The Yorkshire Ranter

Is what the court found this bloke to be. Mark Connolly, 49, of Anglesey, was convicted of four counts of manslaughter over the accident on the West Coast Main Line in February 2004 in which four men were killed by a runaway wagon that had been held in place with bits of wood. Send the…

The LA Times has the details on that story with the bloke from Tiger Telematics, the Ferrari of which there are only 399 in the world, the high-speed crash and the mysterious pseudo-police who arrived at the crash site. (Google “Stefan Eriksson” to catch up.) Eriksson, 44, is a former executive with the video game…

Kieran “Crooked Timber” Healy batters a prediction that U.S. religious conservatives are fated to outbreed the effete eurodhimmisexofascist coastals into the middle of next week. Well. It’s an interesting thought, as many point out in the comments, that (even hypothetically) the funders of creationist themeparks might succeed through Darwinism. It’s also the basis, I think,…

Via Blairwatch, a thrilling oration from minister of state Kim Howells. “People describe Iraq as a mess, but it is a mess that can’t launch an attack now on Iran; a mess that won’t be able to march into Kuwait; it’s a mess that can’t develop nuclear weapons. So yes it’s a mess but it’s…

After yesterday’s revelations, more news from Kenya about those Armenian Russians from Dubai. The East African Standard, having survived the government’s censorblitz, reports that, indeed, the two men of mystery didn’t arrive by air as they said, but drove to their press conference at Jomo Kenyatta airport in a government car.. The Standard learnt from…

Cole: Minister of Interior Bayan Jabr announced that a plot had been foiled to place hundreds of Sunni Arab troops actually loyal to the insurgency in position at the Green Zone and then to have them rush embassy offices and take diplomatic hostages. TYR, 25/02/06: Those tanks the Iraqi minister of defence is threatening to…

It’s that blog awards time again. The Bloggies are up, and does anyone else feel they are just a bit dull? The winners are: Best Blog Application: Blogger.Best Asian Blog: Tokyo GirlBest ANZAC Blog: LoobyluBest Middle Eastern Blog: Baghdad BurningBest European Blog: My Boyfriend is a TwatBest UK/Irish Blog: Girl with a One-Track MindBest Latin…

Ultra-dodgy securico CusterBattles’s rampant Iraq corruption seems finally to have caught up with them to the tune of $10 million.

NMS Communications chap Brough Turner has an interesting set of photos up on installing a base station in Nigeria. With a VSAT satellite terminal for the backhaul and solar panels, it’s a complete drop-in infrastructure…

After the Kenyan censorblitz crisis, a curious story from the Nairobi Nation via AllAfrica.com. Apparently some poor chap turned up, bleeding, near a house occupied by mysterious white foreigners regularly visited by vehicles with GK- plates (i.e. Government of Kenya). Sez he’s been bitten by a dog. Locals say he’s dusting crops where there ain’t…