The Geert Wilders’ movie “Fitna” is now on general release.
Don’t bother with popcorn
It’s grizzly and disturbing but doesn’t really tell me anything new.
What do you think?

The big push begins.
Gordon Brown writes in the Telegraph “We must defend the Union” - make no mistake this is a Union of “nations and regions” and England isn’t one of the nations.
It’s depressing reading.
…when secessionist forces are loudly at work it is not the time for silence and passivity. We must be resolute in [...]

No surprises.
Scottish Labour have a report out, called: “Change is what we do”
Wendy certainly knows how to open with a gag.
We in the Labour Party have been fortunate to live in a time when politics in the English-speaking world have been dominated by three of the most gifted politicians of the centre-left - Bill Clinton, [...]

In Arthur C Clarke’s 2010 the follow-up to 2001: A Space Odyssey; humans find life, fuelled by hydrothermal vents in the vast ocean underneath the ice of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons.
Looks like Titan, one of Saturn’s moons has very similar conditions.
Off earth life in the solar system? Would you be surprised?
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Don’t forget [...]

This is my reply to Peter Davidson’s comment on Our Kingdom’s Time for a review of English governance post.
Posting my reply here as it’s easier to lay out. Personally I think that OK should introduce a forum to manage the comments.
@Wyrdtimes: “An English Parliament based on Westminster and filled with the same sorts [...]

The BBC consider devolution from a Scottish perspective - again.
Wednesday’s episode of BBC radio4’s  thinking allowed (Mp3)
On the subject of not many Scots listening to Radio4  Laurie Taylor says:
“Can they (the Scots) really be blamed when television and radio broadcast emanating from England frequently fail to mention the Scottish exceptions to their pronouncements on health, [...]

The clunking shrimp unleashes Labour’s security strategy.
From al beeb
Mr Brown said threats to Britain had “changed out of all recognition” in recent years and that tactics had to alter accordingly.
Yep that’s a seamless downgrade from security strategy to security tactics.
He promises:
“greater transparency”
Uh huh.
He called for a US-style National Security Council, arguing the strategy would [...]

I found this article in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review via a google alert for “English Parliament”.
The author; John Browne is guilty of major confusion between England and Britain in this article although a lot of what he says strikes true if only he’d used UK Parliament instead of English Parliament. My comments in red.
It looks [...]

Visionary Arthur C Clarke is dead.
On the BBC

There was an interesting snippet on BBC lunchtime news yesterday about John Smeaton the baggage handler who apparently said “fucking come on then” to a flaming terrorist, and then proceeded to kick the semi roasted terrorist (to death).
A couple of other guys who were on the scene at the time - don’t recall it [...]