http://philtheone.com Right-leaning Blackpool blog covering South Shore, North Shore, Marton, Bispham, Cleveleys and the rest of the Fylde discussing politics, local life, tourism, national issues and the rest of the world. Lively discussions encouraged! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:36:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://philtheone.com/2011/02/ingthorpe-candidate-claims-allowances-barely-cover-costs/ http://philtheone.com/2011/02/ingthorpe-candidate-claims-allowances-barely-cover-costs/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:05:28 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=4013 PROSPECTIVE COUNCILLOR Sheila Haskett takes a slightly different view to everyone else when it comes to expenses and allowances.]]> http://philtheone.com/2011/02/ingthorpe-candidate-claims-allowances-barely-cover-costs/feed/ 26 http://philtheone.com/2010/05/queens-speech-2010-dave-and-nick-get-busy-with-lizzie/ http://philtheone.com/2010/05/queens-speech-2010-dave-and-nick-get-busy-with-lizzie/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 17:00:24 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=2751 I guess many of you are bored of the recent football obsession on here, so it’s about time I covered something affecting us all. Today the Queen read out the set of mutated bills that are in the pipeline as a result of David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s current love-in. The Queen said that the [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2010/05/queens-speech-2010-dave-and-nick-get-busy-with-lizzie/feed/ 24 http://philtheone.com/2010/04/contentious-digital-economy-bill-passed-but-only-a-third-of-mps-voted-yes/ http://philtheone.com/2010/04/contentious-digital-economy-bill-passed-but-only-a-third-of-mps-voted-yes/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:13:59 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=2069 The heavily lobbied Digital Economy Bill, part of Gordon Brown’s Digital Britain strategy, has been powered through Parliament in the annual wash up. Perhaps it has been intentionally kept below the radar due to the immense opposition to it, although one could ask whether MPs even knew about it given the disgracefully low turnout. The [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2010/04/contentious-digital-economy-bill-passed-but-only-a-third-of-mps-voted-yes/feed/ 39 http://philtheone.com/2010/03/cameron-rallies-troops-as-brown-pledges-more-of-the-same/ http://philtheone.com/2010/03/cameron-rallies-troops-as-brown-pledges-more-of-the-same/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:10:29 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=1944 This morning, the Prime Minister rolled in to Nottingham to give a speech to Labour proles that he hoped would open up some clear water between his tired Labour machine and the Conservatives. Following this, David Cameron stormed, sans notes, into Milton Keynes to whip the local Tories into an election winning mentality after the [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2010/03/cameron-rallies-troops-as-brown-pledges-more-of-the-same/feed/ 34 http://philtheone.com/2009/12/yearly-roundup-part-2/ http://philtheone.com/2009/12/yearly-roundup-part-2/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:57:59 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=1142 July-September “I love this town.” - Phil “The Power” Taylor The start of July saw Blackpool’s Opera House announced as the 2009 venue for the Royal Variety Performance. The show would be in December. We also saw Labour crushed in the European elections as the British National Party secured two seats in the European Parliament. [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/12/yearly-roundup-part-2/feed/ 5 http://philtheone.com/2009/08/longer-than-we-would-like-part-2/ http://philtheone.com/2009/08/longer-than-we-would-like-part-2/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:07:56 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=459 This is a continuation of my previous trials and tribulations with Virgin Media’s business arm in relation to a simple query. I spoke to a bird called Gemma at Virgin Media a month ago and based on the fact we’d been paying £100 per month too much on our contract with them for 4 or [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/08/longer-than-we-would-like-part-2/feed/ 22 http://philtheone.com/2009/08/smash-the-machines-gordon/ http://philtheone.com/2009/08/smash-the-machines-gordon/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:29:22 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=414 Today it seems our illustrious Government have decided to bring forward proposed legislation to block file sharing protocols on the internet. Previously scheduled to come in in 2012, there is now some kind of urgency to get the laws in place. No, I’ve no idea why either, but I’m sure large amounts of cash were [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/08/smash-the-machines-gordon/feed/ 2 http://philtheone.com/2009/07/dont-buy-a-netgear-fvs124g/ http://philtheone.com/2009/07/dont-buy-a-netgear-fvs124g/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:07:15 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=253 I had two of these routers lying around and needed a router quickly, so I tried one and it continually crashed under any kind of minor load on the LAN ports, so much so that it appeared to be dropping packets and then eventually just locked up and was un-pingable. I tried the other one, [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/07/dont-buy-a-netgear-fvs124g/feed/ 0 http://philtheone.com/2009/07/snip/ http://philtheone.com/2009/07/snip/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:24:24 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=211 More ISP madness and lobby group loving! I’ve just read on TorrentFreak that another UK ISP, Karoo, has been disconnecting users on request of third parties such as the BPI. I’d not heard of Karoo before, but it is owned and operated by Kingston Communications in the Hull area. Kingston is, if I recall, run [...more]]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/07/snip/feed/ 0 http://philtheone.com/2009/07/no-privacy-with-o2be-internet/ http://philtheone.com/2009/07/no-privacy-with-o2be-internet/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:58:03 +0000 Philtheone http://philtheone.com/?p=208 Just found this. It doesn’t sound too good, but perhaps it only applies to O2 Mobile Broadband. I would check their terms and conditions but the site appears to be down at the moment. You might also be interested in...Branson PickleVive la Revolution?Live and direct!Some site changesSmash the machines.. Part 2]]> http://philtheone.com/2009/07/no-privacy-with-o2be-internet/feed/ 3