Dirty Little Heart

So, Ian Watkins, the lead singer of the Lostprophets band, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. This means, in reality, he’ll be out in about 17 years, when he’ll be 53 years old. He’ll still have a fully functional set of genitals, as well as a healthy bank account. I can’t help but wonder if he’ll be off to do a tour of south-east Asia, just like Gary Glitter did. Maybe they’ll get together and practice their vile perversion in tandem. Who knows, they might even decide to release a duet single. They can call themselves Nonce.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Ian Watkins is a scum-bastard paedophile. His crimes against children are enough to make any decent person feel physically sick. The man even admitted trying to rape a baby. He tried to rape a baby!

This surely is a crime worthy of execution. A man capable of such utter depravity should not be allowed to live. If he was a dog we’d have him destroyed. So let’s treat him like a dog and put him down.

The recent revelations about child abuse at the BBC and the stories in the papers about paedophile rings show that this is a growing crime. So, it’s time to start dishing out some harsher sentences. We recently had a badger cull; so how about a paedophile cull? These are surely members of society we can do without.

We could make a reality game show out of it. Paedophiles are rounded up and released into a town surrounded by an electric fence. Contestants are then given 48 hours to kill as many as they can, with bonus points given for more creative and more painful deaths. The winner gets a million pounds, a recording contract, and a part in Eastenders. We could call it The Strictly Nonce Factor, and get Davina McCall to host it.

How about a version of I’m a Celebrity…? We can call it “I’m a Paedophile, Get me Out of Here!” The idea is to put a group of paedophiles into the jungle, and then release various deadly animals to kill them. The one who lives the longest gets a humane death by gunshot to the head.

However we do it, we have got to wipe out this vile disease. Prison is not the answer. It didn’t stop Gary Glitter or Jon Venables. The punishment must be stronger. At the very least, it should include chemical castration.

Paedophilia is one of the most disgusting crimes there is. It’s time to make the punishment equally as vile.

Are you scared?

Did you know that the terrorist threat level in the UK mainland is still substantial? That means an attack is a strong possibility. And MI5’s response level is set at heightened. This is described on their website as, “additional and sustainable protective security measures reflecting the broad nature of the threat combined with specific business and geographical vulnerabilities and judgments on acceptable risk.”

Further items on their website describe some of the plots they have foiled in recent years. These include a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange; a rucksack bomb plot against the English Defence League, and an attack on Royal Wootton Bassett.

What the fuck…?

I grew up in the seventies and eighties, and it was a magical time. Maybe it was because I was young and naïve, but the world seemed a lovely place. I was aware of the terrorist threat from the IRA, but it never seemed as intense as this.

How did it get this bad? Why do people hate us so intensely that they’re willing to sacrifice their own lives to hurt us?

I guess we must have done something wrong; hurt them in some way. When I say we, I mean the British government. After all, it’s they who put British soldiers in Ireland. It’s they who ordered the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s they who are chomping at the bit to have a go in Syria.

But it’s not they who have to worry about being blown up on the bus to work. They don’t have to worry about being hit by a car and then beheaded in the street.

They have security around them; they get around in bulletproof cars. The only time you’ll find them on public transport is for a photo opportunity to try to convince us all that they are just ordinary folk. They don’t show us the army of assistants, PR people and armed security guards that go everywhere with them.

The thing that makes it all so sickening for me is that the countries these bastards have invaded never did anything to us. Iraq and Afghanistan never attacked us or killed any of our people until we went over there and started shooting and bombing the places to shit. I think if someone invaded us I’d want to do the same.

Even worse; the whole thing is not for some noble purpose. It’s about oil profits and geo-political positioning; it’s about American hegemony in the region.

The people responsible for this whole mess are devious, and they are ruthless. People like Tony Blair and Bill Clinton; George W Bush and Gordon Brown – they should all be brought before the International Court of Justice and answer charges of war crimes. But, of course, that’s not going to happen, is it. The winner really does take it all and answers for nothing.

In the event of all-out war, these people will be protected by armed police, security guards and soldiers. They will be cosseted in luxurious bunkers miles underground; safe from the bombs and the nuclear fallout; away from the carnage and the destruction.

The elite are writing cheques that the rest of us have to cash. They are waging wars that no one wants but them. I’m positive that if the people who declared war actually had to fight in it we would have world peace overnight.

It’s time to put these elite warmongers out of business. We need to show some peaceful civil disobedience and send a message that we’re not going to take it anymore. If not, then it’s our children and our grand-children who are going to suffer.

What's the Point of Nick Clegg?

Really; I wish someone could tell me. As far as I can see, he is – by far – the most irrelevant man in world politics. He’s actually an embarrassment to this country. He reminds me of that div kid you sometimes see in families who keeps trying to join in with the grown-ups’ conversation; doing his best to sound like an adult while his parents look on with fake indulgence, wishing the little shit would shut the fuck up.

Such a pathetic loser is he that he has already said that after the next election he will be looking to form an alliance with one of the two big parties. Does he really think that if either of them wins a majority they will even give him the time of day? Of course they won’t; they’ll send him off back to obscurity to whine like an old woman while dreaming of the days when he thought he actually had even the tiniest modicum of power.

In saying that, I’m assuming that the Liberal Democrats win any seats in the next election. As it stands, I’d be surprised if they manage to get into double figures next time around. Nick Clegg has successfully turned a mediocre political party into a non-entity. He has sold his soul, trashed his principles and broken almost every promise in a desperate attempt to matter in the political system. It beggars belief that he could even think for a minute that his party can have a successful election in 2015 with him as leader.

The man is a joke; and the real tragedy is that you can see in his eyes that he knows it. He absolutely knows that he has dropped his pants, bent over and invited David Cameron to make him his bitch, all so he can hang out with the bigger boys for a while.

Go away, little Nicky. You are irrelevant and pointless. You have no power; no influence. You are the equivalent of a slut who wakes every morning full of self-loathing and promises of never again and who then goes out and lets everyone fuck her again, all so that she can feel loved, even if only for a moment.

By the way; as an afterthought: Britain has been run by an un-elected Prime Minister for more than six years now. Gordon Brown inherited his position as PM from Tony Blair because he knew he was unelectable. Then we have David Cameron, who couldn’t even win a majority because he is unelectable too.

The people of Great Britain need to do something. We have spent six and a half years being shafted by people who never even won an election. We need to stand up and make ourselves heard. We need to engage in peaceful protests to tell these upper-class pricks of the so-called political classes that we will not be shit upon anymore; that we are not some whore to be passed around between them as they see fit. It’s time to make our voices heard, people.

They're All Fracking Mental!

As if fracking itself wasn’t bad enough and dangerous enough for the environment, some numb-shit has now come up with the bright idea to use the holes drilled for fracking to dispose of nuclear waste. In what is obviously an idea borne of financial gain, a theory has been put forward to combine nuclear waste with heavier metals and put it into the deep holes drilled for the purpose of hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking.

So, it’s not enough anymore that the global financial machine is raping the surface and the air of the planet; now they want to poison the ground instead. It’s as if they won’t be satisfied until the earth is just a dead rock, not even able to sustain life anymore.

Maybe that’s the real substance of humanity. Maybe that’s what we do. We inhabit a planet; rape it into a lifeless rock and then move onto another one. Maybe we’re not infiltrated by aliens; maybe the aliens are us, and we’re leeching the earth of everything it’s got before our rancid seeds get blown by the solar winds to some other far off planet, there to germinate and evolve and do the same to that one.

I know that sounds a bit mental, but it’s as good a theory as any, and at least there’s a glimmer of hope in it. At least it holds a future for what we call the human race. And we really need it, because as science marches on, we seem to be finding new and more nocuous ways of destroying the planet.

Common sense dictates that if you keep tearing the shit out of something, eventually you’re going to kill it. If we carry on our parasitic draining of this planet we’re eventually going to suck it dry, and then we’re really going to be fucked.

The ruling elite are really taking the piss now. There are no depths to which they will not sink to get what they want - be it financial gain, power, or otherwise.

It’s time for a revolution. It’s time to tell these bastards that we will not let them carry on taking whatever they want while simultaneously destroying the very planet we live on. We need to embark on a program of passive, peaceful resistance against the dark forces of the global elite. We have to send a clear message to them that we will no longer be their slaves, killing ourselves and destroying the very place that gave us life just to fulfil their nefarious plans.

If we don’t, then God help us all.

Tom Hark

“Does anybody know the way to World War 3? I wanna know I wanna book me holiday.”

For years now, I’ve been thinking that the fuse leading to World War 3 would be lit in the Middle-East; perhaps Syria. I think it was reasonable when you consider all the dirty-dealings and chicanery going on in the shadows over there.

Now it seems the tinderbox that might ignite the third world war is a couple of disputed islands in the East China Sea. China and Japan both claim sovereignty over them and neither is willing to back down in this argument which is playing out on the news all over the world.

Japan has been looking for an excuse to re-mobilise its imperial army for years. Their so-called “Self-Defence Force” has been growing way beyond any requirement for homeland defence for ages, and this dispute with China is giving them just what they need to justify the re-building of Japan’s armed forces. It’s like Hitler’s Germany defying the Treaty of Versailles all over again – and we all know where that led.

The United States must take some of the responsibility for this. They have been bed-fellows with Japan since the end of the Second World War; they have seen the ongoing rebuilding of the Japanese armed forces and turned a blind eye. Further, thanks to the Security Treaty both countries signed in 1951, anybody who picks a fight with Japan also picks a fight with the US. This will no doubt have emboldened the Japanese, and with good reason: It’s like squaring up to the school bully with your big brother, Mike Tyson, standing at your shoulder. The trouble is, it increases the chances of them, along with the whole world, being sucked into a war that will no doubt be catastrophic for the entire planet.

Defence analysts at a US House Armed Services Sub-committee hearing this week have said that America should prepare for a potential war with China. They said the Pentagon should begin a massive program of arms build up which should include more nuclear submarines.

Of course, war with China is just what America and Japan wants. They fear China, because it is a sleeping giant which is now starting to wake. It is a third bigger than the US; twenty times bigger than Japan; and it has a population of more than 1.3 billion. This makes China potentially the most powerful nation in the world – unthinkable for the hegemonic figures within the American establishment.

So, China must be stopped before it reaches that tipping point where it becomes America’s military equal or – God forbid – superior. What better way to do so than to join its Japanese partner in provoking them over the islands known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan? How better to do this than to openly defy China’s Air Defence Identification Zone which covers the islands and most of the East China Sea?

This is a dangerous tactic at best, since it increases the chances of accidental engagements that could so easily escalate to all-out war. It is an arrogant tactic on America’s part since it has no claim to the islands. It’s one thing to stand beside your ally in the event of war; but it’s another entirely to provoke such a war by interfering in matters that are none of your business.

America likes to position itself as some kind of global guardian, stepping in and flexing its military might as and when it sees fit. But the paradox here is that by doing so, it becomes itself an oppressive force, delivering the pain and terror it claims to be fighting against.

I would like to say I’m not worried about all this; after all, the whole thing is playing out on the other side of the world. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little concerned. Laying aside the fact that my two youngest daughters are in Japan (illegally, I might add), the attacks of 9/11; the London bombings, and the Second World War in itself has shown us that conflict has a nasty way of showing up right outside our back doors.

Let’s hope it doesn’t get that far. Let’s hope that sense prevails for once.

“The whole thing’s daft; I don’t know why. You have to laugh; or else you’d cry.”

Immigration Doesn't Have to be a Problem

Immigration is one of the best things ever to happen to this country. It has widened our horizons, introduced us to many new things and experiences, and enabled us to make friends with people of different backgrounds.

But our stupid politicians are messing the whole bloody thing up. Of course, that shouldn’t be surprising when you consider these people have never spent a single moment living in the real world.

Immigration could make this the greatest country in the world again. We could be world leaders again, instead of the irrelevant joke we are becoming on the world stage.

The first thing we need to do is close the borders immediately, and not let anyone else in. The current infrastructure can’t cope with the population numbers, so to keep letting more in makes no sense.

But we have the people already in this country that can bring the infrastructure up to date and make it safe to let people in again. Instead of demonising and vilifying foreigners we should be taking advantage of the knowledge and skills they possess, and put them to good use. Instead of marginalising them we should put them to work making this country great again.

How many asylum seekers and illegal immigrants have skills that might be useful in making this country better? Instead of spending a fortune keeping them in prisons or going through appeal after appeal, we should find out if they have any demonstrable skills, and if they do, then they should be given leave to remain immediately with no more messing around.

How many immigrants could be useful in research and development? How many could be engineering the rebuilding of this country? How many could be putting us at the forefront of technical and scientific progress?

We should be welcoming these people with open arms instead of complaining about them. They can make this country great again.

And when they do; when we’ve all worked together and made the infrastructure able to cope; when we are a player on the world stage again, then we should re-open the borders. As long as we can cope, we should let people in, and put them to work moving this country forward.

As for those who complain about foreigners coming over here and nicking their jobs; I say if you’re good enough to be the one to do that job, then you don’t need to worry.

I would temper what I’ve just said, however. Anyone who comes here just to claim benefits; anyone who comes here to take without giving back; anyone who comes here to commit crime; anyone who is already here and commits crime; these people should be ejected immediately. There should be no appeals; no putting them in holding cells while paperwork goes through; they should be thrown out, and if they can’t get into their own country then that’s their problem, not ours.

Imagine inviting a friend into your house. You make them welcome; give them food and drink. If they then get up and take a dump on your carpet you throw them out. You don’t let them stay in the cupboard because they say they can’t get into their house, or they don’t even have one. No; you throw them out immediately, and if they have nowhere to go, it’s tough shit. They should have appreciated your welcome and your generosity.

Our politicians should stop being scared of being called racist. They should show some testicular fortitude and actually use immigration to benefit this country rather than let it tear the place apart.

That’s the only way they can prevent the rise of nationalism and the race war that is looming large on the horizon right now. If they don’t, then I hope they enjoy the riots that will surely come.

Give Yourself a Treat

Enter the World of Alamin’s Spice

I don’t normally do this kind of thing, but I’m going to write a restaurant review. I hope you’ll forgive me and indulge me on this; it’s just that I’ve found a takeaway so good that it deserves it.

Alamin’s Spice is an Indian Takeaway in West Bromwich. It offers the best Indian food you will ever taste. Now, I realise that’s quite a statement when you consider different tastes and the plethora of other options available. However, if you’re going to order from a place like this then you know you like Indian food. And if you like your food done a certain way, these guys will make it like that for you.

I first ordered from them in July, shortly after they opened. I had just moved into my new flat and I was sitting there, surrounded by boxes – and sitting on one of them because my new sofa hadn’t been delivered. I was feeling miserable and tired, and I didn’t feel like cooking. So, I ordered a Chicken Jalfrezi with Onion Fried Rice and a Plain Naan. I also asked for extra green and red peppers in my curry.

It was delivered fairly quickly. The driver was a nice, friendly guy. What more could you ask?

The food was gorgeous – that’s what! The chicken was juicy and tender, and the sauce was tasty without being too overpowering. There were generous chunks of red and green peppers, as I’d requested. The rice was so good it could have been eaten on its own; and even more impressive, it wasn’t too greasy, which is a massive plus for me. Finally the Naan bread: It was big and round and delicious; ‘nuff said.

The food was so good that I had the same again for the next two days. I had a Prawn Cocktail starter with the last one, and even this was better than you usually get from takeaways. The prawns were plump and juicy; the sauce was nice and there was plenty of it.

I had a few days off, but I couldn’t resist anymore – I had to order some more food from there. I called up and spoke to the chef; I asked him to recommend something new for me to try. He asked me what kind of things I like; the level of spice I enjoy, and based on this he recommended his Chilli Chicken, which he also tailored to my tastes. Now, I can’t do all that poetic stuff about “melodies of taste” and stuff like that. I’m not one for “parties on my taste-buds” and all that la-di-da rubbish; life’s too short. Suffice to say – the food was bloody lovely.

Look; it’s like this – if you like Indian food, give Alamin’s Spice a try. The food is fantastic; it’s good value, and the staff are friendly and accommodating.

Do yourself a favour. You owe it to yourself. We’ve all been struggling in these austere times, but it’s nearly Christmas. So give yourself the gift of the best Indian food in the West Bromwich area. I assure you, you will not regret it, and will no doubt be returning to Alamin’s Spice well into the New Year as well.