New Poll - Armed Forces
Did anyone see how pissed off Gordon Brown looked at the Festival of Remembrance last night? One can only presume, especially given his performance today at the Cenotaph, that he objected to them being so loved by the people when he clearly isn't.He cuts numbers, ignores the advice of Generals about needing equipment and increase in troop numbers to give less time for Terry to plant IEDs and he was desperate to slash funding for other non regular Army elements (and still succeeded with all but the TA) before he was shamed into pretending he didn't want to all along. And that's just the Army.I've popped a poll up there in the corner so you can express your opinion. I

Britblog Roundup
As per, The Chameleon has done herself proud. One presumes if she blushes on receiving a compliment she will turn a becoming shade of pink.

rock and a bloody hard place
And not a good hard place. Not, like, a floor with a back injury or somewhere sturdy when you need to plane a door so it doesn't stick in the frame.Bad hard place and bad rock.After abandoning plans to hold a referendum on Europe, following last week’s ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, Mr Hague said the Tories accepted that constitutional reform would not be on the EU agenda for some years. And while the party remained Euro-sceptic, a Conservative Government would not get into a “bust-up” over its new pol

1000th post - and what they gave me to write about
Forgive, once again, my tardiness in commenting on the actions of the Tory Party when it comes to their least favourite policy: the EU.Mr Eugenides had promised he would write a little something in honour of this momentous post but due to matters out of my control and probably to do with skirt, he's now too busy. However, I will forgive him because, as frequent readers will know, he has a bewitching hold over me.But enough of that, for we have the Tory policy on the EU to mull over. And Cameron made a particularly fine effort when he used a lot of words to say not a lot.The thrust of the arg

Why oh why do we pay taxes?
Forgive my tardiness on the subject of David Nutt and his sacking for saying something the government didn't like. But what can one really say that hasn't been said a thousand times on this blog and others far superior to my pink witterings?The fact is that what Professor Nutt said, and for those of you who've been dead for the last few days, here it is:He repeated his familiar view that illicit drugs should be classified according to the actual evidence of the harm they cause and pointed out that alcohol and tobacco caused more harm than LSD, ecstasy and ca