One of the UK's largest mortgage lenders, the Northern Rock, is applying to the Bank of England for emergency financial support. The decision for the Bank of England to become the "lender of last resort" is extremely rare, and follows only a week after it was disclosed that Barclays Bank had needed 2 emergency loans of £314m then £1.6bn, that Deutsche Bank has shut down its proprietary credit trading desk in London and the collapse of Victoria Mortgages earlier this week.   more »

What you you do if you found covert police tracking devices on your car? A police operation to covertly follow a Central Otago (NZ) man came to an abrupt halt this week when the man found tracking devices planted in his car, ripped them out and listed them for sale on Trade Me.   more »

Following my piece on 2010, and all the databases that are coming together to log and track your every movement, spending, earning, travel and association with others, comes this piece collated and written by Dodo. This frightening summary needs to be read, printed, circulated and republished. You tell us what kind of Britain is Brown and the EU building. Remember that all of this has been done with the collusion and agreement of the Conservative and Liberal Parties who in the main voted for the legislation listed below. A summary of the principal legislative sources of the erosion of rights and freedoms in Britain becomes cumulatively chilling.   more »

In the style of Mao, Kim il Sung and Stalin before him, Gordon Brown is being promoted to our children as the 'Great Leader'. The Prime Minister's book 'Courage' is being used as propaganda in our schools. Last month, it was revealed that Lord Paul – who recently declared he would donate "as much as I can afford" to help bankroll Labour at the next general election – had purchased 6,000 copies of the Prime Minister's book Courage for secondary schools across the land.   more »

Things become more and more encouraging, for we have another article, this time in the Telegraph slating the "one-establishment" political class. John O'Sullivan compares the British political process of the last thirty years to the last half of the Soviet era and ponders whether Cameron is not the British Gorbachev.   more »

As well as being almost unbelievably cruel, the situation is seeming curiouser and curiouser... Can it be coincidence that the exclusion zone this time also contains government labs? And one is beginning to wonder abut the properties of a virus strain that can jump from Pirbright to the VLA Veterinary Laboratories Agency (Department of Statutory and Exotic Bacterial Diseases, Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB) - if this is indeed the same strain (and we have passed the conservative maximum 30 days incubation time since the last confirmed case).   more »