Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Slippers are a better option Sir Digby!

I could have felt sorry Sir Digby Jones at his last CBI booze up. I resisted. Greenpeace had spoiled his party. There was fatso, with Tony Blair waiting in the wings to throw the nuclear switch, when suddenly all the... Read more →

Lawyers were better! They really were.

Talk Politics are continuing to point out the absurdities of the Child Support Agency. Rather an easy target. I can remember when all maintenance disputes were dealt with by courts. Lawyers would be paid for sorting these things out. I... Read more →

Polly's Fraud

I’ve given up trying to work out the golden thread, or any thread for that matter, running through Polly Toynbee comments in the Guardian. Today inside her Trojan horse column , she’s weeping at the government’s failure to get through... Read more →

Wrong link

The obscene behaviour of the marines at Bickleigh Barracks in May this year has little to do with Deepcut bullying and more with this at Camp Breadbasket last year and this at Abu Ghraib. Read more →

Megabollocks

During PMQ's on 9th November Blair came out with this gem in a hopeless and unconvincing attempt to show how difficult it was for the boys in blue to extract data from computer hard drives. "For example, just this last... Read more →

Flipper

Thanks to A Plague of Opinion here for pointing me to this. Apparently, old flipper can do wonders for you. OK, it must be a pleasant sensation swimming in warm waters and playing with these intelligent mammals. But the BBC... Read more →

Something for nowt.

For those who are too tight-fisted spend six quid on Tim's 2005 Blogged this is my contribution Read more →

George Best

A small prize for the first to spot a media mention of George Best and Princess Diana in on the same sentence paragraph front page. Update 26th November-: As usual you can rely on.....the Sun Read more →

Weapons of Mass Conversion

Those experienced in cultivating allotments have given this advice: Don't spend much-recycle what you can. So these are a couple of containers we use for compost and leaf mold. Number one contains leaves and is made from an old piece... Read more →

Stocking filler!

OK folks it's hit the shelves. I've spoken to both Waterstones and Borders and copies are now available. Even Amazon will send your copy or copies well before you get out that old plastic Christmas tree and decorations. Amazon's synopsis... Read more →