There is a saying in central Scotland, an insult I have heard most often in the Glasgow region, that goes ‘See you. You’re a total tool’. How is it an insult? Surely a tool, any tool, is a useful thing? Well, no it isn’t. A tool is an unthinking object with no intrinsic value of its own. When wielded by a skilled artisan, however, it becomes useful. So a trowel is,...

Jack McConnell: lest we forget. Jack is a fucking massive tool: he was a massive tool when he was First Minister and he is still a massive fucking tool. Yes, yes: I know that retrospectives are lazy, but I do think that they have some use in putting certain events and people into context. After all, once these politicians leave office, they may be out of the public eye but they haven't stopped bei...

That misrepresentation of an entire Intelligence Model hijacked by the ACPO and Home Office for purely political purposes, using a management tool rather than an intelligence tool, is what gives them the ability to continue to pressure for illegal databases such as NDNAD, Fingerprint database, and the plethora of other databases operated by the NPIA on behalf of ACPO, whilst at the same time creat...

How amusing, I just tried to browse to the Treasury's Debt Management Office website, but it seems they may have not paid the bill?

The IMF today Yup. Truly fucked The UK’s Office of National Statistics unveiled Thursday a national debt of £2 trillion. The figures took a collosal jump when the Office of National Statistics added the approximately £1-1.5 trillion debt of Lloyds Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland to the public balance sheet. This change could push the UK’s level of debt to 150% of national i...

The director of a debt recovery company has been successfully prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for bombarding individuals and businesses with unwanted faxes.

It's been nearly a month since I blogged and a few weeks since the election and the coaition government taking office. I have been thinking about what to do with this blog and a number of suggestions have been made: To keep it going until my Councillors term of office is up as a local campaigning tool To use it as a way of holding Simon Wright to account as an MP To scrap it and focus more on...

According to Fox News the US Army says Twitter is a tool for terrorists. Fox claim a report states: “Twitter has also become a social activism tool for socialists, human rights groups, communists, vegetarians, anarchists, religious communities, atheists, political enthusiasts, hacktivists and others to communicate with each other and to send messages to broader audiences,”

Sadly, this very good tool has caused our site to grind to a halt. I have had to remove it. Never fear, though, for you can read our LiveBlog here.

Michael Martin's days as the Speaker of the House of Commons looked numbered last night as senior figures from the three main parties gave him once last chance to jump before he was pushed out of office.