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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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21st February: Who's the real enemy? ... 24th March: The USA, rulers of the universe ... 23rd June: STILL call this British justice? 12th June: STILL call this British justice? 29th May: STILL call this British justice? 19th May: Call this British justice? 8th April: Traditionally, the law's an ass. These days it's a whole bloody herd ... 20th October: Yes, women can be criminals too ... 17th February 07: On the other hand, PC Plod, there's this little matter ... 16th February 07: Common-sense policing? How refreshing! 30th January 07: The police can't cope, but they're damned if they're going to let you do their job for them ... 8th December: The government acting like vultures ... 18th March 07: The sad death of a woman cruelly treated by our society ... 23rd April 07: Why banning guns won't work ... 9th April 07: Where have all our coppers gone? 2nd July 07: Our kids are in trouble, and it's all the parents' fault ... 30th August 07: Whatever you do, don't defend yourself ... 18th August 07: There IS some justice, then ... 17th August 07: No, Chief Constable, the police are NOT doing everything they can ... 10th August 07: Support your friendly neighbourhood burglar ... 12th September 07: Legalised kidnap - so this is British justice? 4th September 07: The great baby-stealing machine grinds on ... 24th October 07: Nice to see our legal system has its priorities sorted out ... 11th October 07: Are our local authorities encouraging terrorism? 11th October 07: A disgraceful betrayal ... 22nd November 07: The evil trade in babies, operated in British courts and financed with government money ... 20th November 07: Whose side are the police on? Don't answer that, on the grounds that it might incriminate you ... 5th November 07: You couldn't make this up! Only in America ... 5th November 07: Say three times quickly: 'The Leith police dismisseth us ...' 7th January 08: Can't enforce the law? No problem - just scrap it. Problem solved. Brilliant! 31st December 07: A thought for the New Year ... 30th December 07: Brilliant new police tactic ... 30th November 07: Channel 4 may sue the police ... 22nd February 08: You see, scaredy-cop? There IS another way ... 22nd February 08: How dreadful, frightening a poor policeman ... 21st February 08: If you think the law's there to protect you, think on ... 23rd January 08: Those vicious pensioners are at it again ... 28th March 08: Credit where credit is due ... 13th September 08: Twelve good men and true? Twelve gullible morons would be more like it ... 14th August 08: A night out in sunny Morpeth? That's asking for trouble ... 13th August 08: An ingenious new idea in crime detection (except it won't work) 11th August 08: Whoever you are, you can always say no ... 29th July 08: What should we do when the police let us down? 8th July 08: Neither government nor opposition have a clue what to do about knives ... 8th July 08: You can't start too soon, apparently ... 2nd June 08: Yet more gross injustice from the British court system 3rd December 08: The British police state takes another giant leap down the throats of its citizens ... 3rd November 08: now it seems black policemen are racist and proud of it. Yep, that makes sense. 19th October 08: Weak in the head and totally stuffed. Sorry, Gary ... 28th February 09: Chief Police Officers going into business for themselves ... 14th January 09: Every crime's a sex crime now, it seems ... 5th December 08: The police cock it up again ... 1st March 09: One rule for the rich and famous, another for everyone else ... 9th March 09: Wonderful things, targets. As long as you don't have to meet 'em yourself. 9th March 09: No, honesty is definitely NOT the best policy ... 12th March 09: Arbitrary powers of arrest - sign the petition now 20th March 09: A small victory for the sheep ... 25th March 09: A drunk woman isn't responsible for her actions but a drunk man is? 25th March 09: Irish terrorists get better treatment than teachers ... 26th May 09: Tch, it's just not good enough - for two pins I'd say something ... 22nd May 09: Wonders will never cease: our legal system gets something right! 18th May 09: Who makes the laws round here, the government or the police? 15th May 09: Freedom Summer - reclaiming our private public life ... 11th May 09: Guilty until proven ... er ... guilty: it's all in the database ... 25th August 09: Why should we play by the bomber's rules? 19th July 09: Now the government attacks the legal aid system ... 13th June 09: Jobsworths rampant 1st May 10: Democracy's a lovely idea, children, but it's just a dream ... 22nd April 10: The law's an ass, and it's getting worse ... 21st April 10: Not rhetoric, just some facts and figures ... 18th March 10: So I'm 69 and therefore I'm ga-ga, apparently ... 5th March 10: Suffolk Social Services. Bastards, bastards, bastards ... 25th February 10: ... give some people a uniform and a day-glo jacket ... 21st February 10: ... all kicking off in sunny Suffolk ... 13th December 09: We're all paedophiles now, because the government says so ... 27th November 09: MP's blunt attack on social service kidnap 21st October 09: The law is already an ass. Why make it worse? 10th February 2011: HM Government, always ready to sell you your own property for loads of dosh ... 14th December 10: They're not Muslims, they're just criminals ... 2nd September 10: Forced adoption, a national disgrace ... 27th February 2011: The last time foreigners started telling us what to do, we fought a World War ... 20th May 2011: The establishment fighting to preserve its spiteful myth ... 23rd May 2011: Not in Afghanistan, not in North Korea ... 11th July 2011: Paedophile's rights more important than a child's? 9th August 2011: Now here's a wild idea - FREE PARKING! 12th August 2011: OK, the police are doing their job; what about the courts? 11th August 2011: If we're looking for somewhere to lay the blame ... 18th August 2011: Big Brother is closer than we think ... 17th August 2011: Idiot social workers throwing their weight about AGAIN ... 10th October 2011: Trial by media? You bet, and it wasn't a pretty sight 22nd March 2012: Protecting whistleblowers in the NHS 7th May 2012: More and more children kidnapped by Kafkaesque authority ... 19th March 2012: Doing nothing is always an option ... 19th March 2012: Hard to imagine that such evil cruelty can exist in a civilised society, isn't it? 20th February 2012: More about the Stasi ... sorry, social workers ... 5th February 2012: The USA - arrogant, bullying and incredibly stupid 29th January 2012: That's a relief, it's not just here, then ... 12th January 2012: Stop bleating that you have a difficut job, and GET IT RIGHT!
 

 

 
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