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11th September 2013: The world's gone mad and I'm the only one who knows
13th August 2013: Black is white. Fact. End of.
11th August 2013: Electric cars, not as green as they're painted?
18th June 2013: Wrinklies unite, you have nothing to lose but your walking frames!
17th May 2013: Some actual FACTS about climate change (for a change) from actual scientists ...
10th May 2013: An article about that poison gas, carbon dioxide, and other scientific facts (not) ...
10th May 2013: We need to see past the sex and look at the crimes: is justice being served?
8th May 2013: So, who would you trust to treat your haemorrhoids, Theresa May?
8th May 2013: Why should citizens in the 21st Century fear the law so much?
30th April 2013: What the GOS says today, the rest of the world realises tomorrow ...
30th April 2013: You couldn't make it up, could you? Luckily you don't need to ...
29th April 2013: a vote for NONE OF THE ABOVE, because THE ABOVE are crap ...
28th April 2013: what goes around, comes around?
19th April 2013: everyone's a victim these days ...
10th April 2013: Thatcher is dead; long live Thatcher!
8th April 2013: Poor people are such a nuisance. Just give them loads of money and they'll go away ...
26th March 2013: Censorship is alive and well and coming for you ...
25th March 2013: Just do your job properly, is that too much to ask?
25th March 2013: So, what do you think caused your heterosexuality?
20th March 2013: Feminists - puritans, hypocrites or just plain stupid?
18th March 2013: How Nazi Germany paved the way for modern governance?
13th March 2013: Time we all grew up and lived in the real world ...
12th March 2013: Hindenburg crash mystery solved? - don't you believe it!
6th March 2013: Is this the real GOS?
5th March 2013: All that's wrong with taxes
25th February 2013: The self-seeking MP who is trying to bring Britain down ...
24th February 2013: Why can't newspapers just tell the truth?
22nd February 2013: Trial by jury - a radical proposal
13th February 2013: A little verse for two very old people ...
6th February 2013: It's not us after all, it's worms
6th February 2013: Now here's a powerful argument FOR gay marriage ...
4th February 2013: There's no such thing as equality because we're not all the same ...
28th January 2013: Global Warming isn't over - IT'S HIDING!
25th January 2013: Global Warmers: mad, bad and dangerous to know ...
25th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
19th January 2013: We STILL haven't got our heads straight about gays ...
16th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
11th January 2013: What it's like being English ...
7th January 2013: Bleat, bleat, if it saves the life of just one child ...
7th January 2013: How best to put it? 'Up yours, Argentina'?
7th January 2013: Chucking even more of other people's money around ...
6th January 2013: Chucking other people's money around ...
30th December 2012: The BBC is just crap, basically ...
30th December 2012: We mourn the passing of a genuine Grumpy Old Sod ...
30th December 2012: How an official body sets out to ruin Christmas ...
16th December 2012: Why should we pardon Alan Turing when he did nothing wrong?
15th December 2012: When will social workers face up to their REAL responsibility?
15th December 2012: Unfair trading by a firm in Bognor Regis ...
14th December 2012: Now the company that sells your data is pretending to act as watchdog ...
7th December 2012: There's a war between cars and bikes, apparently, and most of us never noticed!
26th November 2012: The bottom line - social workers are just plain stupid ...
20th November 2012: So, David Eyke was right all along, then?
15th November 2012: MPs don't mind dishing it out, but when it's them in the firing line ...
14th November 2012: The BBC has a policy, it seems, about which truths it wants to tell ...
12th November 2012: Big Brother, coming to a school near you ...
9th November 2012: Yet another celebrity who thinks, like Jimmy Saville, that he can behave just as he likes because he's famous ...
5th November 2012: Whose roads are they, anyway? After all, we paid for them ...
7th May 2012: How politicians could end droughts at a stroke if they chose ...
6th May 2012: The BBC, still determined to keep us in a fog of ignorance ...
2nd May 2012: A sense of proportion lacking?
24th April 2012: Told you so, told you so, told you so ...
15th April 2012: Aah, sweet ickle polar bears in danger, aah ...
15th April 2012: An open letter to Anglian Water ...
30th March 2012: Now they want to cure us if we don't believe their lies ...
28th February 2012: Just how useful is a degree? Not very.
27th February 2012: ... so many ways to die ...
15th February 2012: DO go to Jamaica because you definitely WON'T get murdered with a machete. Ms Fox says so ...
31st January 2012: We don't make anything any more
27th January 2012: There's always a word for it, they say, and if there isn't we'll invent one
26th January 2012: Literary criticism on GOS? How posh!
12th December 2011: Plain speaking by a scientist about the global warming fraud
9th December 2011: Who trusts scientists? Apart from the BBC, of course?
7th December 2011: All in all, not a good week for British justice ...
9th November 2011: Well what d'you know, the law really IS a bit of an ass ...

 

 
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22nd February 09: Now all photography could be illegal ... 20th February 09: Now even our security chiefs are worried about Stasi Britain 11th February 09: Our privacy and why we should be fighting for it ... 8th February 09: It's all in the database. So are you. 7th February 09: Is the UN becoming a racist organisation advocating genocide? 5th February 09: If someone has a face like a horse, what's wrong with saying so? Rudeness apart, of course ... 26th January 09: ... has the BBC done something right for a change? 25th January 09: ... lies, lies and damned statistics ... 24th January 09: ... just lie, and lie, and lie again ... 24th January 09: ... something fishy going on in Cornwall ... 24th January 09: ... Freedom of Information as a tool for the government? 14th January 09: Every crime's a sex crime now, it seems ... 8th January 09: See ourselves as others see us. And our kids ... 8th January 09: Now Yahoo! joins the ranks of the internet spies ... 8th January 09: More bias from the BBC. No surprise there, then ... 7th January 09: Once again terrorism is an excuse for official bullying ... 23rd December 08: Official who terrorised innocent family gets a taste of her own medicine ... 14th December 08: Democracy? Don't kid yourselves ... 5th December 08: If only people would STOP thinking about the children all the time ... 8th January 09: See ourselves as others see us. And our kids ... 8th January 09: Now Yahoo! joins the ranks of the internet spies ... 8th January 09: More bias from the BBC. No surprise there, then ... 7th January 09: Once again terrorism is an excuse for official bullying ... 9th December 08: Once again, they're out to get you through your kids. Or to get your kids ... 9th December 08: family fights back against social workers' lies ... 5th December 08: Nu-Labour jackboots on the march again ... 5th December 08: If only people would STOP thinking about the children all the time ... 18th May 09: Who makes the laws round here, the government or the police? 18th May 09: The Left keep churning out class hatred ... 15th May 09: Freedom Summer - reclaiming our private public life ... 11th May 09: Guilty until proven ... er ... guilty: it's all in the database ... 11th May 09: Under Neue Arbeit, only the left are allowed to protest ... 1st May 09: The Family Courts still keeping their secrets ... 28th April 09: Now it's illegal to be ordinary ... 28th April 09: If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear ... 10th April 09: Yet more tales of legalised kidnap by the social workers' kangaroo courts ... 2nd September 09: Vince Cable writes about the surveillance society 1st September 09: Signs of the times? 16th August 09: We're all scared of children, and it's the children who are suffering ... 14th August 09: More from No2ID about those useless ID cards ... 14th August 09: What we need is common sense and BALLS! 11th August 09: Big Brother is here. He is, he is, he really is ... 4th August 09: The 2012 Olympics bring jackboot Britain a step closer 26th July 09: Cutting carbon the same as human sacrifice? 5th July 09: ID Cards are still coming to get you, whatever the papers say ... 30th June 09: Go on, stick your own oar in! 18th June 09: Planning permissions? Depends who you claim to be ... 13th June 09: Jobsworths rampant 13th April 10: You thought ID cards had gone away, didn't you? 6th April 10: Don't talk about my family, you fucking slag! 5th April 10: We're all criminals under Nu-Labour ... 29th March 10: The government still trying to force us to carry ID cards ... 29th March 10: How those who are paid to serve us have become our masters ... 5th March 10: Suffolk Social Services. Bastards, bastards, bastards ... 26th February 10: Government snoopers are at it again ... 25th February 10: ... give some people a uniform and a day-glo jacket ... 19th November 09: We all need protection from the child protectors ... 11th November 09: A sense of proportion? No, not much! 25th September 09: It is for the state to define who may speak and who must be silent 18th September 09: It's official - we're all paedophiles now ... 12th September 09: Our brave new Britain: speak your mind and lose your children ... 29th November 10: So, a practical use for Jedward at last ... 24th November 10: The airport scanners that show ALL your daughter's bits 22nd November 10: Yet more abuse of the system by social workers ... 29th October 10: The ***** are a venal organisation that persecutes animals and vulnerable people 26th October 10: The RSPCA - not official, not caring, just bullies. 27th September 10: What to do when a railway company imprisons you, and demands money ... 27th September 10: How to offend minorities, and why we should do it ... 28th August 10: Watch out, animal lovers, the RSPCA stormtroopers are on the march again! 20th August 10: Give 'em a title and a big desk and they think they've got the right to bully the rest of us ... 14th August 10: An ex-government minister on the state of British freedom ... 2nd August 10: An American take on Political Correctness ... 27th July 10: What do we pay our council tax for? We just want our bloody bins emptied, that's all ... 26th July 10: Special Relationship my arse! 26th July 10: All I wanted was a tin of red paint ...! 29th June 10: The smoking ban hasn't done what it said on the tin, then ... 18th May 10: Just when we thought it was safe to come out ... 7th March 2011: We're sorry, all right? We didn't do it, but we're terribly, terribly sorry ... 13th March 2011: What to do with that census form ... 25th March 2011: What to do with that census form ... 20th May 2011: The BBC, playground of the liberal left ... 23rd May 2011: Not in Afghanistan, not in North Korea ... 23rd May 2011: Johnny Ball's career crushed by Global Warming bigots ... 9th August 2011: What's journalist George Monbiot scared of? Being proved wrong? 18th August 2011: Big Brother is closer than we think ... 17th August 2011: Idiot social workers throwing their weight about AGAIN ... 25th August 2011: How uncharitable can a charity be? 10th October 2011: Trial by media? You bet, and it wasn't a pretty sight
 

 
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