I’m don’t drink alcohol, and when I say I don’t drink alcohol, almost everybody assumes I must be a recovering alcoholic. I’m not, I just
Category: Behaviour
Driving test needed every 10 years
They’ve finally moved the trophy smashed up car that was driven a few hundred metres into a house following a row and a stabbing in
The world ended in 2011
Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 rose by a record amount over the past year. It is the third successive year in which they have increased sharply.
Steve Conway fights Fat Bastard Syndrome
One of the first things I noticed, following my eviction from London, and arrival in Liverpool, was how everybody smokes. The second was that every
Tribalism is destroying Britain
What are the main problems of this human species? Humans! We are our own enemies, our own predators. But why? Tribalism; the idea that we
The Christian fear of sexuality continues…
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The domestic violence of Christmas
A repeat article from last Christmas to help us pause for thought: Having ingested four times more than a single human’s portion of food on
So this is Christmas…
It’s Christmas Day. For a majority of the planet today is just another day. However, for most of the English speaking and ‘western’ world it’s
Christmas shoppers are nutters
Rush rush rush. It’s Christmas. Panic Panic Panic. Are Christmas shoppers raving mad? Apart from the slightly odd thing that shops are selling stuff for
Going to a Carol Service
It’s weird being an outsider, y’know. But, I went to a Carol Service, ‘cos it was Christmas, innit. Ok, let’s examine this: I didn’t go
Greenie loonies libel the Tallbloke
Years ago when women were accused by the religion of the day (usually Christianity) of being witches, the representatives of that religion couldn’t wait to
Climate Change sceptic’s home raided
It isn’t a good time to be a blogger in search of the truth. Police have raided the home of a blogger in Norfolk, the
Crosby has never been part of Liverpool
Yes, I have complained before about outsiders pretending they are ‘Scousers’ or pretending have something to do with Liverpool (here). But, I’m about to complain
Climategate 2.0: Cameron’s adviser is now sceptical
So, if mainstream news media reports are to be believed, it appears that the UK Prime Minister’s ‘green guru’ has sussed that the whole man
Climategate 2.0: The greenie religion
Followers of Science: When the people from CERN fired a neutrino or two and they arrived at a destination far faster than they should have
Climategate 2.0: The BBC bias exposed
It is traditional during times of conflict, that the state media be used to propagate a hatred of the enemy. It is important that those
Jeremy Clarkson, the last TV hero
TV presenter, writer and personality, Jeremy Clarkson is probably the last living right-of-centre broadcaster allowed on British TV. He probably only survives because the Top
Climategate 2.0: The next tranche
Last month, whoever ‘stole’ or ‘liberated’ the original emails from the server at the University of East Anglia, that were then circulated and back in
A perspective on Climate Change
Sometimes a simple graphic illustrates it all. Here we have two graphs that make that point very well. When looking at the famous ‘hockey-stick’ graph
Nobody’s fleeing Climate Change
As the free thinking world wakes more and more to the whole Climate Change scam – the pretending that a) the Climate is in some
Even Polar Bears deny there’s Global Warming
In recent times the climate change debate has reached the news, with a far more hostile attack on those who are sceptical about the dogma
Climate lies: Even the children won’t know what snow is!
Whenever it suddenly gets cold/hot/wet/dry/windy/calm or snowy we act as if something new and unusual has happened. Why? Without distracting from how awful it must
‘Climate Change’ is really about population control
As the lies of those who want us to believe that we are facing man made climate change continue to unravel and the public slowly
The Climate Change Religion wants us to believe
Back in September 2010, I originally wrote this: The Advertising Standards Authority quite correctly banned the Government’s scare-ads in the UK promoting fear of the
Old radio anoraks are not dying fast enough
I can’t help it. There’s a devil inside me. It forces me to poke old radio anoraks with a stick. I really can’t help it.
The Pluses of the Google Plus public house
Yes, I know I am a Google obsessive, ok. But, surely you’ve just got to love a company with bouncy balls, slides and playrooms in their
Why treat other criminals differently to kiddie fiddlers?
It is a general rule of societies in the ‘civilised’ world to despise and ostracise paedophiles. We want them castrated, branded, not living among us,
Red poppy, White poppy
I don’t wear a poppy. It is not a sign of disrespect. I just don’t wear anything ever as an indicator of how wonderful I
Meat is yummy
It may surprise my good regular readers to discover that I am vegan. Ok, I’m not vegan. Neither am I vegetarian. I am a healthy
Whatever happened to the ozone layer?
Whatever happened to the fear and wailing about the ‘Ozone Layer’? In the 1970s and 1980s the ozone layer was being depleted and we, yes
Respect will kill the gangs
If anything can be done to split-up the gang culture which started in the classroom and school playground under Tony Blair’s leadership and remains in
Hajjcam
Hajj has started. And it’s been modernised. It’s live on Youtube. There is something very calming and somewhat hypnotic about watching the faithful shuffling round
Scientific Heresy
This should be required reading for anybody blindly accepting what they are being told about Climate Change. It is the text from this year’s Angus
Putting pooh in my mouth for 21 days
I’ve just put pooh in my mouth. Pooh, mixed with the puss from the rotting flesh of a thousand zombies. Pooh that won’t go away
Christianity breeds Criminals
Atheists form about 16% of the population of the USA, yet disproportionately form only 0.21% of the prison population. Conclusion: Atheists are more moral than
Would the last radio anorak please turn out the light
It probably was a very long time ago, but it doesn’t feel like a long time ago, that the people I now only know via
Shrines to the alcohol that killed Amy Winehouse
You know those spontaneous shrines that pop up after somebody has died? You see them quite often at the side of the road after somebody has been
Watching you watching me
Not that I’m sad or anything, but from time to time I take a deeper look at Google Analytics to see what searches are leading
Five reasons why listeners think DJs are unfriendly
1) The fact that the DJ/presenter doesn’t talk to or with them, but talks at them, using a lot of very silly phrases that the
The robots, the robots are coming
There’s an old adage that holds true that you should always keep friends with the security staff in any organisation. This is not so’s they
Television, the drug of the nation, part 1
In many respects and to many people, I am a weirdo. I don’t conform to their norms, I’m different to them, and so this confuses
The end is nigh. Again.
Damnit! It’s the end of the world. Again. That raving loony god-bothering and preaching bloke Harold Camping who had thousands of followers selling up
The Facebork Timeline
Facebook users are not an adventurous bunch. On the whole, they hate change, and are very stuck in their ways. Even though some of them
In the pursuit of the shiny-shiny
There is a legend that states that when the annoying Europeans landed in far off lands in order to bring evil things like Christianity to
The centre of the community is the Job Centre
I was sitting in an unmarked van parked adjacent to a North Liverpool Job Centre Plus building. Next to the van, but not connected with
Poverty? It’s all part of the global warmist plan
Ok, mainstream news media, tell me something we don’t know. What’s that you say? People across the UK are plummeting into poverty? No shit, Sherlock. The problem
‘Anonymous’ children ‘occupy’ stupid people’s brains!
Years ago chain letters started by being just that, letters. They would arrive with threats of your immediate demise if you failed to copy them
The long wave goodbye to Long Wave
The BBC operates an outlet of Radio 4 on 198kHz Long Wave. In the recent cut-back announcements, mention was made of running the facility down.
The massive funding for the Climate Change lie
(You may need to click through this gif image and zoom in to view) Protecting reality is hard. Protecting open mindedness is hard.
Am I starting to become an anti-capitalist?
Something isn’t right with this world. I assumed until recently that it was all how it should be and all part of the way that
Proof that we can’t trust ‘journalists’
I’m supposed to be able to trust my local (well, regional) paper to tell me the truth and to be accurate about stuff. But I
Mounting Snowdon for a bucket list
On September 3rd a Vauxhall Frontera 4 X 4 appeared half-way up Mount Snowdon in Wales, stopping some 365 metres from the summit. It confused
Iain Dale gets it right about Liverpool being ghastly
Most people in the North-West won’t have heard of Iain Dale before. He’s not a leftie or a hat tipping sycophant going on and on
The mobile phone is killing real life experiences
Why doesn’t anybody actually watch anything any more? I mean, once upon a time one sat at the cinema or theatre and allowed the director
Faster than light neutrinos
My favourite joke of the moment is: “We don’t allow faster than light neutrinos in here” said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.
I’ve seen the future and it’s very cold
So, just as we didn’t need any more bad news, the really bad news is coming. The really bad news is the really bad weather
Analogue clocks are favoured by mad people!
I am not alone in not being able to understand these round things with shapes and a few numbers on that are supposed to tell
Religious people want to fiddle with your sex life
Let’s talk about sex. It would be fairly reasonable to say that you are obsessed with sex. We all are, so don’t worry about it.
Honest sex
I’ve long been sympathetic to people who are into strange and unusual sexual practices like swinging. I don’t know this woman, honest I’m not a
The day the muggers won
Mugger caught admiring what he’d stolen A few years ago I was wandering home at just before Midnight when a rather concerned lad in his
Radio North Sea International, the voice of terrorism?
Radio anoraks are so easily led and have been fodder across the years for some pretty outrageous ripping off and false beliefs. To this day,
Equality or Not?
So… a lot of the job application forms, mainly those put out by the politically correct luvvies that run the public sector, suggest that applicants
9/11
So many articles. So many words. So many thoughts. So many lives destroyed. The tenth anniversary of something – anything – else probably wouldn’t cause
Let’s make ‘Grassing’ cool
‘Grassing’ is good. No, honest, it’s good to be a ‘grass’. It’s only those who are doing something wrong that want you to believe that
Big Brother is the new crack cocaine
So, here we are in a Britain with kids wandering aimlessly around in packs. These bored, restless and feral latchkey kids are going out and
The end of the Global Warming gravy-train?
You know these context-sensitive adverts you get to see around things you read on the net? You know. If you are reading about cats, then
Sangat TV is our true community and togetherness
I’m not a Sikh. Obviously. But, if I was to follow a religion that appears to actually be about peace, then I could do no better
Slow food fast takeaway
There are many things that bother or puzzle me. Sometimes, things that seem so obvious to me are actually more complex than I realise. This
A mench for the Mensch
There was a time when politicians were like space aliens in the way they were so completely out of touch with most of the population.
Europe needs a revolution
As you may know, I’m a Pat Condell anorak. He makes occasional video blogs, or pronouncements, via Youtube. His latest addresses the erosion of
Round-up the Middle-Class Bleeding-Heart Liberal Politically Correct Do-Gooders
Is there anything more annoying that a member of the Hang-‘Em-Flog-‘Em Brigade? Yes there is. It’s a billion times more annoying than the huffing and
Pulling the race card
In some ways, well, in many ways, David Starkey is a bit scary. He knows stuff and he knows he knows stuff. To contradict him
They still blame Margaret Thatcher
It’s been another week of “I blame Margaret Thatcher” up here in the actual anus of the UK, the Tory-free backward-thinking North-West. Apparently, Mrs Thatcher,
It’s time to prosecute for Treason
So, prompted by the awfulness, the seriousness, the sheer inexplicable violence of the looting and rioting, the Courts are finally dishing out the kind of
My sofa trouble with a 27 year old girl
It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to check it and see if it
Don’t shoot the Messenger
Much has been made of the looters and rioters using Blackberry’s RIM Instant Messaging service, Blackberry Messenger (BBM), to co-ordinate themselves and swiftly pass on
OMG! It’s August the 14th!
I’m an anorak’s wet dream, I am. Jeeez. Spare me. It’s August the 14th. Noooooooooo. Back in 1967 this was the day that all the
Feral cats and feral children, disconnected from humans
When the two 10 year old murderers tortured toddler James Bulger to death, all sensible normal rational thinking people didn’t ‘get’ it. How could these
The culture of no consequence
People seem to have been surprised at the tactics used by the scum kids (the feral street-wankers) as they destroyed people’s homes, people’s cars, people’s
Give us respect, real respect
Night-times are scary in inner-city London and its suburbs, especially at the weekends during the current rioting and looting season. The streets are being used
The Blair/Brown years legacy is rioting
It’s clammy, muggy weather. It’s hot. School’s out. It’s summer. Everybody’s bored. Hey! It’s riot and looting time! Yep, it’s that time of year when
The Fear that is London
In America, well New York, even before September 11th 2001, an interesting thing was happening. Crime was falling dramatically, and even murder had reduced by
I can’t appreciate self-harming
Decades ago I knew a teenage girl who would self harm. Damn. Yet another lovely human I lost touch with. I wonder whatever happened to
What is an Anorak?
It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to read it and see if it
The arseholes upset at Duncan Bannatyne protecting his daughter
What exactly is the mental condition that those lilly-livered liberals slagging off Duncan Bannatyne are suffering from? Let’s start from the beginning. Duncan Bannatyne, the
The Polar Bear that was never there
A lot of people create pictures from Photoshop, compiling from different images they have, and they allow their glorious and quite striking results to be
The choices Raoul Moat made for everybody
It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to re-read it and see if it
Social Media wins the war on facts
Things have moved on since the last time Israel was bombing Palestinians, even though Israel still controls its own people and its propaganda with mantras.
Shame on the Amy Winehouse fans
I remember a few decades ago being in a hospital visiting a woman who was on oxygen to help her breathe. Her lungs were very
How religion is eating us alive
We all know what a virus is. Some viruses are not too dangerous, but most of the viruses that invade our body make us unwell
Amy Winehouse
Whilst not being a huge Amy Winehouse anorak, I did think she had a perfect voice for the style she produced and I have enjoyed
We have to stop the mental illness of religion
At the time of composing this, the full horror of what happened in the centre of Oslo and the tiny island of Utoeya is still
The case of the RICKMOBBING of Liverpool Street Station
It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to re-read it and see if it
When Jonnie lost his Marbles
When card-carrying Labour activist Jonnie Marbles stepped out of his leafy suburban home in stock-broker belt Windsor he was on a mission. Today he was
Stop teaching our children the lies
Do our children stand a chance to grow up without feeling stressed and depressed? I think there’s a misguided perception that childhood is a cotton-wool
Living amongst real racists in Liverpool
I’m only a slight racist. Everybody’s at the very least a slight racist, even though people will protest loudly with the phrase, “I’m not a
The woman with the cross
It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to re-read it and see if it
Farts is funny
We all do it. Especially women of course. Some men, even some women, do it discretely and quietly. Women are particularly adept at the ‘roll-squeeze’
Fear of Mono
It’s Flashback Friday. Every Friday we bring back a golden oldie article from yesteryear. A chance for you to re-read it and see if it
Treating Life differently
Veggies and Vegans. Loonies we should help or cruel bullies we should lock up? These people seem to have some mighty skewed ideas when it