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I have no moral objection to ID cards or e-passports but I do worry about the reliability of the technology, the competence of the bureaucrats who will oversee implementation and finally the cost of any such scheme.

Kwik-Fit did the tracking wrong on my car once with the result that the new front tyres wore right down on the outer edges within a very short time. When I went back to complain they denied any responsibility and added they couldn’t check the tracking because the equipment was away being repaired! I went to ATS, who confirmed that the tracking…[Read more]

Hopefully Britain will be a republic by the time William would be likely to succeed to the throne. But if he leads a good life then, if he stands for president, he might win – I might even vote for him.

Long Live the UDA/UFF

But they are Irish too. They’d kneecap you just as quick as the IRA if you crossed them!

The people of the British Isles (I use that in a geographical sense, for want of a better term to describe the islands of Great Britain and Ireland) should be growing closer together not pulling apart. It’s another case of my ‘lock…[Read more]

There was a man in UK who had spent 22 years in prison for setting fire to a curtain in a church when he was a teenager. That was some time ago – I wonder if he’s still inside – he was detained ‘at her majesty’s pleasure’ and so could still be.

The red and blue are similar hue to the window frame and bikes in the background. I can’t explain but, assuming the photo hasn’t been manipulated, I imagine it’s a digital hiccup and not something that was there in reality. The best amateur scientist guess is that light from behind your husband was refracted as it skimmed the edge of the perspex…[Read more]

I’ve heard more info on bluetongue which seems to correct some earlier inaccuracies on here including some uttered by me.

Bluetonge is apparently a serious disease that makes animals very ill and is fatal to a significant proportion – particularly among sheep.

While this disease can’t be spread directly from animal to animal, it can be spread…[Read more]

Ireland was part of the UK until 1922. Most British people have some Irish ancestry and most Irish people have some British ancestry. We should never hate each other. We can hate SOME Irish people with justification, just as we can with some British people – but because of something they as individuals have said or done.

They are still killing infected animals (and stating that this is to halt any spread of the disease), yet it can’t be spread from animal to animal and in any case the animals recover. Duuuuurrrhh!

Sounds like he should be made persona non grata in the comedy world alongside the late Bernard Manning, Jim Davidson and Billy Connolly (after his sick joke about murdered hostage Ken Bigley)

The source is BBC news website. Basically the French are saying if nobody else is prepared to take on Iran, they will.

No I don’t think all gay people are born gay. Many probably are, but others are shaped by circumstances like having a bad experience with a member of the opposite sex or through living in a single-sex environment at formative stage in their life.

Also people brought up in a more prudish type of C of E environment where all sexual desire is seen…[Read more]

All the precautions they are taking completely ignore FMD possibly being spread by wildlife – not much can be done about that. As I say deer can catch FMD and pass it on and they roam the countryside. Birds can’t catch it but they can carry the virus on their bodies.

You can disinfect as many wellies and lorries as you like, you can close all…[Read more]

As I said before, I’m firmly behind Great Britain staying together as a single nation. OK, I want it to be a republic, not a monarchy, but we talk about our ‘island nation’ and that is how it should stay. Notice I didn’t say UK. I haven’t brought Northern Ireland into the question not because I don’t think it should remain part of UK but…[Read more]

But only by agreement, though. If the IoM wanted to have its own foreign policy it could, an presumably it could also, in theory, raise its own army or paramilitary force as long as it was all under the crown.

Is this latest case in Egham close to the route taken by some the lorries that transorted culled carcasses all the way to Somerset for incineration?

Again, nobody has mentioned deer yet on the news. Deer can catch and transmit FMD and yet they roam over large areas. Deer seem to be the ‘elephant in the kitchen’, or the ‘John Deere ploughing…[Read more]

The Isle of Man IS an independent country in the way that Canada, Australia and New Zealand are. It is a crown dependency, you are right, but it is not part of the UK in the way that England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are. It has its own parliament and passes its own laws. It is not a member of the EU. In practice the IOM passes…[Read more]

Whatever the recent developments, we still don’t know any more of the truth.

One important factor concerning the samples found in the car hired 25 days after Madeleine’s disappearance: If the car was hired locally there is a chance that it might have been hired previously during those 25 days by someone else who could have transported Madeleine.

It’s bad enough the head of state is a woman, let alone being guarded by them, this country is going down the pan more by the day.

Nothing wrong with having a woman as a head of state – it’s the hereditary monarchy that is wrong. We are a grown-up country and should be able to choose our head of state and boot them out when we don’t want them…[Read more]

it appears we have a secret islamist terrorist army embedded throughout Europe and probably in Russia too. This is no time for the West and Russia to be falling out in the face of a common threat.