Archive for October, 2007

MI6 negotiations with Taliban a good thing?

This has been going on for a while, and a good idea too. If there is the possibility to hold talks with the Taliban, zealots that they are, MI6 should proceed. Hopefully MI6 officers don’t forget you can’t believe much the Taliban agree to. Perhaps this motley group of bearded religious fundamentalists can be turned to go [...]

David Miliband - wrong again

As the State visit to the UK by the Saudi Royal family makes it’s way to the giant banquet, the apparatchiks beano, young and tender David Miliband has once again put his foot in it by being absent from the entire visit, deciding to spend time with his newly adopted child than bother with the [...]

Mobile Phones - Free Worldwide Calls with Skype

Having paid billions of pounds to buy licences for G3 technologies, mobile phone companies like Orange and Vodafone are waking up this morning with an uncomfortable business headache.
Skype announced yesterday the marketing of a mobile phone which will allow free calls all over the world by internet. This technology has been around for a while [...]

Alex Salmond conspiracy to take Scotland out of UK

SNP leader Alex Salmond used his speech at the SNP conference yesterday to once again, in the words of firebrand George Galloway, create a partition between England and Scotland. Since the discovery of North Sea oil, the SNP have been constantly trying to push secession from the UK, purely from the point of greed, which [...]

UK Government to follow US lead on Iran

UK premier Gordon Brown has announced that the UK will boldly follow in the footsteps of the US when it comes to any forthcoming war with Iran. When questioned about whether the UK will support US military action against Iran, Gordon refused to rule any option out, instead of, as previously laid out by Justice [...]

China Lunar Probe blasts off on redundant voyage

Chinese press agency Xinhua gleefully announced the successful launch of Chang’e-1, the little lunar ship currently ploughing its way through space to do what? Do what the US achieved forty years (nearly half a century ago)?
Then what next, a manned flight to the moon, maybe this will be achieved in twenty years as long as 1) [...]