A Kingdom United?
A deeper look into the events and actions within the U.K. Aiming to analyse and discuss the effects events have on our daily lives, the media portrayal of such events and the political wrangling they create.
The Wake of the Week - Everyday Stories
Monday, 8 Nov 2010 — Contributed by MrShaw
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- Abu Hamza has been successful in his appeal against The British Government stripping him of his citizenship. Hamza countered the attempt with the view that because he has already been stripped of his Egyptian passport, he would become stateless. This is utter mockery of any justice system that feels is fair. Hamza would have had a nice cosy prison cell provided by the USA if The European Court of Human Rights had not interfered. Yemen had also invited Hamza over for a bit of hard labour, which was also denied. So he will remain in England for the rest days, and guess who will pay for it? David Cameron said he was "disappointed" and for the first time ever, I can guess what he really wanted to say.
- Prince Andrew has recently told the Ministry of Defence that they are rubbish and should get off their fat backsides and order some Range Rovers. British made, of course. This would be the second time recently that Government, Royals and Business have crossed swords, but the last interference was by Prince Charles so nobody was listening anyway. Prince Andrew on the other hand appeared on my radar screen for the first time in months, and was looking rather well fed, the cheeky so and so. Prince Andrew is not available for comment, as he is currently searching for his missing chin.
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- The Royal Navy Website's security was breached over the weekend. A known Romanian named "TinKode" hacked the site and has published such details as usernames and password for Administrators. Oops, that two cock ups in 1 week. Of course a spokesperson is stating "no confidential information had been disclosed". I beg to differ. The Website is "undergoing essential maintenance", as possibly are several gentleman with thick glasses, fitted white jackets and several pens in each pocket, that do not know what has just hit them.
- The SAS have revealed, or somebody has anyway, that they are now using "Dogs of War" in the fight against The Taliban. To my disappointment, Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger are not in Afghanistan. I wonder if the German Shepherds used are going to get their own "Who Dares Wins" badge.
- Trip Advisor, free travel guide and research website based in America, dropped the ball quite a long way when they hosted a Master Class for Hoteliers and the like in London. The event was scheduled to help those who use their site to advertise get the very best out of the site. As it happens the Hospitality crowd decided to use the event to berate staff on the unfairness of its operations. An attempt to start up a class action is underway. MrShaw's travel advice - Buy a Lonely Planet, book your flight then go and explore. Easy.
- Ofcom have recently rapped The Islam Channel over allegations that presenters encouraged violence against women and advocated marital rape. Sad, but not really surprising news.
- It's getting cold in the UK, and just about every newspaper has had someone write an article about it. None worth reading. It's raining, its windy and we have snow to look forward to. Nowt new there then.
- Teachers are doing it for themselves. One teacher from South Wales has been struck off for having showers with students. Another teacher had been moonlighting as a prostitute and ran an online company called "Seductive Selina". She was not struck off, possible smacked bottom? And finally one enterprising teacher has been caught in a case of plagiarism. It would seem that the teacher in question decided to copy work from students that had completed assignments, and mark it down against students who had not. He's been suspended from teaching for one year, but is at home and currently reading T.S. Eliot, H.G. Wells, Helen Keller and Stephen King, for research purposes of course.
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- The Royal Family has setup a page on Facebook. This means millions of befuddled Internet users can look at pictures of The Queen on 3 different social sites, as well as The Official Royal Website. Personally I get enough of seeing her evil snarl every time I pay for something. No doubt it will be more popular than this particular rant.
- And to round off, it would seem that having held the rank of Kings and Queens when it comes to queuing, we are becoming less patient with it all and it might even lead to a bit of geriatric Fistycuffs if Maude doesn't get to pay for her tin of processed peas, a tomato, 20 Regal King Size and a bottle of Sherry within 10 minutes. Personally I am all for a little bit of fun in the supermarket queue, however friends tell me "You are not funny" and "You take the joy out of shopping". If you see a lunatic with huge headphones on, making a right racket and scaring grannies and checkout girls, that's me.
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Facebook Queen abuse
Buckingham Palace have already had to remove abusive posts to their new Facebook page. Couldn't see that one coming a mile off, and it wasn't me!
Yeah, really really not
Yeah, really really not surprising, that. Quite naive of the page maintainers, although I suppose the royal family's not expected to be particularly Internet-savvy.
Seize the skull!
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