Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

First of the season's spuds from plot #12

Anne tells me that vegetables are always a wee bit later to mature up north. Today, she has cropped the first early spuds. They are a variety called "Rocket". Read more →

Did the News of the World really try blackmail to get evidence against Mosley?

A section of the judgement in in the Mosley v News of the World case (pdf) that appears to have gone unnoticed are paragraphs 82 to 87.They are incendiary Download the judgement and type the word "blackmail" into your Adobe... Read more →

Lost in Translation.....Again

Craig Murray here complains about the "shamelessness" of Brown's speech to the Knesset today. He also has a go at of his former colleagues at the FCO who were responsible for drafting such a "tendentious and warmongering" piece. But unusually... Read more →

I shudder to think.....!

On a day when half our troops are grumbling they don't want to stay in the forces and that they want to live in higher standard accommodation, I shudder to think how tomorrow this fair compensation paid to an Iraqi... Read more →

Stewart Baseley-have you no shame?

I don't shout the radio very often- usually it's the television that suffers- but this morning's Today programme got me going. It was on the back of the terrible news from various housebuilding firms laying off large numbers of their... Read more →