“On [the internet] if someone gets up with a hangover after drinking 8 pints, the blame lies with the goverment and Gordon Brown” - commenter Eatonrifle on HYS

Most of the concern about the government’s proposed ID card scheme stems not from the cards themselves, but from the enormous pool of centralized information which would underlie them. Plenty of suspicious minds believe that this is actually the real purpose of the plan.
But if Gordon Brown wants access to a vast system of interlinked [...]

Or, at least, in my ideal world: This would be part of a viral anti-marketing campaign, perhaps being waged by this lot. It would be called legitimate resistance. And we’d be winning.
Oh, by the way, you can report problems with your oxygen sensor here. Even if you don’t have a car, apparently.

There is a body of opinion - let’s call it the “consensus” - that only Chelsea or Manchester United can win the Premiership in 2007. Within that consensus, of course, there are shades: from “catastrophic” that Man Utd should win, to merely very, very bad that Chelsea do. Surely no good citizen can disagree. Well, [...]

Two stories from the afternoon of 11th September, 2001 that you won’t hear anywhere else.
1. I’m standing in Throgmorton Street with my face pressed against the glass of a private banking building. The TV in the corner opposite the reception desk shows the collapse of a tall grey structure. It’s the WTC, North Tower. The [...]

This week’s ranter: Please be upstanding for the general pendantry of the The Pedant-General in Ordinary
I Blame the Parents
“If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
So quoth your stern and hard-boiled Pedant-General in one of his very first posts.
There is nothing like a good dose of [...]

Mr Eugenides wouldn’t describe himself as a blogging virgin, exactly, but he’s certainly still at the inexpert fumbling stage. Be gentle.
On Kilroy
Let’s start with the suntan.
I’m going to go out on a limb; no suntanned British politician has ever been anything but a shyster and a fraud. Three quick examples; Tony B. suddenly turning [...]