* It becomes more obvious each week that when the liberals elected Ming the Merciless as leader of the party (Menzies Campbell) they were committing political suicide. Instead of the rather likeable Scot Charles Kennedy they replaced him with a useless old bastard who everyone ignores when he gets up to speak. Currently as part of an attempt to get some voters he has been criticising stop and search laws for the benefit of Muslims. Ming feels such laws alienate the muslim community. The defendant in the current muslim bomber trials had the gall to suggest that they weren't trying to blow people up as that was murder and as muslims they wouldn't do such a thing. A similar plea to that given when it was said muslim men might disguise themselves as veiled women was refuted on the basis no muslim man would do such a demeaning thing. The new labour and conservative parties must be laughing amongst themselves over Mings piss-poor performance.

* Drugs.
If anyone is thinking of drug taking as a recreation a group of scientists have produced a list of drugs in sequence of most harmful to least harmful. See below for list pinched from the BBC website. Alcohol which got off pretty lightly in the budget is ranked very high for the harm caused. Spirits probably the most harmful form got sod-all in tax. This government is nothing if not surprising completely ignoring the warnings over current alcohol consumption. I see that LSD gets a pretty low rating. I'm not sure what dosage is sold but if its 250 mikes I would caution people new to the drug scene not to plumb for that one right away. Ecstacy gets a low rating considering all the dire warnings that intermittently emerge. Needless to say Heroin and Cocaine get top slots. Considering its the drug of choice for media, arts and political types this is all you need to know to figure out the amusing goings on deck of SS England.