Forced To Accept Bailout Worth Tens Of Billions

from The Guardian:
The Irish central bank governor this morning gave the first official confirmation that a rescue package worth "tens of billions" of euros was being prepared to ...

Carl Sagan Day.
If there is one man the sciencyheads hail as the prophet of their religion, the worship of speculative theories and unproveable assertions, the conflation of fact with fantasy, legend and myth and the replacement of hard evidence with mathematical modelling it is Carl Sagan. So was the man a genius or a knobhead. Read this article and decide for yourselves...

Under The Influence Of Mind Altering Drugs Eight Legs Is A Few too Many
You may have heard of the Men Who Stare At Goats if only throuh the George Cloony film of the same name but have you heard of the Men Who Do Drugs With Spiders? Not 'do drugs and see spiders' you understand but actually get together with spiders for the purpose of taking consciousness altering drugs. It's another war winning idea from the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects team. Go America, those bearded ragheads must be shitting themselves.

Ice Cream And Chips Amusing and ironic love poem from the most widely read living poet in the English language.

Obama Opposed To Science And Reason
Last week Barack Obama was complaining that in the big arguements science and reason are not always winning. He blamed this on the religiosity and superstition of his opponents who oppose all things scientific. Today the ...
Kangaroo Meat And Two Veg Back On The Menu Time just flies doesn't it? I can't believe I'm A Celebrity Save My Career is back on our screens for another run already.
This year's celebrity to hate, breate and humiliate is ...

The Best Man Won
Well it all went down to the wire in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Amid myriad mathematical permutations of who would finish where or what each driver and their rivals had to do:- finish higher than fourth with the closest rival x places behind; have your legs waxed to save nano seconds by minimising the aerodynamic drag, - or maybe that was just ...

BHP Drops Bid For Potash of Canada

Mining giant BHP Billiton has abandoned its takeover bid for fertiliser group Potash Corporation after it was blocked by the Canadian government. We should start to appreciate Canadians more perhaps. A few months ago The Daily Stirrer was praising two Canadian sceptics for exposing ...

Internet Anti Virus Scam Gangsters are tricking internet users into buying anti-virus protection that is actually malicious software in disguise, security experts have warned. Investigators fear the hacking gangs are pocketing millions of pounds by infiltrating customers’ computers and stealing their banking details...read about how blind faith in the internet threatens us all (sci-techThe political fight is a worthy but lost cause. There is another however, not that I'm saying you should not take a break for as long as you like, we all deserve a break from time to time. We must fight the creeping fascism of the technology corporations who are softly brainwashing people with the idea we will be better off if we stop thinking for ourselves and let machines like the Apple iPad make decisions for us. I read an article on Telegraph Online this morning that was extolling the virtues of a new iPad app that will "help me discover new music" by pointing me towards similar stuff the the albums I bought most recently. So when I bought Florence and the Machine a few weeks ago I got it wrong. I should have bought some more classical music. The politicians work for these people.)

Obama Takes A Swipe At China
US president Barack Obama took a swipe at China's currency policy after G20 leaders failed to resolve tensions running high over global trade imbalances.

The summit in South Korea ended as it began, the row over gaps and surpluses which sees China accused of keeping the yuan artificially low to boost its exports at the expense of American and European jobs dominated discussions .

Obama The Philosopher President
In anew book to be published soon Havard Philosophy Professor James T Kloppenberg (that is not a Boggart Blog piss take, it's his real name OK)hails Barack Obama as ...

Lib Dems Planned To Drop Tuition Fees Pledge The Liberal Democrats were drawing up plans to abandon Nick Clegg's flagship policy to scrap university tuition fees two months before the general election, secret party documents reveal.
The amount of rage being hurled at Nick Clegg and other Liberal Democrat ministers in the coalition government by labour-lefie-loonies and by their own party members is as amusing as it is

They're Coming
The recording on video of a vapour trail from an unexplained aerial object sighted near California has caused a stir.
The American government and military deny it was anything to do with

Papering Over The G20 Cracks Will Not Avert A Currency War.
The G20 leaders can pass all the resolutions they like and issue joint statements ''til the cows come home, the fact is we have a currency war and until the United States, owner of the world's reserve currency, the US Dollar stops trying to reduce its debt by devaluing the currency the world trades in and starts to work on getting its deficit under ...

British Workers Compete With Immigrants For Jobs
The main controversy in today's news stories is the response of Work amd Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to the citicisms made by the Archbishop of Canterbury about the government's handling of the long term unemployment problem.

Higher Tuition Fees Will Keep Costs Down Says Cameron by Xavier Connolly

A surprise remark from David Cameron is likely to anger parents who are being forced to find thousands more to fund their children's higher education. The Prime Minister was quizzed on a trip to a university in Beijing about last week's Coalition proposal to raise tuition fees by up to £9,000 a year.
t's hard to see quite what The Prime Minister is driving at here, how can higher fees possibly keep

Chinese Credit Agency Downgrades U.S. Bonds
by John de Roe

One of China’s leading credit rating agencies has downgraded United States of America government debt in response to what it sees as deliberate devaluation of the dollar by quantitative easing and other means. If China, now the second biggest economy in the world, stops buying US government bonds this could have a very negative effect on…

Cervical Cancer Jab To Replace Smear Tests
by Ed Butt

Girls who have the cervical cancer jab may only need screening twice in their lifetime, an expert said today.

Cervical cancer should become a "rare disease" thanks to the introduction of the vaccine, said Professor Peter Sasieni, from Queen Mary, University of London.

Under The Influence Of Mind Altering Drugs Eight Legs Is A Few too Many
We've all heard about the men who stare at goats or walls or whatever, attempts by America's secret services to harness out alleged para/super normal mental abilities. On reading this report I wondered just what the guys at Nasa might have been smoking in their ...

Obama Opposed To Science And Reason
Last week Barack Obama was complaining that in the big arguements science and reason are not always winning. He blamed this on the religiosity and superstition of his opponents who oppose all things scientific. Today the ...
Kangaroo Meat And Two Veg Back On The Menu Time just flies doesn't it? I can't believe I'm A Celebrity Save My Career is back on our screens for another run already.
This year's celebrity to hate, breate and humiliate is ...

The Best Man Won
Well it all went down to the wire in Abu Dhabi yesterday. Amid myriad mathematical permutations of who would finish where or what each driver and their rivals had to do:- finish higher than fourth with the closest rival x places behind; have your legs waxed to save nano seconds by minimising the aerodynamic drag, - or maybe that was just ...

BHP Drops Bid For Potash of Canada

Mining giant BHP Billiton has abandoned its takeover bid for fertiliser group Potash Corporation after it was blocked by the Canadian government. We should start to appreciate Canadians more perhaps. A few months ago The Daily Stirrer was praising two Canadian sceptics for exposing ...

Internet Anti Virus Scam Gangsters are tricking internet users into buying anti-virus protection that is actually malicious software in disguise, security experts have warned. Investigators fear the hacking gangs are pocketing millions of pounds by infiltrating customers’ computers and stealing their banking details...read about how blind faith in the internet threatens us all (sci-techThe political fight is a worthy but lost cause. There is another however, not that I'm saying you should not take a break for as long as you like, we all deserve a break from time to time. We must fight the creeping fascism of the technology corporations who are softly brainwashing people with the idea we will be better off if we stop thinking for ourselves and let machines like the Apple iPad make decisions for us. I read an article on Telegraph Online this morning that was extolling the virtues of a new iPad app that will "help me discover new music" by pointing me towards similar stuff the the albums I bought most recently. So when I bought Florence and the Machine a few weeks ago I got it wrong. I should have bought some more classical music. The politicians work for these people.)

Obama Takes A Swipe At China
US president Barack Obama took a swipe at China's currency policy after G20 leaders failed to resolve tensions running high over global trade imbalances.

The summit in South Korea ended as it began, the row over gaps and surpluses which sees China accused of keeping the yuan artificially low to boost its exports at the expense of American and European jobs dominated discussions .

Obama The Philosopher President
In anew book to be published soon Havard Philosophy Professor James T Kloppenberg (that is not a Boggart Blog piss take, it's his real name OK)hails Barack Obama as ...

Lib Dems Planned To Drop Tuition Fees Pledge The Liberal Democrats were drawing up plans to abandon Nick Clegg's flagship policy to scrap university tuition fees two months before the general election, secret party documents reveal.
The amount of rage being hurled at Nick Clegg and other Liberal Democrat ministers in the coalition government by labour-lefie-loonies and by their own party members is as amusing as it is

They're Coming
The recording on video of a vapour trail from an unexplained aerial object sighted near California has caused a stir.
The American government and military deny it was anything to do with

Papering Over The G20 Cracks Will Not Avert A Currency War.
The G20 leaders can pass all the resolutions they like and issue joint statements ''til the cows come home, the fact is we have a currency war and until the United States, owner of the world's reserve currency, the US Dollar stops trying to reduce its debt by devaluing the currency the world trades in and starts to work on getting its deficit under ...

British Workers Compete With Immigrants For Jobs
The main controversy in today's news stories is the response of Work amd Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to the citicisms made by the Archbishop of Canterbury about the government's handling of the long term unemployment problem.

Higher Tuition Fees Will Keep Costs Down Says Cameron by Xavier Connolly

A surprise remark from David Cameron is likely to anger parents who are being forced to find thousands more to fund their children's higher education. The Prime Minister was quizzed on a trip to a university in Beijing about last week's Coalition proposal to raise tuition fees by up to £9,000 a year.
t's hard to see quite what The Prime Minister is driving at here, how can higher fees possibly keep

Chinese Credit Agency Downgrades U.S. Bonds
by John de Roe

One of China’s leading credit rating agencies has downgraded United States of America government debt in response to what it sees as deliberate devaluation of the dollar by quantitative easing and other means. If China, now the second biggest economy in the world, stops buying US government bonds this could have a very negative effect on…

Cervical Cancer Jab To Replace Smear Tests
by Ed Butt

Girls who have the cervical cancer jab may only need screening twice in their lifetime, an expert said today.

Cervical cancer should become a "rare disease" thanks to the introduction of the vaccine, said Professor Peter Sasieni, from Queen Mary, University of London.

Under The Influence Of Mind Altering Drugs Eight Legs Is A Few too Many
We've all heard about the men who stare at goats or walls or whatever, attempts by America's secret services to harness out alleged para/super normal mental abilities. On reading this report I wondered just what the guys at Nasa might have been smoking in their ...

SAS - Satnav Antipathic Soldiers and The Misadventures Of Suzie From The Isle Of Skye
Boggart Blog loves Sat Nav stories. We love all stories that make those people trying to turn science into a religion and make technology one of its idols look stupid. Not that we are against science and technology, we are simply against the kind of people who try to tell us what we can and can't think. And if we give up map reading slikks and the power to think for ourelves then when the machines go wrong as sat nav often does, we're fucked. As a young friend of ours found out.
Obama Salutes Indonesia As A Deomcratic Example To The World Barack Obama, the great communicator who would reach out to the world and heal its wounds is a bit of a numbskull when it comes to international affairs it turns out.

Barack Obama has hailed Indonesia as an example to the world of how developing countries can embrace democracy. We examine the democratic, social, religious and human rights credentials of the world's most populous Muslim state ...

Well he would say that wouldn't he ...

The End Of Days(Humour - Boggart Blog) The sun diminished, growing colder and more distantas toxic air pressed heavy upon this ecosphere.
Birds ceased to sing and all the colours faded to grey. Only Spanish Moss decorated ...

(comedy) Cameron Told To Bollock The Chinese About Human Rights

Leading Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has risked arrest by delivering a public call to David Cameron to challenge his country's leadership on their human rights record.

Obama Goes Home To Indonesia
by Ian

US President Barack Obama made a much-delayed homecoming of sorts to Indonesia on Tuesday, seeking to engage Muslims and cement strategic relations on the second leg of his Asia tour.

Children Who Have Not Had MMR Jab Should Be Banned From School

Children who haven't had the MMR jab should be banned from schools, according to Dr Sohail Bhatti, a director of one of the largest health trusts in has said. Oh well, we suppose bureaucratic bullying is the only way to improve uptake of the MMR vaccine which is hitting new lows we hear since the first damages award made in a British court for brain damage incurred as a result of receiving the MMR vaccine ...

Liberal Dilemma The progresive left, the politically correct Thought Police, are big on supporting all minorities in their pursuit of their rights and in preaching tolerance and diversity to society at large. But what happens when two of those precipous minorities, say for example Muslims and feminists come into conflict on some issue.

Carl Sagan Day? Daily Telegraph science writer Tom Chivers invites us to celebrate the life of the "great scientists Carl Sagan. Before you do, remember all Sagan's work relating to the mysteries of the cosmos is purely speculative. It would be better to celebrate Douglas Adams Day.
Chivers closes his article with this ...

Freaky Frankenstein Fishes
Once again we find ouselves questioning the sanctity of science as a new scheme to farm genetically modified (G.M. salmon that grow to twice the size of a normal adult salmon in half the time nears approval by the United States F.D.A.. It this another case of scientists blinding themselves with science and failing to see the very obvious flaws in the plan?

Management Speak We Love To Hate I'm feeling particularly uncreative today. Fortunately someone has compiles a list of the top fifty stupid managemenspeak phrases. Here are a few of my favourites. Top BTW was "going forward" but that does not particularly piss me off and it was New Labourspeak and is now Coalitionspeak so I don't think it really qualifies. Read the full list, there are some ...

The American Elections Give Us A Hard - on
When Barack Obama was elected in 2008 his victory was hailed as a repudiation of the Washington political establishment and their cosy collusion with ...

Obama Must Learn To Play Hardball? The U.S. Midterm elections which only gave us one laugh when right wing anti - maturbation candidate Christine O'Donnel announced she used to be a witch are at last ...

Ich Bin Ein Speechwriter Political journalists of left and righ heave peen paying tribute this week to Ted Sorenson who died a few days ago.
Ted who? you might well ask. Right, I'd never heard of ...

Whadda We Want? A Referendum. When Do We Want It? Now!
As once again the unelected European Union bureaucrats in Brussels ride roughshod over a British law passed by our elected Parliament we have to wonder why our politicians keep us in this costly and failing experiment in internationalism.

Swimming with sharks near Darwin.
We don't understand why anyone would be stupid enough to swim with sharks without the aid of a safety cage. Sharks do not fel the love hippy stoners want to giove them, they feel their mouths watering at the prospect of a tasty snack. Maybe it's an evolutionary thing.

Toner Of Terror.
Again the terrorist bomb has failed to blow up their target but succeeded in causing massive disruption in the west and added $billions to air freigh security costs.

Swimming with sharks near Darwin (Humour) Most of the downmarket news media today run a story about a man who heroically dived into the sea to save some silly bint who had decided to go swimming with sharks. The woman no doubt thought she was ...

Women Don't Like Sex says Stephen Fry (Humour)
What would that old queen know about it? you might well ask.
I can tell you for the past forty - five years I have ben conducting an empirical survey on this very thing and found that 76% of women tested do like sex, a further ...

Leading Sceptic's Climate Change U Turn?(Environment)
When one of the world's best known climate change deniers starts talking about how we can deal with climate related problems you might expect the climate scienceology cultists to be cheering. They are remarkably quiet however about Bjorn Lomborg's new book because it reveals he has never been a climate change denier as he was dubbed but was merely questioning the shaky science on which the carbon driven AGW case was based ...

Taxi, Pick Me Up At The Bank I Just Robbed (Stupid criminal of the week story - humour)
Montana police say a bank robber called for a taxi cab after his heist. What kind of bank robber calls a taxi after a robbery? One who forgot one key piece of ... (from Boggart Blog)

He Should Have seen It Coming (Humour)
Paul the Psychic Octopus has shuffled off this mortal coil, it was reported yesterday. You remember Paul? He lived at a German Sea Life centre and sprang to fame this summer by correctly predicting the winning teams in a series of World Cup matches.Paul's keepers came up with the idea of ... (from Boggart Blog)

EU Chief Von Rompuy - Pumpuy Wants To Shaft You Through The Back Door
The National Socialist Government of Federal Europe is making another bid to get its hands on the controls of the British state. Yes, that dirty little Belgian bastard Von Rompuy - Pumpuy is trying to use the Lisbon Treaty to transfer ...(from Little Nicky Machiavelli)

The Growing Problem Of Rising Food Prices (politics)
While the warmists rant about carbon and the Church of Scienceology Cult rave about climate science. there are threee real and immediate problems facing us that nobody is talking about. These are overpopulation, water shortage and food price inflation. This article deals with food prices, links at the bottom lead to our posts on population and water scarcity. (The Daily Stirrer)

The Cancer Of Modern Life
Medical research insititutes continue to spend vast amounts of money on cancer research and the less level headed types involved, the boy - scientists twiiter about finding a cure for cancer as if it were one disease with a single identifiable cause. New research however suggests cancer is just one of the hazards of modern life. (The Daily Stirrer)
BBC Television Half Term Animal Programme Philippic.
Do those patronizing BBC television programmes about animals ever get right on your wick? The way they go on at us about how wonderful animals are and how horrible humans are pisses me off. Not that I support man's inhumanity to animals, I just think man's inhumanity to man has to be dealt with first. (Boggart Blog Central)

Whatever They Are On, I Don't Want Any
I've mentioned before about news stories that raise more questions than they answer. The following story was reported in today's Currant Bun. Although I'm sure you will agree that it does indeed raise more questions than it answers the burning issue remains, "What The Fuck Were They On???

X Factor Band's Guilty Pleasure - The Truth Revealed
The theme of this weekend's X Factor show (apart from the usual "let's all laugh at the desperate freaks" theme that is) was songs related to the contestant's guilty pleasures. Simon Cowell and Co. had decided to put the hopefuls through a particularly exquisite ritual ...

Five Championship Contenders, Three Races, One World Champion
The hunt is on to find the Next F1 World Champion. F1 Supremo Bernie Ecclestone has been searching for his new title holder since March.
It started with 12 teams and 24 drivers lined up on the grid in Bahrain. Since then 19 of the drivers have been eliminated from the running for ...

Climate Change: Green Energy Meltdown .
As the climate science fraud and the case it made that carbon emissions were the sole cause of global warming and carbon taxes, trading in carbon allowances green energy technologies that belonged in science fiction novels were the way to power the future and save the planet comes unravelled: as the great green energy experiments of Denmark and Spain leave those nations shivering in the dark as power supplies fail and subsidies to green generators bankrupt national economies we look at the real state of the climate crisis.

The Rising Seas Are Not Down To Global Warming Alone.
Rising Seas Not Down To Global Warming A new study shows that global warming is not the only cause of swelling seas. Much comes from "water mining" – the pumping of vast amounts of groundwater from beneath the earth, mainly to irrigate crops. This inevitably ends up in the oceans after it evaporates from farmland and comes down as rain.
The study which will be published in the next issue issue of Geophysics Research Letters – estimates that extraction of ground water for domestic and industrial use accounts for about 25% of sea-level rise around the world, the same as the melting ice from the glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica.

Effin Hopeless: A Rant about the internet, ISPs, customer service and the general crappiness of everything
As we regard the state of western civilisation with it's 'liberating' internet that puts all the information in the world (and fart lighting videos) at our fingertips ...

When Did You Last See Your Husband There was a Euro Millions Lottery draw on Friday 8th October, with a jackpot of £113 million.
As no winner was named speculation began to run rife, no doubt fuelled by the Screaming Redtops who appear to think mere

Lola and the Cat Woman Yesterday, human Mary Bale, aka The Cat Woman, was fined for causing unnecessary suffering to a cat after a video of her dropping a tabby cat, Lola, into a wheelie bin outside her home was posted on the internet by her ...

Can Humanity Deal With The Worst Disasters Without Scientists? Urrrrrrm...
Scientists like to present themselves as the savious of humanity, the only people who can help us overcome several social and environmental catastrophes that are heading our way. But an objective examination of the facts reveals that scientists are in fact responsible for bringing those catastrophes upon us...

Poverty and Common Sense.
After all Labour's claptrap and verbal diarrhea about abolishing child poverty and broadband access being a basic human right its nice to hear the coalition government talking sense about povery. How long they'll keep it up is anybody's guess.

The Threat FromCyber Warfare.
There are 1,000 emails a month trying to penetrate or disable government computer networks. Losses from online banking fraud reached £39m in the first half of 2009, a rise of more than 50% over the year before. Our society depends far more that is healthy or sensibe on the internet, the vulnerabilities of which were never understood by the people who claim to have invented it. Whichever way you look at it, the director of GCHQ, Iain Lobban, was not exaggerating when ...

Marking Computer Says No
Computer scientists keep telling us they are on the verge of building a computer that can think, understand the semantics of language and generally do all those things that define a human being. So can computers with the lastest in artificial intelligence mark English examinations for schools ... computer says nooo.

Tony Blair Sex Bomb
Barack Obama got the Nobel peace prize for being so limp wristed nobody would ever be cruel enough to fight him. Not to be outdone the other great political phoney Tony Blair is an unlikely nominee for the The Literary Review's annual Bad Sex writing award for being so limp dicked nobosy can imagine him having sex. Given the now infamous claim from Mrs Blair that Old Tone was up for it five times a night that must be an awful lot of bad sex so he obviously had plenty to choose from.

Nanny State On Suicide Watch
The politically correct thought police and their health and safety cohort have tireless in their efforts to ensure you are never ever at risk from anything, especially the risk of having fun. but all that is about to change as David Cameron pledged to dismantle the compensation culture, the risk averse health and safety bireaucracy and ... Nanny State herself

Multiculturalism Has Failed Says Merkel.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel sayd multiculturalism has failed and Germany' immigrant have segregated themselves by their reluctance to integrate with German society. We see the same story in France and Britain, in fact everywhere the hand wringing of politically correct left was allowed to divert the attention of governments from the inevitable problems that arise out of mass immigration. Tony Blair, Sex God, Animal Just when you thought it was safe to come out from under the bed that Tony Blair rears his ugly head again.
Mr. Blair is an unlikely nominee for the The Literary Review's annual Bad Sex writing award. Given the now infamous claim from Mrs Blair that Old Tone was up for it five ...

Labour activist desses as poo. Labour activist and anti-poverty campaigner Steve Cockburn makes a powerful case against the Tories’ manifesto pledge to “speak up for freedom and human rights” in his latest ...

Triumphant Obama To Announce Another Stimulus
Encouraged by the resounding success of his stimulus program which pumped cash equivalent to 10% of GDP, or $1.3 trillion in real money into the stagnating U.S. economy to produce growth of 0 0000000001% in the last quarter President Barack Obama will this week announce second stimulus, including a plan to build lots of new ...

Graduate Tax Would Deter Many From University Education
As the public sector debt crisis forces the coalition to cut the Universities budget Ian R Thorpe wades into the argument about university education as a right and tuition fees ...

More Graduates, Less Graduate Jobs
All the while Labour were in power they kept muttering about the knowledge economy as if simply having attained a University degree was a marketable asset. In reality were were spending fortunes on educating people to be call centre clerks, shelf fillers and burger flippers. Now the coalition must find a way to deal with the problem of having too many graducates in areas that offer no jobs.

Police Twits Fail Twitter Test
Following the imaginative initiative of Greater Manchester Police to have officers manning Twitter feeds in an attempt to improve response to crimes we learn there has been ...

Breaking News - Nanny State On Suicide Watch
Reports are just coming in of a dramatic incident at the Palace of Westminster. It seems a mythical woman has been prevented by fire brigade and police officers from committing suicide by impaling herself on John Redwood's pointed ears.
The woman, whose real name is not know but who has previously been referred to by the media as Nanny State became distraught as David Cameron announced a new government policy aimed at dismantling the ...

Krystal Does Congress
Nine compromising pictures of Democratic Candidate Krystal Ball, who is vying to become the youngest woman ever elected to the US Congress, were posted on the internet ...

Eminent U.S. Pysicist Pulversises Climate Science Scammers
In another blow to the climate change alarmists an eminent US Physicist has denounced the whole climate science academic community as motivated by self interest and the pursuit of wealth and glory and the anthropogenic global warming scare as the greatest and most successful scam he has seen in his long life.

Sock Sales Drop Shock

For more years than I care to remember women have had the advantage in enhancing underwear. Back in the Victorian times, which, I hasten to add, I certainly don't remember, bodies were pulled and squeezed into evil whalebone corsets, a poor girls innards so compressed that ...

Self Driving Cars Are The Latest Dehumanizing Development
Don't be evil, that's Google's job. The world's greatest corporate Nazis are always eager to promote the latest dehumanizing technological advance. The most recent project they revealed from a long line of technologies aimed at cutrailing our ability to think for ourselves and make our own choices is the self driving car. No doubt the Evil Empire will sell this as something to keep us safe and ...

Evil Empire Plans To Hijack Your Car
We have blogged many times to the effect that the world's most control freaky corporation is building an evil empire. Did you give Google permission to take pictures of your house or store and share details of your web activity? Though not.
Did you give Google permission to ...

Rising Seas Not Down To Global Warming A new study shows that global warming is not the only cause of swelling seas. Much comes from "water mining" – the pumping of vast amounts of groundwater from beneath the earth, mainly to irrigate crops. This inevitably ends up in the oceans after it evaporates from farmland and comes down as rain.

The study which will be published in the next issue issue of Geophysics Research Letters – estimates that extraction of ground water for domestic and industrial use accounts for about 25% of sea-level rise around the world, the same as the melting ice from the glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica.

The Apprentice (aka Christians and Lions) is back The Apprentice or The Roman Arena game as it is known in our house rturned to televiion this week. The usual array of thoroughly obnoxious, selfish, ambitious, back stabbing, talentless and fascinatingly repugnant young people were paraded before us including one who claimed that in spite of his tender years he had once been worth two and a half million pounds but had lost it all when ... How Our Creature Comforts Are Baking The World
As the arguments rage on between the Climate Science Wankers lobby and the sceptis, realists and out and out deniers we observe that still nobody who gets media coverage, nobody who is talking sense about climate chaos, carbon based fuels, deforestation or over population is really being heard. Quite simply there are too many of us and we want too much. Who needs science or politics to understand that?

Footballers More Highly Valued Than Scientits - Scientists Complain
We are used to scientists whingeing, oh they're so hard done by, they work long and hard at the task of extending human knowledge and are paid peanuts ('if you pay peanuts you end up hiring monkeys' goes an old business maxim. Now they are complaining immigration law values football more highly than science as footballers' work visas are priorities. Why not we ask, footballers entertain some people, scientists seem to spend all their time molesting mice. When you see (below) some of the work they turn in you might think as we do that if scientists are earning peanuts we're overpaying them...

Don't Call Me A Conspiracy Theorist
It has become the habit of the self styled 'progressive left' to shout conspiracy theorist whenever anybody very reasonably suggests they are being duped by the dark forces of corporate fascism, that their favoured brand of collectivism is not in any way liberal but in fact will lead to an oligarchic tyranny similar to the big brother regime depicted in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty Four and that far from being theoretical, conspiracies are verey real and exercising much more influence on our lives than the unimaginative lefties would ever ...

Gobsmacking Scientific Breakthrough Of The Week - And Guess Who It Benefits?
Scientists recently announched a breakthrough in the fight against ageing. Not only can their "elixier of life" extend the natural life span, it prevents the ageing leading many of the conditions that make life difficult for geriatrics.
The best news is ...

Silver Shaggers Risk STDs
Maybe Boggart Blog is getting the message through at last. The latest report we received revealing the results of some idiotic reseach does not start with the words "A team of scientists ..."
The latest loonytoons survey is a humdinger though. Researchers at the University of Illinois investigating the sex lives of old people (silver shaggers) have discovered the oldies expose themselves to greater risk from STIs (sexually transmitted infections) because they are less diligent in ...

Where's Wally? Cooee I'm Over Here!
Our Stupid Criminal Of The Week award this week goes to Ryan Homsley of Oregon,who likes to carry our his robberies dressed as the cartoon character Waldo, from the ...

High Earners To Lose Child Benefit
We think it is about time the stupidity of across the board benefits was ended. What is the point in governments levying high taxes and then giving back the money in benefits. We know the Labour movement are paythologically opposed to 'means tested' benefits but if redistribution is to be fair and in any way meaningful it must move money from the better off to the poorest people in society.

Tanker Attack In Pakistan
Militants in Pakistan have destroyed 27 tankers which were carrying fuel for Nato troops in Afghanistan.
In the past year we have commented on reports about NATO supply convoys being robbed, NATO high command in Afghanistan cuting deals with warlords and tribal leaders by which western taxpayers' money was paid to locals in return for them not attacking our installation and ...

Coalition Restores Right To Be Stupid Great news from the Coalition Government, they are going to restore the right of crazy people to risk their lives in loony sports, games and traditions. Under Labour's Politically Correct Thought Police we lost such great traditions as the annual cheese rolling event in which a cheese is rolled down a very steep hill and dozens of clinicaly sane people chase ...

Benefits Review One of the proposals put forward by the coalition for reducing the public sector deficit is reform of the benefit system. Predicatably tis sent the hand-wringers, bleeding hearts and human rights screamers of the 'progressive left' into paroxysms of hysteria. People would be starving the the streets, they wailed, malnourished children would queue for a handful of rice. They wished. Actually the coalitions proposals look quite reasonable.

Coalition Ministers Urge Review Of Oppressive Health and Safety Rules
Through the course of Labour's thirteen years in power we became accustomed to bureauctratic dictatorship and politically correct tyranny disguised in the mantle of "Health and Safety." The coalition government had already made a promising start at tackling the Nanny State nd the politically correct bullshit that puroprted to be protecting us from September 2010
Equalities Bill Discriminates Against Everybody Equally
The Equalities Bill, passed by the previous Labour government before they were ejected from power becomes law today. This farrago is typical of the imbecilic mindset of the self righteous hypocrites who style themselves the progressive left. Presented as a law in support of equality in the workplace , in this era of pandemic joblessness and perpetual financial crisis it is nothing but an attack on the businesses that provide the real, wealth producing, revenue generating jobs in the private sector.
Indian Mosque Controversy
Multiculturalism has been a disaster everywhere it has been imposed. There is more than enough evidence to clearly demonstrate that while different races can mingle so long as the culture is broadly the same, different cultures cannot easily and peacefully occupy the same geographical space. As examples we can look at the 5000 year old cultural conflict in Palestine, the 1000 year old Balkan conflicts and the tensions in India between Hindu and Muslim.

Metropolitan Police To Recruit Only From Volunteers
Recruits to the Metropolitan Police (Met) would have to have worked as volunteer officers before being given paid roles under radical new proposals revealed this week.
The Met Police Authority is considering the idea of taking on most of its officers from a pool of volunteer ...

One Law For Them, Another For Us

It is rather irritating to read stories like this one about slavery in Africa when we so frequently have to put up with lectures from American black leaders, semi literate preacher politicians (I include the current Presient among them) about whitel and his evil slave trade for wich all dark skinned people around the world are stiff suffering.
There is only one thing dark skinned prople are suffering from as far as we can see. Other dark skinned people ...

NHS Failing The Old
One of the problems the coalition will face is the increasing cost of caring for the old as medical advances continue to increase lifespan whithout doing much to alleviate the problems of old age and informity such as dementia, atrhritis, and heart disease. Now the NHS stans accused of turning its back on old people in need of care.

Bank Of England Man Backs New Stimulus
As if one disastrously expensive round of economic stimulus aka quantitative easing aka printing money anf flooding the economy with it had not been enough to teach them the lesson, the bankers and economists are calling for more stimulus and more of the stuff that caused the mess in the first place.

Bigoted Britain
Hugh Muir, a staff writer on The Guardian tells us about his friend Jerome, an 'equalities trainer' whocomplains about the closet bigots he encounters in his job. But are these hard working taxpayers really bigots or are they just white English people angry at the though that people like Jerome with stupid non jobs that carry titles like 'equalities trainer' are eating their tax money?

Mr. Bean Speaks Out On The Economy
It is absolutely shocking to sombody like myself whose career was spent in finance to hear a senior official of the Bank of England saying the things Charles Bean said yesterday ... yet here we have Mister Bean, yes that is his name, saying that the only way to save the UK economy is for consumers to start spending again. Then he compunds his insult to the already heavily indebted workers who have little job security and the worry of price inflation which in real terms is running at around ...

Hottie French Politician Promises Blow Jobs For Votes
French politician Rachida Dati who in the political hottie stakes put even our own Caroline Flint in the shade has become France's most popular politician ever (wth male votes anyway) by promising all who vote for her a blow job

NHS Failing The Old
One of the problems the coalition will face is the increasing cost of caring for the old as medical advances continue to increase lifespan whithout doing much to alleviate the problems of old age and informity such as dementia, atrhritis, and heart disease. Now the NHS stans accused of turning its back on old people in need of care.

Bank Of England Man Backs New Stimulus
As if one disastrously expensive round of economic stimulus aka quantitative easing aka printing money anf flooding the economy with it had not been enough to teach them the lesson, the bankers and economists are calling for more stimulus and more of the stuff that caused the mess in the first place.

Bigoted Britain
Hugh Muir, a staff writer on The Guardian tells us about his friend Jerome, an 'equalities trainer' whocomplains about the closet bigots he encounters in his job. But are these hard working taxpayers really bigots or are they just white English people angry at the though that people like Jerome with stupid non jobs that carry titles like 'equalities trainer' are eating their tax money?

Mr. Bean Speaks Out On The Economy
It is absolutely shocking to sombody like myself whose career was spent in finance to hear a senior official of the Bank of England saying the things Charles Bean said yesterday ... yet here we have Mister Bean, yes that is his name, saying that the only way to save the UK economy is for consumers to start spending again. Then he compunds his insult to the already heavily indebted workers who have little job security and the worry of price inflation which in real terms is running at around ...

Hottie French Politician Promises Blow Jobs For Votes
French politician Rachida Dati who in the political hottie stakes put even our own Caroline Flint in the shade has become France's most popular politician ever (wth male votes anyway) by promising all who vote for her a blow job

New Labour To Be Buried By Ed Milliband's Speech?
It was the Union vote wot won Ed Milliband the narrow victory over Blair clone and Tunderbirds puppet lookalike brother David. Now the question being asked is will Ed. M. be allowed to lead accoring to his own political principles or will he be a puppet of the Unions?

Emma Thompson Says Slang Makes Teengers Sound Stupid

Oscar winner Emma Thompson aka Nanny McPhee is getting quite a reputation for being controversial these days. Her lastest outspoken attack is aimed at the slang employed by teenagers who are more concerned with being though 'kewel' by their peers than being understood by people with whom they must communicate.

Piss Poor Planning
The Piss Poor Planning award is sort of an offshoot of the Stupid Criminal of the Week Award. Nothing in this story suggests that the criminals were stupid, but they certainly didn't think things through.
Perhaps it started whilst the thief and his mate were watching The Italian

Businessmen Brick Up His Bank's Doorway In ProtestThe stupidly expensive bail out of banks by Gordon Brown's government was supposed to enable the bankers to kick start the economy by giving them the liquidity and freedom from their toxic debt trading misadventures neded to enable lending to small businesses to re-commence. The economy remains stagnant however because the bankers simply trousered all the bail out cash or used it to ...

Another Old British Firm Dumps Us: Wolsey Quits High Tax UKIn 2008 the Labour government, slavishly following the imbecile Barack Obama's and his idiotic talk of redistribution of wealth announced tax laws would be redrafted to prevent companies exporting profits to low tax environments. Naturally the companies respond by exporting themselves to the low tax environments from where it is very easy to legally ensure their UK subsidiaries make very modest profits indeed, if not becoming permanently loss making ventures.
Segway Company Owner Dies After Riding His Segway Off A CliffNot long ago in our humour and satire title, Boggart Blog, we did a slaughter piece on former Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik promoting the ludicrous Segway electric scooter as a serious method of personal transport.
We had no idea this was going to happen when the article was written of course. It is no laughing matter when somebody dies in an accident but
Millibands Are Go Well little bro has beaten big bro to the ultimate prize of Leader of the labour party.Boggartblog can now reveal the secret conversations behind the public battle for this most sought sfter office, if you are a Milliband that is.
Dan diddle dum,dan dan dan diddle um dum dum....
Ed: Dad, it's not fair, Dad. Just cos Dave is older he gets to drive TB2 while I've got to stay in the litle yellow sub in the cargo box. It's not fair! I'm way smarter than he is. And better looking. And I don't ...

United Nations Warns Of A New Food Crisis
The Daily Stirrer

With food price inflation causing social problems in poor nations already the United Nations, as always slamming the stable door after the horse has bolted, has warned of an imminent crisis.

Harry Potter Lookalike Challenges Thunderbirds Puppet For Labour Leadership by Ian R Thorpe

The Labour leadership contest has been a dull affair, the Politically Correct Thought Police that run Labour these days have expelled from the party anyone who has a personality. Thus the main contenders, Ed Milliban, the Harry Potter lookalike and his brother David (Bananaman) Milliband the Captain Scarlett lookalike, with the support of ...

Comedy Cops Oust PlodBoggart Blog.
Police chiefs have finally come clean and admitted their officers spend more time dealing with bureaucracy than chasing criminals. This exposes the ever improving crime statistics proclaimed by the previous government as a fraud. It was not jut that police were not investigating crimes, they wrre not even logging the calls. Boggart Blog reports on the bureaucracy of policing.
Cavemen and CoppersBoggart Blog

I decided to take a break from the quality news sites today and look at mid market tabloids instead. A rewarding exercise it was too. The Daily Mail ran a story about how cavemen were better parents than their modern counterparts and asks how this could be.

Chief Of Climate Science Panel Under Pressure To ResignDaily Stirrer
By far the best news of the month is the discredited head of the United Nations Inter-governmental panel on climate change is under pressure to resign following twelve months of revelations showing how he manipulated the panel's work to support suggestions that climate change was far worse and a far more imminent
Obama Wants War On PovertyDaily Stirrer
Barack Obama unveiled a new "big hearted" but "hard headed" US aid policy to push the poorest countries toward prosperity. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched a 40 billion dollar drive to save the lives of millions of women and children. Britain, China and Japan also promised more help. But many leaders still accused wealthy nations of failing to keep their promises to ...

Boggart Blog: Comedy Coppers Oust P. C PlodBoggrt Blog
It was reassuring to see in the news earlier this week the Inspectorate of Constabulary, a fine body of men and women who sound as if they escaped from a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera have finally admitted that local police forces (the comedy coppers) are so snowed under with important paperwork they have can't be arsed turning out to chase criminals ...
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Ello, 'Ello, 'Ello, Who's Engine's Running Here Then?
The crazier a law is the more enthusiastic the police will be in enforcing it. Report a murder, robbery or gand fight and the boys in blue will turn up two days later to give out leaflets on victim counselling but go 1mph over the speed limit and they're like mustard.
Did A Fart Change The World
Did a fart shape the development of western culture? A story on te BBC's environment science page today suggests that may have been the case. In The Bible's Book Of Exodus there is a story everyone knows of how Moses

We Must Let Darwinism Do Its Work.
Most of us in the UK believe in Darin's evolution principle, survival of the fittest or best adapted. It is a wonderful system that created all the wonders of the animal and plant world. Left to itself evolution will ensure the survival of life long into the future. So why do we keep trying to screw it up by preserving the lives of those who because of stupidity or incompetence do not deserve to live and should be stopped from breeding.

Dementia Time Bomb
Climate Change will not seriously affect us for several decades but has been a great way for governments and their clueless pet scientists to divert attention from much bigger problems that threaten developed nations, over population, food shortages and ageing among them. Read this shocking article on the social and financial burden of dementia.

Liberal Democrats Fall Out Over Whether To Be Reality Dwellers.
We had to feel sorry for Nick Clegg at the party conference. Having led the party to its first real taste of power in eighty years he faced the anger of the sandal wearing, tree hugging, wispy bearded, limp wristed veagan vegan Nazi raffia weavers because they do not like the fact that having reached a oint where they are so close to power they can stick their tongues out and lick it, the breast milk drinkers do not like the way they are being asked to face some of the harsh realities of life.

Anti Masturbation Wank Fodder
The full version of the Boggart Blog post listed below, this is considerably more offensive. In the short time since tea party endorsed Christine O'Donnell won nomination to be the Republican senate candidate in US state Delaware the lady has become a wank magnet for redneck males.

Clegg Tries To Reassure The Liberal Democrats
Nick Clegg will try to reassure Liberal Democrat members unhappy with the coalition, telling the party's conference it is "the right government for right now".
Thanks to the ill - advised merger of the Liberals with the Social Democrats and the plague of sentimentality that is corroding middle class intelligence the Liberal Democrat party was always going to experience this kind of ...

US Anti Masturbation Candidate Becomes Wank Fodder For Rednecks ...
America's New Anti - Masturbation Candidate Is A Wank Magnet For Redneck Men.Christine O'Donnell, who has won the primary election to be Republican Senate Candidate for the state of Delaware in America's mid term elections campaigned on an anti - abortion, sex and masturbation platform. Saying that girls should just say no and keep their knees clamped together until

Tea Party Coming To Britain by Ian R Thorpe.
The so called Tea Party movement in the USA has emerged as an influential force in American politics ahead of the mid term elections in November in which it is widely predicted voters will give Barack Obama a bloody nose. People are starting to ask could a similar movement develop in Britain given that like Americans, British voters are totally pissed of with machine politics.

Speed Dating For Lawyers
When somebody decided to launch a spped dating for single young lawyers who are to busy to develop relationships tt must have seemed a good idea at the time, not so says Boggart Blog's Ian R Thorpe, lawyers are as entitled to the cuddles, companionship and sex we all seek from relationships, but speed dating. Lawyer and speed are words that will never sit comfortably together
Apocalypse North
England is two nations, north and south it is often said. Most people think this refers to the wealth gap, they have more money in the south, in the north we have better beer, better pies and we get more sex. But the real gap is cultural. This does not mean southerners are always at the opera or ballet while we are at football or bingo. It means southerners are obsessed with social status, we in the north couldn't give a fuck what you think of us so long as we're having a laugh.

Recycling Into Danger
Power may well corrupt but it certainly removes those who hold it from reality. So as Gordon Brown squats in Downing Street hoping that a bizarre sequence of events following the indecisive election will lead to him staying on as Prime Minister in a hung parliament one cannot help but think The Gordon Show is turning into a Truman Show type movie fantasy.

Safety First, Second and Third, Fun Last.
The politically correct thought police and their health and safety cohort are tireless in their efforts to ensure you are never ever at risk from anything, especially the risk of having fun.

Are You Smarter Than Your Kids.
Every year we are told school pupils are getting brighter as record numbers of exam passses are achieved. Every year employers complain that their new recruits, from university graduates to year ten drop outs are getting dumber. So is the education system really turning our brighter children or are the examining boards cheating?

Burglary For Dummies
Boggart Blog occasionally gives an award to the Stupid Criminal Of The Week. We do this to try to highlight to aspiriring young criminals the importance of working hard and paying attention in school if they hope to have a successful career in crime. Too many people think of crime as a soft option career wise, there are no degree - entry restrictions or difficult apprenticeships. This story however shows a career in crme is not for dummies.

The Threat To Our Brains Posed By The Internet
The Daily Stirrer along with many other commentators who are not easily brainwashed by corportate and government propaganda has reported many times on the dangers posed by the internet and yet people become more obsesed with the wor;ld wide web, social networking and online gaming. Now neurologists are starting to express concern.

Next Boss Warns On Cotton Price Increases
As the boss of a major UK clothing and fashion retailer warns of the likely impact of rising cotton prices on the cost of clothing John De Roe revisits on of The Daily Stirrer's recurring themes throughout the economict crisis, overpopulation. Stupid Criminal Of The Week: Burgling For Dummies
Anthony Gawthrop (24) is one of the people we reported on yesterday, those who have never had a job. Anthony is no ordinary dole bludger however, to remedy his joblessness plight he decided to become and entrepreneur in the most literal sense of the word, a burglar to you and me.
Once Anthony had set himself up in the burglary business things seemed to be ...

All The People Who Never Had A Job?
Information released by the government shows one point four million Britons have never had a job. A Boggart Blog investigtion shows the unemployment problem is further reaching. Many of the waged do not have proper jobs, they are public sector tax eaters whose candy floss jobs have been created onlu to make the unemployment statistics look better.

Clegg Promises New Global War On Poverty by Ian R Thorpe.
Nick Clegg's war on poverty, which he will launch at a United Nations conference this week is doomed before it begins. Once again the arrogance of western politicians in assuming all the people in the world want to be as materially privileged, as advanced in technology and as indebted, stressed out and unhappy as we in the developed nations gets in the way of actually doing what needs to be done.

Winter Of Discontent
Unions are threatening coordinated strikes, civil disobedience and a “campaign of resistance not seen for decades” as they seek to increase the pressure on the Government over public sector cuts. One leader warned ...

Colon Cancer Cases Set To Rise By 50%
The UK is heading for a 50% increase in the number of new colon cancer cases over the next 30 years, says an international team of scientists.
The forecast, in the European Journal of Cancer, is for 35,000 new cases a year by ...

Sacred Cows Of Climate Change
Many people have accused the climate science community of trying to turn climate change science into a religion. The demands that climate change denial be made a crime like Holocaust denial certainly lends weight to this. But scepticism about science or religion is healthy so we should question the sacred cows of the climate change cult such as wind power...

The Daily Stirrer today features budgets cuts and the armed services, climate change, green power, education for boys. and the hunt for an English lake monster.

Stupid Idea Of The Week - Child In The Road Illusion
It is hard to keep up with all the stupid ideas that come out of academic institutions and bureaucratic organisations so many slip past usd unreported. Here is a road safety idea from the traffic engineers of Vancouver however that is so gobsmackingly stuipid we not only had to report it, we had to inaugurate a new Boggart Blog award category to celebrate it.

Thanks For The Sympathy
Whilst Wayne Rooney has been abroad preparing for last night's match against Switzerland, Mrs Rooney has been left to face the shattering news that her husband was allegedly forking out enough dosh for a whole fleet of Silver Cross perambulators for a quick shag with a slag, whilst she was

Shag and Blab
Scandal once again rears its ugly head in the world of football with the news that Wayne Rooney allegedly paid a hooker £1200 for a night of sex. Two well known adages spring to mind:
"More money than sense" for Roo, but then again he is a footballer so what can you expect?
I know he's not the best looking chap in the game but I imagine there are ...

Ryanair To Let Passengers Fly Planes? (Humour, satire)
News that in a cost cutting move budget airline Ryanair were considering abolishing the role of co - pilot and training cabin vrew to fly planes was greeted with disbelief. We wondered why, the travel industry has been hit hard by the recession and ruthless efficiency is necessary for survival. A Boggart Blog investigation revealed however that there may plans to go even further and let passengers fly planes.

Blair's Journey
(political comment).
Tony Blair's memoir of his political career, A Journey, is a must read for fans of another politician whose ambition and lust for power far outstrips his ability and experience. Solipsistic and self regarding, Tony Blair takes us through how he saved the Labour party and led it to power, how he charmed the traditionally conservative middle classes, how he spoke to the traditional Labour voters and earned their loyalty and support for his Thatcherite policies and how he saved British businness from economic catastrophe. Strangely he does not mention how he untimately betrayed all those groups.

Uptight - The Blood Donor Experience
(humour, satire)
Once upon a time giving blood was easy, the atmosphere relaxed and people were encouraged to feel as is they were doing something good and worthwhile. Now, acording to fatsally's latest experience, a visit to the blood bank to offer a life saving armful is like The Prisoner meets Orwell's Big Brother. Bureaucracy has taken over and nobody is allowed to fel relaxed. Rules are rules.

August 2010

2010-09-01
Hello Saillor
(humour, satire)

The chattering classes are up in arms about the news that Britain and France are to pool their resources and share aircraft carriers.
The Mail today carries an excellent ...

Court Victory For Anti - MMR Campaigners.(social comment)
It is the medical scandal that refuses to go away. Since its introduction controversy has surrounded the MMR vaccine because in a small number - and we must stress, a small number - of cases children develop serious and permanent side effects after reveiving the vaccine. Now at last, after following a tactic used successfully in the USA and keeping the word autism out of their case, lawyers working for the family of Robert Fletcher have won the first award of compensation for 'brain damage' reslting from the MMR vaccine.

Property Prices To Fall Again?(politics, society))
Despite government eforts to talk up a recovery the economy remains stubbornly stagnant. It is unsurprising really, the UK economy still relies far too much on the housing and property market and with incomes being squeezed and house prices remaining so high they are beyond the reach of first time buyers there is little change of increased activity while unemployment continues to rise.

Food Will Cost The Earth(politics, society)
A bid by Australian mining giant BHP Billiton to buy Potash Corp of Canada draws attention to food price inflation, rising commodity prices in world markets and an impending global food supply crisis. It is not just potash, essential in food production, but other finite resources like oil that corporate giants are bidding to gain control of that should concern us. It's The Smell Of Alpha Males That Attracts Women(humour, satire)
Women Can't Resist The Smell Of Alpha Males according to new research reported in today's Daily Mail science section. (If you think DSaily Mail and science should never appear in the same sentence just read on, this is good stuff.)
Alpha males have a smell all of their own, one that triggers certain hormonal reactions in women, the research paper reports ...

Last Of The Summer Whine
The zombie of British television will finally be decapitated and laid to rest this weekend, thirty years after the show was pronounced dead by everybody under ninety. The final episode of this ‘national institution’ will be shown sometime over the weekend but I don’t know when ...

... Conflicting Views On The Economic Recovery Little Nicky Machiavelli writes: Nobody seems to know what is going on in the global economy. Take these two articles on the state of the recovery ...
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Cameron in Babygate Puzzle
The birth of a healthy child is always a happy event but the birth of a child to the wife of a serving national leader is bound to attract close scrutiny. So do certain contradictions in reporting of circumstances surrounding the birth of David and Samantha Cameron's daughter mean the conspiracy theorists will soon be at work?

Do We Need GM Salmon
US authorities today began the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has been called a "frankenfish" by critics. The approval process could take less than a year, and if it gets the green light the fish could be on the market in 18 months.
Environmentalists and scientists see the decision as marking a threshold. If it is approved it is likely to open the door to a large range of ...

< STRONG> August 2010 Last Of The Summer Whine
The zombie of British television will finally be decapitated and laid to rest this weekend, thirty years after the show was pronounced dead by everybody under ninety. The final episode of this ‘national institution’ will be shown sometime over the weekend but I don’t know when ...

... Conflicting Views On The Economic Recovery Little Nicky Machiavelli writes: Nobody seems to know what is going on in the global economy. Take these two articles on the state of the recovery ...
read full post Conflicting Views On Economic Recovery

Cameron in Babygate Puzzle
The birth of a healthy child is always a happy event but the birth of a child to the wife of a serving national leader is bound to attract close scrutiny. So do certain contradictions in reporting of circumstances surrounding the birth of David and Samantha Cameron's daughter mean the conspiracy theorists will soon be at work?

Do We Need GM Salmon
US authorities today began the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has been called a "frankenfish" by critics. The approval process could take less than a year, and if it gets the green light the fish could be on the market in 18 months.
Environmentalists and scientists see the decision as marking a threshold. If it is approved it is likely to open the door to a large range of ...

Cameron Gets His Nudger Out
Politics seems to have been reduced to slogans and gimmicks these days. Bill Clinton had his cigar, Tony Blair his mojo, Gordon Brown had his big clunking fist, George W Bush his freemanmoxy and Barack Obama his skin colour and his 'yes we can'. What does David Cameron have? His nudger. And you don't want to be around when Dave gets his nudger out.

Din Don Din,Pussy In The Bin
What kind of person would put a cat in a wheelie bin for a laugh? An aggressive drunk, a misanthropic gardener, a hoodie wearing, skateboard riding teenage thug? All wrong. Try a sweet looking, rather plump, rosy cheeked middle aged lady. Read more..

When Cousins Wed by John de Roe.
When Channel 4 showed a Dispatches doumentary about the problems caused by marriages between first cousins in Britain's Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities it was bound to kick off a few rows. The problem is not confined to Muslim cultures in the UK however, as with some many other social problems at its root lies politically correct thinking whch through the threat of branding people racist stifles intelligent debate.

The Big Carp Diaries
A spate of mysterious deaths among large carp at fishing lakes around the country aroused our suspicions. It only takes the meresty hint of foul play to hook our investigative reporters and the fish connections provided an interesting angle. We thought our readers would fall for a fish murder saga hook like and sinker. Here is the result of a year long investigation into the stange case of the carp murders. So here is our report, the Big Carp Diaries. Compared to documentaries about Cheetahs, Chimps and Badgers for human interest this is off the scale.

Labour's Loony Spending Scheme Cripples NHS
The nation was given a laugh when David Laws, treaury minister for the incoming conservative / lib dem coalition government revealed his Labour predecessor had left a note saying There is no money. it does not seem so funny now as the true extent of Labours financial profligacy is being discovered. The private finance contracts some NHS Health Trusts were tied into are crippling local hospital trusts financially.

Rubiks Cube So I read the other day that there is a group of scientists sitting in a room trying to suss out the Rubik's cube. They have been there for 30 years trying to work out the minimum number of moves needed to solve the billions ...

2010-08-22
Are All Americans Deluded?
by cleohart

This week saw the American Fighting Forces leaving Iraq, seven years after the war began. On the news the forces passed into Kuwait cheering and shouting 'We're goin' home! We WON! YEAH!'
What they should have said was ...

Conservatives Plan Immigration Cap
During the election campaign the big issue for voters was immigration. Strangely it was the issue none of the politicians wanted to talk about. Now as unemployment refuses to come down and we face up to a jobless future and the government are looking at limiting numbers of immigrants the left are screaming about the need to ease immigration controls still more.

Are A Levels Only For Thickos? Private School Headmaster Says Yes.
The A level results published last week show a record percentage of pupils passing for the 28th year running. Is this really due to the wonders of our education system and the success of state schools. Or is it that exams have beome so easy to pass 97 per cent of pupils succeed. And why are top private schools dropping the A level curriculum in favour of the international baccalaureate?

Vertical Farming: The Looniest Idea Yet For Saving The Planet
Climate Science is a strange area of human endeavour. Part trainspotting, part trekkie convention going, it combines an almost autistic obession with collcting details, a very autistic obsession with focusing on a single theme and a fantasist's capacity for self deception and a taste for mutual masturbation. The latest loonytoons idea for saving the planet involves turning skyscraper buildings into farms growing food for urban populations. Apart from increasing the cost of food by 1000% and increasing rather than reducing the carbon footprint of food production the idea is so insane noboy could ever take it seriously. Nobody that is except scientists, politicians, academics and the media.

Going Halal In Harrow - Going Gay In Rome
As America divides politically again over plans to build a Muslim centre with prayer room (its not a Mosque OK) close to the site of the World Trade Centre destroyed in 2001 by Muslim Terrorists, Britain has a few divisions of its own brewing on a smaller scale of course. One involves Muslims and Halal meat in schools, in the other the gay rights lobby, famed for demanding tolerance, are showing no tolerance towards Roman Catholic religious principles.

Quiz Of The Week You buy a packet of bath salts in the supermarket, Do you:
a) Dissolve the bath salts in your bath water and enjoy a leisurely soak?
b) Crush the crystals and then snort them to obtain a legal high?
c) Decide to ...

A Shaggy Cat Story If Ever I Heard One.....
The England spin bowler Graeme Swann appeared in court this week charged with drunk driving.
Swann was spotted by police driving a Porsche in an area prone to burglaries, which I didn't realise was a stoppable offence but there you go.
The police decided to pull Swann over for ...

Mad Scientists, Mosquitos and Ethics
Mad scientists are a fictional stereotype you might think, they exist in Bond films, pulp fiction anf B movies. Think again. A group of mad scientists have come up with a scheme to use genetically modified mosquitos with antigens in their saliva to eradicate illness by vaccinating the world by biting everybody.

Food Crisis Control Freakery
Fancy eating grey goo, or according to scientists meat grown in a vat. This is one of the ideas proposed by science and academic experts to deal with the problem of feeding the world when the population has boomed to nine billion. This number of humans is predicted to be reached by 2050. The simple answer to overpopulation that nobody is talking about is population control. Do we need nine billion people? Do we have the technology to keep population levels manageable? Yes and yes

The Futility Of Wind Farms.
In some ways the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition has made quite a good start in government. One area they are set to fail badly however is energy. Driven by politically correct thinking the coalition are set to follow Labour down the road that goes through wind power and eventually leads nowhere. Wind turbines look fine on paper. If they generate at their optimum output for 365 days a year the contribution to energy needs looks like a viable business proposition. The problem is due to the limitations of the technology and the vagaries of the weather wind farms are doing well if they operate at a quarter of their potential output. [Offcomer]

The Little Robot With A Heart
Scientists have long dreamed that computer science and electronic technology will combine to create a machine that can think and has feelings like a human. It is a pipe dream of course, in the end a robot can only do as its programmers, via the software, instruct it. Perehaps in reality we are nearer creating a scientist like a robot, without thoughts or emotions.

New Test Can Detect Autism In Adults
Some people wonder why we Boggart Bloggers take the piss out of scientists and medics. Well:
1) It's our job
2) They must like it because they hand us so many opportunities.
The latest of these is the announcement of a breakthrough for medical science, a new test that identifies autism in adults. Now you might well think ...

The Little Robot That Cried (science, technology) by Ian R Thorpe
A robot with the ability to express feelings and emotions has been a dream of science and technology geeks for decades. Is the robot unveiled this week, Nao, the breakthrough we have been promisted. Or is the robot just a clever toy with software that makes it able to mime certain human actions.

Don't Feed Your Daughter Any More Mrs. Lardarse
Worries about the number of obese pupils are still troubling staff in schools around the country. The problem is working class parents of fat kids are used to plain talking and do not like being told what to do. Teachers, steeped in the sterilising effect of politically correct thinking tend to give patronising lectures about five a day, the evils of trans fats and sugar attachment. What we need is some plain speaking advice on children's diet ...

Iceberg Alley Blues.
We must stop using oil say the politicians and scientists as it becomes more imperative that exploration begins in Iceberg Alley off the Canadian Coast, elsewhere in the Arctic and in other sensitive locations. They are just trying to soften us up for carbon taxes of course. Nobody knows better than politicians that the world runs on oil and that alternative non polluting sources are a long way short of being able to supply energy needs ...

Gay Rights Groups Single Sex Marriage Obsession Points To Constitutional Crisis In U.S.A.
When an appeal court Judge who also happens to be a gay activist overturned a democratically approved law banning same sex marriage in the U.S. State of California it was hailed as a victory for gay rights and a defeat for religious prejudice. That may be so, but it is also a defeat for democracy, justice and sanity.

The Milk Of Clone Kindness
When news leaked out that milk from cloned cows, cows raised from embryos created by biologists in laboratories, was being sold for human consumption scientists were quick to point out there was no health risk from such milk. Nobody had suggested there was, what worried people is the inceasing tendency of science to play God.

Questions About Obama Past Just Will Not Go Away

it is probably difficult for British and European readers to appreciate what a terrible social atmosphere citizens of the United States are living in right now. In just seventeen months 'President' Barack Hussein Obama has increased the national debt by one trillion dollars, run up a record public spending deficit, increased unemployment hugely and divided the nation on racial and political lines more deeply that it has been divided since the months leading up to the Civil War. We have witnessed diplomatic rifts with many foreign allies and recently seen ...

2010-07-30
Don't Work Too Hard - Nobody Appreciates You For It
by Ian R Thorpe

George Turklebaum word as a proof readers for a publishing company in New York, he had been with the form 30 years and was said to be a very quiet, unassuming man who did not care much for socialising.
There was never an issue about George's diligence however, his bosses and colleagues said he loved his work was always first at his desk in the morning and last to leave the office at night. More that that he seldom took ...

Whatever Happened To The Oil Spill Environment Armageddon? Most recent Armageddon scenario was the Gulf Of Mexico oil spill fear and panic. The oil leaking from the fractured well threatened a huge stretch of the U.S. coat with destruction it was claimed. Now this required people to not only stop thinking for themselves but also to stop thinking of the world in terms of ...

The Milk Of Clone Kindness
When news leaked out that milk from cloned cows, cows raised from embryos created by biologists in laboratories, was being sold for human consumption scientists were quick to point out there was no health risk from such milk. Nobody had suggested there was, what worried people is the inceasing tendency of science to play God.

Another Stupid Sat Nav Story
If there is one thing us Boggart Bloggers like better than a mad scientist story it's a stupid criminal story but if there is one thing we like better than a stupid criminal story it's a stupid satnav story.
Like this one:
Lorraine and Paul Emptage were relocating from Brisbane to Perth with their son Stephen and family friend Andrew Smith when their satnav told them to ...

IDS Welfare Reforms
Iain Duncan Smith, IDS, the man who sounds like an intestinal problem is the coalition government minister charged with reforming the over complex, over bureaucratic welfare system. Can he succeed where others have ...

Relaxed Muscle, Gland Problems, Obese Or Just Palin Fat?
by fatsally
2010-08-02
It is no longer politically correct to call a spade a spade, we have to say a person of colour. Similarly it has become de rigeur to call a fat person obese because obesity, accroding to the Politically Correct Thought Police, is a health problem whereas fat simply means a person is a greedy, lazy, lardarsed bastard. Well the coalition government is having no truck with that. Bring on the lardarses they say...

Fat, obese? Who Cares?
A health minister in the coalition government, Anne Milton, has criticized the health scare industry for branding as obese people who are merely overweight. In fact people who are not even overweight can be branded "clinically obese". It happened to ...

Iain Duncan Smith's Welfare Reforms
Through the course of our lives many of us will find our circumstances have changed in ways that affect our ability to earn a decent living. Illness, family responsibilities, disability, unemployment and old age are among the most frequent causes of people having to look to the social security system for financial support.

The benefit system, founded by ...

2010-08-02
Gland Problems, Obese Or Just Plain Fat?
by fatsally

A health minister, and I have to write that because there are no end of health ministers now, in fact there are no end of ministers for every department whereas there used to be one and then some junior ministers, has declared that we should stop using euphemisms and call a spade a spade, or more to the point a fatty fat.
She thinks a bit of hurt feelings following a barrage of ...

Israel And Palestine - It's Kicking Off Again
Israel launched air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded in the city of Ashkelon.
The strikes targeted a site in Gaza City which, Israely military intelligence claims, is used by Hamas the Islamist resistance group. The area is also thought to be and entry and exit point for ...

< STRONG>1 August 2010 Questions About Obama Past Just Will Not Go Away

it is probably difficult for British and European readers to appreciate what a terrible social atmosphere citizens of the United States are living in right now. In just seventeen months 'President' Barack Hussein Obama has increased the national debt by one trillion dollars, run up a record public spending deficit, increased unemployment hugely and divided the nation on racial and political lines more deeply that it has been divided since the months leading up to the Civil War. We have witnessed diplomatic rifts with many foreign allies and recently seen ...

2010-07-30
Don't Work Too Hard - Nobody Appreciates You For It
by Ian R Thorpe

George Turklebaum word as a proof readers for a publishing company in New York, he had been with the form 30 years and was said to be a very quiet, unassuming man who did not care much for socialising.
There was never an issue about George's diligence however, his bosses and colleagues said he loved his work was always first at his desk in the morning and last to leave the office at night. More that that he seldom took ...

Whatever Happened To The Oil Spill Environment Armageddon? Most recent Armageddon scenario was the Gulf Of Mexico oil spill fear and panic. The oil leaking from the fractured well threatened a huge stretch of the U.S. coat with destruction it was claimed. Now this required people to not only stop thinking for themselves but also to stop thinking of the world in terms of ...

Selection By Stealth Or Simple Common Sense by Xavier Connolly.
The comprehensive education system has become one of the sacred cows of the "progressive left" in spite of its very obvious failure. The old Grammar School system only segregated on grounds of intelligence whereas the system now with its postcode lottery and the growth of private schools for the rich segregates on grounds of parental wealth, social class and geogrphic location. Intelligence does not enter the equation. So the selective way was more egalitarian, what are the leftie whiners on about.

For Whom The Chimes Toll by fatsally
One by one our traditions are crushed under the jackboot of bureaucracy as the all powerful state continues its drive to strip us of everything that makes life good. Now it is the ice - cream van that has falled foul of the regulatory stormtroopers.

Knickers Off For Sport
The Sports Council are engaged in a campaign to persuade more young people, young women especially, to get involved with sport. They hope this will encourage people to a cleaner living lifestyle. What a pity then that in a campaign to promote equestrian sports the British Equestrian Association are featuring two attractive show jumpers stripped down to their knickers.

Cardiff To Pioneer Drunk Friendly Streets
The news that Welsh capital city Cardiff is to expreriment with making its streets drunk friendly gave us plenty to speculate about.

Drunk Friendly Streets - Why Not Driver Friendly Roads
News that the Welsh capital city, Cardiff is to create drunk friendly streets to prevent rat arsed revellers hurting themselves as they stagger from pub to bus station full of drink and alcohol fuelled bonhomie prompted petrolhead fatsally to ask 'Why not driver friendly roads?

Sado Masochists Rights
Why do the right wing tabloids and downmarket media get so het up about sado masochism and the prenhant for pain some, usually relatively rich people enjoy. If it involves consenting adults what's the problem. After all nobody is hurt - unless they want to be. (satire, humour, adult)

David Cameron Shoots Himself In The Face
David Cameron had got off to such a good start in his relations with America, putting Obama in his place about economics and deficit spending, revealing plans for withdrawal from Afghanistan, pointing out the BP has not been British Petroleum for many years and getting some concessions for convicted pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon. So why has it gone wrong?

Is It A Bird, Is It A Plane, Is It Superman, No, its Supermuslim!
In an effort to show Muslims are really fun people and Islamic publisher has launched a muslim superhero comic book series. Move over Superman and all the other all American superheroes, Super Muslim has arrived.

Bullying Telephone Debt Collectors
A little known consequence of the global financial crisis has been that the banks which own many of the major credit card brands, Barclaycard, MBNA, Goldfish, have bundled up bad debt and sold it on for about 10p in the pound to some pretty unpleasant people who are now contracting telephone bullies to recover as much asd they can. As the thuigs who run the debt collection services are paid on commission they have a huge incentive to screw as much as they can out of you by ...

Treasure In The Heart Of Every Man
A junior minister in the coalition government, Crispin Blunt, has been talking about prison reform. Now Mr. Blunt who if we read blunt in the sense of dull, lacking a sharp cutting edge is perhaps appropriately named is not one of those Conservatives who believe the best way to reduce

Climate Change Crooks And Liars by Ian R Thorpe.
Though climate change alarmists claim that that "the science is settled" no longerr holds water the arguments rage on. If anything they are getting more heated as the climate science lobby, knocked from the moral high grounds show their true colours. But more and more evidence is showing the climate change science was never settyled and the global warming Armageddonists had built their whole case on very flimsy evidence.

Bullying Telephone Debt Collectors
A little known consequence of the global financial crisis has been that the banks which own many of the major credit card brands, Barclaycard, MBNA, Goldfish, have bundled up bad debt and sold it on for about 10p in the pound to some pretty unpleasant people who are now contracting telephone bullies to recover as much asd they can. As the thuigs who run the debt collection services are paid on commission they have a huge incentive to screw as much as they can out of you by ...

Treasure In The Heart Of Every Man
A junior minister in the coalition government, Crispin Blunt, has been talking about prison reform. Now Mr. Blunt who if we read blunt in the sense of dull, lacking a sharp cutting edge is perhaps appropriately named is not one of those Conservatives who believe the best way to reduce

Climate Change Crooks And Liars by Ian R Thorpe.
Though climate change alarmists claim that that "the science is settled" no longerr holds water the arguments rage on. If anything they are getting more heated as the climate science lobby, knocked from the moral high grounds show their true colours. But more and more evidence is showing the climate change science was never settyled and the global warming Armageddonists had built their whole case on very flimsy evidence.

Parent Power: Mr & Mrs Lardarse Join The Parent Council
One of the recent big new ideas in education is parent power and the introduction of parent councils in schools to encourage parents to have a more active role in school life. The problem here is will the more articulate type of middle class parent dominate or will the more physical approach of Mr. and Mrs Lardarse win the argument?
Little Nicky Machiavelli - Climate Change and objectivityThough climate change alarmists claim that that "the science is settled" no longer holds water the arguments rage on. If anything they are getting more heated as the climate science lobby, knocked from the moral high grounds show their true colours. But more and more evidence is showing the climate change science was never settled and the global warming Armageddonists had built their whole case on Not Proud To Be British
As the war in Afghanistan draws to its inevitable conclusion, a futile stalemate we must again question the conflation of patriotism and balls out politics that drive nations to war. The NATO allies were never going to achieve anything in Afghanistan, the Afghans hate foreigners and the war, Bush's revenge for 9/11 became Obama's war when the new President needed to show America he could be tough on Muslim states. In his best known poem Wilfred Owen wrote of that charnel house war: “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / to children ardent for some desperate glory / the old lie, dulce et decorum est / pro patria mori. (it is sweet and seemly to die for one’s country)

British Troops Will Leave Afghanistan by 2014 Says Defence Minister
"About bloody time" you might think as you read the headline. This pointless war has dragged on for 9 years now and has cost more than enough in British lives.
A document leaked to The Independent On Sunday reportedly states the withdrawal of NATO troops is to begin within months. The document states...

Did BP Lobby For Lockerbie Bomber's Release
The latest measure of politically correct socialist insanity has come via the accusation that oil giant BP lobbied Gordon Brown's government for the release of the Lockerbie Bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi. We hope this is a total fabrication because BP, already in trouble for ...

More Graduates, Less Graduate Jobs
Vince Cable the coalition government's minister responsible for business and higher education has kicked off the biggest shake up in University financing in the past four decades. Since the vast and rapid expansion of higher education begun bt the Wilson government in the 1960 there has been constant growth in University funding, the number of University places available and the ...

Your Shit Is Unique: More Shit Science From The No Shit Sherlock School Of Science Science is always looking for new worlds to explore, final frontiers to cross. We have reported on many branches of sciene, mouse, hockey stick, crocoldile and other but none more unappealing thaty the universe that exists up you arse. Now science has taken a great leap up the arse of humankind to explore the life of the shit uinverse and its many unique and individual life forms...

Segway Into Insanity
Even as the case for global warming made by climate change science crumbles, the green get rich quick schemes get nuttier and nuttier. Take the Segway electric scooter being promoted by former MP Lembit Opik. This mode of ecofriendly transport technology is neither green, safe nor practical but it is advertized as all three.

NHS Patient: I Am Not A Number
The labour government made a huge error in placing targets and statistics ahead of patient care in the NHS. Nurses complained they were spending more times filling in forms and dealing with paperwork than they were on patient care. Now Labour are screaming about the coalition's proposed cuts in NHS budgets. But the cuts will reduce numbers of managers and administrators, not nurses and front line staff.
NHS spening cutsThe labour government made a huge error in placing targets and statistics ahead of patient care in the NHS. Nurses complained they were spending more time bean counting than they were on patient care. Now Labour are screaming about the coalition's proposed cuts in NHS budgets. But the cuts will reduce numbers of managers and administrators, not nurses and front line staff.
Every Day In Every Way Tyranny Creeps A Little CloserThe NHS has come up with a scheme to deny care to people whose behaviour has contributed to their ailments. Smokes lung problems will go untreated, alcoholics livers will remain enlarged and fat people's bad backs will get no sympathy or pain killeres. But how far will this health tyranny go. 'No, you can't have a midwife, you got yourself pregnant, deal with it. We've got paperwork to do?
Climate Science Debunked By Science Superstar Max Planck.
One of the lies most often repeated by the Climate Science lobby is that 'the science stands' i.e. that no fault was found in the scientific work of the CRU. This is both true and a lie, true in that no fault was found, a lie because the reason no fault was found is that to examine the scientific work was outside the Russell panel's terms of reference. This report features the Max Planck Institute's take on climate science and the IPCC.

Crackdown On Binge Drinking
They stopped us smoking, now they want to stop us drinking. We have been predicting for years that is the way things would go as the inceasingly obsessive control freakery of the Politically Correct Thought Police leads them to interfere with our freedom to live our lives as we wish and chhose our own method of self destruction. When alcohol has been demonised as smoking now has will they start on sex or food?

Word Cup: Why Football Is So Much More Than A Game
When my friend Sheryl visited Britain recently, not knowing the football world cup was in progress she was surprised by the way at a certain hour the streets of London would mysteriously empty, it became impossible to get a cab, diners were hustled out of restaurants and life came to a standstill. During the World Cup Everything stops for football.

Back To Basics by Sir Hector Gobbett - Broadsides
Sir Hector Gobbett Broadsides, Conservative MP for Rawtenborough since 1832 and a great champion of old fashioned values has agreed to write for us in support of a return to traditional convervative values, self determinations and the restoration of traditional British right like Primae Noctis. In this first article he argues for the reten of ritualistic beatings in schools, the death penalty for single mothers and the 95 hour working week for poor people.

Crackdown On Binge Drinking
They stopped us smoking, now they want to stop us drinking. We have been predicting for years that is the way things would go as the inceasingly obsessive control freakery of the Politically Correct Thought Police leads them to interfere with our freedom to live our lives as we wish and chhose our own method of self destruction. When alcohol has been demonised as smoking now has will they start on sex or food?

Word Cup: Why Football Is So Much More Than A Game
When my friend Sheryl visited Britain recently, not knowing the football world cup was in progress she was surprised by the way at a certain hour the streets of London would mysteriously empty, it became impossible to get a cab, diners were hustled out of restaurants and life came to a standstill. During the World Cup Everything stops for football.

Back To Basics by Sir Hector Gobbett - Broadsides
Sir Hector Gobbett Broadsides, Conservative MP for Rawtenborough since 1832 and a great champion of old fashioned values has agreed to write for us in support of a return to traditional convervative values, self determinations and the restoration of traditional British right like Primae Noctis. In this first article he argues for the reten of ritualistic beatings in schools, the death penalty for single mothers and the 95 hour working week for poor people.

Sleeping With Conservatives
Could You Hug A Tory asks a feature in The Guardian some time ago. Several typical Guardian writers describe their feelings of fear and loathing when, purely in the interests of science of course, they hugged prominent members of the Conservative Party. Me? Sex is non political. The last thing I worry about when a woman I fancy smiles at me is her politics

Sex In Cars Can Damage More Than Your Health
by fatsally

A survey by elephant.co.uk has found that having sex in a car is dangerous. Doh!
Even when the car is stationary, with the handbrake on and the engine off, people still get hurt.
Muscles get pulled, knees hit, necks cricked and backs ricked and that bloody

Amazon Takes On Sainsburys We are not against progress at this publication nor are we against technology. There has to come a point however where, when presented with some new development and told it will make life better in many ways for us all, we take the advice of Marcus Tullius Cicero and ask "Cui Bono?" Who benefits? One such case is exemplified by the expansion of Amazon into the grogeries business. Pity The Poor Binmen
Whether the government in power is Labour, Conservative or coalition their idea of improving public sector efficiency sems to be to stop provinding services to the public but hire bigger and bigger armies of penpushers to administer the non provision of services. Just look what has happened with refuse collection over the years. We have ended up with a situation in which binmen are not allowed to lift or carry a bin for health and safety reasons...

Spooky Or What?
by fatsally

Ever get that feeling that some things are more than coincidences? One thing happens that's a bit odd, then another and when the third one shows up there you are looking over your shoulder and thinking "Is there something going on here?" ...

The New Daily Stirrer site has gone online today. Nothing much has changed but we hope to see a big increase in traffic

Solar Powered Plane To Start Commercial Service
by Ian R Thorpe

Great news for fans of the planet, a solar powered plane has completed a 24 hour flight, flying through the night without comsuming a drop of fossil fuel.
The ultra light aircraft named The Zephyr, which can rise to...

The Politics Of Embarrassing Diseases
by Ian R Thorpe

Yesterday we reported on the imminent changes to the way we elect our government and how Nick Clegg's obession with developing his plan for Alternative Votes (AV) will help him take over the world is causing him to morph into ...

The Misery Pill: Unhappiness and Arse DribbleWe have reported extensively both here and at the original Boggart Blog on the plague of obesity and the scourge of arse dribble that punishes those who seek a quick remedy in fat busting drug. Now the pharmeceutical indusrty has gone one better and created a pill that not only causes arse dribble, it makes people depressed as well.
Five A Day
A recent survey on our understanding of a portion of fruit and veg shows that 25% of the surveyed adults thought orange squash counted as a portion of fruit. A can of Tango must count as two portions then. Add a portion of lemon meringue pie and you're almost there! Somehow we supect Nanny State's nagging about the health benefits of five a day are falling on deaf ears

Wonder Woman Gets A Goth Makeover. Superman In Boxer Shorts Next?
Wonder Woman is to get a makeover. In these non sexist times it has been thought politically correct to do away with the star spoangled panties and scarlet bustier to make her less feminine and less overtly appealing to male sexuality. We don't think the new goth look quite achieves that.

The Wisdom Of Urgent Deficit Reduction Reaches Obamaville
Not long ago I became involved in a thread with people who thought they were discussing economic philosophy. If fact they were simply doorstep evangelists for The Obamessiah and his lonytoons economics. As usual with people who cling to the notion that Obama is a competent President as tightly as working class Americans "cling to their guns and Bibles" (hey, I never said I don't hit below the belt) they make a wild statement and then defend it simply by saying no intelligent person could possibly disagree...

The Cuts Will Mean Less For More
Little Nicky Machiavelli
1 July 2010

As the financial crisis enters its third stage Little Nicky Machiavelli contemplates a time when less was more

The Arrogance Of Ecomonists And The Stupidity Of Politicians
by Ian R Thorpe

Don't you just love the arrogance of economists and their detatchment from anything remotely resembling reality. They're all scum sucking crackfarts, they really are. Little Nicky Machiavelli has said this many times and here's a mainstream journalist taking up the theme in response to an economics academic who says that anyone who does not have a PhD in economics should not be allowed to express an opinion on the subject as only...

See also: Little Nicky Machiavelli - Economists and Politicians
Defending Keynes
The name of a great Englishman, John Maynard Keyes, is being trashed by that jug eared steak of piss and racist hater of all things British Barack Obama in attempts to give the failing Obama administration's loonytoons economics a veneer of sanity. Keynes recommended governments should use publc spending to sustain their economy during periods of recession. He did not say, as Obama's supporters claim he did, that nations already way past the point of bankruptcy should continue with reckless poublic spending projects.
New Political Leaders let us down.

As satirical bloggers we have been waiting for David Cameron to fall flat on his face. It's disappointing then that he has emerged from the G20 conference of political leaders as the figure the world looks to for...

What Goes around, Comes Around
Well, you have to admit there is a certain symmetry in life, even if you have to wait 44 years.
I thought it was quite ironic that England were denied a goal that clearly was over the line, (and yes the fans at the stadium were correct, the ref was a wanker... didn't his...

The Ball Was In
Football. The World Cup. There's no escape, so I might as well cover it. On Sunday we lost spectacularly against our nemesis, Germany. To be fair, we were shit, and have been throughout the contest according to all commentaries. Really we should think ourselves lucky we didn't achieve ultimate embarrassment by ...

Defending Keynes
The name of a great Englishman, John Maynard Keyes, is being trashed by that jug eared steak of piss and racist hater of all things British Barack Obama in attempts to give the failing Obama administration's loonytoons economics a veneer of sanity. Keynes recommended governments should use publc spending to sustain their economy during periods of recession. He did not say, as Obama's supporters claim he did, that nations already way past the point of bankruptcy should continue with reckless poublic spending projects.
New Political Leaders let us down.

As satirical bloggers we have been waiting for David Cameron to fall flat on his face. It's disappointing then that he has emerged from the G20 conference of political leaders as the figure the world looks to for...

What Goes around, Comes Around
Well, you have to admit there is a certain symmetry in life, even if you have to wait 44 years.
I thought it was quite ironic that England were denied a goal that clearly was over the line, (and yes the fans at the stadium were correct, the ref was a wanker... didn't his...

The Ball Was In
Football. The World Cup. There's no escape, so I might as well cover it. On Sunday we lost spectacularly against our nemesis, Germany. To be fair, we were shit, and have been throughout the contest according to all commentaries. Really we should think ourselves lucky we didn't achieve ultimate embarrassment by ...

There's A Lot Of It About
As rumours circulate of crooked politicians (Blagojevich trial) Dodgy Bankers, perverts in public service and hypocrisy everywhere this comic verse puts it all in perspective...

Obama's Sacking McChrystal Could Be The Error That Finishes Him
Barack Obama has made many mistakes since he came to power. Here in the USA his popularity is at rock bottom as people increasingly identify him as a vain, egomaniacal man, far too thin skinned in the face of criticism to be a successful leader and prone to bouts of infantile petulance when things are not going his way. His supporters only have one response to any suggestions that he is less than perfect, that the person challenging Obama can only be

The Worm In The Apple iPhone
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a man whose entire career has been built on finding creative ways of avoiding an admission that his company’s technology is overpriced shite insisted there is nothing wrong with the new iPhone and people are experiencing problems because they are holding it wrongly. We disagree...

Apple iPad Will Not Rewrite The BookThe word on the street for nearly twenty years has been e books will kill print, the internet will kill traditional media. With the launch of the latest e book reader and the latest overpriced, overhyped, under achieving gadget from Apple former Iinformation Technology consultant Ian R Thorpe can't see the death of print occurring yet for a few centuries.

G20 Nations Divided On Deficit Reduction
The G8 and G20 summits of financial leders running simultaneously in Toronto are both revealing deep divisions among governments about how quickly publid spending deficits should be reduced. This has caused uncertainty in financial market jover the past few days, with the American "broow and spend" economists of the Obama administration warning that reducing deficits too quickly will push the economies of developed nations into the double dip recession governments have feared.
Leading European economies, particularly the Germans, are emphasising the need to...

Alcohol Aware
The government has launched one of those nanny state campaigns to raise public awareness of alcohol. This Boggart Blog in depth report finds the public don't need their awareness raising, they know all they need to know about every kind of booze and drug on the market and drink, smoke or snort what they like best...

Are You Sitting Comfortably? Then I'll Begin To Patronise You. Everyone hates those letters the government sends out, the ones that purport to be helping you claim what you, as a citizen of good standing are entitled to by way of benefits, health care, education, tax allowances etc. really are subtly bullying you into conformity. The most odious thing about them is the patronising, nannyish tone.

The Budget Cuts And Labour's Economic Genius
This being a big day for editors of both piss taking blogs and shit stirring blogs (I have one of each) newspapers had to be bought this morning.
The Daily Telegraph lived up to expectations, I mean you don't buy a pig and expect it to say "baa" do you? The Guardian however, the New Labour house mag, surpassed itself however...

United In Austerity by Vince Cable
Liberal Democrat economist and Secretary for Business in the coalition government opens his review of the emergency budget with these words:
The emergency budget will be painful. The cuts in spending and the increases in tax will be felt by everyone, resented by some but understood, I think, by most. Our coalition government is united in accepting that its first duty is to clean up the fiscal mess it inherited. Not any old mess but a great, steaming pile of manure. Someone has to remove it. We can't just hide the smell beneath the perfume of optimistic forecasts or rely on natural decay ...

The Budget: Labour's Economic Genius
This being a big day for editors of both piss taking blogs and shit stirring blogs (I have one of each) newspapers had to be bought this morning.
The Daily Telegraph lived up to expectations, I mean you don't buy a pig and expect it to say "baa" do you? The Guardian however, the New Labour house mag, surpassed ...

Should The Cuts Hit The NHS?
As anticipation mounted about Chancellor George Osborne's emergency budget aimed at bringing the public sector spending deficit under control people were asking if budhgets for the National Health Service (NHS) would be cut. We can think of one area of the NHS where cutting the budget might improve matters...

The Politics Of Fear And Panic
Fear and panic certainly seem to be gaining ground as the weapon with which the political and business elite intend to control us and force us to comply with their feiendish schemes.
Holy City On budget day in the UK when the depth of the developed world's problems was brought home to us we remind you of Ian R. Thorpe's poem which he claims was the first to deal with the financial crisis in verse.

The Adventures Of Posthumous Sperm
Parliament will allow women to be impregnated by Posthumous Sperm my first thought was to find out who this Posthumous Sperm person might be and why he is particularly qualified to impregnate women. It is after all a job many of us blokes would be well up for if we were given the chance...

Hybrid Embryos Will bring Viz Characters To Life
Parliament debated the hybrid embryo clause of the human fertility bill yesterday and despite the irrational and superstitious fears of Church of Scienceology scientists cult leaders that our elected representative “do not understand science” and therefore were not qualified to debate the bill, the clause was...

World Cup: The Idea Is To Win But England Players Don't Get It.
Far be it from us to suggest footballers are thick, I mean thinking the idea of a penalty shootout is to put the ball as far wide or high of the goal as possible is a simple mistake to make. Emile Heskey reached a new level of incomptence however, and what more he did it in a warm up game against....

Rooney Not Of The Old School
It was always inevitable that England striker Wayne Rooney would get into trouble at the world cup. The scouser's ripe language was bound to upset referees who have been bribed (allegedly) to find any excuse for sensing off England players. But getting in trouble is a friendly with a local team exceeded our expectations...

Rooney To Ref: Swive You Earsling - Now Wayne Can Vent His Spleen Safely
Boggart Blog. though not a football blog is for the World Cup as patriotic as any British blog can be so we came up with a scheme to protect England star Wayne Rooney from overzealous foreign referees. We are sending out our expert on medieval English, Grammercy Pecksniff to coach Rooney in using archaic swear words and insulting phrases words even English referees will not understand..

The Necessity Of Curbing State Spending
The left, already laughable styling themselves "the opposition" even as Labour splits into tiny factions including the "old left" the traditional party of the working class, the people with traditional Labour values who recognise there are no magical solution, the "progressive left", the kind of people my colleague Ian Thorpe refers to as The Politically Correct Thought Police, who are currently working themselves into a frenzy about

The Pursuit Of Mediocrity by fatsally.
SATS test, introduced in 1993, were supposed to meaure a pupil's progress through the education system from junior to senior school and ensure every child was fulfilling their potential. Now we see the government constantly lowering standards in order to ensure enough pupils from each school are reaching government imposed targets.

Oh Brave New World
In common with Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four, forever imprinted on the minds of my generation because of the cover image of a military boot grinding on a human face, Brave New World was a book that changed the way we viewed the world we lived in. In many ways it inspired aspects of the social revolution of the 1960s as people shrugged off the social controls that had imposed such restrictive conventions on western society.

Welcome To Our World Cup
America's football (soccer if you must)team is taking part in the World Cup again. Lets hope their gallant performances as underdogs, and their good natured sportsmanship are not treated with the same indifference as four years ago. After all, though a sports team alone cannot undo the damage done to America's international reputation by the Bush administration, its a start.

England's Flag Racist?
Crimes like murder, robbery, kidnapping, rape and arson are not serious enough to warrant urgent police attention these days. The crimes that matter are... a flag that identified him as an England football supporter? Well no, he was actually pulled up because his World Cup flag was “racist and likely to offend Muslims.

England, England, England
World Cup fever doesn't strike Boggart Blog's fatsally. No worse than Swine Flu the writer says

FILTH! The Mary Whitehouse Effect
Advance publicity for “FILTH!” a dramatised version of the Mary Whitehouse story starring Julie Walters and coming (oops, pardon!) to a television near you has predictably aroused (oops, pardon!) the holier-than-thou brigade to start ranting about ... any mention of “FILTH!” in the media tends to make the legions of the narrow minded come over Mary Whitehouse (oops, pardon!).

Is It Time To Ban Maths From Schools?
Academics and politicians are always banging on about how school pulpils have no interest in maths and science. They blame everybody but themselves of course. When you get down to it, maybe the way Maths and Science are taught in schools is to blame. Or maybe it is the nerds who teach it and try to infect pupils with their own irrational enthusiasm for the uttrly pointless that has made these subjects so uncool.

Welcome To Our World Cup
America's football (soccer if you must)team is taking part in the World Cup again. Lets hope their gallant performances as underdogs, and their good natured sportsmanship are not treated with the same indifference as four years ago. After all, though a sports team alone cannot undo the damage done to America's international reputation by the Bush administration, its a start.

Will Wind Power Be A Way Of Farming Money For Operators.
Despite the wailing of the Green lobby and the Climate Change evangelists and Science worshippers wind power is a bloody stupid thing to invest money and effort in if we want to create a sustainable, non - polluting energy source to power the nation. If we are simply looking for ways to channel taxpayers money into the pockets of immensely rich and powerful energy corporations and landowners however it is hard to think of a better way to do it.

England vs USA (twice, World Cup and Oil Spill)
by Ian R Thorpe

England take on the USA twice this weekend. First David (the contender) Cameron will go head to head with Barack (the pretender) Obama over the oil spilled into American coastal waters from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Obama is...

Negrophilia
A new book by black America writer Erik Rush with this title will be published later in the week. Rush argues that the greatest social force working against black Americans is the excessive affinity to opportunistic and self serving black leders by guilt tripped white liberals. I couldn't possibly comment except to say that Mr. Rush demonstrates yet again how seriously fucked American society is.

We Must Abandon Oil Before Its Too Late
Former Chief Scientist David King warns yet again that the world is running out of oil. It isn't, but if Obama shuts down deepwater drilling the oil we use will get a lot more expensive very quickly.

The Offcomer As the sight of sea birds sufering because of the oil spill in the Gulf Of MexicoBird watchers have recorded in the past few years a species on Sandpiper native to the Mississippi Delta and the river estuaries of the South East U.S.A. nesting in the sand dunes and mud flats of England’s Noth West Coast, an alien and hostile environment for them.Bird watchers have recorded in the past few years a species on Sandpiper native to the Mississippi Delta and the river estuaries of the South East U.S.A. nesting in the sand dunes and mud flats of England’s Noth West Coast, an alien and hostile environment for them. Labour Should Favour Working Class Candidates
Labour leaders are always ken to trumpet their politically correct credentials by damanding more women, black and gay candidates. As the number of truly working class candidates has declined however so has the Labour vote.

Time to protect boys as well as girld from circumcision barbarity Cristina Odone writes in the Telegraph of the religious hypocrisy that allows male circumcision to go unchallenged with female gential mutilation is universally and rightly abhorred.

Cameron Does not want a fight with EU Maverick MEP Daniel Hannan says Conservative leaders Dave Cameron does not want a fich with the EU over banking regulation but European plans for a financial tranactions tax may force him into it. also: Brussels ans economic government

Does Money Grow On Windmills
Despite the wailing of the Green lobby and the Climate Change evangelists and Science worshippers wind power is a bloody stupid thing to invest money and effort in if we want to create a sustainable, non - polluting energy source to power the nation. If we are simply looking for ways to channel taxpayers money into the pockets of immensely rich and powerful energy corporations and landowners however it is hard to think of a better way to do it.

2010-06-09
Heather The Leather
Do you ever get that deja-vu feeling, especially when listening to the news?
I sometimes wonder if there are any truly new stories or whether the news, like fiction, has only...

2010-06-08
Stupid Criminal of the week: Copper puts thief in intensive care
Copper puts teenage thief in intensive care sounds as if Gene Hunt might be involved. In today's politically correct police force wouldn't the copper be in a lot of trouble for....

Snail science used in fight against Crystal Meth
We have reported on how mice, squirrels, crocodiles, fish and even fruit flies are helping to advance science. Recruiting snails to help scientists understand the effects of drugs like crystal meth is radical even for the kind of whacky science we like to report here...

The Grey and White Peril Coming To A Garden Near You
Nimbys who have fled the urban jungle for the peace and tranquillity of the countryide have been horrified that badgers have been infecting their deal little thoroughbred doggies and pussies with nasty diseases. Now the same people are up in arms because the government having made badgers a protected species has had to order a cull of badgers because some parts of the country are overrun with them. Townies will never understand the country.

World Cup: The idea is to win but England players don't get It Far be it from us to suggest footballers are thick, I mean thinking the idea of a penalty shootout is to put the ball as far wide or high of the goal as possible is a...

Who Stole The Stars Light pollution means children born in developed nations will seldom see the stars.

Health And Safety Step In To Stop Slightly Risky University Graduation Day Mortarboard Throwing
Following an incident when a graduating student was injured by a descending mortarboard during the traditional rite of passage involving throwing the ludicrous headgear into the air, a university has advised students that this tradition should be given a miss. The Health and Safety Thought Police are always eager to stop slightly risky but fun traditions. Boggart.blog was able to get hold of a copy of the risk assessment for the forthcoming degree congregation when students graduate.

Blair Faith Foundation
In an interview published in Time Magazine this week Tony Blair tells of how his faith in God helped him make the really tough decisions that leaders sometimes have to make, like the decision to lie through his teeth to sell an illegal war to a reluctant and disbelieving public. Well Tony Blair's God is certainly a forgiving God. The God of hypocrites maybe? Wake Up And Taste The Coffee
Wake up and smell the coffee, the saying goes but according to a scientific study published this week maybe we should wake up and taste the coffee. Another post from Boggart Blog's Mad Science department

Check out the New Greenteeth Multi Media Fiction Menu The Bilderberg Affair
The 2010 meeting of the Bilderberg Group is under way and just to confirm my long held suspicion that The Guardian newspaper has become the house mag. of The Illuminati, their reporter tried to trivialise the serecy and paranoid security that always surrounds this annunal meeting at which a shadowy group of global oligarchs giver national political learder their instructions for the year ahead.

2010-06-01
Snail Scientists help in fight to understand Crystal Meth
by Ian R Thorpe

A report published this week in The Journal Of Experimental Biology tells us scientists who have been using snails to study the effects of methamphetamine on human addicts have gained valuable insight into why Crystal Math is...

2010-05-29
Politicaly Correct Thought Police Try To Ban Dwile Flonking
by Ian R Thorpe

Just when you thought it was safe to be an eccentric individual again, just when you thought the defeat of Labour at the election and the "anyone but you bastards" message the people gave to the Peoples' Party, just when you thought...

Stopover On The Road To Damascus

As religious war looms again in the Middle East this piece reminds us there is a way to conquer fanaticism.

The Bilderberg Affair
The 2010 meeting of the Bilderberg Group is under way and just to confirm my long held suspicion that The Guardian newspaper has become the house mag. of The Illuminati, their reporter tried to trivialise the serecy and paranoid security that always surrounds this annunal meeting at which a shadowy group of global oligarchs giver national political learder their instructions for the year ahead.

2010-06-01
Snail Scientists help in fight to understand Crystal Meth
by Ian R Thorpe

A report published this week in The Journal Of Experimental Biology tells us scientists who have been using snails to study the effects of methamphetamine on human addicts have gained valuable insight into why Crystal Math is...

2010-05-29
Politicaly Correct Thought Police Try To Ban Dwile Flonking
by Ian R Thorpe

Just when you thought it was safe to be an eccentric individual again, just when you thought the defeat of Labour at the election and the "anyone but you bastards" message the people gave to the Peoples' Party, just when you thought...

Stopover On The Road To Damascus

As religious war looms again in the Middle East this piece reminds us there is a way to conquer fanaticism.

The Great, The Gullible and the Apple iPad
One of the reasons we established this page was to fire broadsides at marketing and public relations hype. Apple is a company that built is success on highly manipulative hype by persuading people to buy expensive gadgets that perform less well than much cheaper versions. The launch of Apple's most pointless gadget yet, the iPad was a natural target.

Stupid Scientists Do Deniers Job For Them by Ian R Thorpe.
You just have to wonder sometimes whether, if the IQs of all scientists were added together they would reach double figures...

Silly Secular Society Leader Makes Year's Most Stupid Statement
Terry Sanderson, President Of The National Secular Society says: “I look at it this way. If science disappeared from human memory, we would soon be living in caves again. If theology disappeared from human memory, no one would notice. Theology is a completely and utterly useless pursuit. It is self-indulgence of the first order. It grieves me that public money is spent on theological colleges while real education struggles to gain the funds it needs to maintain itself.” The Daily Stirrer's Ian R Thorpe presents a balanced argument that proves Sanderson is a very secular piece of the female anatomy.

Gay Minister and The Lib Dem Closet
Strange that the party responsibe for pushing through the law that decriminalised homosexuality should have had three senior MPs in the past decade who preferred to stay in the closet. Or is it? The gay mafia is so active in politics a desire to stay out of the limelight they generate is understandable...

Sexless In The City
The great success of the series Sex In The City has always puzzled Boggart Blog because only one (Kim) of the four sex bombs in leading roles is actually sexy. Some critics have suggested the series ties in with the aspirations of many young cosmopolitan professionals. Are there really so many sex straved screwed up, neurotic fuck brains in the world? Read this hilarious critique...

Imposing Orthodoxy By Stealth: Big Brother And Your Shopping Habits
Subtle influences are at work to change the way you shop and thus the way you live. Is this manipulation driven purely by the profit motive or are more sinister motives involved?

Blair's New Job News of a new job for Tony Blair, not that he is giving up any of the hundreds of jobs he already has. So what'd Blair into now? We don't quite understand but it sounds a bit far fetched.

British Teeth
Our American friends like to make jokes about British teeth. They might be more sympathetic towards our desire to keep our natural teeth if they knew the history of British dentistry since the formation of the National Health Service.

Conspiracy Theory of the Month - Patriotism
Whenever the word conspiracy is mentioned someone is bound to shout "Tin Foil Hat Wearer." The shouter is obviously involved in some kind of conspiracy and trying to divert attention from their activities. Conspiracies are all around us, large and small. Governments may not be beaming radio signals into our brains to control us but if such a technology was available you can bet they would be. This conspiracy theory concerns patriotism, an age old conspiracy among the elite to persuade the sons of the non elite it is a good and noble thing to die for one's country. Especially if the dead guy was the one carrying the flag.

When David Met Angie (satire)
What would happen when Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron, leaders of the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition met Angela Merkel, German Chancellor and leaders of a coalition headed by the conservative Christian Democrats? The mother of all love ins perhaps? Of might one of our two star crossed lovers play it horribly badly?

Sexless In The City
The great success of the series Sex In The City has always puzzled Boggart Blog because only one of the four sex bombs in leading roles is actually sexy. Some critics have suggested the series ties in with the aspirations of many young cosmopolitan professionals. Are there really so many sex straved screwed up, neurotic fuck brains in the world? Read this hilarious critique... The Perfect Economic Storm - We Told You So

by Ian R Thorpe

John De Roe is not about today, it being a beautiful late spring day here in the north of England. It's only fair though to make sure he gets the credit he deserves as the sticking plasters of quanitative easing, stimuli and bailours can no longer cover the festering wounds in the global economy.
The mainstream media have been sticking to the orthodoxy demanded by the "inner party" and enforced by the Politically Correct Thought Police and talking up the non existent recovery. Consequently many people who pinned their hopes and their savings on recovery are now kissing the future goodbye...

War On Terror 2008: A Suspect Called Paddington
Paddington Bear makes a return to the printed page in a new book by author Michael Bond.

In the story Paddington copes with life in the 21st century in his inimicable way, leaving a trail of chaos and bemusement behind him. But just think if Paddington was making his debut in the 21st century, rather than the gentler more trusting times of post-war Britain.

Sugar is Kosher; Stupidity and Michael’s Chicken Aren’t
I have not been able to get interested in this new television series of The Apprentice with a bunch of chavs trying to demonstrate their budding business acumen to Lord Sugar and his sidekicks. The usual crop of desperate wannabes on The Apprentice are aged beteen twenty and thirty and thus have had time to develop the unique and idiosyncratic personality flaws and disorders that make them such a repulsive and obnoxious bunch of...

Who Really Caused The Crash
It was the bureaucrats of local government apparently. Well neither I nor Tim Worstall are fans of bureaucrats but this explanation by a left wing fan of taxing everything at 99% and eneabling government to redistribute wealth shows again that the "progressive left" are total morons when it comes to understanding economics.
When The Cutting Begins
As the coalition settles into its new job and the words of former chief treasury secretary Liam Byrne, 'There is no money left' reverbrate how will the new team set about reducing the deficit and mountian of debt, creating jobs and sorting out the financial mess left by Labour?

Legacy Of Rogernomics
by Ian R Thorpe
I read today of the first signs that government by the Conservative - Liberal Democrat "coalition for change" will change nothing except the names at the top of the news.
Coalition finance ministers are warning that "crazy spending commitments" made by...

Rebellion Of The DHWFs
by Wat Tyler (Burning Our Money) - recommended by John De Roe

Wat Tyler at Burning Our Money blog has been giving it rice with his calculator and worked out how much it is going to cost the ConDem-ned coalition to clear up Labour's economic mess. And he reckons the burden will be too much to bear for the DHWorFs (Decent Hard Working Families) who pay the bulk of direct and indirect taxes. Wat predicts a middle class tax rebellion. But then Wat has a track record for that kind of...read Wat Tyler

The Scottish Question
SNP leader Alex (Rab C.) Salmond wants £700 million from British taxpayers as a way of showing that we respect Scotland's separate national identity. Cameron should respectfully tell him to fuck off and here's why.

Ever since the Labour party became the second party on British politics Scotland has done very well out of...

The Certainty Of Arse Dribble
Anal incontinence will get you sometime, not just in old age thanks to the zeal of health fascists waging war on the obesity pendemic. New anti obesity drugs that stop the body absorbing fat have among their side effects arse dribble. So take you choice, either eat less and get more exercise, settle for being overweight and bugger your health or accept arse dribble as the price of your self indulgence.

Cheaper Drugs Now
The trend for people to self medicate with drugs they have bought on the internet is worrying the medical professions because of the risks it poses, the pharmaceutical corporations because people buying cheap, generic versions of prescription drugs hits their profit and governments of the "progressive left" because it defies their control freakery. In view of all that the internet druds maket must be a good thing.

Ten - The First Night David and Sam Spend In Their New Home Turns Into A Nightmare
It is said ghosts are just echoes of the past, electro - magnetic shadows of long ago dramas imprinted on the fabric of buildings. But what is it like to enter a house where recent real life tragedies have taken place? And what mysteries of the mind might draw the people involved in those events back to the scene?

Boys Games
Have you ever thought there is something a bit iffy about the super macho male. All
the drinking, being crude, treating women like sex dolls etc. And what about the team sports? I've always been suspicious of all that bonhomie in the showers... Labour Contenders Line Up With David Milliband To The Fore
Before Gordon Brown had even finished is maybe but not just yet, maybe never resignation speech David Milliband was pushing himself to the fore as a potential successor to Brown. But what other contenders may emerge from the Lbour ranks and can Milliband, admired by the party elite, the london metrosexual set and the intelligensia wing the hearts and minds of the grassroots Labour supporters

Cameron To Seduce Clegg With Proportional Representation.
Electoral Reform and the introduction of a voting system in which every vote counts has long been the goal of the Liberal and later the Liberal Democrat parties. Although most people have believed a Lib Dem alliance that could deliver electoral reform could only be made with Labour.

Populist Authoritarianism
The Labour Party may talk of socialism but their Nanny State tyle of ovrbearing governmental control freakery rather than protecting the weak according to the political philosophy of John Locke seeks to suppress individualism and impose uniformity by spreading fear and panic. This approach achieves equality by making all weak and dependent. Unfortunately it debilitates the nation.

The Gordon Truman Show
Power may well corrupt but it certainly removes those who hold it from reality. So as Gordon Brown squats in Downing Street hoping that a bizarre sequence of events following the indecisive election will lead to him staying on as Prime Minister in a hung parliament one cannot help but think The Gordon Show is turning into a Truman Show type movie fantasy.

Lord Of The Blair Rings, (Emily, Tony and Precious)
Power corrupts maybe but it certainly removes those who hold it from reality. Tony Blair sits and schemes through his last days in office, hoping to find a way to hold on to his precious, the ring of office held by every Prime Minister or First Lord Of The Treasury to give the office its proper title. One cannot help but think power has warped Blair's mind so much he thinks he is the living embodiment of a character in a fantasy fiction.

Epitaph For New Labour.
Several hours before polls close on general election day Ian R Thorpe pre-empts the result by publishing an epitaph for the wretched "New Labour" project which led the once great Labour Party to aandon any pretence of standing for anything except the interests of its leaders and paymaster and the gaining and keeping of power at any price. So arrogant has Labour become, so contemptuous of their working class core vote, the people who put the labour into Labour Party, that they are now he party of wealth and privilege, to the autoritarian right of the Conservatives while the Liberal Democrats are the truly progressive force on the left.

Woman in Kansas lived on boyfriend's toilet for two years.
Boggart Blog's Star Reporter from the netherworld brings our readers the most private musings of Heather Mills McCartney as she contemplates her divorce, lawyer, injusdtice, prostetics and the burdens of celebrity.

How To Be A Bigot
Gordon Brown's dismissal or a voters concerns about immigration, jobs, crime and government debt as bigoted took the election campaign into a new zone. Now the labour, conservative and liberal democrat leaders can really go for each others throats. Bring it on Clegg To Make Cancer A Crime
The 2010 UK General Election looks like being a neck and neck affair and as they line up for the final eclection debate party leaders are getting more desperate to pain themselves as men of the people Has Libersal Democrat Nick Clegg gone a bit too far however in promising his party would make lfe fair during a visit to a children's hospital's cancer unit?

Immigration - The Elephant In The Election Room.
Throughout the election campaign the three main parties, Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat have shied away from the immigration issue. How can these charlatans put themselves forward as serious politicians prepared to implement the political solutions needed to deal with Britains problems when they dare not comment on the issue of greatest concern to most voters for fear of upsetting the numerically small but unrepresentatively vocal politically correct "progressive left."
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Piigs Might Crash And Burn
by Ian R Thorpe

Yesterday it was finally acknowledged Greece, the nation is bankrupt. The Greek government is not earning enough in tax revenues and duties to pay its bills and service its debts.

That is hardly news, the state of the Greek economy has made the downgrading of its debt from dodgy to...
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Dangerous Musings of a Disturbed Mind
Boggart Blog's Star Reporter from the netherworld brings our readers the most private musings of Heather Mills McCartney as she contemplates her divorce, lawyer, injustice, prostetics and the burdens of celebrity.
[ Comedy & Humour ] ... [ celebrity ]

Change Can Be Unfair To Everybody
It cannot only be me and my colleagues here at The Daily Stirrer who are fed up of hearing about change and fairness in this election. Campaigning has been more Presidential in style than ever before with attention focused on the party leaders and in particular on the televised debates. This is bad for democracy of course because The British Constitution (and we do have on American visitors though it is not contained in single document) requires that we elect Members of Parliament per Constituency to represent all the people of the constituency and not that we vote according to which of the party leaders is the prettiest, has the most vacuous catchphrases or parades the prettiest wife on his...

It's A Great Career Move, Britney.
What is poor Britney Spears to do. She's all out of comebacks, and everybody has had more than enough of her flirtations with madness and her star is fading fast. She has even worn out her victim status, her Dad having rid her of all the parasites who were sucking Britney and her bank accounts dry. Where Tiger Woods can repair his reputation by doing what he is good at, hitting little balls with sticks Britney's popularity depends on popularity. In the circumstances there is only one way forward for the fading celebrity, the fame junkie who is no longer famous. Fatsally reveals what in this article...

Psychologists Insights Into London Marathon
When The British Psychological Society conducted a study to learn what motivates marathons runners we adked what motivations drive psychologists. Is it the desire to have sex with their mothers as Freud suggests (unlikely since many are women) or is it a delusional belief that they are celeverer than the rest of us.

Fit To Gossip
Ironic isn't it that not so long ago when unemployment was much lower than it is now but was a cause for alarm nonetheless, the government was pushing to get people declared disabled so they could go on incapacity benefit and off the jobless figures. Now they want to get people off incapacity and registered as unemployed because jobseekers allowance costs less than incapacity benefit...

The Fiscal Nightmare
Political conservatives and libertarians in the USA are aware of the problem but here in the UK with less than three weeks to go until the General Election that will decide who governs the country for the next four or five years only the Liberal Democrats and representatives of...



Debate Didn't Need An Obama
Alex Spillius, yet another American Liberasl journalist who wants to have sex with Barack Obama tried to claim in the Telegraph that our leaders debate. Responses showed we are quite happy with our own frauds and liars thank you. Volcanic Dust And Divinity
The volcanic eruption in Iceland has closed most north European airports and grounded flights. Flying through the kind of dust emitted by the eruption can cause catastrophic failure in aircraft engines. So what could flights already in the air do except pray for divine. intervention...

Stating The Obvious Will Not Rebuild Our Economy

Given the obsession governments have with science and their irrational faith in the idea that sciencfe and technology will lead us out of the financial meltdown and rebuild the western economy, it is time we questioned some of the loony project that are being undertaken in Universities...

Political Correctness Gone Military
Every day we hear stories of the idiocies perpetrated by the Politically Correct Thought Police who in their zeal for being fair to ethnic, gender and sexual minorities only succeed in being unfair to everybody. This story of a Britisht army military tribunral and a case of discrimination against a woman soldier it is hearing reaches unprecedented levels of stupidity even for the Politicall Correct idiots.

No Real Jobs In The New Economy
Gordon Brown's Labour government and the failing Obama administration in the USA, feeling power slipping through their fingers, are trying to lull people into a false sense of security with claims the 'green' and the 'digital' economies will restore prosperity. This as a blatant lie, nobody needs a PhD in economics or Social Science to understand that the "new economy" of green businesses and digital commerce will destroy not create real jobs...

Minimum Wage Folly A Return To Speenhamland?
The minimum wage is meant to alleviate poverty and resolve problems with unemployment but as Ian R. Thorpe shows, as with all the cure all, politically correct social engineering wheezes dreamed up by the "progressive left" every time a minimum wage scheme is implemented it achieves the opposite of what is intended...

Labour Tries To Make Political Capital Out Of Cancer
The ever more nauseatingly cynical Labour government in its desperation to hold on to power by any means and at any price has now sunk so low it is trying to politicise cancer. Not only that, the way Labour's campaign managers are trying...

Schlock Celebrity Sex Tape Sounds Death Knell Of The Internet
No matter what depths web content sinks to the internet seems to go from strength to strength. But will a new celebrity sex video push back the boundaries of taste too far and bring about the backlash that will be the death of the world wide web

The Cheetah and the Television Cheats

Ever wodered how makes of those BBC television wildlife programmes get the wild animals to be so co-operative? Did you ever think there might be a bit of cheating going on? No, of course not, that nice David Attenborough who personally supervises all BBC wildlife programmes (he does, honest,) would never allow producers to cheat. Prepare to be shocked as we bring you the story of one little cheetah and the television cheats.

If There Weren't Any Canadians You'd Have To Invent Them
In the past few days I have been intrigued by a news story emerging from a district attorney’s office in Texas. A memo sent by an assistant DA to a prosecutor congratulated him on overcoming “a subversive defence that had some "Canadians" on the jury feeling sorry for the defendant. Canadiands it seems was a new euphemism for a certain ethnic minority group...

Poly Clinics - Not Just For Avian Flu.
In the latest example of pointless politically motivated tinkering with the National Health Service the Labour government announced today it is to introduce polyclinics to replace the traditional doctor's consulting rooms which will be phased out. But what kind of doctors will we see in these poly clinincs?

Casual Sex In New York
New audio piece from Ian Thorpe dealing with the isolation of modern life and the commercialisation of human relationships. [Audio - Casual Sex In New York ]

Daily Stirrer - Gay Rights Not A Real Election Issue

The first stormette of the election campaign has centred on remarks made by the Conservative shadow Home Secretary concerning a complaint made by two gay men against a Christian couple who offer bed and breakfast in their home but refused this couple accommodation because their Christian faith condemns male homosexuality. Having overshadowed real issues like unemployment, immigration, crime and public sector pending in the election news, Grayling's remarks played a big part on the BBC Question Time programme on television last night.

Whatever Happened To Swine Flu.
If you are reading this it is probably a good indication you are alive. Swine Flu did not kill you A year ago the government was warning this virus would kill any of us that did not get the overpriced vaccine big pharma made and us taxpayers so generously forked out for. So what happened? Why are so many of us still alive?

Labour Paper Performs Poll Magic How could the Labour supporting Guardian publish a poll showing the Conservative lead in polls shrinking to 4% when the rest of the weekend polls show the Conservatives 9 or 10 points ahead. Boggart Blog explains...

Climate Change, Pollution and Coal Fired Power Stations.
The debate on climate change or AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) is not lost despite the dishonesty of the climate science lobby and the United Nations IPCC. The argument was hijacked by science and yet the mindset of modern scientists is much to narrow and inflexible to cope with the complexities of climate variations and their global effects. Here is an example of the dishonest presentation of information to hype the case for "scientific solutions.

Minimum Wage Heralded A Return To Speenhamland.
by Ian R Thorpe

Ian replied to an article on Tim Worstall's blog in which Tim took to task Polly Toynbee the wide eyed innocent who fancies herself as a sharp political commentator despite living in a solipsistc, Labour supporting cloud cuckoo land. Polly had said:
Tucked away in last month’s Low Pay Commission report is research by....

No Child Left Behind - Just £800 million
Everybody has been feeling the pinch this past couple of years so just think how well off we would all be if this government stopped wasting our money! Each party is suggesting the other will bring in the more savage cuts to public spending. But they don't have to cut any necessary spending at all, just stop wasting the money we bung into the kitty via our tax on stupid schemes thought up by The Politically Correct Thought Police...

Ladettes To Ladies
One of the most bizarre and most entertaining of reality TV shows is ladettes to ladies. In this low budget schedule filler young slappers who habitually binge drink, shag around, piss in the street, get their tits out and projectile vomit are handed over to a charm school whose staff must attempt to turn the contestants from slappers into seductresses.

The Bash Street Politicians - Labour's Top Strategists.
Anthony "El Captainomundo" Blair and Beefy Prescott, two leading politicians of The Bash Street Kids Party are discussing how they can shrug off the legacy of Old Labour and winf the support of Mr. Richie Bastard in the election.

>No Child Left Behind - Just £800 million
Everybody has been feeling the pinch this past couple of years so just think how well off we would all be if this government stopped wasting our money! Each party is suggesting the other will bring in the more savage cuts to public spending. But they don't have to cut any necessary spending at all, just stop wasting the money we bung into the kitty via our tax on stupid schemes thought up by The Politically Correct Thought Police...

Climate Change, Pollution and Coal Fired Power Stations.
The debate on climate change or AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) is not lost despite the dishonesty of the climate science lobby and the United Nations IPCC. The argument was hijacked by science and yet the mindset of modern scientists is much to narrow and inflexible to cope with the complexities of climate variations and their global effects. Here is an example of the dishonest presentation of informatio Check Out our two new online archives of older but still very funny stuff at Boggart Blog Select 6 and Boggart Blog Select 7

Told By An Idiot

Today we revived this popular item after it was obliterated by an ISP error a few months ago. Short funnies almost every day.

Research Suggests From Talking Bollocks Expert Surprise Liberal Democrat Victory
A new academic paper published by a researcher in sociology (the science of talking bollocks) suggests Nick CDlegg's erotic capitalpoints to a surprise Liberasl Democrat victory in the election.

Mr. Bollocks Goes To Cookery Class Today our education correspondent, N.E. Teecher, was invited along with the press corps to observe with Education Minister Ed. Bollocks a modern New Labour New Cookery lesson The school visit was part of the Education Ministers new initiative to improve the way the general public and especially chioldren eat by teaching pupils how to cook.

Samantha Cameron and The Spanish Inquisition
As the 2010 election campaign hots up attention is focusing on the party leaders wives. Samantha Cameron though she had won the battle of the headlines by getting pregnant but then she didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition

Remember La Ciccolina and Vote Liberal Porn
News that the Liberal Democrats in Gravesham hve selected Anna Span, a director of porn film as their General Election candidate reminded us of La Ciccolina, another porn star who turned to politics...

Bleep Test Pupils
The Labour Government's obsession with meddling n the minutiae of individuals lives grows as Labour's eviction from power becomes more inevitable. Their lastest propsal for social enginering, launched by Liam Donaldson, is a plan to use military style bleep tests in schools to indentify pupils who are unfit and likely to become obese...

Folding Plug Wins Design Award. Another Useless Gadget?
Politicians and leading science and technology commentators were quick to hail the inventor of a new folding mains plug as a genius. But who needs a folding mains plug? Or has the guy mistaken the powrer transformer for his laptop computer for a bulky, overweight mains plug?

Beloved Succubus
Love and grief are probably the two strongest emotions. Grieving for the death of a loved one then is bound to lead the mind into strange places. Beloved Succubus a poem performed to the music of Danse Macabre by Camille Saint Saens shows how love and grief can turn what should be a cherished memory into a vampire or succubus that drains the life force from its victim as it calls the surviving lover towards the darkness.

Live Forever Or Choose Life
Never a week and scarecely a day goes by without the latest shot in the wannabe global government's campaingn of fear and panic being fired at us ordinary folk. It will relate to health, drink, drugs, diet or smoking and offer in exchange for another freedom some dubious advantage. The lastest on the British front in this war on reality is a warning that ...

No Help For Those With Self Inflicted Health Problems
News that the National Health Service will if future offer only palliative care to people whose heath problems can be described as self inflicted either through lifestyle or high risk behaviour is not a surprise coming from an increasingly authoritarian bureaucratic dictatorship.

The Contraltos
The Contraltos are a family of ruthlessly ambitious politicians who originated in the dark age of industrial politics when labour was a consumable resource. Though not individually capable of hitting the real political high notes as the Sopranos had, The Contraltos, by a combination of dirty tricks, murder and covering each others backs the contraltos have become a dominant force in British politics...

A Crisis In An Englishmen's Undercrackers
One of the causes of the west's economic decline has been the rise in imports from low labour cost nations like China and the depletion of our own industries that can no longer compete. This in turn has led to a crisis of quality in underwear. One good fart can blow the arse out of your guzzies these days. Which is good for

The Real Unemployment Figure
New unemployment figures released yesterday show unemployment fell by 0.1% in the three months December to FebruarY. Contained in the figures was a statistic that undermines government talk of an economic upturn. This is the number of people in work. Headline unemployment has fallen the number of people in work has also fallen. What's going on?

The Evil Green Bastards Who Want To Save The Panet
So you heard all the politically corect propaganda and you thought going green wouls show you are a good person. Wrong. According to scientists adopting a green lifestyle is more likely to make you an evil, selfish bastard...

Ethical Knickers For Your Green Valentine
A sexy valentine gift for your green lover? Why not some ethical big knickers. Hemp knickers are all the rage with planet friendly females this year. If your girlfriend is more of a thong wearing climate change sceptic than a lentil loving Earth goddess howeer dont blame us if she kills you.

Calorie Offsetting - The Fair Trade Way To Stay Slim
Everybody has heard of carbon offsetting, the super wheeze that will allow those of us in the civilised world to carry on as we are while the people of developing nations sell us their carbon allowances to keep body and soul together. Well how do you fancy our calorie offsetting scheme that allows you to eat what you like and pay a poor person to get fat for you

The True Hockey Stick
Believer in the new religion of AGW, anthropogenic global warming or climate change will be sick of having their science based faith mocked and their scientist priests ridiculed. To help them hold to their belief we offer a change to own a fragment of the true hockey stick, the sacred symbol of their religion.

Bond Villain Targets Britain's Future by John De Roe.
Bill Gross, the world's biggest bond investor might have voted for Obama hnd has some sympathy for Labour because they talk of creating jobs, but he thinks the British economy is in worse shape than anyone is going to admit and is quite willing to take advantage of our vulnerability."

Hate Crime Law - Another Step Towards Fascism?
Those in politics who like to call themselves the progrssive left or progressive liberals love to talk about fairness and equality. Why themn are they so keen to introduce 'hate crime' laws that will grant privilege to certain groups in a system that depens on all being equal? Call us old fashioned but in our view there does not seem to be much justice in replacing one privileged elite with another.

Nothing Good Has Come Of The Internet.
When a technophobe denounces the internet as anti - social, anti jobs, a force for dumbing down or a waste of time it can easily be dismissed but when the CEO of a major technology company like Sony saays nothing good has ever come of the internet we should perhaps listen.

Rubber Baby Syndrome
If you thought the title would lead to a piece about sexual fetishes you are wrong – well wrongish. A programme on television last night dealt with a fad among women of a “certain age” (post menopausal insanity syndrome) for buying fake babies and acting as if they are not rubber but real real. These women, all well heeled and expensively if often somewhat...

Drugs Online
One of the few growth industries is the selling of fake prescription drugs online. So long as the drugs sold as viagra, vallium, ritalin etc are just sugar pills there is no harm done. It's when people buy the real thing the trouble starts...

Slutbot, The Internet Cyberhooker
Men, have you been approached by a slutbot yet. A slutbot is a piece of malwae that arrives liooking like an e mail from a sexy young female who is desperate to have sex with you. Click on a link to find out more however and you invite a worm. trojan or key logger onto your computer where it will steal all your personal data. Unlike a real prostitute however who may give you a social diseas or if you are lucky just a hand job before running off with your money, you are never going to get anything from Slutbot.

Internet Access As A Human Right?
A survey carried out by the BBC found a majority of people around the world believe internet access should be a basic human right. We suspect a bit of statistical rigging because the majority of people in the world live below the poverty line and probably have more urgent priorities than surfing the net.

Dodgy Donor Scandal, As Conservatives Squirm We Name Labour Non Dom
As senior figures in the Labour party continue to milk the issue of Conservative Party donor Lord Ashcroft and his non domiciled tax status Boggart Blog delves into the financial affairs of a businessman who has financial links with the Labour party.

Feng Shui Shite
Whether you are sceptial of all such things or you believe in feng shui ans stuff here's an article that shows people who make their liing selling this shite are just rip off merchants.

Life On Mars
After rubbishing reports of UFOs and alien visitations for years scientists got very excited when they thought they had found water (ice) on the surface of Mars. This indicates that other planets in our solar system miht just be able to support life. Not as good as seeing a flying saucer in your back garden though is it?

B Sc in Stating The Obvious
When The Queen makes her annual speech at the state opening of Parliament everybody knows the text is written for her by government ministers and senior civil servants. What would The Queen say if she could write her own speech?"
The Real Queen's Speech When The Queen makes her annual speech at the state opening of Parliament everybody knows the text is written for her by government ministers and senior civil servants. What would The Queen say if she could write her own speech?"
We Made Love
This poem, with its exquisitely charming video performance is a reflection from middle age on the all consuming madness of young love. With music, Ravel's Bolero, to complement the mood its shows that passion never grows old even if people do.
Play video We Made Love from here.

Them - A poem for the surveillance society
One of the biggest worries to afflict people living in modern economically developed nations is the loss of privacy. CCTV, databases, surveillance technology and internet monitoring contribute to a feeling we are losing our freedom as individuals. This poem by by British poet Ian R Thorpe sums up the zeitgeist. See video "Them" only

No Miracle Before 2012
The Daily Stirrer assesses where the economy, our broken society and all the rest stands now.

More Mouse Science And More Mouse
Hurricanes Happen, The Earth Quakes, Politicians Bluster and Celebrity Scandals come and go but the mouse science stories just keep rolling. This lastest shows how behaving like us can make mice fatter.

Turd Nine From Outer Space What are the mysterious turn shaped brown unidentified flying objects that have been filmed hovering over Southern England. Are they alien craft on a mission, giant intergalactic jobbies from monsters that live in black holes or are they a message, harbingers of doom?

Alien In My Bed Weird poetry - even weirder music

Britian's Credit Rating Lowered? The Government is not going to admit it ahead of an election but Guido Fawkes who is seldom wrong on these matters pointed his readers to this story from the Financial Times suggesting Britain's credit rating has alread been lowered from Triple A status...

Cameron's Conservatives' Lead Crumbles - Hague Could Have Been A Contender
The latest polls foercasting the election outcome have taken a bizarre turn. Following the bully Brown story the popularity of Gordon Brown and labour has improved. To make matters worse for conservtive leader Cameronis news that his predecessor William Hague could have been a contender.

Wishing A poem with chilled blues guitar backing on the folly of our culture of entitlement and dependency

Lib Dems Must Vote Labour
Labour - Says Labour

Its another manifestation of government by fear and panic and it isn't even original. Labour have played the "Liberals must vote for us or let in the evil tories at every election since they replaced the Liberals as a main party.

NHS Homeopathy Row
Should you be able to get homeopathic treatments on the NHS? It's a bogus science say its critics. Most of its most vocal critics however seem to be psychologists. What was that about bogus science?

climate change indoctrination An object lesson in the Orwellian techniques being used by Climate Change Nazis to indoctrinate people with the Anthropogenic Global Warming lie so we consent to be taxed into penury and stripped of our liberty and individual freedom in the name of saving the planet.

Gordfellas - Is The Labour Government Really Like Goodfellas?
Stories coming from Downing Street accusing Labour Prime Miniter Gordon Brown of bullying and being tempramentally unstable should worry us all. We know little of what goes on inside the seat of government and what we hear makes it sound like the movie Goodfellas. Read this hilarious pastiche then decide.

Fish Science Shows They're Smarter Than You Think. Recently we have reported extensively on mouse related science involving the use of snacks to get mice to behave in ways that appear intelligent to scientists. We have confined ourselves to reporting projects involving mice and snacks only while important work has been going on involving crocodiles and the science of snacks.

Killing History.
The government constantly whines that not enough pulips in their later school years take up sciences. The government itself however is pushing history off the curriculum. So as they strip the nation's young people of a sense who they are and destroy the national culture inthe name of diversity and multiculturalism can they complain if those young people feel alienated and do not wish to contribute positively to the national community.

Tiger Woods Says: Sorry, But Don’t Forget I’m The Victim Here.
Following on from the Tiger Woods car crash and the Tiger Woods, prodigious shagger scandals we now have the Tiger Woods prolific apologiser saga. But who was Tiger apologising too? Hilarious take on celebrity apologies...

Those Whom The Gods Would Destroy Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. It's a phrase politicians would do well to remember, especially politicians in the UK Labour party whose obsession with soicialist ideology and creating a fair society has led to their losing touch with reality...

Sex Education Kerfuffle
Sex education in schools is always a provocative topic, on the one hand religious groups think there should be none, on the other the Politically Correct Thought Police believe there should be lots, with practical demonstrations. And what can government officials do when caught between the two sides? Turn somersaults?

Just Drive
Drinking coffee, reading a newspaper or book, playing sudoku, putting on make up, surfing the web, shagging, you'd be surprised what some people get up to while drtiving their cars.

The World's Strongest Beer
So what is the world's strongest beer? Carlsberg Special Brew, Tennants Super, HSL which is a kind of Ace for the seriously brain damaged? For those not in the know about beer or Viz characters Ace, a weak, cheap beer best drunk when fortified with barbecue starter, is the poison of choice for Octavius Tinsworth (Eight) Ace. Well wrong, wrong and wrong. The strongest beer in the world now is Sink The Bismarck at 41% Alcohol By Volume from Brew Dog brewery in Aberdeen...

Is Iran Becoming A Military Dictatorship?
If there is one thing we love doing at the Daily Srirrer it is to predict the news months ahead of when it happens. As U.S. Secretary of Stare Hillary Clinton warns that Iran is on the way to becoming an Islamic Military Dictatorhip we can again say 'told you so,' because we predicted last summer this would be the outcome of Barack Obama's meddling in Iran's domestic affairs. Labour's Orwellian Tendency Out Of The Closet.
In the dying days of Gordon Brown's government labour's "ministry of truth" propaganda managers are becoming more and more desperate to frighten us off voting for anybody else and thus the authoritarian tendencies of The Labour Party are coming furher and further out of the closet...

Never Mix Science And Politics.
When Prof. David Nutt the Labour government's chief scientific adiser on drug misuse and related health problems openly criticized government policy on drugs his resignation was inevitable. Prof Nutt was not wrong in what he said and we're no fans of politicians but .

SATS - The Science Of Dumbing Down
The government and education academics have been obsessing about SATS tests for a long time, believing intelligence can be measured by examination results. All this pseudo - scientific bullshit has achieved is a meaurable dumbing down through a

Teaching English As A Native Language
Teaching English as a foreign language has always been recognised as a speciality in education. But English has become so difficult that teachers are now having difficulty teaching it to those born as native speakers of the language. Is this because there is too much academic bullshit and not enough good teaching in the education system.

Robin Hood Tax
As the sycophantic Gordon Brown busies himself telling the world "universal support is growing" for Barack Obama's idiotic notion of a "Robin Hood Tax", a levy on financial transactions "to help the poor." Obma along with fan in chief Brown and all his other delusional worshippers of the Progressive Left are forgetting if the plan does not have the support of the international banks themselves and of the government of China (and it doesn't have either it will be a stillbirth...

Our Car Of The Year - The Toyota Scadenfreude
It turns out their much hyped Prius, the car of choice for the kind of B list celebrity who likes to talk publicly of how green they are but when they have to go anywhere hire a chauffeur driven limo, as well as not being very reliable is not very green. Scroll down to read how the green credentials of the Toyota Prius fall short of the target...

Celebrity Couple Split - Bigger Shock Than Brangelina
All the mainstream celebrity gossip media coverage this week has focused on brangelina, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and their anticipated marriage break up. Ever the goats, going our own way, we bring you news of an even more poignant celebrity breakeup. SuBo and he cat Pebbles are no longer living together...

Terry The Tiger? Or Not?
by ianrthorpe

Why has Boggart Blog let the whose hilariously sordid John Terry affair and all those opportunities for puns like “you just don’t expect defenders to score that often” pass with only one brief comment from fatsally last week you might well ask.
To be honest it’s an editorial policy of ours not to report non – stories and “Footballer shags...

2010-02-07
There Was Spam, Spam
by ianrthorpe

A song schoolboys of my generation used to sing , The Quartermaster’s Store was learned from our Dads who had sung it as soldiers during World War 2. It had innumerable verses, all simple and easily remembered....

2010-02-06
New McItaly. Next The McHomeopathic.
by ianrthorpe

We have been entertained and intrigued by the kerfuffle over the introduction of McDonald’s new product The McItaly burger.
Foodies, especially Italian cuisine purists, have gone...

Smack in the gob for supernatural sceptics
Isn't it annoying when you are having a bit of fun talking about ghosts, monsters, hairy beasties and such and some twat announces he's a scientist and starts talking as if you are stupid and believe all that stuff. Well here's a monster story that will leave such people gobsmacked

Former Government Adviser Condemns Green Scaremongering.
The trend among people who like to label themseves "scientists" to brush aside criticism from highly educated and well informed individuals outside their specialist field by saying "You're not a scientists, you don't understand science," arouses deep suspicion. We are rght to be sceptical and suspicious ...

Toyota Allegro Reminds Us Of British Carmakers’ Golden Age.
News of the recall of millions of Toyota cars because of a design fault that causes the accelerator to stick so the car goes faster when the driver wants to go slower has made a lot of older drivers nostalgic for the twilight of the golden age of British ...

Labour's Minimum Wage Scam
When you hear of a Conservative politician praising Labour for creating a 'flexible job market' that benefits British employers it does not ring true. What Lord Freud was really praising the government for was letting bosses screw their workers by turning a full time job into a part time job. Not the sort of jobs policy you expect from Labour but we're always said they are more Tory than the Tories.

Authoritarian Box Ticking Culture.
Among the things that have alienated people from the Labour party apart from generakl incompetence, is their arrogant and patronising conviction the public are resady to believe anything the government tells them so long as it is dressed up in statistics and delivered by some fresh faced, smooth talking Labour spinmeister. It is very like the authoritarian regime of Orwell's 1984

Evangelical Christianity Crucified
The Obama effect on American society seems to be the opposite of what was hoped for. Religious fundamentalism, particularly Evangelical Christianity seems to have more influence than ever while Obama's failure as a politician as well as his ...

Toyota Allegro Reminds Us Of British Carmakers’ Golden Age.
News of the recall of millions of Toyota cars because of a design fault that causes the accelerator to stick so the car goes faster when the driver wants to go slower has made a lot of older drivers nostalgic for the twilight of the golden age of British ...

Labour's Minimum Wage Scam
When you hear of a Conservative politician praising Labour for creating a 'flexible job market' that benefits British employers it does not ring true. What Lord Freud was really praising the government for was letting bosses screw their workers by turning a full time job into a part time job. Not the sort of jobs policy you expect from Labour but we're always said they are more Tory than the Tories.

Authoritarian Box Ticking Culture.
Among the things that have alienated people from the Labour party apart from generakl incompetence, is their arrogant and patronising conviction the public are resady to believe anything the government tells them so long as it is dressed up in statistics and delivered by some fresh faced, smooth talking Labour spinmeister. It is very like the authoritarian regime of Orwell's 1984

Evangelical Christianity Crucified
The Obama effect on American society seems to be the opposite of what was hoped for. Religious fundamentalism, particularly Evangelical Christianity seems to have more influence than ever while Obama's failure as a politician as well as his ...

Teen Binge Drinking Crisis
Politicians, medical experts and church leaders here in Britain are panicking about the binge drinking antics of teenagers. All around the country young people are getting rat-arsed and behaving in an offensive and embarrassing way. I've read things are pretty much the same in the other English speaking nations so we must wonder is something going on, is there some social trend that is

A Little Bit Of Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing by fatsally

I know times are hard and people are setting themselves up as small businesses and that is all well and good, much better to work than to get depressed being fucked about by the Jobcentre, but you'd think people would...

Change You Can't Believe In
by James Dahlberg
For his first contribution to The Daily Stirrer James looks at how the popularity of Barack Obama, the Yes We Can" man has collapsed from the record levels seen right after his inauguration as President to the latest polls that make him the most unpopular president ever after a year in office. The economy, unemployment, the disatrous health reform bill and weakness on foreign polcy have played a big part but how much is due to the failings of man himself.



Massive Overdose Protest
by Ian R. Thorpe

Te Merseyside Skeptics Society (or more accurately the selective Skeptics Society as they only seem to be skeptical about what it is fashionable to be skeptical about) are going to protest about himeopathy today by gathering outside Boots Chemist, Liverpool and taking massive overdoses of homeopathic remedies...Right, who gives a shit, but this is a very funny post on the irrationality of the protesters without supporting homeopathy Homeopathy: Massive Overdose Protest



Apple iPad Will Not Rewrite The Book
Amid much hype Steve Jobs the world’s top celebrity CEO launched the latest gadget from Apple. Apple addicts were thrilled to the core but will the new gadget for reading e-books ever replace...

28 Jan 10
Poverty: Labour Succeeds Where Thatcher Failed.
Ian R Thorpe

At last, a success New Labour can claim as their own. Under the party's rule over the past twelve years the gap between rich and poor in Britain has gone bak to the level of 50 years ago. We get a view from the MP for Rawtenborough since 1832 Hector Gobbett - Broadsides on what this means for unemployment, the revovery and the election prospects of conservative and labour...

Keep Health Out Of Politics

Have those government sponsored health scares about fats, alocohol, chocolate and ciggies ever got up your nose? No? They would if you knew the special advisors dreamed them up over brandy and cigars after a jolly good lunch.

The Truth About The Economy, Crime And Everything Else.
The Labour government has been telling lies again, about unemployment, the economy, education, and crimes. And they are really really angry that us ungrateful oiks refuse the believe the official statistics that prove what a good job the government is doing.

Quis Custodiat Custodes (Who watches the watchers)
Living in the surveillsance society. Governments keep announcing plans to increase the surveillance ability of security forces, the latest outrage being the proposal that military drones of the kind used to kill civilians in Afghnistan and Pakistan be deployed to overfly British cities taking high definition photos of everyday life.

Keep Health Out Of Politics

Have those government sponsored health scares about fats, alocohol, chocolate and ciggies ever got up your nose? No? They would if you knew the special advisors dreamed them up over brandy and cigars after a jolly good lunch.

Mouse Science Reinvents The Wheel (Again)
Scientists love to reinvent the wheel and if it involves mouse related research, even better. Here's our take on a project involving science, mice, snacks and a wheel to prove exercise makes humans more intelligent. So how much running does Setphen Hawking do?

Millions of Americans Are Giving Up Looking For Work (and things are just as bad in Britain)
News that many unemployed Americans are simply giving up looking for job openings and resigning themselves to long term unemployment should come as no surprise in Britain where the number of real jobs in ...

BBC Weathermen To Be Sacked?
News that BBC weathermen may be sacked for always getting the weather forecast wrong is wecome. This unfortunate breed of humans are an example of what happens when scientists become besotted with their science and lose contact with reality. Weather forecasts are not that big a deal but when the arseoles cannot correctly tell us ...

The Jobless Economy
Politicians, economists and others with an interest in talking up the economy to get us all spending and taking on debt and mortgage loans again may rave about recovery. With our industrial base so depleted where will the jobs come from that we need to lead a recovery?" They may call it fiscal prudence, we call it loonytoons economics...

Science Can Seriously Damage Your Mental Health Do you get pissed off with all those reports issued by scientists about how the food you eat or lifestyle choices can damage your health. The thing is whatever on scientific report says be it on diet, drink or drugs, the next one is sure to...

Privatise The Profit - Nationalise The Losses. Governments and politicians of all shades like to talk of gbeing fair, equal opportunities for all, an aspirational society with upward social mobility. How does that equate though to the fact that for many years taxpayers will be paying interest on money borrowed from China and...

Pigeon Racing - Sport Or Business Breaking news, pigeon racing, the favourite hobby of many working class men for generation is to be downgraded in status from a sport to a leisure activity. We interviewed two raging pigeons, old timer Percy Feathers now enjoying a well earned retirement and ...

Spunky Internet Entrepreneurs
There is nothing you can't buy on the internet these days. Several online entrepreneurs will even offer a DIY artificial insemination kit comprising a turkey baster and a shot of sperm. Call us old fashioned if you like but we thinkhere's a lot to be said for the traditional way of making babies. Still, for the young woman in a hurry......

Frightening Lack Of Imagination And Merit
While we old dinosaurs at Boggart Blog and grump and grumble about bogus science (stopping mice getting alzheimers disease by giving them mobile phones for example) in fact the creation of useless science projects is linked to the work of another government department that is in the forefront of creating jobs to drive the economic recovery, the Ministry of DOISBUM...

Pigeon Racing - Sport Or Business
Breaking news, pigeon racing, the favourite hobby of many working class men for generation is to be downgraded in status from a sport to a leisure activity. We interviewed two raging pigeons, old timer Percy Feathers now enjoying a well earned retirement and ...

Spunky Internet Entrepreneurs
There is nothing you can't buy on the internet these days. Several online entrepreneurs will even offer a DIY artificial insemination kit comprising a turkey baster and a shot of sperm. Call us old fashioned if you like but we thinkhere's a lot to be said for the traditional way of making babies. Still, for the young woman in a hurry......

Frightening Lack Of Imagination And Merit
While we old dinosaurs at Boggart Blog and grump and grumble about bogus science (stopping mice getting alzheimers disease by giving them mobile phones for example) in fact the creation of useless science projects is linked to the work of another government department that is in the forefront of creating jobs to drive the economic recovery, the Ministry of DOISBUM...

The Jobless Economy
Politicians, economists and others with an interest in talking up the economy to get us all spending and taking on debt and mortgage loans again may rave about recovery. With our industrial base so depleted where will the jobs come from that we need to lead a recovery?" They may call it fiscal prudence, we call it loonytoons economics...

Politicians Just Don't Get It About Change Why do politicians keep banging on about change when it is clear people do not want change. Talk of change will not win the election for Labour or Conservative, the electorate are sick of change, they want security.

Survivors: Gordon Brown Cancels Election, Declares State Of EmergencyAs a new series of the television science fiction drama Survivors begins we can't help but look at our increasingly chaotic, catastrophic, dystopic world and wonder is the show a post apocalyptic drama or a lightweight domestic sit - com? What Are You, Man Or Mouse? What should we make of a claim by scientists in South America that they have grown human sperm in mice? Ought we to be amazed at the brilliance of scientists and the advances in medical science or should we say WTF? What will they think of to waste taxpayers money on next?

Labour Loony Leftie Gives Way To Lap Dangers
You have to love the irony of it. Jeremy Corbyn, throughout the 1980s a leading light of Labour's loony left was a founder member of the Politically Correct Thought Police with his campaigning for womens' rights, gay rights, minority rights, dog turd's rights and whatever. How wonderful to hear his former constituency HQ is to become a very politically incorrect lap dancing club.

The Jobless Society
...In both Britain and America there is talk of a "green economy" leading the recovery and "green jobs" providing work for future generations. It is all hogwash, empty political propaganda aimed at masking total systemic failure until the politicians, corporate managers and the academics who advise them can find a way to blame Joe Public, me and you, for their disastrous incompetence...

More Demented Mouse Science
What we love most about scientists is that like religious fanatics they are totally unable to give up titally6 bonkers ideas. One such is the notion that making mice bhave in innatural ways will teadh us something about human health problems like Alzheimer's disease...

8 January '10. Science - Who To Believe We are all aware of how the climate change scientists kept insisting in response to anybody who pointed out theor sums did not add up that "the science is settled", resistance is futile. It has had theeffect of making most people a lot more sceptial about science and...

7 January '10. Human Mothers To Bear Intelligent Mice?
A new science reports tells us parents who want to have brighter babies should make sure the mother easts plenty of fried food during pregnancy. Problem is the method has only been tested on mice.

The Ship of Dead Dreams. (The Fate of X-Factor Losers)
The X Factor ended another run in December, the winner had a hit record, No 2 in the pop music charts, the other finalists up will get their moment or fifteen as the show goes on tour but what of the rest. For them the New Year is a ship of dead dreams.

The Craziest Doomsday Cult Ever?
America is known as the spiritual home of crackpot religions. There are hundreds of tree worshipping churches, people who pull snakes out of each others' arses, Old Testament goat shaggers and post modernist computer worshippers. People seem to be so needful any control freak with a world domination complex can set up a religion or cult, find some followers who will ...
Things Are Getting Weirder On Planet Guardian.
It is three weeks since the Daily Stirrer editor cancelled his subscription to the Guardian newspaper. The paper, once famed for its independence and unbiased reporting has recently fallen into the trap of mixing opinion and comment with factual news. This is most noticable in reporting politics or science and technology....

What Am I Bid For The Gold Plated Dog Turd
Boggart Blog reports in its usual inimitable style on the auctioning off of various heavy metal tat from the redundant Hollywood home of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne...

2010-01-07
Tommy Cooper Appears In A Pie - Just Like That
In the week between Christmas and New Year there is a dearth of news. Nothing happens. So we must turn for our blog material to roundups of momentous events of the past twelve months. And what could be more momentous than stories about UFO's, ghosts, crop circles and...

A Christmas Story...ahhh
Once upon a time there was a little mobile phone. He wasn't particularly big or clever, but he could send and receive text messages and take photos as well as doing phone calls, and most important of all he was very...

2009-12-21 Defying the Tyranny of Consumer Christmas
by fatsally
December 21st, only three shopping days to go till the shops will actually be closed for a full 24 hours!!!!! But I'm living life on the edge. As of Saturday we had...

2009-12-21
Chequing Into A Future Of Medieval Serfdom.
Singing hey ho and a hey-nonny-no I was making my merry way along Cordwainers Lane, the rhythm of my steps accompanied by the jangle of credit cards and cash cards in the leather purse that hung from my belt when I came upon a hag who sat by the road and wept most sorely. “Why weepest thou so...

2009-12-19
The Religion Of Oral
by ianrthorpe

It is with regret we note the death of U.S. Evangelical preacher and pioneer of television evangelism Oral Roberts. Back in the days when there were no illegal wars and climate change could only be experienced by

Climate Change:How Much Blame Must Science Take?
After the Copenhagen climate summit failed to agree a plan of action to combat climate change the science lobby have been quick to blame capitalism, business, politicians and the public. But a critical and objective analysis reveals there is oly one culprit. Science alone is to blame.
Climate Change: Little White Lies and Big Brown Lies
The Copenhagen summit conference on climate change was never about climate change. It was about money, power, control and the need to divert attention from the failure of globalization. Pity the science used to back up the case for action was so easily ...

Nike Will Stand By Its Tiger
The Tiger Woods dickgate scandal bandwagon rolls on as a tenth woman claims to have helped the golfer get a hole in one. We predict a new verb, to Tiger will soon be added to ...

Tommy Cooper Appears In A Pie - Just Like That
In the week between Christmas and New Year there is a dearth of news. Nothing happens. So we must turn for our blog material to roundups of momentous events of the past twelve months. And what could be more momentous than stories about UFO's, ghosts, crop circles and...

A Christmas Story...ahhh
Once upon a time there was a little mobile phone. He wasn't particularly big or clever, but he could send and receive text messages and take photos as well as doing phone calls, and most important of all he was very...

2009-12-21 Defying the Tyranny of Consumer Christmas
by fatsally
December 21st, only three shopping days to go till the shops will actually be closed for a full 24 hours!!!!! But I'm living life on the edge. As of Saturday we had...

2009-12-21
Chequing Into A Future Of Medieval Serfdom.
by Ian R Thorpe

Singing hey ho and a hey-nonny-no I was making my merry way along Cordwainers Lane, the rhythm of my steps accompanied by the jangle of credit cards and cash cards in the leather purse that hung from my belt when I came upon a hag who sat by the road and wept most sorely. “Why weepest thou so...

2009-12-19
The Religion Of Oral
by ianrthorpe

It is with regret we note the death of U.S. Evangelical preacher and pioneer of television evangelism Oral Roberts. Back in the days when there were no illegal wars and climate change could only be experienced by

Pizza Noel Noel - The Boggart Blog Christmas Lunch
The Boggart Blog Irrelevant Christmas Charity Appeal. This year as well as our appeal for on behald of Fletcher Memorial Homes for seperated socks we are throwing our weight behind a charity that works to provide shelter over the festive season for abandoned hi - vis jackets...

Electric Cars - A Mini Adventure In Futility
The famous advert for the BMW owned Mini depicts plucky little cars getting into scrapes and escaping by using their speed, engineering quality and a bit of panache. Governments and climate weirdie beardies may push electric cars but somehow we can't see these slow, heavy, short range vehiciles cutting it as objects of desire...

We're All Going To Die. WTF?
Another seasonal rebellion from Boggart Blog against the annual crop of killjoy health warnings from governmet departments. More hilarious stuff from the UK's top satire and humour blog.

Creepy Christmas Presents
What Are The Creepiest Christmas Presents Of The year?

The Time Has Come The Gordon Said
The Boggart Blog Irrelevant Christmas Charity Appeal. This year as well as our appeal for on behald of Fletcher Memorial Homes for seperated socks we are throwing our weight behind a charity that works to provide shelter over the festive season for abandoned hi - vis jackets...

The Boggart Blog Christmas SOS - Save Our Socks
The Boggart Blog Irrelevant Christmas Charity Appeal. Our inaugural Christmas Carity Appeal requests your help in providing shelter and support for homeless socks, those unfortunate items of hoisery that have ...

Creepy and Evil Christmas Pressies
Jenny Greenteeth spent most of yesterday organising the Boggart Blog Editorial Team secret Santa thinly which got the rest of us so excited we spent most of the...

Transparent Boggarts
As Boggartblog often makes snide and cynical comments at the expense of our politicians, it was decided today that in the interests of transparency we too should...

X Factor: Cowell Calls Facebook Group Manipulative.
by ianrthorpe

Boggart Blog is throwing its weight behind the Facebook campaign ( 550,000 members and rising ) to stop the single recorded by the winner of the X Factor from...

11 December 2009
Copenhagen Climate Conference: The Stink Of Shit And Corruption

The spiel from the control freak governments of developed nations in the run up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference billed as the last chance to save the planet from a global warming catastrophe went something like this."You must listen to the scientists, you must not think for yourselves, you must never question authority," Luckily we all knew the scientists chanting this mantra were as much crooks and liars as the politicians and billionaires they worked for...follow link and read the whole sordid story in a new window:
Copenhagen Climate Conference: The Stink Of Shit And Corruption.

Solipsism: Symptoms And Cure
Solipsism, if you are not familiar with the word, can be defined in two ways:(i) the theory that the self can be aware of nothing but its own experiences and states. n(ii) the theory that nothing exists or is real but the self. I don't know where this belief origniated but it was very popular with the more space-cadettish hippies I knew in the...

Dont You Just Love The Sun? Nobody can beat their headlines - except Boggart Blog perhaps, where you will find the rest of this post.

Infamy, Infamy, (they've all got it in for me)
As the media ridicule another government initiative Gordon Brown must know how Julius Ceasar felt when he utters that immortal line from Shakespeare's pla (or was it Kenneth Willians in Carry On Cleo?

Iraq Inquiry: Cab Driver Of Mass Destruction
When the Chilcot Inquiry into the war in Iraq revealed that the British Intelligence source for information on weapons of mass destruction was a Baghdad Cab Driver, Boggart Blog had to find out more...

NVQ In Retail
University education is not for everyone. Some people are not happy in the academic environment and yearn to get into the workplace. Why are such people who have a go - getting attitude rather than a dossing around listening to Coldlay albums attitude treated so dismissively by the careers service and other government agencies ...
I Accuse The Elk In The Orchard With The Fermenting Apples
Stories of drunken animals, reported at this time every yearn by Boggart Blog, are usually amusing. Now however, in keeping with the degeneration of society in general we must report a darker side to alcohol related animal behaviour problems. This story, from Sweden, will make even the fearless think twice about confronting the most docile of species ...

An Inconvenient Truth About Climate Change Science
Governments, corporate interests and academics have been spreading fear and panic about climate change in advance of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit billed as our...

Canadians Who Cared Saved Us From Climate Change Nazi's.
Article in the Ottowa Citizen commented on by John De Roe.

Get to know the Climate Change Science lobby, the scientists who tried to scam the world into spending tillions on useless scientific problems that would probable make the effects of climate change worse and certainly not mitigate them. By "get to know" I do not mean...

more Ig - Nobel Science
The Ig - Nobel Prizes are awarded annually for stupid science and pointless research. This is a roundup of some of the whackiest recent winners...

Copenhagen - The Real Agenda
Governments, corporate interests and academics have been spreading fear and panic about climate change in advance of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit . But in the light of recent revelations about scientific fraud is Copenhagen really

Why Copenhagen Climate Change Conference Must Fail
In a surprise statement today the world's leading climate change expert annouced that he hopes the Copenhagen climate change summit, billed as our last chance to avoid a global warming catastrophe, ends in failure. Any deal struck, according to

You Can't Light A Fire With A Laptop
by fatsally

Great news for journalists and publishers this week was the internet's growing realisation that you literally get nothing for free. The impending demise of Wikipedia was heralded with...



3 December 2009
Brought To You By Durex

After his recent slapper related PR disasters Tiger Woods needs a new sponsor. As the world's top golfer has alwas been so deadly around the hole Boggart Blogs suggests the makers of Durex condoms might be able to use him.



3 December 2009
Question Time: Gordon Brown Loses The Plot
by ianrthorpe

After Obama's official announcement of a troop surge aimed at ending the conflict in Afghanistan Gordon Brown spoke today during... Afghanistan: Brown Finally Loses Ther Plot



Learing To Grow Hashish At College
It had to happen, there have been courses available in subjects such as Klingon studies, the Jedi Philosophy and...

Looks Like A Job For …… BICYCLE REPAIR MAN!
One of my favourite Monty Python sketches though it is remembered by few other people which may prove I am more of a Python geek than I thought, featured a Superhero called Bicycle Repair Man. A bike mechanic superhero? you ...

A-Nice-Cup-Of-Tea-And-A-Sit-Down.com
Saga have announced the launch of the first sovial networking site for old people. Boggart blog ponders whether senior citizens will be tempted online by the prospect of a geriatric internet...

The National Mottery

It has been suggested Britain should have a national motto. To avoid politicians and bureaucrats saddling us with something crappy Boggart Blog has some ideas on how it should be chosen.

The Renewable Energy Con

Governments in the developed world are busy spreading fear and panic to soften us up for punitive carbon taxes and help corporate nazis turn a fast profit from dodgy technologies. But people have seen through the con...

2009-11-27
A Job For The Boys: Lap Dance Researcher.
by ianrthorpe

The University of Leeds School of Social Science is advertising for a researcher to undertake research into "The rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption in the

2009-11-26
Harrassed In The Hindu Kush
by ianrthorpe

Barack Obama is rehearsing the speech in which he will tell the American due to the brilliant success of his stategy he can now announce

2009-11-25
If Ali G met Belle De Jour
ianrthorpe

In her first press interview since outing herself as the real Belle De Jour, research scientist Dr. Brooke Magnati who used earnings from prostitution to fund her...

Starve Yourself And You Might Live Longer
New scientific research advises us to starve ourselves if we want to live longer. But is it as usual just a case of you will not actually live longer, being permanently hungry on your calorie free diet will just make it seem so...

Just Who Is Undermining Obama's Credibility?
"The 'Birther' movement in the USA questions the elegibility of Barack Obama to serve as President because his father being non - American means he is excluded from the Presidency under the US Contitution. The official response to the 'birthers' is to ridicule them as conspiracy theorists but ...

Science Favours The Emotional Approach
Trust the Food Standards Agency. Charged with conducting a national debate on GM food and crops, it starts out by denigrating opponents to them as governed by emotion and ideology rather than reason. So the official line that the exercise is about promoting a balanced dialogue – rather than, say, using it as a way to persuade a reluctant public to embrace the stuff – is blown from the very beginning...

The Language Of Mathematics A mathematician sings the praises of mathematics and illustrates very clearly (without intending to) why the sciences are up shit creek.

Shafted Up The Khyber How the Afghan warlords and bandits are making us look stupid in the Hindu Kush.

Is The Turner Prize Just Shite Or Is Talking Bollocks Really Art?
Everyone knows modern art is a load of bollocks so nobody is surprised when the Turner Prize, the premier prize for modern art goes to some con artists who walks round an empty building dressed in a bear costume. But who is stupid...
Shite And The City
When we heard the prducrers of cult TV series Sex And The City were suing everyone who infringed their "copyright" on the title, from a gym called pecs and the city to a petshop called Pets And The City, we though they needed putting in their place.
TV Phone-in scams – punter to blame:

A major scandal in 2007 concerned the rip off television quizzes that raked in £££ millions for dodgy premium phone line operators. But you have to wonder on seeing some of the answers given to simple questions wrere the punters ripping themselves off?

Book Review: How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read.
Can we really talk about books we haven't read? French literature academic Pierre Bayard argues books are not so much about story and characters as ideas. Does Bayard's argument hold up? Poet Ian R. Thorpe reviews Bayard's book (without having read it of course)
Rompuy - Pumpy Rules EU
The newly reformed, even less democratic than before European Union has its first President. But will Herman Van Rompuy achieve anything or will his name just inspire rumpy-pumy jokes?

Monty Python And The Brussels Sprouts
Controversy rages over the choice of Herman Van Rompuy (pronounched rumpy to rhyme with pumpy) to the EU presidency. Stung by British Rumpy Pumpy jokes the French-language Belgian regional newspaper La Capitale printed a list of our...

We Wish You A Merry Christmas - But Not In Dundee
Christmas will not be Christmas in Dundee this year. All references to the religious holiday have been dropped from the switching-on ceremony for the city’s festive lights. Instead of the traditional Christmas Lights switch-on, residents will be ...

A Fit And Proper Person
The dark forces of football oligarchy are ganging up on little Chester City but it looks like one rule for the minnows, another for the big clubs. The FA have ordered Stephen Vaughan, Chester’s owner and main financial prop to sell his shareholding because he is not a “fit and proper person” to be...

Playing Politics With The Dear Old Queen
The Queen’s Speech by convention, wile setting out the government’s programme is not about party politics nor is it supposed to be about a failing government shafting the opposition that will soon replace them by making it impossible for the new lot to...

The Real Queen's Speech Redux
It is well known that every year HM The Queen writes her own speech for the state opening of parliament and that every year The Government goes to great lengths to ensure the draft is lost and Queenie has to read the speech prepared for her by the Prime Minister. Last year one of Boggart Blog's unseen reporters managed to obtain...

A Pretty Maid Must Show 40% To Get Laid
I'm an unlikely Daily Mail reader but this link, sent to me by a mate who knows how much Boggart Blog loves pointless research stories, pricked my curiosity. It will take you to an item that claims a "scientific" study has revealed that a woman should show 40% of her flesh if..
2009-11-16
President Rimmer Obama
Looking around American blogs today I see there is a kerfuffle about President O's deep bow to the Emperor Of Japan. Typically the Politically Correct Thought Police...
2009-11-15
Octomum
To avoid misunderstanding the title is not a new Bond film or a character from tonight's (eagerly anticipated) Doctor Who adventure...
Goodbye Analogue, hello BskyB. The Digital TV Scam
The great digital television switchover is well under way but do we really need digital TV and as usual should we not be asking cui bono? Who benefits.
Jehovah's Kiddie Fiddler
Can a man claim his penchant for touching up children in an inappropriate way is excused because he is a man og God. The Daily Stirrer says SAME RULES APPLY

We Must Stop Some People From Breeding
The ice caps melt at an accelerating rate, despite all the hand wringing of "progressive" politicians a global economy built on perpetual growth cannot reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and the scientific quick fixes offered by the academic community get whackier and potentially more catastropic. Is it time to say the unsayable?

Fear And Panic And HP Sauce
Those who live by fear and panic die by fear and panic. The government's attempts to bully us all into giving up our civil liberties so we may be safe from terrorism has failed. Only the security forces are afraid of their own shadows, the rest of us stoically get on with our lives.

Beards Of Terror 1
Throughout the War On Terror which started after the 9/11 attacks on The World Trade Centre on thing we have noticed but the authorities never refer to is the role of beards in the terrorist effort to disrupt national life by spreading fear and panic

Scientists In Denial
People who call themselves scientists are often a tad obsessive (far be it from me to say borderline autistic - as the boy scientists are always telling me, I'm not a scientists so I know nothing. But do scientists know anything or are they just deluded?

Bog Butter - The Ancient Mystery Of Mum's Fridge

Archaeologists thought they had stumbled on the find of a lifetime but the stuff they found was very familar to Boggart Bloggers Ian & fatsally. They had been seeing it in their Dear Old Mum's fridge for as long as they could remember.
READ ALL But Things Just Keep Getting Better
The other day Boggartblog brought you the news that we're just not drinking enough, tipping the unfinished bottle down the sink wastes an incredible amount of the old Mucho Collapso and so we should all ensure that we drink every last drop, a practice Boggartblog has advocated for years. But things just keep getting better...

Swine Flu: Need A Crisis - Just Invent A Pandemic
The Daily Stirrer has always been sceptical about the Swine Flu epidemic. It first hit the news just before the G20 economic summit meeting of world leaders earlier in the year. The summit was ostensibly convened "

Swine Flu - No worries, you'll just gain a few pounds
The government of control freaks are keeping up their fear and panic campaign to turns us all into gibbering wrecks who cower in fear of swine flu. Boggart Blog has always said this scare is simply about making...

A-level pass? Computer Says No
What happened when a computer programme was set to marking English A - level examination papers? Well it wasn't literature.

At Last The Government Gets It, We Need New Nuclear Power Stations
After thirty years of dithering, listening to know -nothing scientists and do nothing wierdie-beardies, short-termism and pandering to the profit motive our ruers have finally accepted we ned to build nuclear power stations to ensure supplies of reasonably clean electricity for the future.

They Prayed Him Straight
After the latest developments in the bizarre story of rent boy using homo hating evangelical preacher Ted Haggard I my have to rethink my lifelong refusal to have anything to do with religion.
No Bitching

The New York Politically Correct Thought Police are planning to make use of the word 'bitch' a crime. Will that make all dog breeders criminals ponders Ian Thorpe.
Bad Taste Treat
The great Mel Brooks onc said "you can't crate humour without bad taste." Was he right? If you though your neighbours were were read about some of these people.

At Last The Government Gets It, We Need New Nuclear Power Stations
After thirty years of dithering, listening to know -nothing scientists and do nothing wierdie-beardies, short-termism and pandering to the profit motive our ruers have finally accepted we ned to build nuclear power stations to ensure supplies of reasonably clean electricity for the future.

They Prayed Him Straight
After the latest developments in the bizarre story of rent boy using homo hating evangelical preacher Ted Haggard I my have to rethink my lifelong refusal to have anything to do with religion.
No Bitching

The New York Politically Correct Thought Police are planning to make use of the word 'bitch' a crime. Will that make all dog breeders criminals ponders Ian Thorpe.
Bad Taste Treat
The great Mel Brooks onc said "you can't create humour without bad taste." Was he right? If you though your neighbours were were read about some of these people.

Evolutionary Science Classes In Junior School Might Be Counter Productive.

A new plan to reform the primary curriculum proposes teaching evolutionary science to kids aged 4 to 11. This article shows how such an approach might be counter productive.

Have A Nice Day - From The ***** Who Want Your Money (very strong language)

Doesn't all the false bonhomie in the retail sector get up your nose. Enjoy you meal chirrup food schleppers in franchise restaurants as if they are commanding you to relish the barely edible pap they have just slapped in front of you. But the one that really gets everybody is "Have a nice day.

The Seven Profitable Habits Of Self Help Gurus
How do all those self help gurus whjo have made millions form their wealth / success / self-esteem programmes keep managing to sell their unremittingly banal, predicable and useless self help books?

Bloggers Who Stare At Goats
by ianrthorpe

You have all seen adverts for the new Hollywood film release Men Who Stare At Goats. Well no need to waste your money to find out what it is all about...

Evolutionary Science Classes In Junior School Might Be Counter Productive.

A new plan to reform the primary curriculum proposes teaching evolutionary science to kids aged 4 to 11. This article shows how such an approach might be counter productive.

Have A Nice Day - From The ***** Who Want Your Money (very strong language)

Doesn't all the false bonhomie in the retail sector get up your nose. Enjoy you meal chirrup food schleppers in franchise restaurants as if they are commanding you to relish the barely edible pap they have just slapped in front of you. But the one that really gets everybody is "Have a nice day.

The Seven Profitable Habits Of Self Help Gurus
How do all those self help gurus whjo have made millions form their wealth / success / self-esteem programmes keep managing to sell their unremittingly banal, predicable and useless self help books?

Bloggers Who Stare At Goats
by ianrthorpe

You have all seen adverts for the new Hollywood film release Men Who Stare At Goats. Well no need to waste your money to find out what it is all about...

2009-11-08
Google Pledge Not To Be Creepy
by ianrthorpe
Speaking on American television Google CEO pledged that his company would not become a creepy gang of world domination freaks like Microsoft did some years ago. Asked by the interviewer how from their dominant position on the internet Google could avoid this Schmidt adopted a really bad Russian accent and said...
KEYWORDS: technology, interney, google

Ve Haff Vays Off Edukatink You About Sex
The Govgernment is pushing a new law making sex education compulsory in schools. It's a good idea but can sex education ever be entrusted to bureaucrats and geeky teachers. We look at some of the pitfalls.
KEYWORDS: education, sex, schools

The Fag Drag - Will Banning Cigarettes Spawn A New Industry?

Still detmined to be the killjoy government Labour are passing new anti smoking laws. But do they really think banning the display if cigarettes in shops will stop anybody from smoking?
KEYWORDS: tobacco, drugs, cigarettes

Kidman’s Alien Sex Fetish
by ianrthorpe
Statuesque blonde Australian actress and sex symbol (if you like that sort of thing) Nicole Kidman has confessed in a celebrity interview with GQ magazine that in one of her love affairs she had explored “strange fetish stuff.” Though Kidman ....
KEYWORDS: sex, movie, celebrity

The New Guy Fawkes
by ianrthorpe

Where are Catesby and his co - conspirators when we need them? Where is our gunpowder plot this bonfire night? Not that I'd want the buggers to blow up The....

Stimulating The Radio Active Rabbits
An American friend sent me this list of some of her favourite items funded by money from the US Government's stimulus bill.
•$300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at...

The eXtacy factor
Well Professor Nutt certainly kicked things off with his claim that drugs like E, Cannabis and LSD are no more dangerous that alcohol and tobacco. While we agree... Is The Internet Making Us All Stupid.
The more gullible and wide eyed among academics like to burble ecstatically about how the internet has ushered in a new age of creativity. We have to wonder just how much time these self styled experts have spent surfing scial networking sites
Web Induced Dementia
In most civilised societies there are laws governing what outrageous claims advertisers can make for their products. This does not apply on the web it seems, where 'revolutionary new world changing technology' means 'not fit for purpose'

E versus J & B
I know we say this quite frequently but where would this blog be without those whacky folks who feed us material by doing pointless research. The latest finding, announced by the...

The Acme Of Bad Luck
Saddest news story of the week concerns the unfortunate death of Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell. 19 year old Taylor died just after...

Tonguing Willie
What a headline!!! Worth 3 exclamation marks. Well every now and them we Boggart Bloggers like to show up the Tabloid headline writers for the rank amateurs they really are.
So as this story is not going to concern hot celebrity head action what...

The Luddites Club
The word Luddite has many negative connotations but the first Luddites were only trying to preserve theor livelehood and the wellbeing of their families against innovation they claimed, rightly as it turned out, would impoverish them, deskill their trade and destroy the ...

Who Needs HDTV
Do you ever wonder why you bought all your stuff? Do you really need a new cellphone every two years and how many times have you replaced a perfectly good computer because something new had come of the market. Technology is the biggest scam ever. For example, why...
Classy Comic Or Rampant Rabbit
There is no doubt Michal MacIntyre is one of the top stand up comedy acts around at the moment. He has a good personality, quickfire delivery and some ...

Barack Obama, The Electric Monk and the Museum Of Creation
In America the collapse of the economy, the inexorable rise of unemployment and the hostility of developing nations to President Obama's climate change proposals have so far failed to dent the belief of Obama's rabid supporters in the divinity of their 'beloved President'...

You WannaShow A Liddle Respect This story came to light last week and it has troubled me, probably because as a teacher I have had parents say the same thing to me.
15 year old Daniel Walton was sent home from school because he refused to...

Systemic Dishonesty
We used to rely on certain sectors of the media to tell us THE TRUTH or at least a version of it. Now alas the media and politicians are all controlled by big money who see keeping a tight grip on the flow of information as their main tool....

A Wellspring of Human Rights
Political Leaders like to make grandiose promises especially when thy know they can never be held to them.
2009-10-24
Trees For SPAM
You may have been under the impression that goal of the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December is to agree a binding treaty to fight global warming, I know I certainly was. We have been misled however. According to leaders of a militant...

Asda Sat Nav
We love Stat Nav disaster stories at Boggart Blog so when we found a report of an ASDA delivery van driver showing a level of blind faith in science and technology that would ...

Government by Fear and Panic

The more the Government try to control people through fear and panic the more sceptical people get. Read about the latest installment in the saga of Fear and Panic and decide where you are going to draw your personal line...

Childhood Drinking:The Slippery Slope That Brought Us To Greenteeth Labyrinth

Will the odd sip of wine or beer from the parents glass for young children or a small glass of watered wine or lemonade shandy for older ones lead to moral decrepitude, alcoholism, living in a carboard box and early death as a government survey claims or will children included in this adult activity develop a heathier attitude to drink...

Nanny State Has Her Cake And Eats It

Are governments everywhere showing an increasing desire to meddle in the minutae of individual citizens lives or is it just the English speaking world?
For Sale Two Teenagers, Hardly Used
by fatsally
2009-10-18

A woman in America faces trial after selling two children in her care for $170 (about £100) and a white cockatiel. I dunno, sounds like a plan to me, so here goes... READ ALL Two Teenagers - Hardly Used Climate Change Machine - A Stick With Which To Beat Dick
Having been a climate change campaigner or over 30 years Ian R Thorpe finds himself increasingly sceptical of the schemes of scientists and self aggrandizing politicians and businessmen to find a quick fix for the problem. Read a demolition of one self promoting quick buck merchant.
Strange Bedfellows, a lib dem and a lingerie model
What topics do we think might come up in the post coital conversation of a Liberal Democrat MP and business & enterprise spokesman and a lady who models underwear for

Britishness For Dummies - Quiz
As the increasingly strident, increasingly aggressive Politically Correct Thought Police get more fanatical in their attempts to promote ideas like multiculturalism and diversity a backlash has begun. A small but energetic group drawn from across the political spectrum has started to promote Britishness.

Let Down By Hope? Embrace Nihilistic Despair.
Following the shock of last week’s announcement that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 had been awarded to Barack Obama in spite of nominations for the prize closing only a few days after he was inaugurated as President of the...
READ ALL Let Down By Hope - Embrace Nihilistic Despair

Climate Change Machine - A Stick With Which To Beat Dick
Having been a climate change campaigner or over 30 years Ian R Thorpe finds himself increasingly sceptical of the schemes of scientists and self aggrandizing politicians and businessmen to find a quick fix for the problem. Read a demolition of one self promoting quick buck merchant.
Strange Bedfellows, a lib dem and a lingerie model
What topics do we think might come up in the post coital conversation of a Liberal Democrat MP and business & enterprise spokesman and a lady who models underwear for

Britishness For Dummies - Quiz
As the increasingly strident, increasingly aggressive Politically Correct Thought Police get more fanatical in their attempts to promote ideas like multiculturalism and diversity a backlash has begun. A small but energetic group drawn from across the political spectrum has started to promote Britishness.

Let Down By Hope? Embrace Nihilistic Despair.
Following the shock of last week’s announcement that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 had been awarded to Barack Obama in spite of nominations for the prize closing only a few days after he was inaugurated as President of the...
READ ALL Let Down By Hope - Embrace Nihilistic Despair

What's In A Name #1
Remember how you used to snigger at the kids with the funny... READ ALL

2009-10-14 It's All In The Name Take Two
by fatsally

You will possibly recall at the start of the school year back in September the uproar surrounding the sharing of the knowledge that teachers feel they can spot... READ ALL

Obama and his Nasty Nazi Science Czar
Barack Obama has appointed some crackpots from among his old lecturers and faculty drone buddies to positions of responsibility in his White House team but none more dangerously crazy it seems than 'science czar' John Holdren.

Well We Did Warn You
A new health scare pops up every week it seems and with each scare comes a public information campaign costing millions and telling us what we have all known for years or do not give a brass fart about anyway.

The Dollar Is Sinking - Man The Lifeboats
As The Daily Stirrer predicted recently the position of the $US is under attack. Last week a sustained slide in the value of the currency was halted by the smaller Pacific Tiger economies, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong buying up Dollars that were flooding the markets. So whay is going on and how will it end?
Climate Change Deniers Deny Nothing
There have been calls from the self-aggrandizing wing of international politics to make climate cange denial a crime like Holocaust denial. Apart from a few cranks nobody is denying something is going on, people are merely asking what is really causing it...


If Only The World Were Fair

We Could All Be Rich And Happy - Not!
KEYWORDS: computer, romans, technology, intelligence, artificial intelligence, dumbing down, blair, wisdom of crowds

Sometimes one might read and article or hear and interview with a member of the self styled 'liberal left' of such gobsmacking stupidity" one wonders what planet these effing idiots live on.
KEYWORDS: education, society, fair, equal, inequality, parents, pupils, school, government

What The Romans Did For Us>

ad how it may help us resist the wisdom of crowds and think for ourselves.
by John De Roe
March 2007


Are we about to sacrifice the most wonderful and valuable of the many things the Romans and other ancient civilisations did for us to the worship of the new, synthetic god technology and the wisdom of the crowd? <> Obama's Climate Change Folly
Obama's climate change bill is so loony it makes even his insane financial policy look like the work of a competent government. If the world's future is in the hands of politicians and scientists is there any hope at all for saving civilisation?
Iranians Did Not Drink The Kool Aid
One of the first indication Barack Obama received that his 'President Of The Entiure Universe And Everything Else Besides' bubble was about to burst was when he did not get the result in the Iranian election that he wanted. In the wake of that his ...
Guinness Gazing Education Expert.
The latest recommendations from the health and safety nannies and the politically correct thought police to halt all scientific experiments in school classrooms in the interests of child safety makes mockery of the givernment's pledges to boost science teaching in schools. So where will the do -gooders attack next?

Learn Yersel Jadeish.
The government is in the process of revising immigration policy in response to complaints that people who come here to work should be able to speak English. But academic tutoring may not prepare people for the workplace, they need to learn English like what it is spoke.

GCSE English? F*ck Off.
One of the recurring themes in the education debate is the issue of dumbing down. Educationalists always insist this is not happening. One examiner when making this year's english papers was plleasantly surprised by an erudite answer we are happy to report

Sleeping With Conservatives - The Sex Of Politics
Could You Hug A Tory asks a feature in today’s Guardian in which several typical Guardian writers describe their feelings of fear and loathing when, purely in the interests of science of course, they hugged prominent members of the Conservative Party.
In another feature the excellent Lucy Mangan describes what it is like to be a typical labour voting, politically correct thinking Guardian writer and be married to... READ ALL Sleeping With Conservatives - The Sex Of Politics

A Radical New Political Idea
The two party system is dead and yet the main parties, while paying lip service to the idea of electoral reform are in a position to carve up the electoral map between them so that the unrepresentative

A Case Of Reverse Racism
If a visiting professor at a leading Univerrsity, an eledrly white man, molested and made indecent suggestions to a young female pupil there would be a huge outcry and rightly so. Yet when an elderly black man does the same thing the politically correct fringe, the one who scream most loudly about...

Let Her Breasts Satisfy Thee At All Times
A bitchy homosexual attacks a Chistian beauty queen, the religious right respond. The gay lobby hit back by revealing the young woman has very ungodly silicon enhanced breasts. What do the fundies do? They find a phrase in the Bible that justifys breast implants. Brilliant...

Today In Manchester
Today's guest blog from the Conservative conference in Manchester is contributed by Rupert Chynliss - Wunder, a Tory work and pensions spokesman.
OK Yah! Are we weady to wock Manchester? When old Cammers and

Can Ritalin Really improve humankind?
Forget the Swine Flu pandemic, it will not happen or by the time you read this it may be more appropriate to say 'It did not happen' The obsession of control freak governments and greedy corporation with spoonfeeding the enire population drugs and vaccines grows. We now hear people are persuaded to give healthy kids Ritalin to improve their academic performance"

European Turkeys?


As everyone else worries about the EU getting too big, too bureaucratic, too centralised and too expensive to run the federalist Euroloonies of Nu Labour are clamouring for non European nations to be allowed to join. They would start with Turkey but where would they like to see Europe end. Japan? Western Samoa?

The Logic Of Python by ianrthorpe
Before we hand over control of the blog to Lord Snooty And His Pals for the duration of the Conservative Party Conference we’d like to use today’s post in appreciation of Monty Python’s Flying Circus as we celebrate the show’s...

Beauty And The Beastly Homo
What happens when an ugly, bitter gay man turms on an All American Beauty with pert, pneumatic breasts and preternaturally white teeth? Battle lines are hastily drawn and that already horribly divided nation is torn a little further apart, that's what.

The Swine Flu Conspiracy
The Swine Flu Conspiracy? As the Fear and Panic industry gears up to sell us all doses of toxic shite in the guise of a vaccine to protect us from the 'second wave' of that nasty Swine Flu pandemic that you may recall was going to wipe us all out earlier in the year,

Magic Money, The Free Market Illusion
Not so long ago politicians and bankers were full of confidence bordering on hubris and they were telling us the good times could go on for ever. So where did it all go wrong. The finance industry blame politicians, politicians blame the ...

The G20 Witch Hunt
It was clear at the inaugural summit meeting of the G20 group of world leaders that solutions were needed. So why his they spend three days an billions of £$€ in taxpayers money sitting around stuffing their faces with fine food and slurping the best wines while doing nothing except point fingers and shift blame?

Too Many People
With every indication that the breakdown in society and no indications that politicians, police forces or any authority has a clue how to deal with it we propose a starting point.

Charity Returns But Don't Be Uncharitable To Boris
Last night saw the return of the “iconic” (according to the Radio Times) character Charity to the Emmerdale district of Soapland.

Charity, played by gorgeous Emma Atkins, has never had any luck with men. In the first scene of her return after a four year absence she is standing at...

Isn't It Gand Boys To Be Bloody Well Red
By tradition Labour Party conferences used to close with the delegates singing The Red Flag. The song tells of a flag that unites the workes of the world and owes its coulour to being dyed by the blood of the movement's martyrs. Labour abandoned the working class a long time ago and became ... Follow link for text and audio

If I Could Rule The World All over the news today is the big story that The Sun has withdrawn its support for the Labour Government. I'll bet this has come as a major blow. Talk about shitty little rats leaving the sinking ship. (We are assured that this is nothing at all to do with...
Lib Dems Must Stop Themselves Sailing Into The West

Following a reasonably successful conference a couple of weeks ago the Liberal Democrats have edged above Labour in some polls. Though the party leaders cannot do other than celebrate this in public, privately they should be worried. At their annual conference in Brighton this week Labour have turned in a similarly The Silence Of The Labour Lambs,/STRONG> Is Gordon Brown a mentalist? That is the question we must ask today. Boggart Blog, as you know, has never shown much restraint in laying into Gordon Brown for incompetence, egomania, and the way he treats us all as if we are as stupid as the average Labour MP.
For those same reasons we find it impossible to sympathise with the...

In The Future The Saddest Thing Will Be
In the future The Politically Correct Thought Police and their cohorts in New Labour and The Lib Dems, The Health and Safety Executive and the dark forces of The Nanny State will conspire to suck all the joy out of life and turn us into...

READ ALL St Thérèse gig at Paddy’s Wigwam
Who would have thought it possible? St Thérèse is touring the UK again. Last week she was packing them in at the Paddy’s Wigwam venue in Liverpool. People queued round the block to get in we hear and the “Little Flower” is drawing bigger crowds than Duran Duran or Spandau Ballet on their ...

READ ALL Practical Sex Education

Schools have been teaching the theory of safe sex for years but with STDs and teenage pregnancy on the rise the lessons don't seem to be sinking in. What kids need is practical sex education says Boggart Blog's Fat Sally... Macology, The Science Of Burger Flipping
For some the announcement that employer - specific specialised training courses are to be accepted as vocational qualifications is proof that standards in education have hot rock bottom. But how do those people feel for whom a degre in Macology might be the only qualification they wll ever get...

Decaffinated Bullshit
Everything is bullshit these days, even doing something simple like ordering a cup of coffee, you know you are only going to get a cup of bullshit. We always knew of course that those multinational chains that sell plastic foam in plastic foam cups were selling...

2009-09-24 Gordon & Obama 4 ever
Both Washington and London are denying rumours of a rift between Gordon the Terrible and President O following the story that GB had to pursue Barack through...

Hospital Deaths - A Lucky Escape The news this morning carried a worrying story. It seems there is one week in the year when you really, I mean really, really, really do not want to be admitted to hospital...READ ALL Hospital Deaths - A Lucky Escape Freedom Of Speech And The Right To Offend
The Dark Forces of politically correct tyranny are at work everywhere, telling us what we can and cannot say, do and think. The Politically Correct Thought Police and their cohort Nanny State are omnipresent, curtailing our civil liberties and refusing to allow us to do anything that may possibly put us at risk of having fun. But there are still freethinkers and anarchists out there, people prepared to raise their heads at the bullyboys of wussiness and promote our right to make our own choices.

Prisoner Cell Block H(ilton)

Would celebrity air-head Paris Hilton survive in Prison , the gossip industry asked. We think she might find her spiritual homeWould celebrity air-head Paris Hilton survive in Prison , the gossip industry asked. We think she might find her spiritual home

Well We Did Warn You
Oddball behaviour from politicians is not news, they're all insane deviants anyway. But when it comes to self flagellation, sports stars are not far behind in the crazy stakes. Share with us some of the best moments of self inflicted pain from the year's top sporting events.

Blair's Last Audience
Details of her Majesty The Queen's conversations are never revealed, not even in matters of great public interest such as what was said in her final audience with retiring Prime Minister Tony Blair. Thanks to a Greenteeth Insider we can now reveal all.

Everything Is Getting Too Silly
What could be more important than life and death. Well former Liverpool football club manager bill Shankley was once asked if football was a matter of life and death to him?”
Bill, or “Shanks” as he was affectionately know, replied, “Erm – no, it’s more important than that.
People around the world have different ways of dealing with matters of life and...

. Schadenfreude Is the Zeitgeist by ianrthorpe @ 2009-09-21 – 17:30:08 Oh dear, what subtle traps the gods lay for members of The Politically Correct Thought Police as those individuals walk on hot coals in trying to be PC on every issue when often defending one oppressed minority means offending another.
Not long ago I was attacked in several threads

To Hell And Back Before The Pubs Close
With religions having such a downer on sex one might think they would be in favour of drink, I mean if you drink enough you are going to be too busy choking on your own vomit to bother about shagging. In spite of that religious leaders continue to promise hell and buggeration to people who like a bevvy

Here Be Dragons
Adults in the developed nations of the west claim they are not frightened on monsters but our fears emanate from the most primitive parts of the brain. Can you really be sure there are no monsters lurking in the deep dark depths of your imagination?
KEYWORDS: monsters, dragons, medieval

2009-09-19
Return Of The Jedi 9 without his cornflakes) It is the task of Jedi Knights to save the Universe from evil emperors, criminally insane slugs or toads, I never quite worked out what Jabba the Hutt of Star Wars fame was supposed to be, droids, clones, lizard men and blokes that of gone over to the dark side because they get to wear silly helmets and talk in ...

America has Gone Collectively Insane STRONG>Lib Dem erate Your Civil Liberties
After the Liberal Democrats have been warning about the dire consequences of runaway public spending for a year, Labour and Conservative jump aboard as soon as the bandwagon starts to roll as usual. There is one area where Nick Clegg can trump the big parties though.

Public Sector Borrowing, Bankrupt Britain
Labour's Economic Mismanagement is pushing the nation towards the abyss.

Steve Jobs New Gadget The Apple Of His Liver
Apple are the people who brought you computers that were very ordinary in every way except for the prices and made extremely expensive little grey boxes cool. It is no wonder then that in the warped world of high technology the Apple CEO Steve Jobs has gained the status of a demi god.

Jobs, or Jobbies as he would be known in less reverential Britain, is worshipped...

Eat Sunlight: Japan's Approach To Saving The Planet
Japan’s newly sworn in Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama is a bit of an oddball, they are some ideas in his manifesto that seem to have been culled from the philosophies of 1960s California stoner communities. Still his heart is in the right place. Mr. Hatoyama has pledged his nation will lead the fight against...

The F1 From Renault
by fatsally

Renault today unveiled their new advertising campaign.
The luxury motorhome of a Renault F1 team.
The camera focusses on a silver haired man reclining in a leather armchair.
The door opens, a young racing driver wearing the team's overalls enters, carrying

READ ALL Omnivore, Herbivore or What?
This week has seen the Americans (god love them) coin the term Flexi-tarian. It means people who are mostly vegetarian but eat meat if they feel their body needs it, or to save embarrassment when at someone's house for dinner who didn't know you don't eat meat. Its the new trend. And actually I probably fall into this...

READ FULL POSTPolitically Correct Liars
Congressman Joe Wilson made a lot of trouble for himself when he shouted 'You Lie' at Barack Obama during the Presidents big speech on healthcare. Wilson was not wrong but it is a breach of etiquette to name someone, especially the President, as a liar in the debating chamber. Here are some politically correct ways of saying Liar, liar, pants on fire...

2009-09-15 Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Stop Hating Blair
by Ian R Thorpe

We all thought Tony Blair had got out of our faces and gone off to help the Israelis and Palestinians out with their target practice. WRONG!
Having popped up in Sardinia a couple of weeks ago, taking a break from...READ ALL Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Stop Hating Blair

2009-09-15
Poetic Tribute To A Prodigious Drinker (Keith Floyd)
by Ian R Thorpe

Keith Floyd
enjoyed
the finest things in life.
Let’s not pretend...READ ALL Poetic Tribute To A Prodigious Drinker

Another Load Of Balls From The Government
Ed Balls, Minister for Child Related Cock-ups today announced that in light of public and professional uproar concerning his proposal to set up the Independent Safeguarding Authority which would use not only hard evidence of abuse as used in..

CorrEastBrook Grand Prix


You know how soap storylines get more and more farfetched?
So Brookie had Mrs. Corkhill being raped by a taxi driver.
Young Damon gets stabbed when he runs away.
Terry's wife/girlfriend and toddler fell or were pushed off the roof of a building.
Next up was the wife beater Trevor...

Are Labour Too Eyebrow For The Electorate


by Ian R Thorpe

As the Labour Party sinks ever lower in polls there is talk once more of a conspiracy to oust Gordon Brown at the party conference.
The latest in a long line of pretenders being put forward as the person to turn...

2009-09-12
Sheep and Goats
The Dagda, Top god in the ancient Irish pantheon and the only god whose name actually means god considers one of the philosophies of the Abrahamic religions and asks: 'sheep and goats - what's all that about'

Ello ello ello, looking for business are we?
The best unreported news story of the week is the case of the policewoman prostitute. This is not a story of an attractive female police office going undercover in stiletto heels and a micro-mini skirt to bring a pimp to justice. Oh no, this is a plain and simple instance of...

2009-09-11
READ ALL At 4:30 am Nobody Can Hear You Scream
by fatsally

Once upom a time we had a cat who was a brilliant mouser. Now we have cats who are brilliant at bringing mice into the house, but as with all today's youngsters, they get bored and abandon their playthings after a few minutes and wander off to...

Gay Man Sues God For Mental Anguish.
As always we warn you should not take anything you read on Boggart Blog any more seriously than you would take things you read in minstream media. The gay man in question is not actually suing God but only we suspect because lawyers

Youngest Person To Be Strapped To A Much larger Person And Chucked Out Of An Aeroplane by fatsally
A while ago Cleo Hart posted about the unfairness of the unimpaired aiding the impaired as in blind runners having a guide runner in the special olympics the blind runner gets the medal and the...

2009-09-09 Hands Off Our Spotted Dick
by fatsally
County council catering staff in Flintshire have re-named Spotted Dick, the currant sprinkled suet pudding.
They claim its name results in smutty remarks from customers


2009-09-09 .READ ALL Do Sex Shops Smell Of Piss
Mobile phone networks are to be asked by London City Hall to cut off pimps and prostitutes during the run-up to the 2012 Olympic Games, by...

2009-09-08
Get Engaged With Tony Blair - No Thanks
Tony Blair wants to be President of Europe; he always has, the little shit is addicted to wealth and power. So it is our duty to reveal the purpose of the tonyblairfaithfoundation is ot to do good work or to inform and enable but to form a base for the sleazebag's assualt on European democracy. Blair must be stopped...

Who Would Have Thought It?
In the past Boggartblog has brought you news on Pies of Mass Destruction and Cheeses of Evil Intent, but now a more terrifying threat from the world of food. Along with allegedly being the most popular biscuit with British consumers, Custard Creams have been identified as the most dangerous...

Little Nicky Sarkozy Nothing to do with our companion blog that goes by the name Little Nicky (Machiavelli) today we have to comment on the lengths French President Little Nicky Sarkozy has to go to in disguising...

Return Of The Flesh Eating Zombie Bacteria
Actually the story linked is crap bur we couldn't not write the headline

Cat Woman and the insanest thing ever.
I'm not a great fan of cats. So what was I doing watching a program on television that was devoted to the vile creatures. Well Joanna Lumley was presenting it, nuff said.

Anyway I'm glad I did because I saw the most insane...
READ Most Of Michael Jackson Buried The funeral of most of Michael Jackson has taken place in Los Angeles. Although it has not been widely publicised by news media, one of the reasons it has taken for Jacko’s body to be interred is that as paramedics fought to save the singer following...

Incandescent Rage
Enthusiastic reader Ian Thorpe pleads for his incandecent light bulbs to be given back, for reading lamps at least.

A Degree Of Punishment

A charity that campaigns and works for prison reform has said that prison officers should be required to have a University degree.
Successfully completing a degree course in beating people lightly with iron bars, administering electric shocks and performing body cavity searches will...

READ ALL Wuthering Heights - Condensed Version
Boggart Blog has often slated politicians and senior civil servants for drawing big fat salaries without having done any work to earn them. There is one profession however who are worse than even politicians when...

No Flag, No Country
Now then. China. They are generally unhappy about anything relating to the Dalai Lama, spitting in the direction of any country who welcomes a visit from him. This week they are unhappy about the Dalai Lama's visit to typhoon hit Taiwan in a bid to... 2009-08-31
What have we learned recently about Tony Blair? Well, that he’s a c ....; yes but we’ve always known he’s one of those, I was going to say that he’s a Catholic. A very recent recruit to the Catholic Church in fact. So as most Catholics are still practising after half a lifetime we have a right to expect Tone would have spent a bit more time learning the ropes before...

2009-08-31 Nude Models Of Paris Are Revolting.

The bare naked ladies of Paris are not revolting in the sense of being disgusting and repellant. As far as we know they are in that sense at least as charming as ever. No they are up in arms about their terms and conditions of employment. Click the button to read the full story..

Unhappy Hour Again
Forget all that bullshit about Cool Britannia, Things Can Only Get Better and Twenty Four Hour drinking if you hadn't already. It was never anything but public relations puff.
Revealing their true colours at last The Labour Perty have...

Forward Psychic Soldiers
It is well know the United States Military has a physchic warfare unit. What is not quite so well known, nor discussed in the mainstream media regularly is that the people running this unit do not live on planet reality...

They Didn't Think It Through (Again)

Don't you love it when a story that ought never to be of interest outside the local papers makes world news because people who consider themselves very smart just haven't thought things through properly... V2G, Technology You Can't Believe In

Vehicle to Grid ( V2G), the new idea for clean, pollution free cars. Probably the craziest and most ueseless idea yet from the "Let's make a quick buck out of climate change" fear and panic industry...

Atheists Get The Christian Bird (or dog or cat or tortoise)
In yet another of those “only in America” type stories we learn that a group of atheists have show humanist charity in offering to take in pets left behind on Earth when Christian families float up to heaven after all their clothes fall off in the event Christian writings refer to as...

The Only Reason You Will Ever Need To Hate The Toyota Prius...
by Ian R Thorpe
What is it that makes Ian R Thorpe hate the Toyota Prius. Is it the smug, self righteous bastards that drive them, the dubious statistics used to establish the green credentials of the car, the fact they look like a mororised turd or something else? Click on the button to find out

Bob Dylan to be voice of Sat Nav. by ianrthorpe @ 2009-08-27 – 15:00:42 News that Bob Dylan is to become a voive of Sat Nav intrigued many people. Boggart Blog brings you an exclusive preview of Dylans Sat Nav recordings.

Obama's Middle East Breakthrough...
The cold light of reality is starting to shine on those who gathered in the newsrooms of media organisations to worship at the shrine of The Obamessiah. While the more fundamentalist members of the news community are today proclaiming the great “breakthrough” achieved by the...

Illegal Downloaders To Have Broadband Disconnected

Proposed laws published by the government today indicate a much tougher approach in future to people who persistently downloads music and video from free file sharing sites. The government proposal will protect the intellectual property of internet content creators by terminating the broadband service of persistent downloaders without...

2009-08-25
Why Is It Taking So Long
Well good grief, The Ashes have been won for forty eight hours now, so why are the Government dragging their feet so? Where is...

Are We Becoming A Nation Of Cat Swingers
by Ian R Thorpe
2009-08-24

Last week a report on Britain’s housing crisis , highlighting the unfit-for-purposeness of many new build “starter homes” quoted details of an offering from one well known house builder. We will not name and shame them because the rest are as bad and anyway if we’re going to get sued we want it to be ...

Conservatives' "Bottoms Up Carrots" Housing Policy
Aren't The Conservatives brilliant! Just when their popularity is soaring in the polls and they should be charging towards an overwhelming election victory they produce an upper class berk to remind us....

X - Factor Returns - Keep Smiling Danni
After a few weeks of absolutely dire Saturday night TV during which I was reduced first to watching Casualty and then to reading the gardening pages in the weekend magazine from my Saturday newspaper, the return of The X Factor tomorrow night...

Gender Testing For Athletes - What A Load Of Bollocks
Jenny’s success, a triumph of perseverance and determination after coaches had written her off as too delicate to compete in an event like the 800m at the highest level, is all the more notable as it came in a race that involved people with beards and quite possibly bollocks. The race was won by...

How To Embarrass Your Teenage Daughter #163
1) Go to a large DIY store.
2) Send her off to the paint aisle.
3) Wait patiently for ten minutes...

READ ALL Piracy On The Silly Season Seas
With news breaking every few minutes on the story of the Russian freighter Arctic Sea which disappeared as it steamed through the Baltic en route for Algeria and turned up a few days later 4000 miles away off Cape Verde, we go straight over...

Secreting Weapons On Your Person Can Be Dangerous Following an incident where an obese prisoner endured three searches but still managed to keep the 9mm handgun he had concealed in his rolls of flab hidden from the searchers...

Allies Neutralise Afghan Beards Of Terror Boggart Blog was the first mainstream news network to report fully and fearlessly the role played by beards in the war being waged by funny mentalists and people of Evelyn Tent against the civilised world. Beards are a weapon integral to the...

2009-08-17
We Don't Need No Edukashun
by fatsally

Whilst the nation's teenagers await their forthcoming exam results with baited breath, Boggartblog is able to bring you details of the government's latest plans for ensuring that everybody gets at least 12 A* passes (or equivalent) at...
READ ALL We Don't Need No Edukashun

2009-08-16
Fighting Back Against The Food Fascists.
by Ian R Thorpe

All too often in the past when we have reported on the activities of scientists who labour on behalf of Nanny State and her cohorts Big Pharma and Big Food it has been to warn you of their latest wild adventure in spreading fear and panic by...
READ ALL Fighting Back Against Food Fascists

CLICK HERE to find out why more teachers than pupils drop out of school.
Earlier this week we had a New Labour clone drop in on one of our old education related posts to tell us Boggart Bloggers what evil people we are for making fun of those wonderful people who staff our schools and deliver...

2009 - 08 - 15 READ ALL Me Doc, I never Touch A Drop
Great news this week for anyone who imbibes on a regular basis but daren't go to the doctor with an ingrowing toe nail for fear of getting told off about the danger of...

2009-08-14 Olympic Womens' Boxing, Another Resounding Triumph For Feminism
Those redoubtable campaigners for women's rights have won another notable victory against the dark forces of masculine superiority. In the next Olympic games women will box competitively for...

[ Home ] ... [ Comedy Menu ] ... [ Boggart Blog ] ... [ Told By An Idiot ] The Lost Generation

News today that one in five eighteen to twenty four year olds is unemployed is indeed terrible. Are we to suppose this figure represents those actively...

Wales - Land Of Druids and Dragons
A photographic tour of North and West Wales, the land of Druids and Dragons. In this part of Wales you are never far from a King Arthur legend, a castle or a waterfall. Plenty of interest in words and pictures. More pages [ 2 ] ... [ 3 ] ... [ 4 ] ... [ 5 ] ... [ 6 ] ... [ 7 ] ... [ 8 ] ... [ 9 Taliban Agree Ceasefire
Great headline isn't it, one we all welcome but don’t get carried away. Though not noted for their commitment to the cause of freeman moxy The Taliban have agreed...

Olympic Womens' Boxing, Another Resounding Triumph For Feminism
Those redoubtable campaigners for women's rights have won another notable victory against the dark forces of masculine superiority. In the next Olympic games

The Cure For Swine Flu
Nu Labour Health Minister the boyish Andy Burnham, as he tries to assure us the government is on top of the pandemic of fear and panic they generated about Swine Flu increasingly takes on the air of desperation of a...

READ ALL Bogoff Mr Brown at Boggart Blog
News yesterday that the government wishes to prevent supermarkets from using BOGOF promotions in an effort to cut down on the huge amount of food thrown...

READ ALL Premiership Priorities
The football season is with us again and though in the face of a global recession players wages and transfer fees are more inflated than ever it is good to hear of one Premiership clubs...

READ ALL What's New Pussycat
What's new Pussycat?
by fatsally

Well, on his return to government Boggartblog noted the resemblance of Peter Mandelson to the older guy out of...


READ ALL Beware Greeks Bearing Lighter Fuel

Oh dear, it's not easy being a "lad" these days is it?
There you are, off your face in a Greek bar. You see a tasty bit of local tottie, so what do you do?...

Who's More Nazi Than The Anti Nazi League


One of the little ironies that gave sharp witted observers of the world much pleasure over the years was the fact that the most Nazi organisation in Britain was the Anti–Nazi League.
Yes, wherever your friendly local right wing extremist group tried to exercise their democratic right to demonstrate peacefully in support of their point of view, the anti – nazi league rent-a-mob would not... 2009-08-10
READ ALL Cameron all sizzle and no substance
It is reported today that Barack Obama describes David Cameron as "all sizzle and no substance" adding that Gordon Brown is a man of substance.

Cameron should take this seriously, Obama, a man for whom...

Politically Correct Thought Police To Abolish High Heels?
During the Trade Union Congress (doesn’t that sound like a sex technique from The Kama Sutra specially for factory workers ?) annual conference this week the New Labour Politically Correct Thought Police (chairperson Hattie Harridan) have sponsored a debate about whether women being forced....

Feminists Ask Why Do Men Hate Harriet Harman

. Spreading Fear And Panic? It's Just Not Cricket
So England’s much hyped chances of clinching the Ashes series against Perfidious Bruceland at Headingly this week took a very rapid nosedive when Albion’s finest forgot which end of the bat they should get hold of.
Many things are being blamed for...

Dirty Digger Changes Game
Conventional stupidity or "the wisdom of the crowd" as it is know in less intelligent parts of the internet, holds that people will not pay for quality content on the web when they can have moronic dross for free. Media pundits, notable the increasingly demented

Just What Don't They get?
Well it's happened again.
We get to the fourth test, Two draws and one win.
The press start up, lauding in this instance Freddie Flintoff, and guess what? He has to pull out, hurt.
The press are undaunted, they bang on about...

2009-08-07
Just What Don't They get?
by fatsally

Well it's happened again.
We get to the fourth test, Two draws and one win.
The press start up, lauding in this instance Freddie Flintoff, and guess what? He has to pull out, hurt.
The press are undaunted, they bang on about... READ ALL Just What Don't They Get at Boggart Blog

Science Cannot Explain It
Those among the irritating cult of militant atheism who like to yell that they are scientists are quick to condemn religion, spiritual faith, superstition and ritual as irrational. Who are they to talk? When it comes to explaining the human condition, the question of Life, The Universe and Everything as Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy put it, it is surprising how little science can adequately explain.

All Animals are Equal, But Some are More Equal Than Others
So Harriet Harperson thinks that men are no good.
Well I have to relate this little incident, it ranks along there with us girls not being able to read a map (I can cos I'm a tomboy); not being able to tell our...

Midsomer Mishaps
I like Midsomer Murders, now don’t start some of you – I know you think I should spend all my television time watching documentaries on BBC2 but of an evening I like the kind of shite that does not require concentration. Also, as I have not been very...

Collapsing Currencies - We Told You So
We are not politically correct at The Daily Stirrer, not are we well mannered and gracious, so when it comes to telling you "We told you so" we are never slow off the mark. Our latest We Told You So concerns quantitative easing, that crackpot policy of trying to prop up the failing western economies by conjuring money out of thin air, or more precisely

Life Is Just A Bowl Of Soap Suds
Often when I mention that soaps are watched in our house people express surprise: “You don’t watch such nonsense do you Ian!” they will exclaim.
Leaving aside the fact that just because the soaps are playing on television does not necessarily mean I am watching (although I might take more interest when...

RIP Benson The Carp
Boggartblog is saddened to report the death of Benson the carp. Benson lived in Bluebell Lakes, near Peterborough and was a firm favourite with the anglers. She was introduced into the lake in 1995, as a twenty pounder, when the owner thought she was about five years old. Over the ensuing years she continued to grow, eventually weighing

Harriet Harridan slams male bias
As former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin steps back from her high profile politcal career citing sexism in the media and American politcs as her reason for quitting the Labour Party deputy leader Harriet Harridan has launched an attack...
2009-08-02 READ ALL Twits, Twots and Twats at Boggart Blog
A bit of a hoo-ha in the press this week after David Cameron said, live on air during a radio interview,that all people who twitter are twats. Cue indignant outrage and frenzied foaming at the mouth from those genteel members of the press, but was it because of the language or was it the fact that...

Do it Yourself Cosmetic Surgery.
Have you ever hear of or been presented with something that makes you scream: “Oh no, I’d rather stick needles in my eyes.” In my case these moments usually occur in connection with food. Bananas, beetroot, tripe, anything to do with offal, Baxter’s Country Vegetable Soup which, for those unfamiliar with the brand, looks like a bowl of warm vomit; the thought of eating any of these give me a feeling of nauseous loathing that makes the idea sticking needles in my eyes seem the better option. Such stuff was never meant...

The Crackfart Of The Financial Firmament.
I love that word “crackfart” don’t you? They certainly knew how to turn a fine insult in the eighteenth century. Crackfart is like “gobshite” which I have always used but I’ve been fancying a change.
So who is “The crackfart of the financial firmament” you might well ask.
He is none other than...

Are we nearly there yet?
So, summer is here and people are setting off on holiday to see new places, experience new cultures, or just catch a bit of sun (that yellowy-orange - or sometimes brown, depending on where you live - thing that...

Still Topless In St Trop.
A trend noted with glee by feminist writers in The Guardian is that women are covering up more on Mediterranean beaches. They say many more women are now prepared to go topless. Being female Guardian writers they...

Blesséd Are The Cheesemakers Of Outer Space
Is there something going on with cheesemakers this week, national farmhouse cheesemaking week or something? Twice in the past two days I have seen items on television news about cheesemakers. Now you don’t expect to hear much about cheesemakers in the normal run of things, their job is not to make news but to make cheese and they just... READ ALL ABOUT The Cheesemakers Of Outer Space

Adrenaline Junkies (sport-formula1-car-racing)
by ianrthorpe

The task of commenting on the events surrounding a Formula One Grand Prix usually falls to Sally, she being the family petrolhead in chief (Our bro. Graham drives a diesel and I have come to the view that “getting out more” is vastly overrated) but in the case of yesterday’s race in Hungary it is my duty to comment on a very unwelcome

READ ALL Adrenaline Junkies at Boggart Blog

Labour's Loonytoons By Election Team
by Ian R Thorpe

Newcomer to the Boggart Blog political bloggers list Sharpe's Opinion explains why political pundits were so badly wrong with their predictions of Norwich North by election result...READ ALL labour's Loonytoons by Election Team

[ Boggart Blog ] ... [ Boggart Network News] ... [ archives 1 ... 2 ... ] ... [ Authorsden ] ... [ Gather ] Road Tax Cash Spent On S&M Dominatrices
The Labour leadership, somewhat pointlessly in view of the by election result in Norwich,is mumbling threateningly about creating new road taxes on a pay per mile basis. The plan is to to punish us for using our cars rather than ...

Blind Dog Gets Guide Dog at Boggart Blog
Border Collie Clyde is totally blind. The chances of living a full and satisfying life can be quite restricted for a blind dog. Finding trees, gatesposts or...

Green Power Debate: Milliband vs Adonis, Fuckwittery Of The First Order.
Gordon brown seems determined to stick to his already discredited policy of trying to make himself look good by only appointing fuckwits to serve in his cabinet. He is fooling nobody. Instead of thinking, “Wow, Old Gordon really is an intellectual giant every time the likes of...

Old Dogs and New Tricks
A lot of people in the media are expressing puzzlement at the success of creaky copper TV series New Tricks. Why, they ask, when many shiny, glossy new trendy television series with galaxies...

Pretender To The Inheritance
News yesterday that a Norwegian boy could be Michael Jackson's fourth child. There was a picture of the two together, and yes.... READ ALL Pretender To The Inheritance

Cosmic Horror! Lembit Opik Collides With Jupiter
An even that took place almost unnoticed on Sunday could have a profound effect on the fate of humanity. It was a cataclysmic cosmic collision of the kind many people believed wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth 60 million years ago and which space watchers predict could in the near future bring to a similar end the era of human....READ ALL Lembit Opik Collides With Jupiter at Boggart Blog

The Moon Landing and the Earth Landing
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, humankind’s greatest achievement according to some, a cold war dick swinging exercise and colossal...
READ FULL POST Moon Landing and Earth Landing at Boggart Blog

Crusty Old Wives Tales, There's Something In Them After All...
Remember when you were knee high to a boggart and your mother and your grandma seemed to spend all their time trying to get you to eat the disgusting bits of food you really couldn't be bothered with? Egg white,( I have to confess for me it was the whole egg ) pastry, anything... READ ALL Crusty Old Wives Tales at Boggart Blog

Puffin Up The Power Of Sat – Nav Technology
The world has a lot of trust issues right now. We have all known forever you just can’t trust politicians. Neither can you trust bankers,lawyers, investment advisors, pensions salesmen, estate agents, accountants or anyone else claiming they want to help you make money without getting caught doing something....

The Moon Landing and the Earth Landing
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, humankind’s greatest achievement according to some, a cold war dick swinging exercise and colossal...
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Crusty Old Wives Tales, There's Something In Them After All...
Remember when you were knee high to a boggart and your mother and your grandma seemed to spend all their time trying to get you to eat the disgusting bits of food you really couldn't be bothered with? Egg white,( I have to confess for me it was the whole egg ) pastry, anything... READ ALL Crusty Old Wives Tales at Boggart Blog

Puffin Up The Power Of Sat – Nav Technology
The world has a lot of trust issues right now. We have all known forever you just can’t trust politicians. Neither can you trust bankers,lawyers, investment advisors, pensions salesmen, estate agents, accountants or anyone else claiming they want to help you make money without getting caught doing something....

On A Wing And A Cheap Ticket
An attempt by two British women to establish a world wing walkiing record this week proved successful...
A Rare Outbreak Of Sanity
2009-07-17
Amid all the kerfuffle in the past week about Afghanistan. What with the increase in casualties, Gordon Brown calling for more troops to be sent (but not allocating the money to send any), the senior officers saying...

Shagged Out Cyclists
There seem to be no lengths to which the Green movement will not go in order to get us out of our cars and into brothels.

A sex industry entrepreneur in Berlin is offering a 5 Euro discount to punters who arrive on their bikes. In an effort to promote green sex...

Heather Mills On A Mission Heather mills is back and this time she's on a mission. The ex Mrs McCartney and unber mentalist aims to save the planet by turning us all into vegans

Government Warning - Trees Can Damage Your Health
Those nice people at the Health and Safety Executive want to remove all risks from your life and make you totally safe. That is why they have declared trees a danger.

Rievaulx Abbey { Page 1]
Of the many monastic communities in northern England Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorksire is one of the best preserved. Lovers of history or people who just like sightseeing can take a tour of the ruined monastry in words and pictures here.

Young River
This poem about a river in its early stages, its role in the environment and the wildlife it supports is a tribute to nature and an acknowledgement of how natural spaces can improve our quality of life.

Robin Hoods Bay
First in a series of photo articles about The Viking Coast of North East England. These pages will appeal to people interested in history and travel.

Shock Revelation: Obama and Michael Jackson Are The Same Person.
As fans gathered in Los Angeles to pay a tearful farewell to their hero, the self – proclaimed King Of Pop Michael Jackson the mourners were shaken by the latest revelation from the Boggart Blog conspiracy theory investigators

Psychological Warfare
KEYWORDS: war,military,army,humour,humor,satire,politics
When the author, who is not a fan of psychologists to say the least, heard of a US Department of Defense plan to send military psychologists into combat areas to help engage the enemy the reaction was not one of amazement at the brilliance and audacity of the plan. The Seven Profitable Habits Of Self Help Gurus

How do all those self help gurus whjo have made millions form their wealth / success / self-esteem programmes keep managing to sell their unremittingly banal, predicable and useless self help books? Here satirical writer Ian Thorpe reveals the secret methods know only to a few wealthy international con artists that keep those self help books selling..

Bubbles Learns Of Jackson's Death
In all the furore over whether the late Mr. Jackson was bald/emaciated/drugged up to the eyeballs or healthy/hirsute/full of life and vitality nobody has given a thought to poor Bubbles, Michaels former pet chimp, whom he used to dress identically to himself and carry around when he was out and about on the ratch.
But then the news came that Bubbles would not be...

The Fourth Of July
It should be easy to wish Americans well as they celebrate theit Independence Day on July 4 so what is it about the mindset in America that makes people feel it is their duty to indlge in ritual xenophobia and Brit hating?.

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