Sunday Paper Review: 30th January 2011

In her song In Your Eyes, the always lovely and always phenomenal Kylie Minogue once asked: "Is the world still spinning around?".

Looking around the Sunday papers, the answer appears to be: "Yes... but only just."

It certainly appears to have gone quite mad. Must be all the fluoride in the water.

In the Sunday Telegraph, the revolt-cum-uprising-cum-revolution in Egypt takes key focus. The newspaper reports that the death toll may be higher than official figures, relating how live ammunition has been used on protesters.

Placing the story into a domestic context, the report carries the official line from Downing Street who have apparently stated that: "[David Cameron has] emphasised that violent repression of peaceful protest was wrong and counterproductive."

Let's hope Call Me Dave will take the same view next time an innocent newspaper seller who isn't even protesting dies on the streets of London.

Leaving aside the student protests here, the Sunday Express is headlining with a story about how we're all supposedly getting very angry about the price of petrol.

Their poll, conducted by Angus Reid, finds: "84 per cent of people demanding that the Chancellor should axe the rise in fuel duty scheduled for April."

We're guessing the other 16 per cent still believe in 'man made global warming'.

Worryingly, the report also states that: "Labour commands a double-digit lead in the polls which would give them a thumping 134 seat majority if an election was called tomorrow."

We can't tell the difference between the LibLabCon parties anymore... except that the Labour variety of the one party state are the biggest advocates of creating a gigantic police state with no freedom and no liberties whatsoever.

All in the name of fighting 'terror', of course.

The terror the political class the world over feel that we, the people might have rumbled them, that is.

Not very often that this blog shows any sympathy with positions taken in The Observer, but there is one where we give our total support.

Today, the leftist newspaper of choice throws it's spotlight back on to plans to sell off Britain's forests and woodlands.

They tell how broadcaster Melvyn Bragg is outraged by proposals to sell off "more than 30 forests and woodlands across the Lake District".

This blogger is also outraged. Well, no - not outraged. Utterly repulsed. The treachery and vandalism being visited upon this beautiful country by the political elite of all persuasions over the last forty years is utterly incalculable and getting to be something that, at some point or another, is uniting people. When that happens, there may be trouble ahead.

And look at this issue... it's got this small 'c' conservative blogger sharing sympathies and in agreement with editorial lines being taken in The Observer, of all things.

Thankfully, we need feel no embarrassment. The patriotic Sunday Express also feels the same it seems.

Oppose the sale of our forests and woodlands with every vigour!

If the Independent on Sunday is to be believed, then one could be forgiven for thinking that the Government here is determined to see how far they can provoke the people before we all kick off, Egypt style.

Discussions are taking place, the newspaper reports, which would mean that: "Every home in the country could be forced to have a water meter".

As if taxing fresh air in the name of 'man made global warming' (jolly cold still, huh?) weren't enough; now they want to monitor our water... you know, that natural liquid which goes in a cycle between sky and sea - and no doubt enable private companies (owned by globalists) to charge us a fortune for the privilege.

And get this bit! The reports states that: "The RSPB charity has recommended – to the cross-party environment, food and rural affairs (Efra) select committee – full compulsory metering in England and Wales by 2020".

What? Hang on a minute! The RSPB? The bird people? What on earth has it got to do with them?

And who elected the bird people to a position in which they have direct access to influencing Government policy?

The People reports how Spanish banking group Santander has "mistakenly sent details of a million UK customers to a company in France."

Databases, data security, globalisation and banking - all in one story. We could spend a few hours deconstructing this one, but we reckon you'll have a good view of our opinion from that brief summary of the position.

Hilariously, the tabloid opens that report by calling Santander "ONE of Britain’s biggest banks".

They must be due to be on the receiving end of untold trillions of taxpayer's money on the never-never for no good reason soon, then. Every other bank seems to have had it's share.

And the Spanish economy no doubt could do with a few trillion from the British taxpayer. Doing it through Santander would just bypass the European Union aspect.

More madness in the Mail on Sunday - but this comes in the form of one of the most beautifully written articles I have encountered in a very long time.

Michael Williams charts the demise of the Wrexham and Shropshire rail service amidst crazy operating environments whereby: "You can get off at Wolverhampton but you can’t get on."

The article conveys the romance of the railways, whilst noting how: "Our great railway system [...] has been carved up [...] by a small number of big corporate players who bid vast sums of money for monopoly franchises and receive lavish guarantees from the taxpayer."

It really is a bittersweet read - and if you read nothing else this weekend, we highly recommend putting a few minutes into reading this one.

And finally... the Sunday Mirror say that 'boyband' Blue are to represent the United Kingdom at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

Yes, it is still running. Yes, we - the people of the UK - are still bankrolling it.

Well, it did give us ABBA, I suppose.

Eurovision... ABBA... Waterloo, "Napoleon did surrender", Belgium, Emperor von Rumpy-Pumpy... can you see where we're going with this?

In the words of Kylie, we should be so lucky... lucky, lucky, lucky.