Yesterday, it was announced that the former editor of The Sun and the News of The World, Rebekah Brooks, is to face charges of “perverting the course of justice” over the phone-hacking scandal. For those of you unfamiliar with this story, it has emerged in the last year or so that the News of the [...]
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Collateral damage
Posted in News, Politics, tagged BSkyB, David Cameron, James Murdoch, News Corp, News International, News of the World, Phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, The Guardian, The Metropolitan Police, The Sun on 16/05/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Los Cretinos (The Cretins)
Posted in History, News, Politics, World affairs, tagged Bill Clinton, Cuba, Fidel Castro, George W Bush, revolution, Ronald Reagan on 26/04/2012 | Leave a Comment »
As my last post mentioned, I was recently on holiday in Cuba. The first public building I visited, on my 2nd day in Havana, was the “Museo de la Revolucion”, which is in the grand colonial splendour of the former residence of Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban dictator removed from office by the 1959 Communist revolution [...]
No plastic please, we’re Welsh
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Devolution, Environment, Plastic, Recycling, Scotland, Wales, Welsh Assembly Government on 27/10/2011 | 8 Comments »
In 1997, a referendum was held in Wales to decide whether we wanted some form of self-government. It was voted in by the narrowest of margins, so since 1999 Wales has had some level of devolved government, the Welsh Assembly Government. This gives Wales its own control over certain aspects of everyday life like Education, [...]
The death of a clown
Posted in Music, Politics, World affairs, tagged Australia, Clown, Gaddafi, Rugby, The Kinks, Wales, World Cup on 21/10/2011 | Leave a Comment »
A quick post following the defeat of Wales by Australia in the 3rd/4th place Rugby World Cup playoff match. I may have time later to post a match report, but I thought I would quickly post this – in reaction to the news of Colonel Gaddafi’s death at the hands of the so-called rebels in [...]
