John Meredith's Blog

In The Guardian, there is a story regarding a Sheffield based student who ran the file sharing site TVShack who could face extradition to US. This is simple. UK judges should be able to prevent the US from using the Extradition Treaty for this type of case. I fail to see how alleged crimes committed [...]

RT @TheIndyNews Why Jamie’s knives are out for Sarah Palin – Americas, World – The Independent http://ind.pn/hLXLcD Well done Jamie.

The quote of the week surely has to be from Vince Cable regarding the new budget. “Our coalition government is united in accepting that its first duty is to clean up the fiscal mess it inherited. Not any old mess but a great, steaming pile of manure. Someone has to remove it. We can’t just [...]

There are a couple of things bugging me at the moment. First thing is that I am buying the Daily Mail. Yeh…I know it’s the paper of the worried well, but they’re giving away free DVDs of British Classics dramas. And I really loved “The Way We Live Now” when it originally aired around 4 [...]

I am not going to comment much about the new series of Big Brother for a couple of reasons. One of which, is that Orange in their wisdom have done me over and cancelled my "free" broadband. Orange are rubbish. Therefore I will not dwell on shared bandwidth from kind donors. The second reason is [...]

I had a good laugh today seeing [[Boris Johnson]] get savaged on the [[Dame Edna]] show. He was only on there for about 2 minutes, but managed to completely make himself look really, really bad. Which was really, really funny. Generally though, I like Boris. But I don't think it was a good idea to [...]

{mosimage}As always (well, mostly always), Matt Good has written a thought provoking article on how much ca$h our western world spends and makes from selling, providing and aiding the arming of developing countries, and then using said arms against them. The mind boggles… Linkage: http://matthewgood.org/parts-of-bombs/  

The storm of controversy surrounding General Dannatt  leaves me feeling like finally, the Powers That Be are going to have to face up to thier actions. Personally, I found it difficult to believe in the Iraq war since shortly after the invasion. But I had mixed feelings aobut our troops being there. It isn't their [...]

Matt Good has a very funny version of Dubbya's CV. It's damn scary at the same time. With all this hoohar about the report where the U.S. now believes that global terrorism risks have increased due to the war in Iraq, it begs the question "what the Hell are our leaders doing in our name?!". [...]

For God’s Sake. I didn’t vote Blair in and I fully expect a Heston-like "from my bloody hands*" comment before the PR machine grinds up all junior minsters who oppose His Infernal Majesty. However, personal opinions aside, shouldn’t he be made to serve his full term? The doofus has done a mediocre job, but when [...]