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11th September 2013: The world's gone mad and I'm the only one who knows
13th August 2013: Black is white. Fact. End of.
11th August 2013: Electric cars, not as green as they're painted?
18th June 2013: Wrinklies unite, you have nothing to lose but your walking frames!
17th May 2013: Some actual FACTS about climate change (for a change) from actual scientists ...
10th May 2013: An article about that poison gas, carbon dioxide, and other scientific facts (not) ...
10th May 2013: We need to see past the sex and look at the crimes: is justice being served?
8th May 2013: So, who would you trust to treat your haemorrhoids, Theresa May?
8th May 2013: Why should citizens in the 21st Century fear the law so much?
30th April 2013: What the GOS says today, the rest of the world realises tomorrow ...
30th April 2013: You couldn't make it up, could you? Luckily you don't need to ...
29th April 2013: a vote for NONE OF THE ABOVE, because THE ABOVE are crap ...
28th April 2013: what goes around, comes around?
19th April 2013: everyone's a victim these days ...
10th April 2013: Thatcher is dead; long live Thatcher!
8th April 2013: Poor people are such a nuisance. Just give them loads of money and they'll go away ...
26th March 2013: Censorship is alive and well and coming for you ...
25th March 2013: Just do your job properly, is that too much to ask?
25th March 2013: So, what do you think caused your heterosexuality?
20th March 2013: Feminists - puritans, hypocrites or just plain stupid?
18th March 2013: How Nazi Germany paved the way for modern governance?
13th March 2013: Time we all grew up and lived in the real world ...
12th March 2013: Hindenburg crash mystery solved? - don't you believe it!
6th March 2013: Is this the real GOS?
5th March 2013: All that's wrong with taxes
25th February 2013: The self-seeking MP who is trying to bring Britain down ...
24th February 2013: Why can't newspapers just tell the truth?
22nd February 2013: Trial by jury - a radical proposal
13th February 2013: A little verse for two very old people ...
6th February 2013: It's not us after all, it's worms
6th February 2013: Now here's a powerful argument FOR gay marriage ...
4th February 2013: There's no such thing as equality because we're not all the same ...
28th January 2013: Global Warming isn't over - IT'S HIDING!
25th January 2013: Global Warmers: mad, bad and dangerous to know ...
25th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
19th January 2013: We STILL haven't got our heads straight about gays ...
16th January 2013: Bullying ego-trippers, not animal lovers ...
11th January 2013: What it's like being English ...
7th January 2013: Bleat, bleat, if it saves the life of just one child ...
7th January 2013: How best to put it? 'Up yours, Argentina'?
7th January 2013: Chucking even more of other people's money around ...
6th January 2013: Chucking other people's money around ...
30th December 2012: The BBC is just crap, basically ...
30th December 2012: We mourn the passing of a genuine Grumpy Old Sod ...
30th December 2012: How an official body sets out to ruin Christmas ...
16th December 2012: Why should we pardon Alan Turing when he did nothing wrong?
15th December 2012: When will social workers face up to their REAL responsibility?
15th December 2012: Unfair trading by a firm in Bognor Regis ...
14th December 2012: Now the company that sells your data is pretending to act as watchdog ...
7th December 2012: There's a war between cars and bikes, apparently, and most of us never noticed!
26th November 2012: The bottom line - social workers are just plain stupid ...
20th November 2012: So, David Eyke was right all along, then?
15th November 2012: MPs don't mind dishing it out, but when it's them in the firing line ...
14th November 2012: The BBC has a policy, it seems, about which truths it wants to tell ...
12th November 2012: Big Brother, coming to a school near you ...
9th November 2012: Yet another celebrity who thinks, like Jimmy Saville, that he can behave just as he likes because he's famous ...
5th November 2012: Whose roads are they, anyway? After all, we paid for them ...
7th May 2012: How politicians could end droughts at a stroke if they chose ...
6th May 2012: The BBC, still determined to keep us in a fog of ignorance ...
2nd May 2012: A sense of proportion lacking?
24th April 2012: Told you so, told you so, told you so ...
15th April 2012: Aah, sweet ickle polar bears in danger, aah ...
15th April 2012: An open letter to Anglian Water ...
30th March 2012: Now they want to cure us if we don't believe their lies ...
28th February 2012: Just how useful is a degree? Not very.
27th February 2012: ... so many ways to die ...
15th February 2012: DO go to Jamaica because you definitely WON'T get murdered with a machete. Ms Fox says so ...
31st January 2012: We don't make anything any more
27th January 2012: There's always a word for it, they say, and if there isn't we'll invent one
26th January 2012: Literary criticism on GOS? How posh!
12th December 2011: Plain speaking by a scientist about the global warming fraud
9th December 2011: Who trusts scientists? Apart from the BBC, of course?
7th December 2011: All in all, not a good week for British justice ...
9th November 2011: Well what d'you know, the law really IS a bit of an ass ...

 

 
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Caution - baby on board! Women drivers 3rd February: Speed limits and speed cameras 25th February: The faceless men who rule our roads ... 25th February: Oh no! It's snowing! We're all going to die! 23rd February: Those dreadful off-road monsters? 13th March: Sorry, it's road safety yet again ... 10th June: ... yes, it's those speed limits again ... 24th May: ... one law for them, another for us ... 9th May: ... double-think on road safety ... 3rd April: whose roads are they, anyway? 29th July: ... if your doctor's medicine didn't work, what would you do? 21st July: ... some bloody pillock at the County Coucil ... 13th September: ... can we actually afford the government? 10th December: ... poor drivers who have no friends ... 13th November: ... sorry, that should be BIG Brother ... 20th March: Go for it, Gordon, let's sort these Chelsea tractor-drivers out once and for all ... 16th October: Now the scam's official ... 1st December: One of our ambulances is missing ... 25th February 07: Can Tony Bliar afford to ignore 1.8 million voters? You bet! 17th February 07: On the other hand, PC Plod, there's this little matter ... 16th February 07: Common-sense policing? How refreshing! 6th February 07: Whose bloody roads are they, anyhow? 7th April 07: ... and S*** H***** hates tractors ... 29th March 07: Who will the government decide to persecute next? 10th April 07: They're driving us mad ... 17th June 07: Cyclists in helmets more vulnerable ... 6th August 07: Police tricking motorists to gain a conviction ... 20th August 07: How councils continue to milk the motorist ... 11th August 07: We've done our bit. When are the authorities going to do theirs? 21st October 07: How road safety experts are ignoring the real culprits ... 16th October 07: A bit of sense at last, in Somerset at least ... 15th November 07: Yet again: 'My son killed himself so you've all got to suffer' 11th November 07: First your car, then your own home ... 11th November 07: Now, PROOF that speed cameras are killing people ... 15th December 07: The sad death of Paul Smith of SafeSpeed 9th March 08: A little video clip to gladden grumpy hearts ... 3rd March 08: More misery for Britain's long-suffering motorists ... 28th February 08: At last someone speaks up on behalf of motorists (of you and me, in other words)! 11th February 08: Soon our misery will be complete, just as the government planned. 16th April 08: ... as if those bloody cameras weren't sneaky enough ... 11th March 08: Road bosses are deliberately laying road surfaces they know to be dangerous. 10th March 08: Road bosses are deliberately laying road surfaces they know to be dangerous. 16th October 08: The war against the motorist continues apace ... 24th December 08: We're all motorists. How come we hate ourselves so much? 1st March 09: One rule for the rich and famous, another for everyone else ... 8th March 09: Too many accidents? Just cut the speed limit until we all grind to a halt. That'll fix it. 9th July 09: Choice titbits from the ABD ... 30th March 10: Some snippets culled from recent reading ... 22nd September 09: Two wheels good. Four wheels ba-a-a-a-ad! 18th September 09: So can private carparking contractors really enforce their tickets? 23rd February 2011: The lies they still tell about speed cameras ... 20th August 10: Being fair to Britain's excellent motorists ... 16th June 10: Motorists aren't idiots. They're bloody saints!
 

 

 
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