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- It was 20 years ago today
Saturday, 11 September, 2021 - Registration Plates and National Identifiers
Wednesday, 23 June, 2021 - Gridserve Acquires Ecotricity's Electric Highway
Wednesday, 9 June, 2021 - Cordial Disagreement over the COVID-19 Vaccination
Saturday, 20 March, 2021 - EU Inadvertently Unites Long-standing Opponents and Proponents
Saturday, 30 January, 2021 - Nation States Preserve Peace
Tuesday, 29 December, 2020 - Long Way Cock-Up?
Saturday, 19 September, 2020 - Misleading Headlines
Thursday, 10 September, 2020 - Eggs and Baskets
Friday, 15 May, 2020 - Remainer Mythbusting: Brexit: So In The End We Found Out
Friday, 26 April, 2019 - Guilt by Association
Tuesday, 16 May, 2017 - Vigenonilateral Negotiations and Stockholm Syndrome
Tuesday, 4 April, 2017 - Arrogance in Academia
Friday, 10 March, 2017 - Use the Ex-Force
Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 - Behind the Veil of Respectability
Monday, 30 January, 2017 - Playing the Dead
Friday, 23 December, 2016 - Sticks and Stones
Friday, 11 November, 2016 - An option for Bremainers?
Wednesday, 12 October, 2016 - Who works for you?
Friday, 7 October, 2016 - Nuclear Bore
Wednesday, 20 July, 2016 - Is there a real doctor in the house?
Monday, 30 May, 2016 - Defending Ignorance
Wednesday, 4 May, 2016 - What the Varoufakis he on about?
Wednesday, 27 April, 2016 - Obama Doesn't Care
Friday, 22 April, 2016 - The Deluded Left's Guide to EUtopia
Saturday, 16 April, 2016 - Euro Myths Unbusted
Monday, 4 April, 2016 - Sturgeon's Mask
Wednesday, 27 January, 2016 - General Ignorance
Friday, 15 January, 2016 - Politically Correct Denialism
Monday, 23 November, 2015 - Talking up to children
Sunday, 8 November, 2015 - When it comes to slavery, nobody should have a clear conscience
Monday, 12 October, 2015 - False Narratives and False Hopes
Sunday, 6 September, 2015 - The Dignity of the Mob
Monday, 17 August, 2015 - Hiroshima - 70 Years On
Thursday, 6 August, 2015 - Why we should all, EUphiles and EUphobes, vote to leave the EU
Wednesday, 8 July, 2015 - Still Droning On
Wednesday, 10 June, 2015 - Muse - Drones
Wednesday, 10 June, 2015 - Blaming the Banks
Friday, 1 May, 2015 - UKIP: The First 100 Days - Muddled Messages
Monday, 16 February, 2015 - Cultural Exchanges
Sunday, 11 January, 2015 - No, All Religions Are Not The Same
Saturday, 10 January, 2015 - Dishonest Debate
Sunday, 28 December, 2014 - Recalling the Fall of the Wall
Sunday, 9 November, 2014 - A New Vision for Union
Thursday, 18 September, 2014 - Slam Dunked!
Thursday, 11 September, 2014 - Tyranny of the Majority or just True Democracy?
Sunday, 7 September, 2014 - Gypsies on Benefits and Proud
Saturday, 19 April, 2014 - Consistency in Condemnation
Saturday, 8 February, 2014 - Mind the Public
Saturday, 25 January, 2014 - Man Holds Conservative Religious Belief Shock
Sunday, 19 January, 2014 - All children WILL attend 'cultural awareness' course... or be branded racist!
Saturday, 23 November, 2013 - Politically Incorrect Cultural Awareness
Saturday, 23 November, 2013 - Tesla Grills
Tuesday, 19 November, 2013 - Direct Democracy and Helvetophilia
Wednesday, 13 November, 2013 - Don't Ban the Burka - Shun It
Wednesday, 6 November, 2013 - Russell Brand's Populism - Up the Revolution!
Thursday, 24 October, 2013 - No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
Thursday, 19 September, 2013 - Syria or How I Learnt to Mind my Own Business
Thursday, 29 August, 2013 - The Count Not So Strong on TV
Sunday, 14 July, 2013 - The Passing of Her Ironness
Wednesday, 1 May, 2013 - Vinyl Schminyl
Thursday, 7 March, 2013 - Une analogie trop loin?
Wednesday, 23 January, 2013 - BAiT Produces Video Demo from a Live Rehearsal
Wednesday, 16 January, 2013 - Las Malvinas son Falklands
Thursday, 3 January, 2013 - Quick to judge, quick to anger... Slow to understand
Saturday, 24 November, 2012 - Smack My Bish Up
Wednesday, 21 November, 2012 - Size no longer matters
Friday, 2 November, 2012 - So what exactly is wrong with American justice?
Tuesday, 16 October, 2012 - Muse's New Album, The 2nd Law
Friday, 28 September, 2012 - Tutu You
Sunday, 2 September, 2012 - The 'crime' of socks and sandals
Thursday, 16 August, 2012 - Hunt down every one of the bastards
Tuesday, 17 July, 2012 - Arse Biscuits!
Monday, 25 June, 2012 - When In Rome... Do Whatever The Hell You Like
Sunday, 13 May, 2012 - Thick as a Brick, Live, its Newly-Released Sequel, and Musings on Tull
Sunday, 6 May, 2012 - When did the Left lose its sense of internationalism?
Monday, 2 April, 2012 - An eventful week
Monday, 13 February, 2012 - Exit Stage Left
Monday, 13 February, 2012 - BAiT's Return to the Stage
Sunday, 29 January, 2012 - Some general advice about photo prints and scanning
Sunday, 22 January, 2012 - A politicised Wikipedia? What happened to neutrality?
Wednesday, 18 January, 2012 - Temporal Relativism
Tuesday, 3 January, 2012 - The End of a Generation
Tuesday, 13 December, 2011 - Morris Dancing: You've Got To Laugh, Haven't You?
Monday, 12 December, 2011 - Decadance
Sunday, 27 November, 2011 - I don't believe it!
Monday, 31 October, 2011 - Gaddafi's Demise
Sunday, 23 October, 2011 - Grammar, We Love You
Tuesday, 27 September, 2011 - Response to Penny Red's Blog Entry on the Current Riots
Tuesday, 9 August, 2011 - London's Burning
Monday, 8 August, 2011 - What's a Greek Earn?
Tuesday, 28 June, 2011 - Life begins at 40... and starts with buying a caravan
Wednesday, 15 June, 2011 - A word with those who voted No To AV
Saturday, 7 May, 2011 - Bye Bye Binnie Boy
Monday, 2 May, 2011 - AV is not PR
Monday, 2 May, 2011 - Dark Ages? No Thanks. Atoms for energy!
Tuesday, 5 April, 2011 - New BAiT Website Live
Sunday, 13 February, 2011 - My recollections of a former boss
Monday, 17 January, 2011 - What's New and 2010 in review
Sunday, 2 January, 2011 - Atheism is bad for you
Friday, 17 September, 2010 - Europe Bike Trip - Part 8 - Gravelines, France to Home
Wednesday, 15 September, 2010 - Europe Bike Trip - Part 7 - Langsur, Germany to Gravelines, France
Tuesday, 14 September, 2010 - Europe Bike Trip - Part 6 - Haslach, Germany to Langsur, Germany
Monday, 13 September, 2010 - Europe Bike Trip - Part 5 - Flims, Switzerland to Haslach, Germany
Sunday, 12 September, 2010 - Europe Bike Trip - Part 4 - Vevey, Switzerland to Flims, Switzerland
Saturday, 11 September, 2010 - Europe Bike Trip - Part 3 - Les Adrets de l'Estérel l'Eglise, France to Vevey, Switzerland
Friday, 10 September, 2010 - Europe Bike Trip - Part 2 - Chaumont, France to Les Adrets de l'Estérel l'Eglise, France
Thursday, 9 September, 2010 - Europe Bike Trip - Part 1 - Home to Chaumont, France
Wednesday, 8 September, 2010 - The Big Question
Monday, 24 May, 2010 - The General Election - More than a three horse race
Sunday, 25 April, 2010 - Earth Hour - how to cause more pollution
Wednesday, 24 March, 2010 - European Union still sounds like a good idea?
Saturday, 20 March, 2010 - Teaching kids about the real world
Tuesday, 2 March, 2010 - The Chilcot Enquiry and why I back Blair and Bush over Iraq
Friday, 29 January, 2010 - Is there room in law for blasphemy?
Saturday, 2 January, 2010 - Hats off to Barack Obama
Friday, 11 December, 2009 - Swiss vote to ban the building of minarets
Monday, 30 November, 2009 - Solar Roadways -
Saturday, 19 September, 2009 - What is the difference between compassion and justice?
Saturday, 29 August, 2009 - The amazing mind of Kenny MacAskill
Monday, 24 August, 2009 - Return home from Potsdam
Thursday, 12 March, 2009 - Potsdam
Wednesday, 11 March, 2009 - Dresden
Tuesday, 10 March, 2009 - Berlin
Monday, 9 March, 2009 - Off to visit brother and family in Potsdam
Sunday, 8 March, 2009 - A sad day at work
Friday, 23 January, 2009 - Obama takes office
Tuesday, 20 January, 2009 - Mourning the passing of a man who shaped my childhood
Tuesday, 9 December, 2008 - The Beaver Gets A New Bass Player
Thursday, 4 December, 2008 - Final Gig With The Malc Evans Band
Friday, 21 November, 2008 - John Shuttleworth at Huntingdon Hall, Worcester
Tuesday, 18 November, 2008 - Ministry Of Beaver Gigs
Monday, 17 November, 2008 - Night trucking
Saturday, 23 August, 2008 - Ministry of Beaver recorded
Sunday, 10 August, 2008 - Nick and Cathy's Wedding
Saturday, 2 August, 2008 - Aberdeen to Home
Thursday, 31 July, 2008 - Lerwick and shipped back to Aberdeen
Wednesday, 30 July, 2008 - The Shetland Bus
Tuesday, 29 July, 2008 - Unst - Day 2
Monday, 28 July, 2008 - Unst - Day 1
Sunday, 27 July, 2008 - Lerwick and swimming
Saturday, 26 July, 2008 - St Ninian's and Sumburgh Head
Friday, 25 July, 2008 - Arrival in Shetland
Thursday, 24 July, 2008 - From Scarborough to Aberdeen
Wednesday, 23 July, 2008 - Start of holiday
Tuesday, 22 July, 2008 - Bikesafe
Sunday, 20 July, 2008 - Weekend of gigs (one at the Cavern Club in Liverpool)
Monday, 26 May, 2008 - Birth of Tristan Chivers
Wednesday, 30 April, 2008 - Beneva support Captain at the Barfly, Birmingham
Sunday, 20 April, 2008 - I'm so worried about the baggage retrieval system they've got at Heathrow
Friday, 28 March, 2008 - Mike Hailwood Memorial Run
Sunday, 23 March, 2008 - Baby scan, car, and garage door
Monday, 17 March, 2008 - Busy weekend gigging
Sunday, 16 March, 2008 - Archbishop Foot-In-Mouth
Thursday, 7 February, 2008 - First Gig with Ministry of Beaver
Saturday, 2 February, 2008 - Kill Clouseau's final gig
Tuesday, 1 January, 2008 - Manic Motorcycle Monday
Monday, 28 May, 2007 - New motorbike - Honda CBF1000
Saturday, 28 April, 2007 - BAiT split
Saturday, 24 March, 2007 - Ski Sunday
Monday, 5 February, 2007 - Saddam Hanged
Saturday, 30 December, 2006 - The beard has gone
Thursday, 28 December, 2006 - Warmth again
Wednesday, 27 December, 2006 - Bleak House
Tuesday, 26 December, 2006 - Christmas Day
Monday, 25 December, 2006 - Plumbing fun continued and off to the In-Laws'.
Sunday, 24 December, 2006 - Cursed plastic water pipes
Saturday, 23 December, 2006 - Work's Christmas Meal
Friday, 22 December, 2006 - Classical Guitar Lesson
Tuesday, 19 December, 2006 - Mike Oldfield's Blue Peter theme
Wednesday, 6 December, 2006 - Muggers need to be offered more fun activities
Wednesday, 29 November, 2006 - Albert Pierrepoint
Thursday, 16 November, 2006 - First Direct to start charging for current accounts
Wednesday, 15 November, 2006 - BAiT frustration and guitar plucking
Tuesday, 31 October, 2006 - Old and familiar voices
Sunday, 29 October, 2006 - Ice Skating
Sunday, 22 October, 2006 - Kill Clouseau and muses on covers and originals gigs
Sunday, 22 October, 2006 - RoboTommo
Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 - Ouch, that had to hurt
Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 - BAiT support gig with GPS
Wednesday, 4 October, 2006 - Good quotation
Thursday, 21 September, 2006 - Wales trip
Sunday, 17 September, 2006 - Clooney the diplomat
Friday, 15 September, 2006 - Kill Clouseau - The First Gig
Sunday, 10 September, 2006 - My MySpace page
Friday, 18 August, 2006 - Another good 'un leaves work
Friday, 23 June, 2006 - Car Companion
Saturday, 6 May, 2006 - Emo Philips
Wednesday, 29 March, 2006 - LGV Class C+E (HGV Class 1) retest day
Monday, 27 March, 2006 - I've been Wikipediaed!
Saturday, 25 March, 2006 - No Yorkie for John
Friday, 17 March, 2006 - There is no such thing as an "illegal war"
Friday, 3 February, 2006 - LGV (HGV) practical driving test
Friday, 20 January, 2006 - Happy biking
Tuesday, 3 January, 2006 - I'm an uncle again
Monday, 2 January, 2006 - Motorbike oil change day
Sunday, 1 January, 2006 - BAiT acoustic album progress
Sunday, 11 December, 2005 - LGV assessment
Saturday, 10 December, 2005 - Passed my LGV theory test
Friday, 25 November, 2005 - Remembrance Sunday
Sunday, 13 November, 2005 - Trip to Ashford and BAiT gig at the Jailhouse, Coventry
Friday, 11 November, 2005 - A gig best forgotten
Tuesday, 1 November, 2005 - BAiT at The Golden Cross and John joins LiveJournal
Friday, 28 October, 2005 - Capital Punishment
Saturday, 22 October, 2005 - Spock's Beard gig
Monday, 17 October, 2005 - Mike Oldfield's new album, Light And Shade
Tuesday, 11 October, 2005 - BAiT on the radio
Monday, 10 October, 2005 - Jon Anderson solo gig
Friday, 7 October, 2005 - Ronnie Barker RIP
Tuesday, 4 October, 2005 - BAiT's first gig since 31.12.2002
Monday, 19 September, 2005 - IQ gig
Saturday, 17 September, 2005 - The innocence of children
Monday, 15 August, 2005 - Iraq lead to terrorist attacks in UK?
Monday, 18 July, 2005 - London Olympics and G8 summit
Wednesday, 6 July, 2005 - Bad language at Live 8
Monday, 4 July, 2005 - Ian Brown at Glastonbury
Monday, 27 June, 2005 - Birthday, cold, and Wilf Lunn
Monday, 13 June, 2005 - Yes tribute band and the EU's CAP
Friday, 10 June, 2005 - A letter to my MP re vehicle licence duty replacement
Thursday, 9 June, 2005 - Direct Democracy
Tuesday, 7 December, 2004 - George Bush 2004
Sunday, 14 November, 2004
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