How Rowland Hill Turns in His Grave

Introduction Following up an earlier post of mine “Use the Green Stick, Mr Postman!” and how unfriendly competition in the delivery market actually is from the point of view of the environment and the actual service to the customer (us!), the recent news of a  Delivery firm’s 686 jobs at risk should be taken with [...]

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Putin Says Checkmate

Today’s news at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) meeting in Moscow, is the final card played in a long game of bluff and revenge started several decades ago by Vladamir Putin. I’ve been banging on about this for over a year now in these pages. But hey!  It’s only me! So whatever the current [...]

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So Much for Military Might!

In an interesting twist to the news today, both the UK military, the US military, the Russian military and the Ukrainian military have shown themselves to be totally useless! The UK have had RAF personnel files stolen from a high security base in Gloucestershire!  Personnel records stolen from MoD In the current climate, this is [...]

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Russia dips it’s Toes in Venezuelan Waters, soon!

Following on from the two bombers landing in Venezuela only 11 days ago (which I reported here when talking about the decreasing effectualness of Bush and USA power in the world), they will shortly be joined by a mean and capable looking ship called Peter the Great as well as a few others. They are [...]

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Gold’en Rant : Why Did The UK Government Fail To Back Gary McKinnon?

Wow.  Totally Agree with this post. Gold’en Rant : Why Did The UK Government Fail To Back Gary McKinnon? They should be employing not booting the bloke.  In the USA they can and do intend to throw the key away on him. And as for Milliband and all the posturing – I’m documenting the chronology [...]

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V2 Schneider and Heroes

V2 Schneider – Bowie I don’t know why Bowie titled it so; maybe it’s a tribute to the Kraftwerk dude.  Whatever, it’s one of my all-time favourite intros and even though it’s lost some power compared to the “modern” sounds available now, it’s still a cracker and it could easily be re-done.  The sax at [...]

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