Well darlings,
Whoa up, now! This last week in politics has been higher than watching one of these loveable previous Laurel and Hardy films, hasn’t it? That’s another fine mess you’ve got got us into, Tony! And another, and another…
In education, after eight years and twelve White Papers that have had faculties reeling from one disaster when another, it looks like we have a tendency to’re going right back to where we started. I do hope everyone enjoyed that rather bumpy trip round the block. Fun, wasn’t it? Education, education, education? It actually has been!
The ban on smoking rules has everyone mystified. Neither those for or against a ban appear happy with the result, and nobody seems to be ready to clarify the foundations clearly. Do the miscroscopic bowls of heavily salted peanuts left nonchalantly on bars, the ones that are very there to entice you to have a free nibble to develop your thirst any, do they qualify as food? They are free to be taken and don’t seem to be charged for or served, so how will the law stand on these? And how about the miscroscopic packs of Cheddars, or perhaps crisps, those who come back sealed in airtight baggage and so can not be contaminated – are they food in the sense of the law? Do they create the ban compulsory if they are displayed, or nibbled? Can all licensed B & Bs have to stop serving breakfasts to stay among the law if they need a multi-purpose room and want to allow smoking? Their licensing rules are very kind of like those of a pub landlord and their rights of refusal are precisely the identical – thus how do they stand? Ask any 2 politicians any of these queries and, if you ought to be lucky enough to urge a straight answer, they will probably provide you 2 totally different interpretations of the identical rule.
In Ireland many landlords are finding ways around their total ban in a desperate try to save their businesses. The licensed premises, bars and restaurants, remain no smoking areas according to the letter of the law – however outside, in the gardens and within the automotive parks, numerous lean-tos, conservatories, garden shed kind erections, and even a few old busses have now been left simply accessible for the smoker to use. They’re not designated smoking areas, no-one is told or encouraged to use them, and therefore the no smoking law is not being broken as they are doing not represent a half of the licensed premises. It’s all a nod and a wink job. The actual fact that alcoholic drinking is currently going down off of the licensed premises, and may be breaking another law, seems to be of very little consequence – nobody appears to be bothered. Will such a “get out” be received here with equally blind and sympathetic eyes? Once more, no one looks to know.
Such a hotch-potch was this law turning into that Tony Blair seemed to clean his hands of it entirely; content in leaving Jack Straw to attempt and type it all out. Little marvel the result has been the last straw in absurdity!
That’s to mention, it had been the last straw in absurdity until once additional our Tony started wagging his forefinger! Groan, and double-groan! Here we tend to go again! In contrast to Iraq, where Saddam Hussein was telling the truth and also the investigators failed to seek out any proof of weapons of mass destruction either before or once the war, Iran is brazenly going nuclear, which coupled with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s outright declaration that Israel ought to be ”wiped off the map” has had many western politicians reeling and wondering what to do regarding it. It’s becoming usually accepted that no matter the UN could say, and any sanctions that it could impose, can hardly do much to unravel this quick escalating threat to world peace.
I am positive now around we have a tendency to don’t would like intelligence reports (for what use they’re!), or any dossiers – sexed up or not – to inform us what is occurring here. Iran, with all that heat and sun in the summer, and sitting on all that oil for the winter and the uninteresting periods, is one in all the last places on earth where a nuclear power station would be genuinely needed. Like North Korea (another tinderbox), Iran has bided its time and waited until the West had played its hand. The war on Iraq has left us with a costly and a no-end-in-sight disaster – a weeping sore that will have us busy there for years. Everybody with more than two brain cells making an attempt to mate is aware of that there’s no appetite left in either the UK or in America to become embroiled in nonetheless another war. And with both Bush and Blair having lost favour and credibility over the Iraq fiasco, for them to be in a position to take their countries into battle on a brand new front is terribly abundant an improbability.
Thus, with our hand played out like the best premature ejaculation the planet has ever known – we will only wait, embarrassed, to work out how the game can finally end. My money is on a surprise by Israel, should the Iranians progress too far with their plans – which surprise may be another biggest thing the world has ever known! However then that is life is not it? If you suffer from PE then it can’t be that uncommon for someone else to do the banging, can it? Shock and Awe? More like fed-up and sore!
Talking of banging: Yank research at Baltimore’s John Hopkins University has found that Viagra is good for the guts and could stop heart attacks by counteracting the effect of adrenaline, thereby putting “a brake” on the organ ought to it try to figure too hard. It is also been steered that: “We tend to may not be too so much off from taking Viagra one-a-day instead of aspirin.” That’ll definitely extend the stiff higher lip a small amount over here, won’t it?
I find this beneficial revelation to be quite strange because it comes solely days when different bodies are calling for the govt to force the makers to feature warnings to the labels of Viagra (and other impotence medicine) telling users that individuals have gone blind through using the drug. Do you think that it would possibly be some kind of a governmental wheeze to keep the folks happy, however in the dark? Shock and Awe? Who said that? Who’s there? Who is it? Place the ruddy lightweight on – I’ve just fallen over a broom! At least, I suppose it was a broom…
The facts I’ve found:
Non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy, a loss of vision that’s frequently irreversible, is one amongst the foremost common causes of sudden blindness (especially in older people) with an estimated 1,000 to six,000 cases a year occurring in America. (I can not find any UK figures for it.) Individuals principally in danger are those with diabetes and / or heart disease which, as they are also 2 of the leading causes of impotence, build it exhausting to prove that the tablets are literally to blame.
And finally, I don’t like what I am seeing at the Beeb and I bet I am not alone. 10 foreign language services, with the loss of additional than 200 jobs, are to be axed from the BBC World Service so as to fund a brand new £19million Arabic TV channel that will be broadcast across the Middle East in competition with al-Jazeera. And in additional value-cutting, job losses are soon to be announced within the news gathering department.
Whilst this new TV channel is clearly a smart idea, it ought to not be at the expense of the opposite services. The broadcasts to be sacrificed are in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai as a result of, we’re told, “they need lost their relevance since the end of the Cold War.” Really? Well, up until now we’ve all known that, way from its ideals of being free from each political and commercial influence and answerable only to its viewers and listeners, the World Service of the BBC was basically government propaganda led. But, nobody before currently has ever had the balls to return out to say that quite therefore plainly! As this new TV channel, a comprehensible portal for propaganda, is possible to have been the concept of the govt. and not that of the money-strapped Beeb, I feel that they ought to totally fund it as an “extra”; not as an “instead of”.
The facts I’ve found:
The BBC motto is: Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation. But is that currently solely when it is paid to try and do therefore by the government?
The BBC World Service HQ is located at Bush House, a central London building that’s apparently not named once any Yankee President. Are we have a tendency to fully sure of that? You may have imagined that a company that forced Top Cat to become Boss Cat to avoid confusion with a mere feline food product when it screened the cartoon moggie over here would have been sensitive enough to vary the name of their Worldwide Services HQ building the day the first Bush popped up as a President, mightn’t you?
Above the most Aldwych entrance you’ll be able to see two imposing figures which represent England and America and between them they hold the torch of human progress on top of that is the motto “To the friendship of English speaking peoples”. A little inappropriate for the employment of the building, isn’t it? What regarding the friendship of non-English speaking peoples? Don’t they matter?
The BBC Worldwide Service is funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and therefore the grant for 2005/six is £239million. Currently that is what I decision impartiality! But I guess that if, because it appears to me lately, the BBC is to all or any effects completely to control to the pleasure of Blair and Bush then it’s only right that they must pay for their initials to be within the corporation’s name!
People, simply keep your eyes on that BBC crest. The day that one of those eagles is moved higher than the lion, I’m emigrating!
See you all next week…
“The Bitch!” 29/ten/05.
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