It’s 2008 and still bombs from WWII are being found in the neighbourhood. Train and tube journeys have been disrupted as a result.
The Guardian reports:
A massive unexploded second world war-bomb began to tick as experts worked to defuse it, police said today.
The 1,000kg-device (2,200lb) was found in a river at Sugar House Lane, near [...]

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From the torygraph:
Sammy Duddy, who died on October 17 aged 62, had a rather unusual curriculum vitae for a member of the Loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association in having been a drag artiste who went by the stage name of Samantha.
During the 1970s the self-styled “Dolly Parton of Belfast” became well known on Belfast’s [...]

I’m going to stick my neck out here and suggest that there will be a general election called in the UK very shortly indeed. Why? Well, coming into work this morning (I work in the same building as Labour party HQ) what greeted me but boxes and boxes of newly printed election material.
Coupled with the [...]

Here’s what happens when you make a political appointment to a position like Ceann Comhairle (Chairman of Ireland’s Dail) instead of
electing somebody respected on all sides of the house. The man in question is John O’Donoghue and he is useless.

More on this over at twentymajor.net.

15 British marines get arrested by Iranian forces. The Iranian’s say they were in Iranian waters, the British say they were in Iraqi waters. While this is going on, a supposedly spontaneous demonstration occurs outside the Foreign Ministry in Tehran. The crux of the demonstration appears to be that the people want the marines [...]

On the day of Ireland’s victory over England in rugby’s 2007 Six Nations Championship, that famous group of bright sparks that is Republican Sinn Fein staged a protest.
A protest against foreign games.
This picture says it all.
[courtesy of slugger and The ToryGraph]

I managed to miss this the other day, but anyway…
While 2007 has begun for most of us with a shrug of the shoulders to the passage of time, the French are not a people to accept these things lying down, hence new years eve demonstrations in the French city of Nantes, protesting with slogans like [...]

You just can’t make this up.
Michael “Looney Loyalist” Stone, he of the recent “I am here to kill Gerry Adams” visit to Stormont, has said (via his solicitor) that his sojourn to the hill equipped with nothing but his wit (and an axe, a garrot, some guns and a handful of nailbombs) was not an [...]