Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Bahrain Disaster-"It Rocked Badly and Tilted Over".

I'm not suprised that this tipped over! Looks a bit on the top-heavy side to me. Update 2nd April: According to the BBC here "A boat which capsized off Bahrain with the loss of at least 58 lives was not... Read more →

Judges in the Political Arena!

The outcry against the Nicholas Blake Q.C.’s report into the Deepcut suicides has one again focussed on the use senior judicial figures to chair this type of enquiry. The debate started when Lord Hutton accepted the government’s offer to chair... Read more →

Regime Change ver2

One stated objective that Mr. Bush has repeatedly pointed to, in justifying the continued US occupation of Iraq, is helping Iraq to become a "Democracy." Today Mr. Bush asked the man who - US authorities say - was duly elected... Read more →

Are More Experts Really Needed?

I’ve blogged about this before here. And now we can see here what the Home Office proposes to do. It is suggested that “experts” could be called by the prosecution to give evidence in rape cases where the alleged victim... Read more →

BRAIN GYM - THE THEORY…

You can find this sort of drivel all over the net. Just Google Brain Gym. BRAIN GYM - THE THEORY… What is Brain Gym? Movement is a key part of the process of development and learning. Brain Gym is a... Read more →

Blair: the head, the tail, the whole damn thing

This is by far the best blog entry I've seen for weeks. It's at Bloggerheads! "For the good of the Labour Party, for the good of the country, and for the good of the whole bloody world, Tony Blair must... Read more →

"Watch the Wall"

In either the first or second year in my secondary school, I can remember being hauled off on a field trip along the Northumbrian coast from Craster to Dunstanburgh Castle. It was a foul winter's day and as I've never... Read more →

Small Men

Yesterday Robert Fisk in the Independent described Blair and Bush as small men dressed up as Titans. The New York Times adds more pygmies together with their comments unrelated to reality even when they were made. Read more →

Supervision in the Community

Today’s papers find it hard to resist screaming at the Probation Service- recently rebranded National Offender Management Service - for its apparent failure to “supervise” in the community those convicted of the horrific killing of Mary Anne Leneghan and the... Read more →

Plot 12 Update

Although the weather this weekend as they say "wasn't Miami", it was dry and just about warm enough to make our first real working visit to Plot 12 in 2006. Since new year we had made the occasional visit to... Read more →