Looks strangely familiar...

Here. Change the picture and the name, and what's different to Brown? Politburo warning...state media...huge cut in interest rates. OK, China is only going to grow at 7% instead of contracting by 1-2%, but still. Spooky.

It's the Iraq War, stupid!

No doubt the Left will be along any moment now to blame this on the Iraq war, or Israel's 'occupation' of Palestine. You see, if we hadn't invaded Iraq, these people wouldn't have been forced to become terrorists (sorry, radicals) and lay waste to various parts of Bombay.

There's logic in there somewhere.

I remember when that was all fields as well...

Eeh, remember that time when the Metropolitan Left would despise anyone who stood up for tradional British standards of morality? Back in the old days, that is. Now, the Left has done one of their periodic 30-year flips and have now come out against liberal ideas about sex'n'stuff. Of course, the scent was in the air after Harpy Harperson's earlier attack on men, and 'Tits' Smith's attack on men, but now they are getting serious.

Ten years ago the Left would have huffed themselves into a double hernia at the thought of lapdancing clubs being regulated. Now, there's no stopping them. You can't smoke any more; drinking is verboten, if not actually banned yet; how long before admiring a picture of Liz Hurley in the Daily Hellograph is a capital offence?

The Left undergoes this magnetic shift of opinion every other generation or so - in the 1930s it was Prohibition in every sphere, while in the 1960s liberalism ruled. Now, in the first decade of what I confidently predict will be mankind's most unpleasant century, authoritarianism is back on the agenda. I know these people are ruled by dogma and hard-wired hatreds, but can't any of them read?

I remember when this was all fields...

Ah, I remember the good old days, when the BBC and the rest of the Left would dilligently report government leaks as public interest stories.

Oh dear, times have changed. Gee, I remember when if there was a Tory government, the BBC would report leaks as if they were gospel truth. The source was sacrosanct; the leaker a public hero. Who would have thought that with a Labour government in power the BBC would reverse their deeply held belief in the sanctity of leaks?

For the BBC, there's no Clive Ponting any more. Those days are long gone. No, these days there are Enemies of the People, and Damien Green is one of them. I pity the poor bastard who leaked these stories to him, he has the government and the BBC after him.

Toxic dwarf attacks fascists

Blears has been giving us her wisdom again. Much of it is boilerplate unease over metropolitan middle-class Labour's abandonment of their core vote and the subsequent attempts by the BNP to fill the vacuum left over. There were some points I'd like to point out, though.

Ms Blears accuses the BNP of playing on people's apprehensions and peddling "pernicious but plausible lies".

Well, they are twice as good as you then if their lies are plausible. Your lot can only manage pernicious.

It had employed a "cunning strategy" of "detoxification"

Er, like New Labour then...

but warns that shouting "Nazi" at BNP activists is not the answer.

Good luck with that, love. The Left knows of no other tactic but moronic chanting of slogans and abuse. Anything else would require having to reason with their enemies, and their death-grip on our culture has ensured that they haven't had to do that for a long while.

She also writes that the leaked list published earlier this week, containing the names, home addresses, phone numbers and professions of some 10,000 members, revealed support for the BNP was "tiny".

Hmm. Of course their influence is tiny, but this is a bit of a tactical blunder from Blears. The Left's attempt to deflect attention away from their allies in extremist Islam relies upon 'bigging up' the Far Right in Britain as a threat equal to, or greater than Islamism. Blears is doing the cause no good at all by pointing out that the BNP are a small bunch of clowns.

"And unlike during the 30s, modern British fascism does not enjoy any sympathy in the civil service, chattering classes or the media," she writes.

Not the BNP's fascism, no. Your fascism, of ID cards, massive state expansion and interference in citizens' lives, arbitrary detention for a month, the use of extreme laws to persecute citizens on minor issues (e.g. Terrorism Act over dog-fouling) seems to have an awful lot of support in all three groups.

More Bollocks from the trial

This trial is coming out with some whoppers, fair play. Last week we had the one about how the defendant (another one) was a British patriot, who loved Britain so much he wanted to bomb Weegieland into small pieces. Now, apparently, another one of them is a pacifist. It's Taqqiya galore in Woolwich at the moment.

Now, I am by nature a cynic. However, you would have to be as credulous as a Guardian leader writer to believe his claim.

1979

A good year in many respects, not merely because it gives us a reminder that the current ruling Socialist caste can be turfed out on their arse. No, it was a good year for music as well.

Strictly Come Blathering

The insane hysteria over "Strictly" (spit) gathers apace. Obviously HMG's ministers are snowed under at the moment with the recession an'all, only the Scottish Secretary was available to pronounce from on high on this national emergency.

This story has been bubbling amongst the top three headlines on the BBC World News (!!) page for days now. Could it be something to do with John Sergeant being an ex-employee? Surely not! I thought the cappuchinatti's world view ended at the M25; clearly it doesn't get much beyond Shepherd's Bush.

Does the BBC know what the Opposition is for?

Just rank pro-Labour bias here. Number two story on the world front page, just what is the story here? The Opposition point out that Mugabe Brown's actions in the past and in the future are/will be a fucking economic nightmare, and the BBC spin it as being 'unpatriotic'. Honestly, from anyone else it would be implausible, from the BBC it is fucking ridiculous. The currency markets don't devalue currencies because George Osborne points out economic reality. They do so because they know Brown has splurged the cash and will splurge even more in the future.

Get your toungue out of Brown's behind and REPORT THE FACTS, not rehash Number 10 press releases for their benefit.

Sales of Onions rise in SE London

Ahahahaha! Loved it so much he wanted to blow it up (even though he confusingly targeted an airport in Scotland). This is, I think, what is called taqiyya. Most of the population of Britain would once have thought this some sort of Mexican burrito type dish, and most probably still would. It is, however, the practice of a Muslim lying his arse off to promote the Islamic faith.

Our media class haven't got past the "Muslims cannot lie because of their religion" bit, so the concept of taqiyya is advanced for them. His 'evidence' also pushes all the right buttons at the BBC, in that he blames the war in Iraq and America. Nowhere does the BBC see fit to point out that Saddam was able to sell oil to pay for medical supplies, but instead spent the cash on himself and let the kids die. For this maniac, the BBC and the rest of the deranged Left, this is America's fault.

We are at war with Eastasia

And, of course, we have always been at war with Eastasia. Strange though, I have this nagging feeling about BBC articles quoting Labour spin doctors about how the "Tory tax cuts" were going to bankrupt the economy. Tax cuts funded by spending cuts, mind you.

However, it seems that tax cuts funded by borrowing are hunky dory at the Beeb. Move along, nothing to see, and anything you thought you might have seen disappeared down the memory hole a long time ago.

Like shooting fish in a barrel

The Chief of the UK Entitlement industry has his usual page one spot on the BBC. Two points I'd like to make:

He whinges about 'change', and how the UK system is biased against 'change'. I don't know about you, but the UK seems to have changed an awful lot in the past thirty years, only some of it for the better.

I liked this quote:

Mr Phillips later told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme it would be very hard for people who were not the right gender, class or race to reach the very top because of the current political system in place.

Lest we forget, as Phillips clearly has. 1979 was clearly so traumatic for him that he must have blocked it from his memory.

Hmm (again)

Here. Amongst the sound of BBC violins, this jarring note:

Al Megrahi's liberty had been restricted for more than 17 years.

OK. The very next paragraph...

The court heard Al Megrahi was married and had five children aged between 10 and 25 and two grandchildren.

Note: five children aged between 10 and 25. His liberty has apparently been restricted for more than 17 years. As our American cousins say, do the Math.

It's now a BBC campaign

The BBC are really pushing the 'out of control' Menezes officers thing. Under the cover of reporting from the inquest, they are in fact hyping up a partisan campaign. They are also continuing to push the 'police gave no warning' theme, even though it is COMPLETELY OBVIOUS that the police DO NOT shout a warning to a suicide bomber because he will then DETONATE HIS EXPLOSIVES.

I don't like to shout but sometimes you just have to, I cannot believe the BBC, who in their conceit pride themselves on being so worldly-wise, are unaware of this. The only conclusion possible is that the BBC are perfectly aware of this, but chose to lie.

Anyway, back to the inquest. Some imbecile has been giving evidence:

Anna Dunwoodie said she believed officers were "out of control" and gave off a "sense of panic" before shooting.

Hmm. This doesn't quite match the BBC's 'they cooly murdered an innocent man' meme but it is close enough. Who would have thought, two weeks of grinding tension after four (yes, FOUR!) successful suicide bomb attacks in London that the police might be visibly nervous boarding a tube train to kill a suspected fifth? Why, no-one in advertising behaves like this! Surely the police should not also?

She said she did not hear officers shout any warning at the electrician.

For the fucking obvious reason outlined above. Honestly, how stupid have the British become?

Discussing the moments before Mr Menezes' death, Ms Dunwoodie said he had closed his eyes and looked "almost calm".

Like, perhaps, a crazed Islamist might do as he contemplates his very imminent martyrdom?

The shooting of this man was a terrible error committed by people who had spent two weeks on the edge of the edge, their nerves ground down. These people put their lives on the line to protect the public. Fifty-two innocent people (note that in this article the BBC refers to Menezes as 'innocent', but I have NEVER seen them refer to the 52 murdered as 'innocent') were murdered by Islamists on July 7th, but the BBC aren't interested in them.

Oh, really?

The BBC breathlessly promotes, sorry reports, a publication on 'social mobility':

Labour's policies may be improving social mobility

Hmm...

according to a study published by the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit.

Ah! An unimpeachable source! No bias there!

The tedious Left

Zzzzzz. How many times does this have to be done before the Left stops thinking it is transgressive?

Selling your grandmother to the Arabs

I wonder what concessions Brown has had to make during his grovelling to the Saudis. At the very least it doesn't exactly fill you with confidence for future economic prosperity when you have to go cap in hand to the hand-choppers. Brown's actions here have made me actually worried about the future for the first time.

The Saudis aren't the sort of people who do you favours for free. They are already engaged in undermining Western civilisation through their Wahabbist infiltration of Islam in western countries. What is the price we will have to pay for cash? Fewer or no restrictions on the import of extremist Saudi clerics? New Saudi-funded mosques approved with a rubber stamp, over the objections of the British? Brown's deal with the DUP shows he isn't above making sordid political deals when his arse is on the line, so expect something unpleasant as a result of this.