Stuff to read elsewhere

A couple of things for your Friday delectation. Firstly via comments over on Anna Raccoon there is the wonder that is Daed Parrot’s Sleaze-O-scope. A one stop shop for locating all the latest sleaze. And utterly unrelated to that a rather jolly rant against recycling. 0-1

Of eggs and leisure craft

Just working back through a load of left open and forgotten browser windows and came across Iain Dales, second misguided piece about the EU banning a dozen eggs* And was reminded of the following rant/observation made by a friend of mine: “There seems to be an obsession with misreporting EU legislation and yet, the actual real-bad legislation never gets very much reported, if I was into conspiracy theory I’d say that it was deliberate so bad-shit could just be hidden in the lies and crap but that’s unfounded because the British government have actually been quite good about some of … Continue reading

Liberty is what they say it is

This topic has already been covered incredibly well by other people so I’m actually going to just link to them, adding my voice to the many disappointed but not at all surprised voices responding to Mr Cleggs “shock” revelation that having asked the public for comment on what laws to repeal/amend he’s as much intention of listening as the last lot did with the “petitions to number 10”. Which is of course to say none at all – it would seem that the consultation is once more just a way to have some useful “quotes from the public” to wave … Continue reading