Author Archives: Tim Ireland

About Tim Ireland

Tim is the sole author of Bloggerheads.

What really, really matters

Guardian – Papers reveal Bagram abuse: New evidence has emerged that US forces in Afghanistan engaged in widespread Abu Ghraib-style abuse, taking “trophy photographs” of detainees and carrying out rape and sexual humiliation. Documents obtained by the Guardian contain evidence … Continue reading

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The possible need to state the bleeding obvious

OK, quick show of hands. Who here doesn’t understand what ‘Jim Doyle’ is up to? UPDATE – I just left this comment on the site. It was deleted within minutes: “Jim, we’ve explained this in public, and we’ve explained it … Continue reading

Posted in Normal People | 13 Comments

Energy to burn

Tut. Tut. Tut. Why can’t they spend their time doing sometime *constructive*? Do none of these people have jobs? (And so on and so forth.) PS – Libyans! Run for it, Marty!

Posted in Consume! | 1 Comment

Is Gareth Davies a Labour stooge?

Unless you suffer from severe short-term memory loss, you’re likely to remember this post from yesterday identifying a Bloggerheads visitor that appeared to be viewing the site from inside Labour HQ. The person using this IP address visited again yesterday. … Continue reading

Posted in UK General Election 2005 | 12 Comments

UK sliding towards police state shock

I am amazed that this appeared in a Murdoch newspaper… Simon Jenkins – Conspiring in torture, betraying our freedom. Charles Clarke is a disaster: Neither the Prime Minister nor the Home Secretary have shown any contrition for the deceptive Iraq … Continue reading

Posted in The War on Stupid | 3 Comments

Girl with boobs has ‘opinion’ #342

Today, Page 3 lovely Peta (18, from Essex) backs Tony Blair’s call for Ken Livingstone to apologise over his ‘anti-Jewish’ remarks (Boris Johnson, BTW, has a slightly different view). She says: “I found his comments totally abhorrent. As Mayor of … Continue reading

Posted in Page 3 - News in Briefs | 5 Comments

IP address fun

Yes. I am paranoid. And I have delusions of grandeur. Here’s something inneresting from my Bloggerheads stats for February: 194.201.189.212 (18 pages, last visit 09 Feb 2005 – 11:44) See if you can guess (before you click) what this IP … Continue reading

Posted in Tony 'King Blair, UK General Election 2005 | 4 Comments

I miss Douglas

Amazon is hosting the new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trailer. Enjoy.

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Hello Labour Party peeps!

“One more chance” says wife-beater Blair. Heh. I suspect this may be an ugly metaphor. There is no suggestion that Tony actually beats Cherie. Making such a claim would be more than a little bit silly. I’ve yet to process … Continue reading

Posted in UK General Election 2005 | 5 Comments

And Blair will say: now is not the time to go digging up the past…

Independent – British troops face new charges as bodies of Iraqi civilians are exhumed: Charges against British troops are believed to be imminent following fresh allegations of crimes committed in Iraq, including cases relating to the deaths of civilians. Army … Continue reading

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