West Midlands NO!: Coventry leaves City Region
Please try not to laugh because this is very serious.  Coventry has left the City Region of Birmingham, Coventry & the Black Country. Since Telford & Wrekin parted company with the city region, it’s become more and more irrel

Biased BBC: no mention of climate change fraud
Don’t you just love the BBC?  Balanced reporting?  Na, that’s something for amateurs. The BBC News website is reporting that “three UK groups studying climate change” have pronounced that “the science underpinning climate change is more alarming than ever” and are warning that carbon emissions must be cut. These three groups say that persistent droughts in Australia – you know, that huge continent in the southern hemisphere that’s been mostly desert for the last few thousand years – are because of man-made climate change.    They also warn

Yeah, good luck with that
I’m not going to make a habit of this, don’t worry, but I’ve read something on Socialist Unity that I actually agree with. A London couple is applying to have a civil partnership.  Nothing unusual in that, thousands of couples have entered into civil partnerships.  Iain Dale has done it, Matt Lucas did it (and got “divorced”), even Elton John has had a go.  But there is something unusual about this couple from London – they’re straight. Just as gay peopl

Top 10 film meme
I’ve been tagged by Toque on a top 10 films meme, in the hope that he’ll find some inspiration for his LoveFilm rentals.  In no particular order … Final Destination A kid has a premonition that the plane he’s on is going to blow up, panics, gets thrown off with some school friends and … the plane blows up.  Death has been cheated and claims them one by one in the order they should have died.  It was the first of its kind and, the scene where the girl gets hit by the bus is classic. Saw Again, first of a kind and really gruesome

A very inconvenient truth
So, the wheels are coming off the global warming bandwagon at last and not a moment too soon. With the Copenhagen Climate Summit almost upon us, some enterprising hackers have managed to find their way into the University of East Anglia’s network and copied over 1,000 emails, data files and code from their climate change propaganda department.  And they make interesting reading … One “scientistR