From The Register:
Passengers boarding London’s Heathrow Express at Paddington are advised to allow a little more time for their journey since they may find themselves on the receiving end of a four-week, £500k trial of a US-built body scanner.
A shiny, golden pound for the first person to fill their pockets with sex toys and hop on a train to Heathrow.
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” (Sir Winston Churchill)
We live in troubling times. A time when the power of the people is slowing and surely being removed from their grasps and transferred to unelected institutions, powerful bureaucrats and spin doctors. A time when many of the people, blinded by the daily drudge of work and consumption, fail to notice this hemorrhaging of power. (more…)
The Christmas sneak attacks on Charles Kennedy smell more like a media manipulated sortee than a co-ordinated coup organised by the Liberal Democrats. But like many things in politics, the vultures begin circling with the smallest flow of blood; and quite soon a rolling pebble can cause a landslide.
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