The Yorkshire Ranter

The Kenya Standard is open for business once more. On that theme, a comment.. Kenyananalyst to me More options 2:45 pm (2 hours ago)I find it inconceivable and foolhardy that: 1. The President hasn’t still found it fit to commenton something supposedly touching on our national, andby extension, his own security. 2. That Hon. Michuki…

Worrying news has reached me from various sources that the San Air General Trading BAC-111 s/n 61, 3C-QRF, formerly used to bring arms into the DRC, host secret meetings with Libyan spooks and ferry around the girls of Hustler magazine, may yet escape from Bucharest before being condemned under the UN freeze list. The story…

We will catch up with and outstrip America – Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev.

David “Stupid Network” Isenberg reflects on the common phenomenon that the only worthwhile thinking at a conference occurs during lunch. Very true. I’d go to a conference made up of a continuous lunch. Rather like this bunch of nutters, some of whose events I attended in Vienna.

Now there’s a phrase from the 90s. Remember Michael Howard’s Criminal Justice Act? Road protests? Setting Sun? Well, if you do you probably, like me, can’t imagine how it came to this. It seems you are these days more likely to be the target of biometric surveillance if you are in a nightclub than anywhere…

Just received the following anonymous advice regarding Mrs. David Mills and her unfeasibly frequent mortgages. Hambros is a past tense merchant bank of course; it bit one over the Co-Op takeover scandal and got taken over by Societe Generale of France. “SG Hambro” is now SocGen’s UK private banking brand, and it would not be…

CCTV pictures of the assault on Kenya’s Standard newspaper are here. Update, I’ve been concerned about the status of Internet connectivity to/from Kenya, being aware that although it’s one of the few African countries to have its own IX, all links to the outside world are by VSAT. However, looking up the back numbers of…

Ah, time for the marching songs.. Sunnis said to be moving men and arms to Baghdad to “defend the mosques”. Mobilisation time. The New-Old Iraqi Army is coming. And – refugees are leaving, people are collecting, sleeping on their mosque floors. Going to the mattresses, you might say. I don’t want to gloat, but…

Right, despite the Heaving Strangler‘s cluelessness, I bring you a brief timeline of Mr and Mrs David Mills’s mortgages. 1979. House in Kentish Town bought in cash. 15th July, 1987. Kentish Town house mortgaged with Mortgage Fund Corporation Ltd. 18th March, 1991. Remortgage with Coutts & Co. 1993. Warwickshire house bought in cash. 17th May,…

..some real policemen as fake unidentified gunmen. Goons in masks, brandishing AKs, invaded the printing plant of the Kenya Standard last night and set fire to several thousand copies of the paper, before carrying off several employees. The paper believes they were policemen for the simple reason that they took the detainees/abductees to the central…