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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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17th February: A clever hoax! 6th May: ... a nation gets the government it deserves ... 6th June: ... what the French people do best - say 1st February: Identity cards 29th June: We need to fight them on the beaches again ... 17th July: So there is a little justice after all ... 17th July: The man who told the truth about terrorism ... 5th September: ... we have the power ... why don't we use it? 10th September: ... here's someone who's already doing his bit for the cause ... 12th December: ... good grief, are the government talking sense for once? 23rd October: Islam and Mithraism good, smoking and trainspotting bad ... 21st February: Who's the real enemy? ... 24th March: The USA, rulers of the universe ... 20th March: One more step down the slippery slope to a dictatorship? 20th March: Please, Mr.Bliar, can I have one too? 10th May: John Prescott - man or muppet? 28th May: That plonker Michael Winner gets something right for a change ... 4th July: Just as we thought ... 29th August: Our salute to a gentleman with initiative ... 27th August: About bloody time too, Ruth Kelly ... 21st May: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ...Call this British justice? 27th October: Am I allowed to say this? ... David Blunkett's memoirs ... 28th February 07: Helping NuLabour root out racism. Presumably if you don't agree, you must be a racist. 21st January 07: Big Brother is alive and well and living not too far from Whitehall ... 8th January 07: Our scheme for winning the war in Afghanistan ... 8th June 07: Now the government wants to stifle dissent ... 20th May 07: Our MPs are killing democracy. The bastards. 18th May 07: Tony Bliar's legacy - as if anyone gives a toss ... 13th May 07: Moral: just be thankful you don't live in this King's kingdom ... 12th May 07: Can Gordon Broon do the impossible? Naaah ... 17th June 07: Tony Bliar - for God's sake, go! 17th June 07: Scotland and its latest colony, England ... 8th July 07: Our government does what terrorism fails to achieve ... 3rd July 07: If there's one thing we can't stand, it's incompetence ... 30th October 07: One by one our rights and freedoms slip down the drain ... 21st November 07: How to organise a p*ss-up in a brewery: (1) go to brewery (2) drink beer (3) fall over. 14th November 07: Our Prime Minister, barefaced liar ... 29th November 07: Americans are allowed to be grumpy too ... 9th March 08: ID cards are STILL coming to get you ... 3rd March 08: Fidel Castro - looks good on a girl's chest ... 20th April 08: The REAL reason Labour lost, if only they had the sense to see it ... 15th April 08: One beloved leader follows the example of another ... 8th May 08: The sayings of Chairman Boris ... 6th May 08: At last, a sensible decision from London's voters ... 5th May 08: So, New Labour finally got the kicking they deserve. About time, too. 19th March 08: The real cost of government ... 26th June 08: Democracy shafted by the EU ... 14th June 08: What a good job we have the wisdom of the UN to tell us what we're doing wrong ... 10th October 08: A smack a day keeps the hoodies away ... 9th October 08: The credit crunch - is it all the EU's fault? 26th February 09: Time to go, McGordon McBroon ... 8th January 09: Those bloodthirsty Israelis, murdering innocent children ... 14th December 08: Democracy? Don't kid yourselves ... 26th May 09: Tch, it's just not good enough - for two pins I'd say something ... 22nd May 09: All the little piggies, snouting in the trough ... 28th April 09: Now it's illegal to be ordinary ... 28th April 09: If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear ... 26th April 09: What other countries think of our repressive society ... 11th April 09: All the fat little piggies with their fat little snouts in the trough ... 25th August 09: Why should we play by the bomber's rules? 9th July 09: The British government ... truly an evil and satanic entity 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! 25th June 09: I want a floating duck-house ... 20th June 09: Democracy isn't working ... 1st May 10: Democracy's a lovely idea, children, but it's just a dream ... 13th April 10: You thought ID cards had gone away, didn't you? 26th February 10: Government snoopers are at it again ... 21st February 10: There's nothing sexy about being wicked, Ms.Harman... 21st February 10: When politicians talk glibly in billions ... 13th December 09: We're all paedophiles now, because the government says so ... 20th October 09: But who are we to criticise? I mean, Brains R'n't Us, exactly, are they? 14th October 09: What I did on my holiday, by an MP 4th October 09: Just what did the Irish electorate thing they were voting for? 30th September 09: Two new campaigns we think you should support - we do 7th May 10: What we need is a government that will LEAVE US ALONE! 30th July 10: This is, or ought to be, the real reason our troops are in Afghanistan ... 18th May 10: Just when we thought it was safe to come out ... 27th February 2011: The last time foreigners started telling us what to do, we fought a World War ... 1st April 2011: Taxing the sick and elderly, but only in England ... 9th June 2011: Catweazle's church, the Labour Party at prayer ... 19th August 2011: the EU: why aren't we beating on the door and screaming to be let out? 21st September 2011: At last some sense on Europe ...
 

 

 

 
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