I am baffled by the news last night that animal rights protestors [extremists if you prefer], have been jailed for twelve years. If I remember rightly the bloke who put a bomb under a scientists car in Bristol some years back didn’t get that much. And what have these evil people done to deserve this? ‘Grave Robbers’ – spells out the big red banner across the BBC news bulletin – is that it? “This is the worst thing that could happen to anyone.” Says the daughter of the disinterred woman ; I can think of a few things I’d rather happen than that. And then they poured paintstripper on peoples cars, threw bricks at their windows and sent nasty threatening letters. Actually I think all of these things have happened to me at some point in my life in some form or other – but TWELVE YEARS!? Such offenses would be dealt with in other circumstances by an ASBO. I am not kidding – how do they get away with it? The BBC report ends with the chilling warning to those involved in the anti-HLS protests to reconsider their ways – or else!

Anyway I am sure others will have come to the same conclusions as me – no need to go into all the rhetoric about terrorism and the pillars of civilisation and science. No coincidence that the other ‘news’ on last night was about the fatal flaws in the system which allowed the london bombers to slip through the police net. No mention of the War which caused them to commit these atrocities. The point being that anyone who wants to use the media to their own ends to subvert the clean message of the state is severely dealt with. Which brings me to the subject of Nuclear Power. I just re-watched a report on channel four with an interview by the chief of EDF, Frances’ state owned nuclear giant;

 http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=2164

and was struck by the phrase ‘once the decision has been made to build nuclear power stations in Britain EDF will join in the push to “convert public opinion”. So when you consider the story in the guardian which details plans to spend £650 Bn. On a European grid system ;
 http://business.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,,1710931,00.html

you begin to wonder what all this talk about a new phase of nuclear expansion is about. I think the answer is dirty money. And while I’m on the subject – another couple of jokes in the paper about house prices. Firstly a BBC report about the new housing minister [forgotten her name] – which ends with the joke – “it seems that people are starting to think that the unusually high property prices are now becoming a problem”. And then a headline in the papers “ chief of Bank of England says that house prices are remarkably high.” HA HA HA – cheers mate!