I like to think of this place as one where I can express opinion. I doubt anyone actually reads it but it is cathartic to write it down for me!

The up and coming laws regarding discrimination against gays for instance. To make it illegal not to provide gays with service is a huge backward step for the gay community although most of them are too busy trying to push their sexuality down our throat to realise the backlash such laws will create for them.

As a service provider I will decide who I offer that service to, not the state. If I do not want to provide for non normal people then I won't. Why should I? There are very clear and obvious differences between normal couples and gay couples. There are also very obvious biological reasons why they cannot be treated exactly the same. Anyone who is religeous cannot remain so if they accept gays. You cannot change a religeon based on thousands of years because one country (and it's mainly the UK) says so. Not possible.

Not being particularly religeous and not having a problem with gays I can make my own mind up. BUT I will NOT be told what to do by the state so that it can gain a few measly votes at the next election. Never.

Two positive decisions made today by the world's justice system.

Firstly that Pakistan has upheld British law will come as a surprise to many. Pakistan is a modern country and this firmly establishes it as part of the International community. The young girl must be returned to the UK to hear the decision of the current legal process which is continuing in the UK. Whether she should be with her Mum or Dad is down to our ccourts andI hope her wishes will be respected also.

I am suspicious of her father though as in mediation he agreed she could see her Mother BUT only in Pakistan sounds a bit odd from someone who kidnapped her (albeit with her willingness it seems) in the first place. She will, of course soon be of marriageable age.

Secondly the High Court has agreed that the two Muslims must be extradited to the USA. Absolutely correct. They are charged with inciting murder. Kill the Infidels! Support the Taliban. Murder! Kill! Bomb! Ok so you're arrested. Oi! what about my human rights? They may hurt/threaten/jail me over there, it's not fair!

No mate neither is encouraging people to kill your fellow human beings. I am sure the USA will treat them right (wink wink)! Goodbyeeeeee

I've always flown BA. Never again! Simple as that.

The uncontrollable march of the administrative bureaucrat continues, it seems, unabated. £100 fines if you put the wrong food in the dustbin.

It's simple really. You pay your rates which covers the removal of your rubbish. The councils are changing the rules but not the rates so (morally at least and it could be legally challenged) you should be able to reassess your part in the process.
If you have to do work which you previously didn't have to do on the councils behalf then charge them for it!

Get an invoice book from W H Smith or download one from the Internet, assess how much extra time YOU are giving to the council over and above that which you did when they last assessed your rates and charge them. Be fair and reasonable about this. Say two hours per month at £10 x 12 =£120. Send the invoice to the Environmental office. This should state 'hrs for realignment of household waste' at -'your address'. Include your bank details for BAACS transfer.
Use your rates invoice number as a reference, this is in case they check and the number will at least show up as a legitimate council number.

You are not committing any fraud as you should be able to prove that the council's insistence has led to you having to do work for which you are entitled to some compensation.

Most large organisations pay these types of bills automatically. It is up to the council to challenge your right to charge them.

Enjoy, it all helps :-)

The ludicrous continues. Scarborough have used H&S guidelines to save themselves money and allow an increase in their salaries next year. Councils have now cottoned onto the fact that you can ban virtually anything under H&S thereby avoiding their responsibilities and increasing available funds for salaries.

The same with recycling. Your council makes a profit on recycling which goes into the coffers for their pay and if you don't follow they can fine you increasing the amount available for their salaries.

Remember all of this when it's time to vote, BUT also do not vote for any councillor who is not prepared to reduce staffing by 15%. Ask them. E-mail them. Write to them.

Bonfire Night. The night we celebrate the survival of democracy (oh and Protestantism). It is NOT a fireworks night which some councils seems to think it is, burning tigers and putting turbans on. It is an ENGLISH event, Christian, Domocratic. All you have to do is challenge these things and they will collapse.

Some bully boys forcibly took sparklers off some 5 yr olds under Health and Safety. Why did the parents allow this? Tell them to go away and light up. If they attempt to touch you then it's assault. If they take the sparklers aways it's theft! H&S requires a court order for such activity to be legal. Challenge them! Refuse them. Let them take you to court -they are more than likely to lose. If they win - appeal. Make a lot of noise! Set up a web-site prior to elections, tell people that they can win.

Prince Charles needs to remember that if he becomes King he is the defender of the christian faith, nothing more. If he wants to do something different then he must not take the crown when the time comes or there will be riots on the streets.
This is a Christian country - period. All we ever hear about is a tiny minority (Muslims and others) asking us to accept them and their ways. No. We shall tolerate them as we should. We live in a country where ALL are equal and that includes Muslim women. If the Muslim community want anything different then it must apply to ALL Muslim women which could be technically enshrined in British law 'stating that all Muslim women must remain at home and not work'. Somehow I don't think that's what they really want!

So Guy Fawkes night approaches and the kill joys are all over us justifying their jobs. They actually have no interest in our health nor our safety but solely in their own job defence. Local clubs forced into raising money because the council can't afford to help due to the massive explosion in spend on their administration and expenses, are now being told they can't hold a bon-fire because they would have to pay for special services just in case. Sparklers are banned due to H&S. The council employs special people to knock down conkers from trees so that the kids won't hurt themselves (or rather their parents won't sue the council).

When will people actually stand up and be counted? We are being gently pushed down a road where the state interference actually exceeds that of Nazi Germany! If you are told not to put paper in the grass bin , then put paper in it! (I do EVERY time). Eventually the councils will be forced to relent by the sheer weight of public pressure.

Only vote for councillors who will do something about it. E-mail them, write to them, tell them that unless they publicly state that they will stand for any rate payer who is prepared to fight the state then do not vote for them.

They can be beaten. I send mine an invoice every month for council support activities such as black bag preparation, bottle management for the same as the rates they charge. Why should it all be one way?

So how do Police dogs do their job when they are muzzled?

So Rover has to be muzzled in case he hurts a rapist or murderer or thief?
What a bloody country!

Now the Police are throwing 14 yr old girls into cells because they questioned their teachers incredible stupidity of making her join a group of non English speaking pupils to 'discuss' science.
If I were the parents I would sue the School for a frightening amount of compensation for their discredited actions. I would also sue the Police for wrongful arrest, again for a frightening amount of money.

We simply have to fight back against this. The vast majority of people in this country are white Christians, beware the backlash when it comes and it surely will unless we release the pressure of enforced multi-culturism. I do not want to live in such a society. I have my own views and express them. I do not want us to bow to a tiny tiny tiny minority such as the Muslims. They are very tiny and therefore cannot be significant in the greater whole. This is a democracy and it will win, which will be a shame in the way in which it will win.

If we dump the Human rights act, the recent terrorist bills and the current racial hatred laws, we will grow. With them in place and a Police force without a single bit of common sense then the only way out will be to kick back.

Apologise for slavery? You must be joking.

Firstly the British didn't invent slavery (the Romans were masters at it and I'm expecting the Italian apology any day now for their invasion). Most of the slaves collected on the Gambian coast were collected by the tribes themselves or slavers from Southern Spain, Britain facilitated the triangle as we were masters of the sea at the time.

The slave triangle ended in 1807, the Americans carried on effectively enslaving their black population for another 160 years! Longer than the slave trade ever lasted! The slave trade was borne out of necessity at the time, the Americans kept it going out of greed and dominance.

I hope that Martin Luther King, Condolesa Rice, Colin Powell etc accept the apology for making them some of the most powerful blacks in the world! Without slavery, of course, they would be as a Gambian is now!

You can't apologise for something that was acceptable at that point in time or else we'd be apologising to each other all the time! The Germans would spend most of their time on their knees, the Catholics would be trying to appease the Protestants, Christians would be asking the Jerusalem muslims to forget about that incident back in the crusades - ad invinitem!

You couldn't make it up!

So Newcastle are sepnding a fortune on collecting conkers to avoid the possibility of some young lad hurting himself (which is part of the excitement!). Absolute bloody rubbish. The overpaid underworked slightly less than bright councillors and their useless administrators simply want to intervere. All we want the council to do is collect the rubbish, look after the roads and sort the schools out. I don't want a Muslim Lesbian Single Parent outreach officer or a diversity advisory team! I can make my own bloody mind up.

At last someone is talking some sense. Jack Straw's comments are not about what someone should be allowed to wear as many apologists have tried to say. It's about openness and honesty. I wouldn't talk to someone wearing a veil, I consider it an insult them not being prepared to show their face -by choice remember, the Koran doesn't enforce it.

How would they feel if sitting on a bus they were surrounding by 4 passengers wearing balaclavas? The open face is the only natural way of recognition, it was given to us by nature. It is said that the veil allows Muslim men to beat their wives and not have it draw attention.

How do you know the person behind the veil is who they say they are? nd that cannot exist in modern Britain. In this case it is they who must change. Most of Europe bans the veil and we are part of the EU.

5 yrs since the twin towers although no-one ever mentions the third building No 7 that went down on the same day.

I've been thinking about what shows we might see when we become an Islamic state. A sort of mix between good old British and modern (well 13th century) Muslim.

'Im in the Sh-ite again' a possible future comedy of a fundementalistic who keeps slipping up and popping down the pub. Family comedy I think.

'Are you being Severed?' a rehash of the old Brit comedy with a Muslim twist. Old Mr Grace saying to the crew on the bomb making floor ' You're all dying very well!'

'Jehad's Army' a comedy about over the hill terrorists.

'It ain't half hot Iman' an hilarious comedy about a group of cross dressing terrorists entertaining the troops in Lebanon.

'Alas Sief and Jhanda', the boys doing sketches and routines Bagdhad style!

'Carry On Osama' the team reunite for one last explosive adventure amongst the caves of Afghanistan. The boys dress up in burquas and cause chaos!

So now the police are prosecuting a Christian for handing out leaflets which contain verses about homosexuality from the Bible??? What has he done wrong? It appears that what he did wrong was to disobey a Police Officer (gay?) when he was told to stop.

You simply cannot be arrested (and now charged) for handing out leaflets. It has long been established that we are entitled to non violent protest. Unlike the Muslim protests where they wanted to behead us all (no arrests still there!).

I say it again. We must tolerate these variations to our norm (I refuse to call it 'diversity') as they are perfectly legal under our current system. Tolerate does not mean embrace or agree with. With equal toleration those whom we tolerate must also tolerate our objections - that's freedom of speech which appears to be disappearing fast as the Police turn political and lose the support of the people.

Many times these week I've read that people will no longer support the Police. It is growing and their job will become impossible without the support of the population. And remember the majority of those who the police are 'protecting' want them dead! Interesting times indeed.

So Mum takes a passport application form into a Post Office and the person behind the counter refuses to accept the picture as her daughter has bare arms and might upset a Muslim! Neither the Post Office nor the Passport office has such a rule so this was simply the whim of an official. Like the whims of the Nazi official deciding to send some to the chamber and others not to. Power. This post office worker should be charged without any doubt for racial incitement. Then sacked. The mother, of course, should have asked to see the relevant section of the Passport legislation which states such a thing and refused to move until it was (which it couldn't have done!)

I don't like to see Muslims wear the full dress (Burqa). As a westerner I believe it to be hiding, not being open. If I wore a balaclava over my head, do you seriously think I could board a train or plane, yet we allow this garment where we do not even know if it is male or female. We must tolerate but we must all be treated equally also. One law for all is the basis of a democracy and it's one we invented.

So now out come the self appointed 'community' leaders. These are just lads, innocent until proven guilty! Isn't it odd that in most Muslim countries you don't even get a trial if the local Imman says not, ah but that's democracy for you.

If a Christian had blown up a plane in Iran - all Christian centres would have been stoned or destroyed, wailing men on the streets attacking flags yada yada. But over here it's keep calm they are only nice lads, I'm sure the Police have made a mistake!

In the States they rounded up every Japanese they could after Pearl Harbour!

How are we to protect ourselves? You have to remove the potential offender untimately. If burglers wandered around with striped jumpers and a 'swag' bag we would find them all, round them up and lock them away wouldn't we? Well wouldn't we?

Now we know why some Muslims are disaffected. They keep getting caught trying to kill their fellow Britains. Bound to piss you off that is.
There you are planning to kill 3000 innocent people doing what a good Muslim should do and suddenly out of nowhere comes PC Plod and 'you're nicked!'. Bound to make you depressed that is.

Anyone involved in these acts will eventually see the end of a free society which means they will have to leave. I've heard no condemnation at all today from the Muslim leaders - nothing.

I had to tune into CNN to even found out the facts as our poor excuse for a Home Secretary was too busy trying not to mention 'faiths and minorities' to give us the basic facts! Thank you USA Homeland!

Oh and why did it change from 'foiling a plot' to 'disrupted an 'alleged' plot'? Backpeddle that quick and your chain will fall off!!

So the deputy commisioner of the Met wants to investigate why young Muslims are so disaffected with the UK. This, of course, means MALE Muslims as the women do what they are told as second class citizens. Having your wife with the same rights as you as the husband actually is contrary to Muslim law! I can see why male Muslims would prefer it their way.

They can't drink in a society which virtually invented social drinking. Young non-Muslims can go out and have a few drinks and relaxed and that's bound to disaffect them. I'm fed up with being told that 90% of us have to change to meet the desires and concerns of 10%. This is a democracy (which, of course is against Muslim law where the cleric rules via his interpretation of a book) and it will always be a democracy.

This is a society where an old lady suffering from cancer must remove her headcovering because she might be a terrorist/thug but a Muslim woman can cover herself so much that we don't know if it is even a man or a woman!

What I am saying is that Britain is a tolerant society and people seem to have forgotten what that means. It means we tolerate other races/creeds/colours we don't have to embrace or change, but tolerate. Look it up in the dictionary.

1. To allow without prohibiting or opposing; permit.
2. To recognize and respect (the rights, beliefs, or practices of others)

It doesn't way that we should change or embrace. The country's minorities should recognise this and they should embrace that definition.

The last time someone tried to force their willpower on the English people he found himself in a civil war which Democracy won. And he was a King!

Sorry Deputy Commisioner, they are not disaffected, they want things their way only.

So the Top Gear team are in trouble because they mentioned Hitler or did a Nazi salute. Some sad lonely individual made a complaint (whose identity, of course must be kept secret). I'm pleased the BBC have refused to back down. We have to face our past and learn not deny or try to ignore it.

Hitler was a nutcase untimately and if he had not killed the German jews he might even had succeeded, after all he would have had a lot more soldiers/scientists/rocket experts and money. But like most that went before him and came after him they only crave their own success.

The Nazi regime was powerful and enviable in the way the Roman Empire was and the British Empire was not. Total power without concience. We, of course had one. That's why we conquered and then tried to rule with fairness and not total aggression and inevitably had to divide and rule, Indian/Pakistan, N Yemen, S Yemen, N Ireland, S Ireland, Israel/Palestine the list goes on! So does the killing.

I think the Nazis had some very reasonable attitudes which, as I say, had they not been guided to ethnic cleansing, could have been successful. The Nazi salute was based on the Roman salute, I don't hear ayone get offended when you mention the rape of Britain by the Italians in the first century? Soon anyone who was alive in WW2 will have passed and we can move on.

I used to have some sympathy for the Israelis. But it's gone on long enough. Israeli terrorists forced the removal of the Palestinians in 1947 and even killed a Uk Minister in the process, they invented modern terrorism. You could have a bit of sympathy following the Holocaust but that was 60 years ago and they continue to trade on it. Their response to Hezbullah amounts to nothing but simple execution of innocents.

There is no solution to the Middle East crisis until Israel gives in and accept their fate, then they will have the support of the world once again. Until then they will become pariahs and it's to our every increasing shame that the Uk government does not condemn it. But they have spent more time this week on ensuring that any pensioner found to put his rubbish out the night before a collection will recieve the full weight of the establishment.

Until we get our priorities right we will continue to lose the support of the rest of the world. But then there are children who climb trees to arrest and DNA.

I never believed I would say this but I wouldn't help the Police in anyway at anytime whilst they continue to use their resources in this way. Oh and I was a Police Officer once!

What sort of country wants to prosecute children for playing hopscotch on the playground, or climbing in a tree? England does (please note these laws do not apply to Scotland and Wales)!
What sort of country will not control murderers. rapists and peadophiles because it may 'interfere with their human rights'? Endgland does.

Why do half a million people leave the UK each year? because Middle England can't take much more.

What country wants to be governed by Scottish MPs? England does.

What country will eventually rise up and chaos will rage in the streets? England will (we have a reputation for it, ignore it at your peril)

Last night our cat Domino died. Up until around 5 weeks ago I was of the mindset which says 'it's only a cat, get over it and go buy a new one'. I'm 55, a professional photographer and just didn't realise that when Trixie, Domino's mum died last month that you can actually grieve for a pet.


Then yesterday Domino, who seemed healthy enough, died. A mixture of age and the heat of 35C. She died being stroked by me as I always used to (more for my own comfort than her I suspect) and hearing my voice. I don't know if this made things better for her but it did for me.

I shall miss Domino. Suddenly finding her under my feet or jumping onto my desk wiping out hours of Photoshop work and then looking at me.

Ah well .............

I'm pretty average I guess in terms of a typical Englishman, I queue when expected, I pay taxes, I don't moan and generally put up with everything. At least that's what I thought until recently. Things are changing, some quickly others slowly and I want to explore (as well as moan about) these changes.

What am I talking about?

Speed cameras, bank charges, 0800 numbers, mobile phones, personalised number plates,litter wardens, on the spot fines, government interference both local and otherwise is a reasonable start.

Take on the spot fines. Pay now or we'll take you to court and make you pay more. That isn't justice of any sort. You are effectively not being given a choice, it's a threat. Guilty as charged.
And it's not just Police, who we can assume are trained and fair in the their distribution of summary justice, but even a park warden has these powers! They are our servants, we pay their wages they should do what they used to do -'go around with a pointed stick and pick up our rubbish'! Instead they are ellivated to the position of 'policing, judging and sentencing'!

I'll finish now on speed cameras. The average speed camera costs £25,000 and lasts an average of 8 years with maintenance costs of £18,000 per year. It MUST therefore catch enough motorists to support itself. Any camera which actually stops ANY speeding would therefore be a net cost to these so called police/council partnerships so the absolute intention is to reduce 'average' speeds but be effective enough to cover it's costs although clearly there is a profit motive here with many cameras now hitting the millions in recorded fines.

If you kill the fines and have a 9 point penalty (or even a 3 month ban) you would stop speeding overnight, BUT there would be no profit in that. So you are told you were speeding, fined and then penalised again by points. It's one of the only offences where you can be penalised twice!

It's a bit like your council tax which must be paid even if they do not deliver the goods or it's prison. You can be sent to prison for not paying for services your provider is actually contracted to provide. Most councils outsource their services to private companies (did you know this?). So they contract a refuse collection company to service your road and (I used to negotiate these contracts) they ensure that there are severe penalty costs should they fail. So next time they don't clean up your road or fail to collect your rubbish remember your council will have received a nice cheque from them under their contract for failing to deliver.

If you try that then it's off to prison!