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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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24th February 09: Just what is it that these people DO for all their money? 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 ... 4th December 08: Arr, Jim lad! ... 9th March 09: Wonderful things, targets. As long as you don't have to meet 'em yourself. 9th March 09: Some people have nicer houses than others. How unfair. 11th March 09: Education, education, education. Yeah, right. 12th March 09: Arbitrary powers of arrest - sign the petition now 16th March 09: One voice of sense in a lunatic crisis ... 25th March 09: Are these fat pigs the shape of Britain to come? 30th March 09: This is OUR money you're spending, you bastards! 31st March 09: It's not just us, then ... 21st May 09: To err is human ... and boy, are some of us human?! 18th May 09: The Left keep churning out class hatred ... 30th April 09: 'Girl, 13, already has cough' 26th April 09: A national newspaper ought to be able to simple sums, shouldn't it? 2nd September 09: Vince Cable writes about the surveillance society 1st September 09: Signs of the times? 28th August 09: What the NHS spends your money on ... 16th August 09: We're all scared of children, and it's the children who are suffering ... 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 25th July 09: Swine Flu: scarier than we thought? 11th July 09: Education, education, BLOODY education ... 9th July 09: The British government ... truly an evil and satanic entity 25th June 09: I want a floating duck-house ... 18th June 09: A brilliant book, essential reading for everyone with half a brain ... 13th June 09: Travellers' Tales? 5th May 10: teachers are supposed to teach, not act as warders, policemen, security guards, or punchbags ... 21st April 10: Has the NHS lost sight of its true purpose? Stupid question. Of course it has ... 19th March 10: Not everything has to be someone's fault. Shit happens. 15th March 10: Britain the worst place to bring up kids? 15th March 10: We're all criminals now ... 15th March 10: Why you are 4,000 times more likely to be a criminal under Labour ... 5th March 10: Perhaps Captain Grumpy isn't as clever as he thought ... 21st February 10: ... all kicking off in sunny Suffolk ... 19th November 09: We all need protection from the child protectors ... 11th November 09: A sense of proportion? No, not much! 17th October 09: Here's looking at you, kid ... 9th October 09: Hollywood gets science wrong ... 9th October 09: Stick to arresting old ladies - it's safer 6th October 09: Cheer up, it could be worse. You could be American ... 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 ... 13th September 09: How nice to know there are experts tirelessly looking out for us ... 10th February 2011: How many coppers does it take to change a light bulb? 10th February 2011: HM Government, always ready to sell you your own property for loads of dosh ... 1st January 2011: An immigrant's view of Britain ... 1st January 2011: Just what are students FOR, exactly? 20th December 10: Christmas carols brought up to date ... 14th December 10: They're not Muslims, they're just criminals ... 14th December 10: A teacher's heart-felt plea ... 23rd November 10: The government talks tough on school discipline. Again. 23rd November 10: A Muslim speaks about those Muslim schools ... 12th November 10: Can't hear you, la la la, got my fingers in my ears ... 12th November 10: Why we can't afford to take a risk ... 12th November 10: Scum will always float to the top ... 27th September 10: How to offend minorities, and why we should do it ... 25th June 10: Who will save us from toxic children? Not teachers, that's for sure ... 18th May 10: Just when we thought it was safe to come out ... 23rd May 10: I used to love him, but now I hate him ... 15th March 2011: Breeding a nation of useless twats ... 1st April 2011: Taxing the sick and elderly, but only in England ... 25th April 2011: An open letter to the Prime Minister 20th May 2011: The BBC, playground of the liberal left ... 23rd May 2011: Why common sense just doesn't cut it any more ... 11th July 2011: Paedophile's rights more important than a child's? 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 ... 25th August 2011: Nothing new under the sun, apparently ... 9th October 2011: You don't have to be mad to live in PortMADoc, but you probably are ... 22nd March 2012: An Irish view on wind turbines ... 16th March 2012: Have we plumbed the depths of American lunacy here? Probably not. 6th March 2012: So being upside down really does damage your sanity? 2nd December 2011: How our schools are failing children ...
 

 
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