Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

I heard on the news today that the America air force have ordered their UK-based personnel not to go inside the M25. For those of you who do not know London, the M25 is the motorway that circles well outside greater London.
The order was originally issued on Friday last week, a day after the London […]

Roll-up, roll-up, this Sunday, for one day only, there will be the annual live emergency exercise in the London Tube. This year it’s going to be taking place at Tower Hill station.
Each year it takes place on a different tube line, with last years being at Lambeth North station on the Bakerloo line.
If you […]

It’s been my hunch that there is a high level interest in controlling the Internet. It’s not good for people to have so much free access to unbridled information.
If you were helping people to find ways to try and control it, what would be a great way to start it - explaining that it […]

I’m completely sick of comment spam on this site. Every day 10’s of additional comments are left by spam bots posting their disgusting sites which cover the most revolting subjects. The people who are running these business are scum - pure and simple.
I was running MT-Blacklist, which had been quite successful blocking spam comments until […]

The front page of the Daily Mail was filled with photos of the bloodied faces of the protesters at the pro-hunt rally yesterday, who had come up against the police. The inner pages were filled with righteous text as to why these great fighters for freedom (let us not forget that the freedom they are […]

I was pleased to see that Creative Commons licences are spreading. Brad Neuberg found a huge and impressive mural in San Franscico that has a CC license on it.

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As early indication of poll results from the Local elections in the UK are coming through and it looks like the Labour party is getting seriously hit.
With 72 councils having reported, Labour had lost a net 191 seats, closing in on the overall net loss of 400 or more which analysts said would amount to […]

Taking the tube into a meeting in London today I saw the headlines of two of the UK tabloids. The Sun’s headline was “MAYDAY!, As floodgates open to EU migrants, can Britain cope?” and the Daily Mail’s was along the lines of Abu Hamza declaring a series of suicide bombing in the UK, which he […]

These days it’s not often that I post twice in the same day, but I came across a link to some video footage from an Apache helicopter on snopes.com and thought it couldn’t wait until tomorrow.
The video, which come from US news network ABC, shows people being shot with 30mm automatic cannon fire, apparently in […]

Nick Cohen writes in the The Observer about the state of the newspaper press and the individuals that own newspaper titles. The following section was referring to a quote by Stanley Baldwin, UK Prime Minister in 1931:The papers, he said, were ‘not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda […]