Yorkshire Bitter

A major Hurricane (Kylie) hit the Abbots Road area of Selby in the early hours of Wednesday.
The Force 12 winds decimated the area, causing approximately £30 worth of damage. Several priceless collections of mementos from Faliraki and Ibiza were damaged beyond repair.
Three areas of historic burnt-out cars were disturbed. Many locals were woken well before […]

I’ve just emailed British Airways to tell them I’m boycotting them with immediate effect due to their policy of religious discrimination. This is following the news that check-in worker Nadia Eweida has been told that she cannot wear a small crucifix that is visible, yet it is perfectly acceptable to wear Muslim headscarves, Sikh bangles […]

Crimestoppers has a new website for the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre that lists missing paedophiles. I’m not entirely comfortable with this, remembering that there are cretins out there who don’t know the difference between a paedophile and a paediatrician.
But if these people have defied their orders to stay on the sex offenders’ register, […]

Back by popular demand, the original Come To Selby guide is back online.
It’s two years out of date and the design is (deliberately) shoddy, it’s meant to be a parody of those really dire websites that councils like to make to promote their town. It could do with some updating if people would like to […]

Tony Blair’s old flatmate Lord Falconer deserves some kind of special award for being so consistently wrong. On everything.
He was responsible for the monumental failure known as the Millennium Dome but resisted all the calls for his resignation because he was Tony’s crony. This has been a hallmark of his career ever since. He’s been […]

Just hours after BNP leader Nick Griffin and organiser Mark Collett were acquitted of incitement to racial hatred, Labour leader-in-waiting Gordon Brown is talking about making criticism of religion a crime (again).
Let’s get some things clear. The BNP has a known history of racial hatred, was founded by a man with a proven neo-Nazi past […]

Already one of the most unpopular prime ministers of the modern age (only Maggie Thatcher in the wake of the poll tax riots and John Major after Black Wednesday have managed lower ratings), Tony Blair is pressing on with his mission to foist ID cards on us all before he goes.
There are still a worrying […]

There are times when I wonder if I did the right thing in quitting the capital for the bright lights of Barlby. I mean, don’t get me wrong, the Blackamoor and Griffin pubs in the nearby glittering metropolis of Selby do have a charm all of their own, as did Club 7 when it was […]