Apr 222010
 
Liberal Democrats manifesto unleashed

You can download this as a 110-page PDF file from their website (no wonder nobody bothers to read them) but fortunately for you, dear readers, I am here to give you my breakdown of the main points in the Liberal Democrats manifesto. Lets get into it. The first £10,000 you earn will be tax free. [...more]

Feb 022010
 

UK government commitments to cutting 80% CO2 emissions by 2050 were slapped down by the Royal Academy of Engineering today as being unrealistic. In a damning report, it was claimed that eco-bling such as solar panels and wind turbines will not cut emissions fast enough, and there’s no chance that all new buildings will be [...more]

Dec 072009
 

This week Labour MPs have endorsed the third runway at Heathrow Airport, doubling passenger throughput from 67 million per year to 135 million. This equates to an additional 220,000 flights per year. Without this expansion, according to government boffins, these passengers would go via other European airports such as Paris Charles de Gaulle or Schipol [...more]

British Nuclear Fools

 Posted by Philtheone at 12:57 pm  Uncategorized
Nov 232009
 
British Nuclear Fools

Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden has been talking complete bollocks about climate change to pay lip service to his self interested, tax reaping Government cronies. After a politically motivated visit to Blackpool Sixth Form’s “eco-council”, the well heeled Brighton based sausage jockey said that “a lot of people” in Blackpool want to see lots more [...more]

Jul 262009
 

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.

Ruling the airwaves

 Posted by Philtheone at 11:49 pm  Uncategorized
Jul 122009
 

If you could get away with committing an offence knowing that from the point of view of the authorities someone else did it, would you? I opened my netbook today and decided to search for wifi access points within the vicinity of my home and discovered a total of 14 unique networks including my own. [...more]

Vive la Revolution?

 Posted by Philtheone at 1:21 pm  Uncategorized
Jun 162009
 

So, Lord Carter today will be announcing a £3billion “Digital Britain” project for delivering broadband internet to every home in the UK as well as plans for “combatting” piracy. Their benchmark for bandwidth is 2Mbit which, yes, compared to dialup is fast but compared to all broadband connections in the UK at the moment is [...more]

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