Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

The Labour government has been steaming ahead in implementing a National ID scheme, against the wishes of many of those who live in the UK. Not an unusual modus operandi for them.
The Conservative are having their conference this week, and in anticipation of an election being called, they’re announcing their proposed policies. Lots of blah, […]

We moved to Ventnor over two years ago and we’re still getting junk mail to our old address in London. We’ve tried many time to cancel it, but it still keeps coming.
Taking pity on the people who live in our place now, I decided to do another call around to attempt to finally stem […]

This is one of the most depressing pages I’ve seen on the Internet for a long time.

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I’m sure most of you are aware of the insane level of rhetoric that goes on on Fox and FoxNews.
For a reminder of some of the worst bits, take a look at Newshounds channel on YouTube - unless you’re feeling a little under the weather today, because the footage of Bill O’Reilly is a […]

We had a party during the day on Saturday, partially to watch the Round the Island race (the largest sailing event in the world) - but also to celebrate the going of Blair.
I know it’s rare for someone to have been in power for that long to continued to be liked, but most people […]

How Uncle Sam Spends Your Tax Money
To service the $9 trillion-and-growing national debt, the U.S. government spent $406 billion on interest in 2006, up 13% since 2001. All told, about 15 cents of each tax dollar is spent on interest payments.

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Just listening to Today on Radio 4 with a report from China where they say that, despite changes, there is still not what the West would call full democracy there.
The on-location reporter covered “that there is still no demonstrations allowed in Tiananmen Square. Anyone protesting is arrested and put in jail.”
It struck me how similar […]

What a brilliant idea. A window that can transform into a small balcony (their < ahref="http://www.hofmandujardin.nl/pdf/Bloomframe-pressrelease.pdf">PDF). A boon for people with no outside space.

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Last Friday a UK software engineer was refused the right to board a flight from Australia to the UK. The grounds? He was wearing an anti-Bush T-shirt and it was judged (!) as a terrorist incident.
The offending T-shirt had a photo of George Bush on it and the phrase “World’s #1 Terrorist” written above it. […]

Amazing isn’t it? … the rest of the population are now starting to understand that the police aren’t …. how shall we put it …. very friendly to people who take part in protests that they police.
Many of us who have been at marches before will be well aware that given an area without the […]