An angry mob gathered outside Jonathan Bloomfield’s home in Stanley Street, Grimsby, after footage of him abusing 18-month-old Staffordshire bull terrier Butch was posted on Facebook by a neighbour, as reported. And last Thursday, Grimsby magistrates banned him from keeping dogs for 15 years after admitting two counts of animal cruelty. And that would be the end of it. You’d think. You’d be wrong: Today, the 37-year-old father told the…
A teacher at the Ashcombe School has been criticised for comparing a deprived region of Romania to a Dorking housing estate. Oh..? Pupils were watching a video about the school’s charity work, which includes sending Christmas shoeboxes full of gifts to impoverished children in Romania, when the comments were made. Well, do tell us what was said, won’t you? Michelle and Kevin Miller, who live in Chart Downs, told the…
As most sane folk know, the notion of carbon footprint was invented to provide an extraordinary degree of control over every person on Earth. All seven billion of us – we each have a carbon footprint and the UN still seems intent on using it as designed – to control us in a way any farmer would understand. It’s what COP17 is all about. As governments and global bureaucracies grasp…
Earlier today Mrs Exile and I were in the toiletries and medicines aisle of one of the main supermarkets where we noticed something that gave us one of our periodic public fits of hysterical giggles. In this particular supermarket the condoms and KY jelly are now on the same rack of shelves as the nicotine replacement therapy stuff, and this prompted the same thought to occur to us both: relaxing…
You all saw the headlines: Next week, Germany and France will table proposals for far-reaching changes to the EU treaties that will give Brussels powers to enforce ‘fiscal discipline’ over the eurozone’s 17 governments. OK, so in the face of that, what do the Tories do? Conservatives drop challenge to Brussels on work rules. Chris Grayling, the employment minister, on Wednesday abandoned the Conservatives’ demands for repatriation, because of the…
The public strikes this week over the pensions of people paid from the public purse has caused much fascinating and long overdue debate about one messy area of Britain’s public life. Another will soon appear. It is daily becoming ever more certain that some countries will be forced to withdraw from the failed Euro currency. The likely response of those in the so-called core, so far Triple A credit rated…
The ‘Guardian’ has a big article on the work of the YOI; it’s pretty much as you’d expect, and quite a long article, but several bits stand out. First, there’s the assumption that these youths are – and are entitled to be – passive observers, having things done for them, taking no part in their own rehabilitation or retraining. On-admittance interview with a staff member: (Prisoner:)”I can’t change my bedding.…
Yeah, but why is it that for most people you can only get one if you join the public sector?
Having just seen Pat Condell at Banned, it’s so bleedin’ obvious that we cannot vote any of these in at the next General Election [except perhaps those who showed themselves to be rebels by acknowledging a say for the people]. What it needs is some sort of campaign which the least politically motivated member of our society can get a grip on. It needs something like “Say No to the…
30th of November will be a momentous day for some, it’s my good lady’s and my first Granddaughters birthday, though I suspect a lot of people in the UK will associate it with another attempt by the left leaning public service unions to keep the publics cash flowing in their direction. You have to wonder a little at the seeming right of entitlement by the public sector workers to the…
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