An Englishman's CastleThe jaundiced views of a free born Englishman from behind the barbed wire of a Wiltshire farm - blasting the Bogusmongers and other assorted pondlife.NHS bosses need guide to find their own arses- July 11, 2008 Professional travel adviser to show NHS staff how to get to new health headquarters - Telegraph Health chiefs have been criticised for hiring an official adviser to inform staff how to get to their new 1.4 million headquarters on time....http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006066.html Well Done David- July 11, 2008 David Davis wins Haltemprice by-election as turnout halves - Telegraph Mr Davis said his victory had been a "shot across the bows of Gordon Brown's arrogant, arbitrary and authoritarian Government". "Today the people of Haltemprice and Howden have delivered a...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006065.html Prudence gets spanked- July 10, 2008 EU action on Britain over budget deficit - Telegraph European Union finance ministers have voted to condemn Britain for flagrant breach of the Maastricht spending rules, irked that the UK government has not even tried to keep its budget deficit...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006064.html Cleaning the EUgean Stables- July 10, 2008 Tory MEPs' anger as David Cameron orders 'deep clean' of expenses - Telegraph Conservative MEPs have reacted furiously after David Cameron ordered a "deep clean" of their expenses and ordered them to accept public scrutiny or leave the European Parliament....http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006063.html It was twenty years ago today - Happy Birthday Harry- July 10, 2008http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006062.html David Davis - Eccentric, just what the country needs- July 10, 2008 David Davis: rebellious, risk-taking...but patriotic - Telegraph Society has become so risk-averse and litigious that eccentricity is squeezed out. ...the idea of eccentricity as a peculiarly English characteristic began only in the late 18th century, as part of a conservative...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006061.html Haltemprice and Howden - Geldof on why voting is important- July 10, 2008 Don't let 'Brave New Britain' remove our fundamental rights - Telegraph By Bob Geldof Today's by-election in Haltemprice and Howden is not normal. It is extraordinary. The people there are not being asked to consider the competing policies of government...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006060.html JFGI - The Lesson For Today- July 9, 2008 How the Google generation thinks differently - Times Online Digital natives and digital immigrants are terms coined by the American futurist Marc Prensky to distinguish between those who have grown up with technology and those who have adapted to it....http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006059.html The Il Duce Solution to England's Ills- July 9, 2008 The market cannot mend our broken society David Selbourne - Times Online In the mid-19th century, many thinkers regarded the condition of England as dire. Carlyle called it ominous. Established beliefs were waning, communities were being destroyed by industrialisation...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006058.html Manufactured Nigger Row - Who's The Intolerant Bigot- July 9, 2008 Storm over Tory peer Lord Dixon-Smiths nigger in woodpile remark - Times Online Lord Dixon-Smith, 73, a Eurosceptic farmer from Essex, replied: I apologise, my Lords. I left my brains behind. I apologise to the House. He told The Times...http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/006057.html |