Month: April 2013

Lorries to get free use of M6 toll road

I won’t go on about the M6 Toll or its many failings, or the fact that traffic levels on the normal M6 have remained the same after it was built. I won’t even mention the fact that the planned widening of the M6 (to cope with the traffic) is going to cost as much as the M6 Toll cost to… Read more →

Paris Brown interviewed by police

Youth police and crime commissioner, Paris Brown, is now going to get interviewed by Police over comments she made on Twitter. The 17 year old got into trouble after odds tweets where she’d insulted certain sections of society. I feel sorry for the Police, because if they’re going to interview every teenager who had posted a flippant and ill thought-out… Read more →

More from my music selection

This is an old Eurythamics track and a fairly old mix of it from Paul Harris. I heard it being re-used in a recent mix on Jemm One and I must admit, it’s still as fresh as the day it was first played. Enjoy… Read more →

YouTube – What are you thinking?

There’s a whole mess of stuff on YouTube that kids shouldn’t look at. I’ve got a child and I’d never let him use YouTube without me standing right next to him. The “related videos” is a quick way for kids to get from Thomas the Tank Engine to Thomas and his F**kin W****. Anyhow. I just clicked on YouTube tonight… Read more →

Who was Margaret Thatcher?

The best bit about Twitter is that anyone with an internet connection can communicate instantly to the world. Unfortunately, the worst bit about Twitter is that anyone with an internet connection can communicate instantly to the world. The recent death of ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been mentioned quite widely across the Twitter-sphere, but sadly there’s a huge amount of… Read more →