The blog i'm not sayin, i'm just sayin has put together a flight plan of US Airways Flight 1549 using the live flight tracking log at flightaware.com. According to the various news reports, less than a minute after takeoff the Airbus A320 apparently ran into a flock of birds somewhere over the Bronx Zoo. With engines in trouble and eventually going dead, the flight path indicates the air...

Labour's 1997 earthquake was based on an almost unprecedented alliance of working and middle class, inner-city and suburb, poor and comfortably-off. Now, in another watershed election, that alliance appears to have collapsed and many of its key elements have deserted - but, as Andrew Gilligan finds, not always the ones you might think.

We are in to the last half hour of the . This time there is a real Dragon capsule, a vehicle which will be tested in orbit and then put through a re-entry, the first to be done by a private venture. This is a difficult sequence and even partial success is a major step forward. It is the second flight of a designed from the ground up launch vehicle; the first flight of a...

Having complained about British Airways and there poor customer services I was expecting to have a semi horrible flight. Now I hate flying it makes no difference if I am flying BMI or a budget airline like Ryannair I am still scared. The last flight I took, excluding Saturday, I discovered the bar on the plane was free so decided to see if Gin would calm my nerves and it did. So on this flight I d...

The prime minister hopes that the success of his Washington trip will convince the G20 that he's not in the departure lounge yet About an hour into Gordon Brown's flight back from Washington, the White House phoned the prime minister's plane. A mildly surprised Mr Brown - were his hosts ringing to say that he'd left something behind? - was pleased to hear that Barack Obama want...

Director’s Bulletin 14th February 2009Introduction Libertarian Alliance Publications Media Appearances Speaking Engagements Libertarian Alliance Events Libertarian Alliance Book Recommendation Libertarian Alliance Conference Negative Scanner Needed Introduction It is cold. I am working hard to finish a book before April. My Baby Bear is now running about the house with more hands than the av...

The Tories' must be really desperate. The Telegraph online is carrying a story headlined, Labour to blame for banking crisis, new report claims". Cripes, this could be serious (not). The report published by the Centre for Policy Studies was authored by Howard Flight. Remember him? Yes, he was sacked by the Tory leader of whom it was said he has something of the night about him. Flight's ...

William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, has hailed the "unbreakable alliance" between Britain and the USA following talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington.

Has Howard Flight just done a Keith Joseph? The latter’s run for Tory leader ended when he made a speech about poor people breeding.  As David said earlier, plain speaking can have its problems. But Flight’s danger is in being mistranslated. He sought to make a simple point: that many working families can't afford to expand their families, while the state provides a substanti...

The Guardians exposing of the hypocrisy of the taxpayer’s alliance is a welcomed piece. I have been astonished how lazy some journalists have been in basing ‘outrage’ articles on the words of these people. The fact is that this alliance is nothing more than a right wing pressure group. They may call themselves the taxpayer’s alliance but I am a taxpayer and they do not repr...