Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Clifford Longley's Cherry Picking

I don't normally manage to catch "Thought for the Day" but this morning I was awake listening to "Today" at ten to eight. Clifford Longley, sounds gentle and soft spoken. You can read the transcript here Clifford Longley He used... Read more →

Well done Rubens

Universal healthcare is terrorist recruitment tool

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The Madeleine Fund- an update

It's some time since I've posted anything about Team McCann, but in the last few days the hunt for Madeleine got even more bizarre. The Team, fortified by a couple of ex-detectives, David Edgar and Arthur Cowley, are on the... Read more →

News of the World and Phone Hacking - Why are we surprised?

The allegations of illegal mobile phone hacking by the News of the World should have shocked no one. In July last year, I commented Max Mosley's privacy action against the News of the World. In a little publicised section of... Read more →

C4 and more WiFi scaremongering

This sort of thing gets me mad. Today, C4''s website recycles a P.A piece about WiFi technology in schools. This is not a new piece of quackery. But here we have those employed in teaching our kids coming out with... Read more →

Earthquake- L'Aquila

Earthquake Originally uploaded by mirkosim Flickr comes into its own when ordinary folk photograph extraordinary scenes. Mirkosim's photostream is well worth a visit. This is the best of a very good set. Read more →

Funding Restoration- the Venetian solution

To restore even the smallest flat in Venice is a long and therefore expensive job. Just imagine the expense of the restoration of the buildings in St Mark's Square. Many years ago whilst the Torre dell'Orologio- Clock Tower-was in the... Read more →

Ben Goldacre,Jeni Barnett, MMR and LBC's Heavy Legal Hand..!

Today, the Health Protection Agency announced a staggering 36% annual increase in the confirmed cases of measles. Since 1998, when the original, and now entirely discredited, work by Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues linked the triple MMR jab with autism... Read more →

Christopher James Galley.....who he?

Yesterday, I commented here that one of the aspects that irritated me about the leaking of information from the Home Office to Damian Green was just how "partisan" it looked. It seems that partisan should now be replaced by "party... Read more →