What ever happened to trust?
I'm 18, I'm still young in comparison with the majority of people, but even I can see a degradation of simple trust in our society. The days of everyone trusting everybody else are almost up - replaced with a depressing need for background checks on anyone offering to baby-sit for a day or drive the kids to school. "Innocent until proven guilty" - the phrase that our legal system is supposed to

So the Tories begin to flip-flop...
I know it's late, but this news has just astounded me and I had to write something. "Tories rule out treaty referendum" This is just incredible, unbelievable, astonishing! The Conservative Party, after years of campaigning for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, have today given up and U-turned - something their leader makes a weekly ritual of accusing Gordon Brown of doing. The Shadow Foreign

A bit of housekeeping
It dawned on me today that we've gone an unusually long time without a post. So to put matters right I have sat myself down at my newly tidied desk, turned on Roxanne by The Police, and logged on. It is about time I think that I went through housekeeping issues. I don't often do this; in fact I don't think I ever have. But here goes! If you're an avid reader of us here at the Irate Dog you'll

Guest Writer: "That Other Sort of Family"
This is Dane Morgan. (I'm sorry for the poor quality image, I'm in the process of trying to get a better one out of him.) Dane is a blogger and a marketer and combines these two passions at his blog. He recently published a discussion topic on the popular blogging index BlogCatalog that expressed his interest in "working on developing a portfolio for doing freelance writing." He went on to say

The Fall of the BNP
We saw its rise through hyped-up media coverage and the Government's seeming inaction on issues like immigration, but last night a single hour of BBC broadcasting brought about the humiliation and collapse of the British Nationalist Party. The "Political Party" of white supremacists, racists, and fascists was laid bare for what it truly is while its leader Nick Griffin dissolved into a nervous,