A BBC blog ....!! ?? Talk about scraping the barrel . You'll be pointing us toward a Guardian blog next ..... I've got bad news for you , Philip ........if Labour haven't done much to bring about your dream of free hard drugs for all the wasters out there then I doubt the next government will do . Go back to sleep for a few decades

Libraries !? Hey , now there's an idea - we could close down the rest of the bogs and get a few books in . (In a variety of languages obviously ....) Sort it out , Rovers .

Well I've just read the post (by Drummer Boy) and it refers only to the (non) issue of free tickets years ago and not to the much more recent alleged free tickets to Mr Toland . I don't think anyone has anything other than sympathy to the bloke with regards his arthritis but he should have gone years ago .........and the club should have listened to the fans overwhelming anti drumming views as well . It says something when even Burnley are more clued up when it comes to listening to their fans than our lot .

No we couldn't . He was never good enough for them ...otherwise they would have bought him . The fact is nobody came in for him .

A bit touchy , Flops ..... ....and you might need to take a look at your board guidelines . Thicko comic reader

Graphic novels !? I think you mean comics , Flopsy . It confirms some of my suspicions .......

The author whose name we must not mention has a lot of praise for the AOC - like most of his type teh latter is a rather befuddled and harmless old dreamer . I'm looking forward to Wanksid's tour of the sub-continent to promote his book there ..........

I agree with you on that statement , Colin .

Reads like a further argument for more rigorously enforcing the laws to me , Philip ......

The quality of its new website is shocking .......it takes half an hour before you can get to read the trash they produce .

The Guardian !? Commie rag . I wouldn't necessarily believe that ......

The decision to implement these ID cards seems to have been put off to the end of the decade - by which time the Labour Government will be , thankfully , out of office . The fact that they would go ahead with it given the chance perfectly illustrates the importance to democracy and feedom of ridding ourselves of this disgusting rabble .

I'm just getting to the end of an extremely good book by Mary Alexander entitled The Bounty . This is the definitive account of the mutiny on the bounty - one of the most fascinating episodes in our history - and takes in the build up to the mutiny itself , and the nigh on incredible tales of Bligh and the mutineers in the years after . I can assure anyone that the range of remarkable characters involved in this whole episode go far beyond that of the cliched Christian and Bligh and include more or less the whole ship's company . The story of the colony that evolved on Pitcairn island and the merging of Tahitian and British culture is fascinating .

Mr Shad (as I call him) used to be the best in the area - top notch stuff . I went for the first time since he moved and , like jimj , was a bit disappointed . A pity . On the odd occasion I get a takeaway now it's usually from the MCC (Montague Curry Centre) - and that's not as good as it used to be . I blame New Labour and the credit crunch .

Sounds nice . But if you're after something with that little bit extra try THIS establishment .........

Actually it was jim who wrote the "I would prefer McClaren to Allardyce" tosh . So much for sanity .............

I'm glad you used the words "if it's true" , Flopsy ........I don't think he's been found guilty yet . I'm surprised you're having a go at AESF (again) on this issue - particularly given your own tendency to go on at great length about the dangers of speeding and dangerous driving . Maybe it's just out of habit - or to use your own words "......just the normal hysterical over-reaction "

Hopefully they won't . Hopefully they won't do as Man Utd did all those years ago and go for a young , ambitious British manager who could reign for years to come if given a suitable period which to prove himself . Hughes would be the best choice if Abamovitch were thinking in terms of making a medium term calculated risk .(ie , 2 full seasons in charge ) Mind you these days for a club like Chelsea a long term risk would amount to about 6 months ....

Under Freedom of Information rules it was revealed that Prescott spent £4000 in a year of taxpayers' money on food . I suspect you might just be in the minority , Col , if you believe his "illness" can be used as a mitigating factor to justify this extraordinary claim on the public purse . Maybe the fat , useless waster would have been better off booking himself into the Priory for a while (at public expense of course) and sorting his undoubted mental problems out .

It is when it's the tax payer's money . If the fat ba$tardo wants to spend money at McDonalds let it be his own .

Garth seems a nice enough bloke but he does have a high opinion of his own worth which isn't shared by anyone else unfortunately . As for MOTD it is still required viewing - an excellent way of passing an hour or so in the pub . Having said that the summary after the game against UTD was dire ; in my opinion the ref got all the big decisions correct and the panel , from what I can remember , were out of line .

You seem to be getting a bit upset over AESF's comments , Matt ........

If global warming is down to human activity then the most pertinent fact is that there are 9 billion people on the planet .....and counting . And all demanding (allegedly) scarce resources . When the scientists and politicians start to talk about over-population and how to reverse it ..............then I'll start to take them seriously . Until then they can all sod off . I simply don't believe a word they say .

You make your points well , Gareth ......but surely if the government cleans up the drugs to make them safer then that , to a great extent , defeats the object of those who would take them . They don't want ineffective watered down stuff . They want to get their brains blasted out . Can you really make a heroin substitute that gives the user the same "kick" but that is in any way safe or non addictive ? After all , even at present it isn't in the supplier's interests to sell bad grade drugs and I can't recall many cases of death through "impure" supplies (although , granted , they probably don't get much publicity) . This may sound callous but even if some do die in such ways it's hardly a great loss to society . With regard to your last paragraph you seem to have accepted the fact that the hard drugs would have to be "free/at minimal cost" . I've always argued that would have to be the case . In effect the tax payer would be paying to keep the druggies "hushed up" with the benefit being that their (the tax payers) lives would be less blighted by crime . Maybe it would , maybe it would only have avery limited effect but it smacks of the kind of social engineering that many autocracies would be proud of . It's not what I call progress for society .

In that case my libertarianism only goes so far .......I'll always put the interests of the majority of honest , working people before that of self indulgent wasters out for a free ride . The vast majority of people hooked on hard drugs are living like parasites on the state . They will always do so until they're forcibly persuaded not to . Anyway a lot of things that are products of nature are subject to government regulation and have to be so if we aren't to live in a state of anarchy . Would you have kids buying heroin from the corner shop ? It's just a question of where to draw the line and what's counter-productive to society as a whole . Would anyone really want a situation without ANY form of regulation ? As for the price of ciggies ; I'll bet you the tax on them over here is a damn sight higher than over there . What happens over here as a consequence is that most punters bring them in from abroad to avoid the tax . With drinks the punters go to the multi national supermarkets to get the stuff at a decent price . With drugs they'd end up using their current suppliers who operate at a "street level" market system that doesn't involve health and safety rules , pensions for distributers and police and army security pay structures etc etc ...... The only workable alternative to break the current supply method would be for the government to actively subsidise the whole business - from the supply and distribution routes that stretch all over the globe right down to the point of delivery . Now you tell me what the reaction would be when Joe Public works his ###### off all week to pay for a pint or two and a ciggie ....and then sees his taxes paying for the non working local junkie to live a life of oblivion . I don't know what it's like in the USA but I do know that there's a whole generation of kids in GB who would take the "easy" lifestyle choice ...........