Journal of the Plague Years

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Contents of The Journal:

• 1. The Most Recent Entries ( Current Journal )
• 2. Core Topic Pages. Articles fundamental to the site, including some which I particularly hope you'll look at.
• 3. The Classified Pages. After a few days, most items are classified (broadly) by topic. [Or see 'Journal Items - Classified': margin, left.]
• 4. Miscellaneous Items. Items that are not easily classified. [Links: 'Journal Items - General': margin, left.]
• 5. The Fleet Ditch. Postings past their sell-by dates.
• 6. Log of the Site. For my own records.

>> The fastest growing page on the site is the collection of articles on <<
>> Corruption. <<

This site wholly disgrees with Lillian Ladele on most issues, but totally supports her in
her dispute with Islington Council.

>>> Don't forget our disappearing Civil Liberties: 16 Down and Counting <<<

>>> Then, for a little light relief, come and be mean to JACQUI SMITH with me <<<

1. The Most Recent Entries:

27 July - Journal
Irish rejection of the EU treaty.

25 July - Journal
On being patronised by a PPS.

24 July - Journal
How to alienate those who might support you...

22 July - Journal
ID Cards need not pathe the way to a Totalitarian State.

21 July - Journal
You mustn't photograph strangers - unless they can't see you.
Breach of Contract (I mean, the one between an elected Government Minister and the People!)

19 July - Journal
Trading People.

18 July - Journal
Lonely Bull.
We may well still have SATs; but it seems, after all, that 'Standard' doesn't mean standards.

17 July - Journal
Go back to first principles. And start by abandoning SATs.

16 July - Journal
Blair as Casus Belli?

16 July - New 'Specials' page created - Jacqui Smith
Ms. Smith as a possible successor to G. Brown?

16 July - Updated page: Lillian Ladele

15 July - Journal
UK plc.

14 July - Journal
China, Darfur and Oil.
Reactive Government... (Note added, 15 July.)

13 July - Journal
On This Day... Please celebrate with me.

12 July - Journal
A breath of reason...
...But the arguments will go on.
Sex on the Beach.

11 July - Journal
The rights of the individual vs. the demands of the pressure group. (Lillian Ladele and Stonewall.)

10 July - Journal
Alastair Sim.

09 July - Journal
Crippen and Capital Punishment.

07 July - Journal
I'm not forcing anything on you!

05 July - Journal
A home-secretarial grasp of reality?

03 July - Journal
It's the pursed, morally-certain little mouths that really wind me up.

02 July - Journal
A liberty lost in Barnet. .

01 July - Journal
Peter's the Chap
Ben Kinsella.

30 June - Journal
Two channels with but a single thought!

30 June - 16 Down and Counting
Added: another liberty which has gone missing. (No 25, and still counting.)

30 June - New section added - FRAGMENTS. (See left hand margin).
A place for things which have nothing to do with main part of the site, but which I want to put on the web.

24 June - Journal
I have never called a Hofficer of the Law a pig. Now it turns out that some of them are pig ignorant.

22 June - Journal
Do they mean constipation?
Proactive accusation.
Sticking the knife in.

21 June - Journal
We must work to emulate The Great Thinker.
Poverty in England.
Unfinished impressions.

Journal (01 June - 20 June 2008) including
The Great Helmsman's respect for his people... not!
Today we shall light such a candle...
Damn your 'faith institute'.
Boom time for the wide boys.
I support Davis absolutely and wholeheartedly; but only on the liberties debates.
The security state, aground again, grinds on.
If neither the environment nor social justice, just what is Brown caring about when he wakes up 'hurting with us'?
Which is more important: hammering Brown or fighting for our liberties?
Speaking Truth to Power. (Dianne Abbott.)
Jacqui Smith has her script prepared. And rehearsed. Many times.
The Captain of the RMS Social Justice all at sea, chucking his passengers overboard.
The Truckers, hurting their friends.
Another fortress against the attacks of Forces of Evil. Who are, of course, defeated and demoralised.
Sentimental Send-off. (Bush in Europe.)
Oceania continues to prevail against the dastardly and cowardly regime in Eurasia. Forward with Big Brother.
If you can't manage to say the right thing, Mr. Browne, just say nothing.
A warning, or simply an endorsement with caveats? ('A Surveillance Society'.)
Supporting the chaps, contemporary style.
MPs on a flying visit to the real world. (Surveillance.)
d'Ancona on Smith
Justice: a stranger in a strange land.
Harmany 'n Marriage.
Obama as nominee...
Mixed messages. (Do children need a father?)
Does Brown want to alienate us?
Primavera for Primarolo? I don't think it'll reach the top ten...
The first English astronaut on Tharg will complain because the Zeetons don't serve fish'n'chips.

06 June - Journal - Oil: $140 pb.

Journal (21 May - 31 May 2008) including:
Vive le Compainie!
The Oil Problem.
Those good folks at TV Licensing.
A kid needs a dad like a fish needs a bicycle.
Is Brown committed to social justice?
Where the interests of some Labour MPs really lie...
Foreign food putting our parsnips out of a job.
Harriet Harman, Whip.
Cluster bombs as an essential part of an ethical UK foreign policy.
US Government to have access to full information on every British Citizen (all sixty million of us).

20 May - New page created, in support of Lillian Ladele.

16 May - Oil: $120 pb. (Perhaps too depressing to start recording world corn prices, too...)

Journal (11 May - 20 May 2008), including
Have you tried the ground-down bark of pine trees in your bread?
Morality and religion in the abortion debate.
Further to Lillian Ladele and 'A Case Of Conscience'.
Is legislation the right way to promote respect for members of the armed services?
God blesses the Blairs because He knows that they're good people.
But of course life is worth less, there.
You never were Prime Minister, Mrs. Blair. You weren't elected to represent anyone. So now you've gone, please just shut up.
President Ma Clinton might well have proved a monster.
The Independent at less than it's best. (But at least the Christian Aid report gets an airing.)
The People's Post Office.

Journal (01 May - 10 May 2008), including
Nothing really changes.
When are we going to sort our ideas out?
Did Blair achieve a new first - opinionated apparatchi(c)ks?
A constant plaint from your web-host is that the government is not guided by scientific evidence.
Burma.
Clone Time!
TV's power to inform?
Lessons of the Election.
Are you still here, Mrs. Clinton?
I may never vote Tory, but she deters me from voting Labour, either.
As the Blond Bombshell replaces Red Ken (if he does), who can replace The Great Helmsman?

02 May - New page added - My Manifesto.
If Blair can have a third way, I can have a fourth (until I think of a sensible name)... to be worked on in the coming weeks...

Journal (11 Apr - 30 Apr 2008), including
Is my brain better than the best available to the government?
The law made, a world away from the lawmakers.
A free hand for the SA in modern Ingerland.
Blair Babe to the rescue. Yeah.
Kirche, Kuche, Kinder.
Scientists, like athletes, sometimes failing to understand that they're not above politics.

09 April 2008:
New Page Added - Classified - Food
New Page Added - Classified - The Olympics
These are obviously going to be major issues over the next few months.

(I'm adding so many pages to the sub-menu that I can see it's becoming a bit difficult to navigate... I'll do something about this asap.)

New Page Added - The Prudence Brown Fan and Fun Club
Maybe I'm taking myself too seriously on this site - so this to lighten up...

Journal (01 Apr - 10 Apr 2008), including
Immigration Amnesty.
NOTA.
Maher Arer, Blair and Moral Repugnance.
'In the opinion of the British people...'
Immigrants with skills.
Targets and their (incessant) unintended consequences.

Journal (21 Mar - 31 Mar 2008), including:
Punishment by Machine.
The Obsession With Executive Flight in Cool Britannia.
Zimbabwe's Rotten Boroughs.
Blackstock Road.
Praying for Peace in Basra.
Not a good day for Democracy.
The Games. They're just games.
The BBC and Motor Racing.

Journal (11 Mar - 20 Mar 2008), including:
Far from rebelling, we vote to be branded.
The House is the new Coll.
Grim Anniversary.
CCTV I, II, III
Haditha.
Did we support the war?
Lies, Damned Lies and Narrative.
The Stench of Hypocrisy. Again.
The South Bank Show.
Literacy and the Proms.
Standing up to be counted.
The meaning of 'Liberal', US style vs. UK style.
Taxing those who can most afford it.
Long Life To Chairman Brown: Ever Forward With The Great Prudence.
Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner.
What is a 'National Debate'?
Rite of Passage. (The Oath to the Queen.)

14 March 2008 - Oil: $100 pb.

13 March 2008 - New page created - Classified - Justice


2. Core Topic Pages.

I hope you'll visit these pages:
Civil Liberties - 16 down and counting. The liberties we're seeing eroded: currently up to '22 down'.
Population - The Maths.

The Blair Question:
Blame Blair for 7 July.
Impeaching Blair.

Personal thoughts:
The Plague.
Kill For God, or Let God Do The Killing?

Specials - Discussions in the News:
A Canterbury Tale (Dr. Willaims Speech)
Lillian Ladele vs. Islington Council

Other pages at various stages of development: links in the left margin.

3. The Classified Pages.

The Big Brother State: Liberties ID Cards Surveillance Police Control Justice
The Body Politic: Mens Publica The Thought Police Multiculturalism Mens Forensis Corruption Competence Elf'n'Safety Health

Education Economics Post-Modernism Prime Ministers

The Way We Treat Each Other: Middle East Religion & Politics Sharia Holocaust and History The Olympics
The Environment: Pollution and Climate Population Food
Religion and The Atheist: Social Darwinism Dawkins & Religion

The rest of this page is made up of lists of postings, and is mainly intended for purposes of site management.

Classified - Liberties (Page change 12.05.08)
A stirring moment (of propaganda), long gone.
The Secret Ballot.
Freedom from arbitrary attachment of money and property.
One Of Our (Ancient) Liberties Is Missing.
Lofti.
Magna Carta Besieged.
Why Don't You Do Something?
New Lamps for Old...
In Honour of the Omnibus.
Sovereignty.
Parenting Classes
Data Protection:
Internal Passports.
Your Hospital Manager against Terrorism and Organised Crime:
The Killers of Stephen Lawrence:
A Very British Coup; [Channel Four 1988]:
Letter to the Independent, Sept 2004.

Classified - ID Cards (Page change 07.05.08)
National Identity Scheme - Delivery Strategy
Propaganda for the databases.
Right in principle, wrong in detail.
You Have To Laugh. Or Something.
More Data Loss. Nothing To Worry About.
Promiscuous Data-Management.
"A Serious Renewed Debate" on ID Cards
Blunkett: Robespierre is Alive and Well.
Comments Received: Most People Just Forget:
By the way... (re the missing discs)
Letters to an Editor:

Classified - Surveillance (Page change 14.07.08)
Photography with intent!
Mugshot Mania.
A camera seen is a camera respected.
CCTV Discussions.
CCTV (in 3 parts)
Kids and their Street Theatre.
If you've got nothing to hide...
Ipsos Custodes.
Sadiq Khan MP seems to have heard the click! (But he can't have done - there was no application...)
Do you hear the click as they intercept your call? (The Paranoia Slot.)
Panorama and the Security Industry Authority (SIA).
What do you call the next bit of the wedge up from the thin end?
An Icy Sense of Despair.
Being watched:

Classified - Police (Page change 25.05.08)
Littlejohn on Mark Saunders. ('Suicide by Cop.')
Our brave lads in The Greater Manchester Squad. Again.
Blackstock Road.
The Ever-Vigilant West Midlands Police.
Politicising the Police.
Why do Night-Soil Collectors think they're entitled to free time?
The Policeman And The Vicar.
Police Pay.
Preventing Crime.
Not in the papers.
A New Slant On 'Justice Must Be Seen'.
A Policeman's Strip
Does Being Held To Account Stop the Police from Doing their Job?
Richard Brunstrom, Chief Constable of North Wales:
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates.

Classified - Control (Page change 26.05.08)
The bureaucrats, bringing insult into every sitting-room in the land...
The Sex Discrimination Act 1978 (Amendment) Regulations 2008.
Violence on children for fun and profit... and all completely legal.
From The Guardian, 29 Feb. (Ben Griffin.)
The Mosquito.
UK - In Control.
The State is Guardian to your Child.
A Dangerous Illusion.
Targeting Babies.
The Spider's Web. #
Bin Tax
We don't lose all our data in the street; tons of it get lost right here behind the filing cabinet.
Government As The Arbiter Of Morality.
Who Owns Your Body? Who Owns You?

Classified - Justice (Page change 13.05.08)
The British Way, now: Guilty until proven Innocent (as a matter of course)...
On Secret Trials.

Classified - Mens Publica (Page change 12.05.08)
Thinking about a manifesto of my own...
The Benign Government.
The Public Memory.
Tie A Yellow Ribbon On The Old Oak Tree.
1957
A Healthy Respect For Our Constitution...
On the Nature of Society.
27 Words for 'Snow':
We Love Our Leaders, especially when they don't give a damn about us.
These Scroungers on our streets
The Climate of Fear in British Society:
Maybe it's only the Samaritans who are good.

Classified - The Thought Police
Wimmin.
The Most Shameful Posting I've Ever Made. But I'm Tired Of Being Censored.
A Case Of Conscience. (Lillian Ladele) #

Classified - Multiculturalism
Bogus and Flabby?
Multiculturalism Under Attack.
A Letter to a Paper (Unattributed)

Classified - Mens Forensis (Page change 17.05.08)
Jacqui Smith, Blair Babe Clone and Total Prat. A rant!
Ex Cabinetta.
British Empire Building
Just a Thought.
Ignorance Is Not Innocence:
Dianne Abbott.
The Adversarial Nature of The British System. #

Classified - Corruption (Page change 01.06.08)
Corruption as an assault: When it affects children, it's child-abuse.
Expenses are a matter between an MP and his trough.
The Corruption just goes on and on; and you and I just pay for it... and you don't even whimper.
Expenses and the Probity of MPs.
Livingstone; he presumes.
Mourning for Cincinnatus.
Render unto Corruption what is Caesar's...
The Damned.
The fish rotting from the head.
The stench of corruption is not masked by the nosegay of legality.
Is the House corrupt?
Just make sure your crime is on a grand scale.
The Gravy Train.
You are not Honourable, Mr. Brown.
Mr. Speaker Martin
What's the point of power without a bit of healthy nepotism?
Hain's Out.
A Kind Of Darling?
Hain Again.
Sometimes getting it wrong?
Apologies That Aren't, No 194.
Hain's Defence?
Nemo Me Custodiet. (or, Finance and Finangling.)
People Who Use People Part II
People Who Use People.
My submission for Quote Of The Year.
A Change Of Perspective.
Simon Carr (with acknowledgment) on Hatty Harman.
Commercial Confidentiality. #
Teflon Triumphant.
Ignorance is Innocence.
Donorgate 2
Moth and Rust...

Classified - Competence
Civil Service Out, Incompetence In?
And Today's Rant Goes To LloydsTSB.
Sixty Billion Pounds. (Northern Rock)
Ruth Kelly.
Jacqui Smith.
Who needs The Graces? We have Jacqui Smith and Jack Straw!
Accountability.

Classified - Elf'n'Safety
A More Rational Approach To Risk Assessment?
How far can you go with Health and Safety rules?
Risk Assessment - Dipping a Toe into the Water:

Classified - Health (Page change 07.05.08)
Don't exorcise one Demon by introducing another.
Asbestos In Schools.
The Causes Of Suicide.
Supply and Demand: Doctors.
It's The Way Things Are Going.
A Fair Bite of the Apple for Doctors.
Be Careful When You Buy An Aspirin.
The Right To Commit Suicide.

Classified - Education (Page change 12.05.08)
The Virtues of Phlogiston.
Hammering Education.
Half a dozen grapefruit is a gross lemon.
Dis/Connected.
Baby ASBOs
The Way Forward.
Payment-by-Results and the Old Right.
Steer Clear of Childcare.
The Early Years Foundation Stage.
An Earlier School Day.
I'm still angry at the Thought Police...
The Mc-A level.
On Private Education.
The Bell At The End Of Class.
Education And Skills Bill.
Wells, Shaw and Dickens.
Missing Teachers.
Education as a Football.
Spice Girls, Balls.
Our Spice Girls Are Our Future.
The Ugly Side of School League Tables:

Classified - Economics (Page change 14.07.08)
A stay of execution for Britain's oil age: Shall we use it well?
The First Lord Of The Treasury and his Darling of the Exchequer still haven't got it right.
Don't repossess, buy for rent-back. (Businesses do it all the time.)
I have a headache, Darling.
The Free Market is Good for You.
Passing the Buck (or, in this case, the devaluing pound).
Feeding the (money) junkies.
The 10p Rate.
I think I'm going to offer my services as Chancellor. (When I've finished there, I'll sort the England team.)
Do the experts actually know what they're talking about?
Rant of the Day.
For a government trying to balance its books, building flood defences makes no sense.
Interest rates - Conclusion.
Interest rates and inflation.
Interest rates should go up.
Taxing those who can least afford it.
Who can afford a house?
PS to the Northern Rock saga...
A House In The North.
Assets Of Straw. Or Just Off-shore. #
The Banks and their schemes: why do we just sit back and let them do these things?
Addled Egg.
Economic Consequences of Mrs. Thatcher. #
Demand for oil will NOT outstrip supply for many years yet. #
Northern Rock, Postscript.
Northern Rock Progress Report by One Who Understands.
Darling Darling - How He Does Mislead!

Classified - Post-Modernism and Surrealism (Page change 12.05.08)
A free hand for the SA in modern Ingerland.
How are the mighty fallen, and the symbols of pride perished...
An awesome experience...
British Citizen, American Suspicion.
Fraud and the Inexplicable.
1984
Death sentence was procedurally correct, so innocence is irrelevant. #
Sometimes I think It's Just Me...
Interesting Use of Words.

Classified - Prime Ministers (Page change 07.05.08)
He's completely graceless.
Breakfast in Tokyo, Lunch in New York... or was it Moscow? Or was it Elevenses in Peking?
A Nice Word for that Mr. Brown.
Just say whatever comes to mind, Mr. Brown.
How did I not notice it sooner?
President For Life Idi Blair Dada.
Cling To Nurse...
It's The Great Leader, Hooray.
Lisbon.
Not like Flashman, exactly, but...
Is Brown A Busted Flush?
Defence Spending:
The Morality of Mr. Brown.

Classified - Middle East (Page change 12.06.08)
A chance for Blair to begin his rehabilitation?
Still Blairless in Gaza.
Europol dares to criticise the Dear and Great Leaders.
Protest against the Iraq invasion is moral, as well as legal.
So it's not just football stadia and airlines they do well, then...
It's not new information that we're after...
Anti-War Bores.
Was the war legitimate?
Blairless in Gaza.
The Williams Draft. #
Dubai.
Sohail Qareshi.
For Once, They Should Be Lying.
Paranoia.
Politics Destroy People.
A Silly Person.
Project Kalima: Brilliant! #

Classified - Religion & Politics (Page change 11.05.08)
The HJ-Mann in America.
(We're told that) God Demands Cruelty.
Whited Sepulchre.
Conscience and the Fertility Bill.
Canterbury And The Hand Of Peace.
Police Protection...
It seem that it was a silly phrase.
The Call To Prayer, Sounding Over The Rooves And Spires Of Oxford.
Blair and Rome, Part 94.
God and blair get together!
Not Quite The End, After All?
Christmas Part II
Christmas.
The End Of Protestant England?
Double Standards.
Doing Religion (Or Not).
Music In The Mall, Again.
Sleighbells At The Mall, Wassail.
The War Criminal And The HJ-Mann. #
The Golden Compass.

Classified - Sharia
Multiculturalism could have been Enlightenment manifest.
Accommodating Sharia within the British legal system.
Sharia On Television.
Is Islamic fervour really sweeping the world?
Dr. Muhammad Abdul Bari;

Classified - Holocaust and History (Page change 17.05.08)
Another Naive Question...
The Twenties in Colour.
Halmoni.
A Childish Tantrum... but it is my site...
Haditha.
The Irredentist Kurds.
Turkey Flexes Its (Racist) Muscles.
Rewriting History.
Aya Zayoun.
London Then And Now: The Plague, 1665. #
London Then And Now. #
Peasants and Proles. (Life isn't always 'onward and upward')
Easy To Forget - British Indian Ocean Territories
Estonia and the SS. #
Convenient Forgetfulness (Germany, Poland):
Holocaust Denial - Turkey

Classified - The Olympics (Page change 11.06.08)
Olympic Park Development.
The Chinese may have good reasons not to listen, but we should still tell them...
The Master Race.
Splittism.
To Beijing or not to Beijing?
Written in fulminating anger...
Running the 100 metres is more important than the human rights of millions.
Are 'Free Tibet' t-shirts legal?
Just a reminder...
Brown Deng.
How does it feel to be a London policeman taking orders from a Beijing heavy?
Homage to the IOC.
The Olympic Torch through London.
Not just Tibet.
As a ratepayer, all I can see so far is that the Olympics have already cost me a lot of money.
For God's Sake, Milligramme, Shut Up.
Criticise China because China is not a basket-case.
The Games. They're just games.
Tibetan Protests.
Soon, We'll Have Moved On.
Priorities (London, 2012)
Darfur and Tibet.
The Chinese Olympics.
Tibet.

Classified - Pollution and Climate (Page change 07.07.08)
Vince Cable on bee-keeping.
Nightmares of the Future.
Extinction. (The Living Planet Index.)
One piece of news today may soon eclipse all the rest, even the earthquake in China... (The Living Planet Index.)
A purely Meldrewesque rant about the endless and inescapable noise all around us, even in the sticks.
'Aviation is a benchmark of environmental responsibility for others to follow.' (IATA spokesman.)
Read the Daily Mail for intellectual rigour and a clear understanding of science. Then again, perhaps not.
The Forgotten Chorus.
The ocean currents and a gift of time...
What does it take?
'Anaerobic Digestion'. Such fun...
Plastic Waste In The Ocean - Thirty Five Years Of Evidence.
Dominic Lawson come home, all is forgiven.
Coal is the New Clean.
I'm filing a patent for a battery-driven, self-opening beer bottle.
Pie in the Sky.
LloydsTSB: Never Mind The Profits, Feel The Heat...
Brown Isn't Green.
Circle The Wagons!
How To Save The Planet!
The River Wandle (South London)
They Simply Don't Get It.
Even if it isn't too late, I don't think we have the political will.
Green Watch.

Classified - Population (Page change 22.04.08)
Which is more damaging - the lie or the silence?
It does matter, but I don't suppose anyone will take any notice...
Blessed by God?
Asylum and Immigration.
An Objective Assessment of the Impact, please.
On Abortion.
Immigration and The Bishop Of Rochester.
On Migration; On Immigration.
Andrew Marr: Mankind On The Brink (Daily Mail)
How Wonderful?
You May Have Been Right After All, Mr. Malthus.
UK population may almost double in this century.
Ulrika:

Classified - Food (Page change 09.07.08)
Zombie seed. (One year on; a reprise.)
The Pork Barrel.
Business as usual.
When twits there be on telly screen, then crops shall be all ripe and... green.
"We are sleepwalking into a crisis." (Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at the University of Leeds.)
Supermarket Shelves.
The Price of Food
Fishing Quotas

Classified - Social Darwinism
Tweenies.
The Undeserving Poor.
Man's life is cheap as beasts. #
The lack of 'God-Given Talents'.

Classified - Dawkins and Religion
Come back Diocletian - all is forgiven!
The True Glory Of Creation.
Dawkins. #
On the Nature of God's Self-Awareness.

4. Miscellaneous Items.

General - Journal (21 Mar - 31 Mar 2008)
It's a terrible thing to say, but I regret that sympathy with Fayed for the death of his son is exhausted.
Just make sure your crime is on a grand scale.
Punishment by Machine.
The Obsession With Executive Flight in Cool Britannia.
The spin must go on...
He's completely graceless.
'B'
Zimbabwe's Rotten Boroughs.
So it's not just football stadia and airlines they do well, then...
The Tower of Babel? Or just a system too complex...
Don't exorcise one Demon by introducing another.
Plastic Waste In The Ocean - Thirty Five Years Of Evidence.
Yesterday Once More.
Praying for Peace in Basra.
Not a good day for Democracy.
Violence on children for fun and profit... and all completely legal.
Freedom from arbitrary attachment of money and property.
Breakfast in Tokyo, Lunch in New York... or was it Moscow? Or was it Elevenses in Peking?
The BBC and Motor Racing.
It's not new information that we're after...
A Nice Word for that Mr. Brown.
Conscience and the Fertility Bill.
Anti-War Bores.
Baby ASBOs

General - Journal ( 11 Mar - 20 Mar 2008)
Far from rebelling, we vote to be branded.
The House is the new Coll.
Change for Change's Sake?
CCTV Discussions.
Grim Anniversary.
CCTV I, II, III
A Childish Tantrum... but it is my site...
Haditha.
Inquiries.
Did we support the war?
Lies, Damned Lies and Narrative.
The Stench of Hypocrisy. Again.
The South Bank Show.
If you sup with the Devil, use a long spoon...
Literacy and the Proms.
Manifestations.
Standing up to be counted.
The meaning of 'Liberal', US style vs. UK style.
Long Life To Chairman Brown: Ever Forward With The Great Prudence.
Maybe It's Because I'm A Londoner.
What is a 'National Debate'?
Priorities.
Sanctimoniousness - a new deadly sin.
Rite of Passage. (The Oath to the Queen.)

General - Journal (01 Mar - 10 Mar 2008)
Pigs Flying (Gadarene Style).
A Failure in Reporting.
10 Days To War.
They're the bad guys, and so we're told; so there's no need to look deeper.
A Bit of Number-Crunching.
Closing Time.
Ex Cabinetta.
Jodrell Bank.
The Truth Is Out There.. and it may annoy you.
A Continental Air.
The Lisbon Referendum.
Steer Clear of Childcare.
Blairless in Gaza.
The Irredentist Kurds.
Our unspoken, commercial assumptions about the world.
From The Guardian, 29 Feb.
The Best Interests Of The Country.
'Dirty scalpels bring 5,000 ops to a halt.' (The Observer, today.)
Why buy a video-game?
Anti-depressants don't work. If you say they do, you are wrong.

General - Journal (21 Feb - 29 Feb 2008)
Marriage and Cohabitation.
White Season. (BBC from next week).
It Stands To Reason.
Wikileaks.
Pay her to look after children?
Policing Skills and the Database.
Apologia Pro Su' Website (or something...) after Four Weeks Online.
On Balance.
I Don't Think I'm Into Dirigisme...

General - Journal (11 Feb - 20 Feb 2008)
'Good' laws are those which protect individuals, resolve disputes and keep the Queen's Peace. Nothing more.
The Supreme Leader And Father Of His Nation presumably knows what he's doing. I don't.
Wormy Picture Frames... ('The gift which goes on giving!')
Anarcho-tyranny.
Pakistan and South Korea.
The Men Of Blood (again).
Self-indulgent Twerps.
Trev.
Not us, Guv.
The Man With A Sandwich-Board. #
Dubya's undoubted respect for human dignity.
A Bill Of Rights And Responsibilities. #
Renewed Calls For The Death Penalty.

General - Journal (01 Feb - 10 Feb 2008)
Bigotry builds on bigotry.
If Parvez were executed, would it be Blair's fault?
Monkey See, Monkey Kill.
A Parallel Universe.
Novel ways to lose data.
Axes To Grind. (Re; Bleedin' Scroungers, yesterday)
Bleedin' Scroungers.

General - Journal (21 Jan - 31 Jan 2008)
The Great Media Swindle.
Personal Political Broadcast on behalf of Mr. Obama.
Feedback Frenzy...
US and Japanese Cultural Imperialism.
Rape. #
Keyboard Man Strikes Again:
A Philosophical Gem from the keyboard of a Master.
Englishness and Britishness.
One feeds on slime, the other's a fish.

General - Journal (05 Jan - 20 Jan 2008)
Young Rebels, Old Establishment.
Target Targets.
A Bit Of Your Correspondent's Own Soul-Searching.
Planning or Surfing?
They're Here! They're Here!
Private Eye on the New Year
Respect For Our Elders And Betters.
Janet Street-Porter

General - Journal (21 Dec 07 - 04 Jan 08)
Signed Programmes on Television
Opinions need to be moderated.
"Time is running out!"
Doom and Gloom may Save Your Life.
TV isn't too loud, it's too quiet.
You can trust the scientists...
Me on Capital Punishment.
Princess Diana.
On Selecting An Embryo.
Debt and Obesity.
Mr. Ali Is Going To Change His Name
A Jihad for 2008
The Things People Say
Benazir Bhutto

General - Journal (05 Dec - 20 Dec 2007)
The Scum of the Earth.
Great Britain... plc.
Not Again!
On A Field Azur; A Lion Rampant Argent, E-maled.
Sometimes, we need to live in Dreamtime.
Britishness.
Love means having to say you're sorry - properly.
I should Draw A Line and Move On...
All Around I See... (A slant on life)

General - Journal (Sept - Nov 2007)
Plagues Then and Now (Are things now worse than in the past?)
Comments Received (a): Blair Babes
Perhaps, after all, it really doesn't matter.
Punished for Paying Our Taxes
On The Beach
'Last and First Men'; (Olaf Stapledon)
Elections aren't for us
Too much of a Good Thing

5. The Fleet Ditch. Old posts past their sell-by dates.
(Once a river, the Fleet became an open sewer through the centre of London. Everything was chucked in there, from night-soil to corpses.)

6. Log of the Site.

05 March 2008 - 'Special' added - A Canterbury Tale.
The ABC's 'Sharia is inevitable' speech: collected personal postings.

27 February 2008 - New page added - Blame Blair for 7 July
Blair denied that the bombings in London were linked to Iraq. He's wrong.

26 February 2008 - New page created - Classified - Multiculturalism

19 February 2008 - New page created - Classified - The Thought Police

14 February 2008 - New page added - Impeaching Blair
My first consciously and overtly crusading political posting on this website.

13 February 2008 - New page created - Classified - Sharia
How could I not?

10 February 2008 - New page added - The Fleet Ditch
A final resting-place for old postings.

10 February 2008 - Support Your Local Police
I've updated this page a bit, but hidden it from the net for now because it isn't ready to be an entry page, yet..

03 February 2008 - New page created - Classified - Social Darwinism

30 January 2008 - New page created - Classified - Economics

(30 January 2008: I recognise that this site is good in parts, not so good in others. For a period, I'm experimenting, marking with a hash sign ('#') those items which I would hope that visitors might make a special effort to read.)

29 January 2008: I hope I've set up a CONTACT page, through which I hope you may e-mail me..

28 January 2008: This Journal Launched on the Net today as www.plagueyear.com

26 January 2008 - New page added - Items in Progress
I'm starting too many items then finding I've bitten off more than I realised; so they can mature here.

25 January 2008 - New page added - The Plague.

17 January 2008 - New page created - Classified - Control

02 January 2008 - New page created just because he annoys me so much - Classified - Dawkins & Religion

02 January 2008 - New page added - Progress Review
I've been writing here for three months; a little self-assessment won't do any harm.

27 December 2007 - New page added - Letters to The Editor
Letters I can trace which I've written to The Independent, my other vehicle for letting off some steam...

30 November 2008 - Oil: $90 pb.

06 November 2007 - New page added - Conspiracy Theory
On Conspiracy

05 November 2007 - New page added - Civil Liberties : 16 down and counting
The destruction of Civil Liberties by the UK government: The single most defining page on the site. ###

04 November 2007 - New page added - Population: The Maths
You can do the maths yourself!

26 October 2007 - New page added - Support Your Local Police
If you support your local policeman, keep him on his toes. (This page hidden for now, because it's rubbish.)

30 September 2008 - Oil $75 pb

Pollution and Global Warming
The (Real) Great Global Warming Conspiracy #

The World is Changing (Introduction to the site.)
A single event has (finally) prompted me to add my threeha'penceworth to the world-wide blogfest

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Lord Rees, President of The Royal Society and Astronomer Royal, has given Humankind
a 50-50 chance of surviving the present century.

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