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Vernon Creedy (MP, Lab) wants to make sure all your twitterings, pokes and ramblings are recorded against your emails, phone calls and mutterings. The cunt.     The UK government is considering the mass surveillance and retention of all user communications on social-networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, and Bebo. Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker…

After the debacle of the Polish Spitfire in their Battle of Britain campaign, the BNP are now invoking the image of Winston Churchill as their idea of a positive racist role model. Nicholas Soames is not so impressed.. Churchill prepares Britain to save the world, from Hitler and the Nazis. “But if we fail, then the…

I notice that the Immigration Appeals building in Old Holborn has er… “caught fire” .     This feature has been brought to you by the Nigerian State Petrol Company.

I had an argument about six weeks ago with some tendy lefty over the consequences of HMG running out of money. Being a publically paid college lecturer and brighter than the average bear, he snorted The Government will not run out of money.”Thats rubbish and you know it”. This morning it has hit home in…

All it’d need is a photocopier, lots of Tippex and some lackies to replace ‘drunk’ with ‘spliffy’. Gareth

Next year’s British Motor Show has been cancelled because of the crisis in the car industry. It is the first time the iconic show has been cancelled – apart from during the two World Wars – since it began more than 100 years ago. Organisers blamed the economic downturn and the ‘unprecedented challenge’ facing the…

How much more freedom could we possibly have? Or, for that matter, how much more privacy? Our neighbours don’t grass on us, they don’t even know our names. You may feature somewhere as a number in a government database; you used to appear on carbon-paper duplicates in government filing cabinets. Before that, your ancestors were…

This is going to be good. I’ve shared a few pints with Guido and once gave 10p to a piss stained tramp for “a cup of tea” at Waterloo so this is a match made in heaven. Don’t miss it. Swiss Bob is covering it live and I’ll be moderating (yeah, right)

This overnight from Libertarians in the States Derek Copp was shot in his upper right chest. The bullet traveled down, hitting his lung and liver, and lodging in his back. One of the event organizers and Copp’s friend, Greg Hatt, said enough was enough. “This was kind of the breaking point,” Hatt said. “It finally…

A panty-clad Italian porn star shook up the Milan stock exchange on Tuesday by accusing flummoxed financiers of ”stripping Italians of everything but their underwear”. Laura Perego, 22, crept into the bourse in a cloak and threw it off as she jumped onto a table in her panties and body paint in the Italian national…