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UFOs - An Official History
world exclusive article revealed for the first time the secret history of the
British Governmentĺs early involvement in the UFO issue, giving an insight
into the politics and personalities responsible for shaping official policy.
The bulk of this article concerns the post-war period, but to understand
what happened and why, we need to go back a little further.
mysterious wave of airship sightings that took place over America in 1896 and
1897 were mirrored by a series of sightings that took place in Britain, starting
in 1909. One of the first of these
so-called Ĺscareshipĺ sightings occurred in the early hours of 23 March
1909, when PC Kettle from Peterborough heard a strange buzzing sound from above.
When he looked up, he saw a bright light attached to an immense,
oblong-shaped craft, which moved at a fairly high speed across the sky.
Numerous further sightings were reported.
13 May 1909 an airship of about 100 feet in length was seen over Kelmarsh in
Northamptonshire, while on the same night two men claimed to have seen a landed
airship on Ham Common in London and spoken to the two crewmen, who they said
were German and American. The
German asked for some tobacco for his pipe and the two witnesses reported having
been blinded by a searchlight during some of the sighting. Another report of a landed airship concerned an event that
took place on 18 May 1909, on Caerphilly Mountain in South Wales.
The witness reported having seen two strangely-dressed occupants who he
heard talking to each other in a strange language that he was unable to
identify. A subsequent examination
of the alleged landing site revealed some damage to the ground.
public perception was that these were sightings of German airships carrying out
reconnaissance missions. But there
is no indication that Count Ferdinand von Zeppelinĺs airship programme was
sufficiently advanced in 1909 to conduct such operations over the UK.
In any case, German airships of the period could manage nothing remotely
close to the sorts of speeds and manoeuvres that were being reported.
The British airship programme was significantly less advanced than the
German one, so we do not believe that the Ĺscareshipĺ mystery can be
explained in terms of prototype British military hardware with which members of
the public would be unfamiliar. To
this day these sightings remain unexplained.
Further information can be found in The
Scareship Mystery - A Survey of Phantom Airship Scares, 1909 - 1918, edited
by Nigel Watson.
reason for mentioning these sightings is that they mark the beginning of
official interest in unexplained aerial phenomena. The 1909 wave was followed by further reports in 1912 and
this is where our story begins in earnest.
There had been sightings of an airship over Sheerness in Kent and with
tension between Britain and Germany being so high, it was suggested that a
Zeppelin was involved. On 27
November 1912 William Joynson-Hicks MP raised the matter in Parliament and
quizzed the First Lord of the Admiralty about the events.
The latter confirmed that reports had been received, but said that
subsequent investigation had not produced any explanation for what had been
seen. The First Lord of the
Admiralty at the time was Winston Churchill.
continued throughout 1913 and one consequence of this was the strengthening of
the Aerial Navigation Act of 1911. A
Bill was duly passed which set up prohibited areas. If these were violated or if an airship failed to respond to
signals from the ground, it could then be shot down and to enable this to be
carried out, the War Office stepped up efforts to produce a gun capable of
bringing down an airship. The War
Office continued to investigate the 1913 sightings, but drew a blank.
the media championed the theory that these sightings involved German dirigibles,
some newspapers suspected that hoaxes or hysteria might be more logical
explanations, especially in the cases of those reports involving sightings of
landed craft and occupants. Crucially,
however, the Government was not prepared to make such a judgement and continued
to take the view that all sightings should be investigated.
If there is evidence that your airspace is being penetrated by aerial
craft one does not ignore the data. Whatever
oneĺs personal beliefs, anyone within government and the military cannot
ignore evidence of this nature and must assume that they are hostile.
If governments investigate such things and they turn out to be bogus, all
they lose is a little time and money. But
if they ignore something that turns out to be real and hostile, they leave the
country vulnerable, as well losing the opportunity to exploit it (e.g. copying
the technology). This philosophy
underpins official interest not just in UFOs but in other areas such as remote
viewing, so in a sense the War Office response to the scareship mystery set the
template for future official investigations into UFOs.
UFO researchers are familiar with the Foo Fighter mystery, which involved
strange balls of light and small, metallic objects seen by both Allied and Axis
pilots during the Second World War. File
AIR 14/2800 at the Public Record Office contains one of the few surviving
official British reports of these objects, detailing how aircrew from Bomber
Commandĺs 115 Squadron saw some of these strange objects on bombing raids in
December 1943.
is more pertinent to this story is the way in which the Foo Fighter sightings
were viewed by the British Government. Perhaps
the best indication comes from Professor R. V. Jones, one of the key wartime
scientific intelligence experts and someone who is one of the key figures in
this story, even though his involvement with the UFO issue is not widely known.
Writing in chapter 52 of his book Most
Secret War, he says:
had already seen scares arise during the war by the imaginations of men under
strain interpreting fearfully observations which had a natural explanation.
KGr 100 pilots had seen red lights over England.
We had to deal with reports of Fifth Columnists letting off rockets; and
our bomber crews had reported single-engine nightfighters with yellow lights in
their noses over Germany at times when we knew that no single-engine
nightfighters were flying.ö
Fighter sightings, so it seems, were dismissed out of hand by officialdom.
Or were they?
R. V. Jones features prominently in this history of officialdomĺs involvement
with the UFO issue, we should give a brief summary of his career.
He was a protÚgÚ of Churchillĺs key scientific advisor Frederick
Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell) and Sir Henry Tizard.
He played a key role in anticipating and countering German technical
advances in fields such as radar, radio-beam navigation, V-1 and V-2 weapons and
the embryonic German nuclear programme. He
was appointed as Assistant Director of Intelligence(Science) in 1941 and
promoted to Director of Intelligence in 1946.
He left government service that same year, taking the chair of Natural
Philosophy (the old term for physics) at the University of Aberdeen, his
candidacy having been supported by Winston Churchill and Lord Cherwell. He returned to government service in 1952 at Churchillĺs
request, as Director of Scientific Intelligence at the MOD, but returned to his
academic career at Aberdeen at the end of 1953.
his government service Jones forged very close links with the Americans,
especially the CIA, who in 1993 honoured him with a perpetual intelligence medal
in his name. When he died in 1997
the CIA issued a press release containing eulogies from Director George Tenet
and former Director James Woolsey (This press release can be viewed online at www.cia.gov).
involvement in the UFO issue is not widely known, but is documented in a number
of sources, including the following:
1. Chapter 52 of his book Most
Secret War.
2. Annex V of the Condon report.
3. CIA Chief Historian Gerald Hainesĺ article CIAĺs
Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90: A Die-hard Issue.
4. Private papers held at the Churchill Archives Centre,
Churchill College, Cambridge.
we return to R. V. Jones, we will make brief mention of how US journalist
Dorothy Kilgallen alleged that the British Government had recovered a crashed
UFO. Writing in the Los
Angeles Examiner on 23 May 1955 she said:
scientists and airmen, after examining the wreckage of one mysterious flying
ship, are convinced these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or
Soviet inventions, but are flying saucers which originate on another planet.
The source of my information is a British official of cabinet rank who
prefers to remain unidentified.ö
scientists and airmen, after examining the wreckage of one mysterious flying
ship, are convinced these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or
Soviet inventions, but are flying saucers which originate on another planet.
The source of my information is a British official of cabinet rank who
prefers to remain unidentified.ö
in Flying Saucer Review (Volume 25,
Number 4 and Volume 31, Number 1) Gordon Creighton, who had researched this
story in detail, made it clear that he believed Kilgallenĺs source was Earl
Mountbatten of Burma. Indeed, it
has been suggested that Kilgallen picked the story up at a cocktail party hosted
by Mountbatten in May 1955. Kilgallenĺs
story has widely been dismissed as a hoax, but as we shall see, other events may
put her claims in a new light.
the immediate aftermath of the Second World War a new mystery was to emerge,
which again involved R. V. Jones. This
was the so-called ôGhost Rocketö wave of sightings that occurred in
Scandinavia in 1946. In chapter 52
of Most Secret War Jones is as
dismissive of these sightings as he had been about Foo Fighters, believing them
to be either ôimaginaryö or meteors. But
a number of personnel working in Air Technical Intelligence believed these were
sightings of Russian ôflying bombsö and investigated the matter thoroughly.
Jones reveals how the Swedish authorities recovered what they believed
were pieces that had fallen from a Ghost Rocket.
These fragments were subsequently acquired by Air Technical Intelligence
staff and sent to the Chemical Analysis Section at the Royal Aircraft
Establishment at Farnborough. It
transpired that an embarrassing mistake had been made and the fragments were
nothing more than pieces of coke, but the story is interesting in what it
reveals about official interest in these sightings and the way in which British
scientific intelligence experts were able to acquire the material from a neutral
52 of R. V. Jonesĺ book Most Secret War
contains a truly bizarre anecdote concerning the alleged crash of an object at
Westerham in Kent, in 1946. Apparently
a signal was received from General MacArthurĺs staff in Tokyo, asking for
confirmation of a report that a Russian flying bomb had recently crashed in
England. The other Director of
Intelligence on the Air Staff, Air Commodore Vintras, suggested to Jones that
this might tie in with the ôWesterham Incidentö.
Westerham Incident started, apparently, with an irate call to the Technical
Intelligence Staff from a farmer called Gunyon who wanted the Air Ministry to
come and remove one of these ôdarned contraptionsö which had fallen onto his
farm. The intelligence officers
asked for directions and were told to drive from Croydon to Westerham, turning
onto a lane when they reached a pub called The White Dog. Amidst great security, two staff cars were dispatched, but
failed to find the farm. They
located a pub called The White Hart and a farmer named Bunyan, who strenuously
denied having made the call. This
bizarre incident remains unexplained and although it appeared to be a hoax, few
people would have had the wherewithal to get through to the Technical
Intelligence Staff and convince them to make a field visit.
Indeed, the intelligence officers believed that Jones himself had been
behind the affair.
there a link between the Westerham Incident, General MacArthurĺs enquiry about
a crashed Russian flying bomb and Dorothy Kilgallenĺs story?
Could these be references to the same incident?
Was it really a hoax? If so,
it was one that went to the very heart of the British Establishment.
As a final footnote, perhaps it is worth noting that Westerham is just a
couple of miles from Chartwell, which was the home of Sir Winston Churchill.
should never underestimate the power of the media, or its capability to set the
political agenda, even to the extent that it can drive government policy.
This is as true today as it was in the post-war years.
The year that ufology first really hit the headlines in the UK was 1950. Prior to that there had, of course, been coverage, but this
largely concerned US sightings and the reporting was often dismissive.
But on 8 October 1950 two major newspapers started a series of articles
on the subject. The Sunday
Express began to serialise Gerald Heardĺs book The
Riddle of the Flying Saucers (The book was subsequently published in the US
under the title Is Another World Watching?).
The rival Sunday Dispatch, a London paper, ran extracts from Frank Scullyĺs Behind
the Flying Saucers and Donald Keyhoeĺs The
Flying Saucers are Real.
it was not just the media who were clamouring for answers and pressing the
Government for action. Some very
senior Establishment figures felt that something should be done and lobbied on
the subject, sometimes openly and sometimes behind the scenes.
Some of these figures were quite prepared to express openly the view that
some UFO sightings might well be extraterrestrial in origin.
senior Establishment figure who took an active role in this subject was Earl
Mountbatten, whose interest is well known to most ufologists and has been widely
documented, not least in Philip Zieglerĺs 1985 book Mountbatten: The Official Biography.
chapter four of his book Flying Saucers
and Common Sense, published in 1955, Waveney Girvan reveals that Earl
Mountbatten had written a personal letter to the editor of the Sunday
Dispatch early in 1950. This
letter followed an earlier article concerning a wave of UFO sightings in
America, in the town of Orangeburg. The
letter read as follows:
extraordinary things have now been seen in almost every part of the world -
Scandinavia, North America, South America, Central Europe, etc.
Reports are always appearing and the newspapers generally try to ridicule
them. As a result it is difficult
for any seriously interested person to find out very much about them.
I should therefore like to congratulate you on having had both the
intelligence (and, incidentally, the courage) to print the first serious helpful
article which I have read on the Flying Saucers.
I have read most other accounts up to date, and can candidly say yours
interested me the mostö.
goes on to reveal that Mountbatten and the editor of the Sunday Dispatch had a lengthy conversation about UFOs in mid 1950,
which led directly to the serialisation of Scully and Keyhoeĺs books, as
mentioned previously.
is also well known among ufologists that on 23 February 1955 it is alleged that
a UFO was sighted at Mountbattenĺs estate at Broadlands in Hampshire.
The witness was Frederick Briggs, a bricklayer employed at Broadlands.
Briggs said that the craft had been shaped like a spinning top, was
metallic and about 20 or 30 feet in diameter with portholes around the centre.
Watching from a distance of less than 100 yards, Briggs estimated that
the craft was 80 feet above the ground. Briggs
saw a humanoid figure dressed in what looked like overalls and a helmet descend
from the craft on some sort of column with a platform at the bottom. He was then dazzled by a bright blue light from the craft and
fell over, where he lay unable to move, as if held by a strange force.
The craft then flew off at high speed.
took a personal interest in this incident, interviewed Briggs and searched the
area of the meadow over which the UFO had been seen. He subsequently had a statement prepared, detailing Briggsĺ
claims. This story was written-up
by Desmond Leslie in 1980, in Flying
Saucer Review (Volume 26, Number 5). Mountbattenĺs
signed statement on the incident is held with many of his other private papers,
at the Broadlands Archive.
senior Establishment figure whose interest and belief in UFOs is widely known
and documented is the wartime Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command, Air Chief
Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding. He was as
outspoken as Mountbatten on the issue. Writing
in the Sunday Dispatch on 11 July 1954
he said:
am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by
any nation on Earth. I can
therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some
extraterrestrial source.ö
have learned from veteran British ufologist Emily Crewe that when contactee
George Adamski visited the UK in 1963, Dowding and Mountbatten met him in London
and subsequently took him to Broadlands to see the site of Frederick Briggsĺ
1955 UFO sighting.
Peter Horsley, who died on 20 December 2001, was a former Air Marshal whose
distinguished RAF career saw him retire as Deputy Commander-in-Chief at HQ
Strike Command. A chapter of his
1997 autobiography Sounds From Another
Room relates to his interest in UFOs and the interest of friends and
colleagues such as Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt, General Sir Frederick
Browning and General Martin.
serving as a Royal equerry in 1952, Horsley began a study into the UFO
phenomenon, with the full knowledge of the Duke of Edinburgh, who was briefed on
Horsleyĺs findings. Horsley has
said that the Duke of Edinburgh was interested and open-minded on the subject,
though keen that Horsleyĺs inquiry should be low-key.
Establishment figure whose interest in UFOs is less well known is Sir Henry
Tizard. Tizard is best known for
his pioneering work on the development of radar technology prior to the Second
World War and his various wartime posts included Scientific Adviser to the Air
Staff. He returned to the Ministry
of Defence in 1948 as Chief Scientific Adviser, a post that he held until 1952.
largely outside the scope of this article, it is perhaps interesting to note
that although Sir Henry Tizard and Lord Cherwell had once been friends, a series
of disagreements over various policy issues had ended their friendship and
turned them into great rivals. We
do not say that this had any direct bearing on the subsequent handling of the
UFO issue, but their differing opinions on the subject should perhaps at least
be viewed in the context of their rivalry.
It was Cherwell who had the last word on Churchillĺs 1952 enquiry on
UFOs, telling the Prime Minister that he agreed entirely with the Secretary of
State for Airĺs sceptical views. When
it comes to UFOs, the believer versus sceptic debate is as active within
government and the military as anywhere else, as is clear from the books of
those people (e.g. Ruppelt and Hynek) who have been involved in official
government UFO research and investigation programmes.
had followed the official debate about ghost rockets with interest and was
intrigued by the increasing media coverage of UFO sightings in the UK, America
and other parts of the world. Using
his authority as Chief Scientific Adviser at the MOD he decided that the subject
should not be dismissed without some proper, official investigation.
Accordingly, he agreed that a small Directorate of Scientific
Intelligence/Joint Technical Intelligence Committee (DSI/JTIC) working party
should be set up to investigate the phenomenon.
This was dubbed the Flying Saucer Working Party.
The DSI/JTIC minutes recording this historic development read as follows:
Chairman said that Sir Henry Tizard felt that reports of flying saucers ought
not to be dismissed without some investigation and he had, therefore, agreed
that a small DSI/JTIC Working Party should be set up under the chairmanship of
Mr Turney to investigate future reports.
discussion it was agreed that the membership of the Working Party should
comprise representatives of DSI1, ADNI(Tech), MI10 and ADI(Tech).
It was also agreed that it would probably be necessary at some time to
consult the Meteorological Department and ORS Fighter Command but that these two
bodies should not at present be asked to nominate representativesö.
Flying Saucer Working Party was set up in October 1950, but operated under such
secrecy that its existence was known to very few. Nevertheless, there were two clues that such a study had been
carried out. One of these clues was
obvious, but the other was more obscure.
first clue was in the Secretary of State for Airĺs response to Prime Minister
Winston Churchillĺs famous 28 July 1952 memo in which he enquired ôWhat does
all this stuff about flying saucers amount to?
What can it mean? What is
the truth? Let me have a report at
your convenienceö. The response,
dated 9 August 1952, began ôThe various reports about unidentified flying
objects, described by the Press as ôflying saucersö, were the subject of a
full Intelligence study in 1951ö.
second clue was in a minute dated 29 May 1959, written by an official in S6 (a
now defunct MOD division whose responsibilities for researching and
investigating UFOs were latterly taken on by DS8, Sec(AS) and now DAS).
This minute contained a sentence which read ôThe subject was reviewed
by the J.I.C. some years ago and their views agree with a more extensive review
carried out by the Americansö. This
minute can be found at the PRO in file DEFE 31/118.
was some considerable discussion and debate about the terms of reference of the
Flying Saucer Working Party. The
final version read as follows:
1. To review the available evidence in reports of ôFlying
2. To examine from now on the evidence on which reports of
British origin of phenomena attributed to ôFlying Saucersö are based.
3. To report to DSI/JTIC as necessary.
4. To keep in touch with American occurrences and
evaluation of such.
five man working party was chaired by Mr G. L. Turney from one of the MODĺs
scientific intelligence branches. All
the members were specialists in the field of scientific and technical
intelligence. One member, Wing
Commander M. Formby, Assistant Director of Intelligence (Technical) at the Air
Ministry, also chaired the Guided Missiles Working Party.
working partyĺs conclusions were set out in a document dated June 1951 and
bearing the designation DSI/JTIC Report No. 7.
It was entitled ôUnidentified Flying Objectsö and classified
ôSecret Discreetö. The report
comprises six pages (including the cover sheet) and is reproduced here, in full.
We obtained it last year under the Code of Practice on Access to
Government Information (as did a number of other researchers) and it was
subsequently made available at the Public Record Office on 1 January 2002.
Some of the key PRO file references containing the Report and related DSI/JTIC
discussions are DEFE 10/496, DEFE 41/74 and DEFE 41/75.
the report is reproduced here, in full (aside from some material in paragraph 4,
relating to liaison with the Americans, which has been withheld) we do not
propose to do much more than give a brief summary of the document, as we believe
it speaks for itself. The following
commentary should be viewed in conjunction with Graham Birdsallĺs analysis in
the January 2002 issue of UFO Magazine.
report begins with a history of the UFO phenomenon, covering the Scandinavian
ôGhost Rocketö wave of 1946, Kenneth Arnoldĺs sighting, the death of
Captain Thomas Mantell and the work of Projects Sign and Grudge.
Curiously, Foo Fighters were not mentioned at all.
Through our study of various DSI/JTIC minutes it seems that this
oversight occurred because while Fighter Command were invited to submit views to
the Flying Saucer Working Party, Bomber Command were not.
is not mentioned, although there is reference to a report of a ôcrashed flying
saucer full of the remains of very small beingsö. But the Report states that the author of these claims had
admitted that it had been a fabrication and it is clear that this is a reference
not to Roswell but to Frank Scullyĺs claims about the recovery of a UFO at
Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948.
report then details some British UFO sightings, concentrating on three cases
involving military witnesses. But
in each case, the sightings are dismissed as either optical illusions or
misidentifications of ordinary aircraft or meteorological balloons.
One visual sighting from a pilot had apparently been correlated by radar,
but this was attributed to interference from another radar system.
The report concludes that all UFO sightings could be explained as misidentifications of ordinary objects or phenomena, optical illusions, psychological delusions or hoaxes. The main body of the report ends with the following statement:
ôWe accordingly recommend very strongly
that no further investigation of reported mysterious aerial phenomena be
undertaken, unless and until some material evidence becomes availableö.
report was duly considered by the DSI/JTIC and Mr Turney recommended that in
view of its sceptical conclusions, it should be regarded as a final report.
He further suggested that the working party be dissolved with immediate
effect. This was agreed by the meeting, thus bringing to an end the
MODĺs first UFO research project.
The DSI/JTIC minutes of the meeting that agreed to dissolve the working party contain the following telling quote, recording Mr Turneyĺs views:
ôHe went on to say, that following the lead given by the Americans on this subject, the Report should he thought, have as little publicity as possible and outside circulation should be confined to one copy to Sir Henry Tizardö.
We should point out that in this context the terms ôpublicityö and
ôoutside circulationö refer to publicity and distribution of the report
within the MOD. There was certainly
no question of informing the public.
looking at the activities of the Flying Saucer Working Party one cannot
overstate the influence of the Americans. The
phrase ôfollowing the lead given by the Americans on this subjectö which we
quote in the previous paragraph is extremely revealing and it is clear from the
report itself that much of the material comes from liaison with those involved
with Projects Sign and Grudge. There
are other clues. As we have said,
R. V. Jones forged extremely close links with the Americans on a range of
intelligence issues and it is interesting to note that the fourth item of the
Flying Saucer Working Partyĺs terms of reference (requiring them to liaise
with US authorities) was a late - though undoubtedly sensible - addition to the
original remit.
the terms of reference included a requirement to get alongside the Americans on
the UFO question, active liaison began. A
member of the Flying Saucer Working Party duly travelled to America to meet with
US authorities. It is also known
that H. Marshall Chadwell was consulted and sat in on at least one of the Flying
Saucer Working Partyĺs meetings.
was Assistant Director of the CIAĺs Office of Scientific Intelligence and in
1952 and 1953 was one of the key figures in the Scientific Panel on UFOs, better
known as the Robertson Panel, after its chairman H. P. Robertson, an eminent
physicist from the California Institute of Technology.
had been President Eisenhowerĺs Scientific Adviser during the war, holding the
rank of a four-star General. He had
worked closely with R. V. Jones on various scientific intelligence matters and
moved seamlessly between government service and academia.
His post-war appointments included a post as theoretical physicist in
Pasadena, associated with the Mount Wilson and Mount Palomar Observatories, and
a spell as head of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group at the Pentagon.
Robertson Panelĺs sceptical report concluded that further study of the UFO
phenomenon was not warranted, though as CIA Chief Historian Gerald Haines has
confirmed, the CIA did not abandon their interest in the phenomenon.
is also interesting to note what Edward Ruppelt (former head of the USAFĺs
Project Blue Book) says about the British UFO research effort.
Writing in his 1956 book The Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects he makes a number of specific references to
the UK.
chapter 3 he states that the 1948 document Estimate
of the Situation (prepared by staff on the USAFĺs Project Sign, initially
classified Top Secret and concluding that some UFOs were extraterrestrial)
mentioned that ôGhost Aeroplanesö had been detected on British radar early
in 1947.
In chapter 10 there is a sentence that reads as follows:
ôTwo RAF intelligence
officers who were in the US on a classified mission brought six single-spaced
typed pages of questions they and their friends wanted answeredö.
Chapter 14 mentions the September 1952 UFO sightings during Operation Mainbrace (including the sightings at RAF Topcliffe). Ruppelt comments:
ôIt was these sightings, I was told by an RAF
exchange intelligence officer in the Pentagon, that caused the RAF to officially
recognise the UFOö.
chapter 17 Ruppelt reveals that even after he had left Project Blue Book and the
USAF, friends in RAF intelligence kept him informed about latest developments,
on a private basis.
indication of the strong US influence on the Flying Saucer Working Party is the
fact that their June 1951 final report was entitled Unidentified Flying Objects. This
term had been devised by Ruppelt himself, early in 1951, but was not at the time
in use outside US Government circles.
put the above remarks about US influence into context, it is worth noting the
extent to which Britain was in thrall to America more generally by the early
Fifties. This process had started
during the Second World War with the Lend-Lease Bill, the terms of which had
contributed to the decline of British power and influence.
By the end of the war it was clear that in a very real sense the British
Empire had been supplanted by an American one.
In intelligence matters too, the historic position had been reversed and
in post-war years Britain was very much the junior partner to the US.
Flying Saucer Working Party had been dissolved in 1951 amidst a frenzy of
scepticism that had clearly been fuelled by the Americans.
The response that Churchill received to his 1952 enquiry showed that the
sceptics still had the upper hand within the MOD.
But this was soon to change. During
the period 1952 to 1957 there were a series of UFO sightings involving the
military, which forced the MOD to rethink and then reverse its policy.
These included sightings during Operation Mainbrace in September 1952
(including those at RAF Topcliffe), the West Malling incident on 3 November
1953, Flight Lieutenant Salandinĺs near-collision with a UFO on 14 October
1954, the Lakenheath/Bentwaters radar/visual sightings on 13 and 14 August 1956
and the RAF West Freugh incident on 4 April 1957.
sightings such as these, together with the increasing number of reports from the
general public, pushed the sceptics within MOD onto the defensive.
The Flying Saucer Working Partyĺs recommendation that UFO sightings
should not be investigated was overturned and by the mid-Fifties two Air
Ministry Divisions were actively involved in investigating UFO sightings.
The divisions concerned were S6, a civilian secretariat division on the
air staff, and DDI(Tech), a technical intelligence division. Their brief was to research and investigate the UFO
phenomenon looking for evidence of any threat to the UK.
article gives what we believe is the most comprehensive overview yet written
concerning the early years of official British interest in UFOs.
We hope that the information and references will encourage other
researchers to follow some of the leads given here.
time in the future, it may be that the MOD writes an Official History of its
involvement in the UFO issue, in much the same way as such accounts are produced
on major events such as the Falklands Conflict or the Gulf War.
If and when such an Official History is written, it will doubtless cover
much of the material in this article, as well as more recent events such as the
Rendlesham Forest incident.
any Official History must also focus on the personalities involved in official
research and investigation into UFOs. In
looking at the story told in this article it is clear that the same names crop
up repeatedly and that there are some intriguing links between some of these key
players. It is also intriguing to
see the way in which the sceptic versus believer debate about the
extraterrestrial hypothesis has been conducted at the very highest levels of
government and military. This is as
much a part of the story as the incidents themselves.
By Nick Pope
and Georgina Bruni
and Georgina Bruni


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Monday, May 31, 2010
Self-Clowning Lunatics Strike Again
Okay, let's look at this from an unusual angle and see what we get out of it. Let's say you were a cartoonish, Ahmadinejadesque lunatic fixated on destroying Israel. How would you go about achieving your goal?
Well, priority number one would be to isolate the Israelis from their allies, so they have no diplomatic or military cover. A good start would be to take actions that infuriate military partners like the Turks by killing a load of Turkish civvies, then telling them to fuck off by pretending that the civvies you killed deserved it. You'd definitely want to sabotage relations with allies like Greece, so that they'd withdraw from joint military operations and bar your military leaders from the country.
You'd want to blacken the Israelis' image by finding as much video footage as possible of exploded children and Merkava tanks doing donuts in the rubble of civilian housing, preferably from insane, murderous, indefensible and counterproductive wars. You'd want to rile up Israel's enemies by marching the Israeli military into conflicts in Lebanon that they can't win so that they look much weaker than they are, and you'd want to destroy the reputation of Israel's special forces. At least since the raid on Entebbe, Israeli special forces have looked courageous and invincible - getting some good footage of them blowing away a load of civvies in a clusterfuck operation would be propaganda gold.
Plus, you'd want to isolate the country from the United States by blowing up a load of pointless political pissfights that gain Israel nothing and damage its supporters as badly as possible. The Israelis don't need the US to give them every item of military hardware excepting nukes and aircraft carriers, but trying to fund that stuff out of general taxation rather getting them for free would be much more difficult.
In short, you'd want to make Israel look like a paranoid, bloodthirsty and extremely belligerent nation of racist freaks, determined to murder fuck out of civilians with total impunity year-in, year-out, so that the entire planet disowns them by, for example, withdrawing their ambassadors and issuing a barrage of denuncations.
This, I contend, is the actual policy of the Israeli political class, and I'm now certain that the Israeli government is packed to the hoop with Iranian sleeper agents. Short of handing Syrian intelligence the launch codes to their nuclear arsenal, I really can't think of any way in which the Israeli political class could do their country more harm.
It's been clear for years that the Israeli right is utterly dependent on the looniest fringe of Palestinian society for their power and legitimacy, and that both sets of nutters use violence against the other as a means to cementing their rule. The basic situation over there is that both Hamas and the Israeli government are committed to policies that harm their populations but ensure their own continued rule. It's a godawful, mutual death spiral that's heading in precisely the wrong direction.
Shorter - there really is an urgent and perilous threat to Israel. It's called "the Israeli government".
Saturday, May 29, 2010
TV Sex And Self-Interest
And sure, I can get down with the various attacks on the show I've seen in the past few days. Truly, the SATC phenomenon is astonishingly shallow, man-obsessed and materialistic, and took about ten episodes to use up the entirety of its writers' ideas.
Speaking as a man whose girlfriend maintains executive control of the TV remote however, I have to point out that SATC should appeal to guys a little more than other shows targeted at women. While it's intensely annoying and hollow, at least its writers made the occasional stab at comedy. The subject matter is one close to our hearts. Most of the laughs come from the characters' schemes blowing up in their faces, rather than their triumphs, which strikes me as very British. There are dick jokes and nudity.
Now, I can imagine how this is going over right now. Gents, if you disagree, I suggest you sit down for an evening with The Hills, Desperate Housewives, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Loose Women or anything on the E! Entertainment Channel. We're talking damage limitation here, not looking for a ladies-only version of the Champions League final or Starship Troopers.
(Is this patronising enough yet? No? Very well, I'll redouble my efforts).
Selfishly, I'd say that a show that encourages women to enjoy healthy, enthusiastic and experimental sex lives is hugely preferable to horrible shit of the Dawson's Creek genus. A former girlfriend once forced me to watch an episode which featured a seventeen-year-old lad explaining to his mate that he just didn't think he and his girlfriend were ready to have sex yet, which is up there with James & The Giant Peach for gritty realism and believability.
While I'm sure I'm doing a disservice to female-targeted viewing here, it's no exaggeration to say that you could turn your TV on in the morning and watch tacked-together "documentaries" obsessing over skeletal, tottering socialite morons shopping and crash-dieting uninterrupted until midnight. While the producers of such shows always contend that they're investigating eating disorders etc., they can't disguise their role as vampiric scumbags sucking on women's nagging self-esteem issues.
So yes, SATC sucks like a nuclear-powered Hoover. For me though, I'd prefer women to be watching stuff that might just make them fancy a kiss and a cuddle while the credits roll rather than an extended bout of sobbing and self-harming in the bathroom. I'd still rather slam my clackersack in a car door than see the new film, of course, but let's keep things in perspective here.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Product Recall - Amnesty International The Bastards
Crack salesman Brighty seems to believe that the ever-popular Amnesty: Good People, Thankless Work brand has been routed in the marketplace by his new product, but it's a wooden and unconvincing performance. Much like those Best Blog Posts of the Year books that only featured bloggers buy, this latest release of AI:SoB has hit the international press with the bone-shuddering impact of an anorexic fruit fly shoulder-charging a moose.
Naturally, there's a ready market for mad and cracked comparisons of Amnesty to "tyrants" and half-arsed horseshit about "determined programme(s) of support within human rights organizations for the political programme of Islamists", but that's long been restricted to the arena of resentful, no-dick losers and hairy-palmed compulsive masturbators that make up the internet's hilarious "anti-Jihadist" movement. All this proves is the old saw about coke dealers being their own best customers.
Out in the real world, tumbleweeds. Time to cut your losses and admit defeat lads, before you bankrupt the company and have to take up professional sperm donation to make ends meet.
Final question - whatever happened to elderly crank Eric Lee's attempt to get himself voted onto Amnesty UK's board, with the openly declared intent of forcing the org to
Update: My original post on this sorry business.
The Search For a Universal Constant
Here's my question - does this work in the other way round in the southern hemisphere?
Evidence by way of graphs and equations, please.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
A Little Ignorance Goes a Long Way
5:01pm - The BBC's premier political correspondent Nick Robinson finally bothers his arse to find out what the Human Rights Act is and what it does... when somebody explains it to him.
Your Hack of the Month at work, ladies and gentlemen.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Never Give a Sucker An Even Break
So Krugman finds an old clip of Uncle Miltie propounding his thoughts on corporate regulation...
Thinking about BP and the Gulf: in this old interview, Milton Friedman says that there's no need for safety regulation, because corporations know that if they do harm they'll be sued.
Interviewer: So tort law takes care of a lot of this...
Friedman: Absolutely, absolutely...
It'd be a more entertaining argument, were it not so popular. Somebody probably asked the great man what this implies about the need for a police force to regulate citizens' behaviour, but Google isn't helping me here.
Regular readers will be aware that I know dick about economics and accountancy, but may recall that I'm pretty clued up on crime. Curiously, the basics are fairly relevant to the ongoing financial crisis and corporate shenanigans that have made this such an interesting age to experience.
1. There are no brilliant criminal minds.
Almost all crime - violent, property-related, financial - is all about opportunism. Man sees thing not nailed down, steals thing, usually trades at heavy discount for cash to buy heroin or alcohol; Man needs cash, usually for heroin or alcohol, robs granny; Man has opportunity to dip into the till at work, dips into the till. Schemers and plotters make better careerists than criminals.
2. Hence, there are very, very few brilliant criminal plots.
The major difference between criminals and law-abiding citizens is that most criminals are incapable of self-control or weighing up deterrents. Oh, for a pound every time I've heard of some murderer saying some variation of But I only stabbed him, I didn't mean to kill him. Criminals and consequences are strangers, until the staff sergeant shuts that cell door.
Almost all crime is committed in hot blood on the spur of the moment. The thought process works like this - I could nick that... I've nicked it.
Thus do we get the likes of Goldman Sachs own Fabrice Tourre, who clearly believed he was some kind of astonishing brainbox - "More and more leverage in the system," he wrote. "The whole building is about to collapse anytime now. . . . Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab . . . standing in the middle of all these complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades he created!"
Allow me to interpret. Tourre sets up epic con, fleeces suckers who foolishly believe Goldman won't screw them. More briefly, I could nick that - I've nicked it. Did Fab pause to consider whether he'd wind up being hauled in front of a Congressional committee for this little scam? No sir, I believe he did not.
Shorter version - that journalist was taking the piss when she called her book about Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room. A thief with a learjet is still just a thief.
3. A successful criminal will usually keep working the same trick until he gets caught.
Consider this genius, who ripped off £78,000 from his employers and left his job, getting away scot free... Then came back a year later, swiped another £60,000 and inevitably got caught. Once a lavish lifestyle is established, criminals seem to find it near-impossible to give it up.
In the private sector, employers expect a small percentage of cash and goods to go walkies, whether accidentally or "accidentally", and they only call the cops when the sting becomes obvious. The petty crook who swipes £100 out of the till a month will be able to do so forever, but they're hugely outnumbered by the greedy fools.
I suggest this might be relevant to shareholders in companies, the employees of which were willing to put them on the hook for debt-to-equity ratios that would make your eyes bleed.
4. Nobody is a bad guy. Don't believe me? Ask a murderer.
Not literally, of course - there are tens of thousands of psychos, headbangers and outright evil bastards out there. Ask them about what they did and you'll suddenly discover that they were compelled beyond their will to act that way. If only the victim hadn't made that smart remark, the poor villain wouldn't have had to stab him. If it weren't for this junk habit, there'd have been no need to rob that granny.
See also, every Wall Street Journal editorial for the last two years.
5. Society only works if you know you can stand in a crowd without being knifed and robbed.
People need to work and play - if we all have to sit in our houses guarding our shit with a shotgun because the neighbours will rob us blind the second we turn our backs, we're no longer a functioning society. We're in Mad Max 2 territory.
Thankfully, the overwhelming majority of people are law-abiding. People by and large don't probe around the edges of the law looking for ways to swindle each other out of their life savings; they don't sit scheming all night on ways to turn their neighbours' misfortune into profit. Those that do can expect the police to take an interest in their activities sooner or later.
Anybody confident that this is how it works on Wall Street?
Update! It also occurs to me that the whole point of corruption is not only to gain an advantage for yourself, but also to protect yourself from retribution by a) making your activities legal where you can and b) ensnaring so many people in your schemes that nobody in authority will dare take you on for fear of also destroying themselves. Think - the police chief and the mayor in Leo's office in Miller's Crossing.
Friday, May 14, 2010
It Speaks!
*Really turned out to be more about 2003-era liberal interventionism than the various manias that make up modern Decency... Recorded the whole thing without using "Condemnathon" or "Brie-scoffing intellectual ponces" once. Feel free to ask questions if you get through the whole thing.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
General Election - Hack Of The Month Award
For smartarses like myself who basically gave up on the whole black farce years ago, the election fiasco has offered rich pickings from start to finish.
The Tories seem pretty chipper for a party who have just watched their leadership re-enact the most explicit scenes from Kneepad Nymphos Nine upon Nick Clegg, previously known as Parliament's most comical cuddly toy.
After spending all week alternating between mewling self-pity and bellowing fake outrage over "totalitarianism", I'm anticipating a campaign of toe-curling cringeworthiness as the Tories and Lib Dems go all gooey-eyed at each other to the tune of Lovin' You (Is Easy 'Cos You're Beautiful).
Then there's Labour, clinging by a fingernail to the hope that, with all this horseshit, there must be a pony in there somewhere. Their eulogies to their own record of barely restrained grovelling to the super-rich and enthusiastic warmaking were hilarious. Now, we get their supporters' sudden fondness for pointing at their estranged voters and calling them idiots and twats. That'll work, guys.
Still, if this whole sorry affair has left the nation's senior politicians looking like puzzled seaside donkeys, spare a thought for the press - forced to fill endless airtime and stuff column inches with similes for I don't know, 24/7 for a month. It's been a hard and thankless task, so let's give a little back by recognising their endeavours with a little Hack Of The Month contest.
Marina Hyde, The Guardian
A woeful effort at hackery by the Graun's premier poison pen. While older and wiser hacks fell hook, line and sinker for the televised debates - Oh, the democraticity! - Hyde saw straight through to the glorified media suck-fests they were. Being a blogger, I'm free to call them a stitch-up of epic proportions, aimed at filling pages with vacuous blah; a puddle-deep exercise in feel-good waffle, or even a pornographic meeting of journalistic tongue and political anus. Hyde, to her credit, found more eloquent methods of conveying the same message.
With a dreadful, rock-bottom 1/10, Hyde is therefore disqualified from HotM for relating some reality to her readers. Unforgiveable.
Alex Massie, The Spectator
As a Conservative in the sense of individual freedoms and financial prudence rather than squealing about fascism and foreigners, Massie was always going to struggle in HotM. So it proved, as he was forced to point out that Gordon Brown wasn't a Stalinist dictator and that the Scots haven't crushed British democracy under their tartan jackboot. For employing arcane and outmoded techniques such as reason and logic, Massie bombs out of HotM with a feeble 2/10.
Stephen Pollard, Jewish Chronicle
Shocked and horrified absolutely nobody by suddenly announcing he was turning Tory, while apparently under the impression that people who weren't suffering from inflammation of the brain had ever believed he was anything else.
Instantly leapt to the most ludicrous extreme of entirely mainstream Conservative thought by wailing about the unfairness of everything and claiming to be afraid that Labour were crushing democracy etc. etc. while also being fully aware that he was talking shite. If awards were presented for enthusiasm, he'd be a shoo-in, but pro-forma wingnut boo-hoo is ten a penny. 4/10, must try harder.
Martin Bright, The Spectator
Here's where things get interesting - fresh from a three-year campaign of beating his chest and howling at anyone who would listen that the Labour Party were corrupt, lying, incompetent, venal bullies, Bright performed an acrobatic reverse ferret at the last moment, endorsing Labour while telling everyone how bloody awful he felt doing it.
This back-breaking manoeuvre completed, Bright began guilt-tripping ex-Labour voters, thus leaving him with all the dignity and gravitas of a man with a square dick trying to fuck a row of donuts. Oh, you so Hacky, Martin! You bullshit us long time! 6/10
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
Polly agrees with what Gordon said. In those areas where she doesn't, she'll find out what Gordon thinks then agree with that. Is boned for columns from now on, will likely wait until Labour has a new leader, then agree with him instead, unless the party starts smoking crack and absent-mindedly elects Harriet Harman. 7/10
Adam Boulton, Sky News
No need for an in-depth review here - Sky's hacktacular fraud was repeatedly and brutally exposed as a craven suck-up to power, uncontrollably spouting the most ludicrous soundbites of the Murdoch press like his career depended on it. It did.
In just one fifty second explosion, Boulton managed the inconceivable achievement of making Alistair Campbell look reasonable and well-mannered. It was like watching Penfold politely rebuffing the furious sexual advances of a priapic Baron Greenback.
9/10: Don't worry, Adam - nobody thinks you're a Tory. We just think you like getting paid and wish that you'd sod off.
Nick Robinson, BBC
Can you tell us what's happening where you are, Nick? Two minutes of bewildering, wholly-invented telepathic gibberish later, viewers are no further forward than a vague feeling that, whatever it is, it's good news for David Cameron.
Like the God particle of content-free news, scientists have long speculated that it is theoretically possible for a journalist to communicate using only half-true, poorly-sourced or wholly invented rubbish that some party handler has fed him mere seconds before. Previously unproven, it's been suggested that such a journalist would produce an amazing phenomenon known as anti-news - that is, information broadcasting that actually leaves the viewer more ignorant than they were before they began watching.
I assume that the BBC crossed their fingers and hoped for the best when they fired up the Large Baldy Collider on election night, but Nick Robinson delivered in spades - reporting every scrap of political chickenfeed cast at his feet for days on end, without even catching a whisper of coalition talks between Labour and the Lib Dems.
10/10 for tenacity, vacuity and sheer pointlessness, and thus Nick Robinson wins Hack of the Month.
Tune in next month for coverage of the first major Tory backbench revolt...
Monday, May 10, 2010
Election Round-Up
- I think we can all agree that it is very, very unfair that the Conservatives don't get to take power based solely on the fact that they won more seats than Labour. If only there was some kind of well-structured political system in this country that could provide a stable framework for democratic governance.
- I am loving various internet right-wingers' contention that Scotland comprehensively rejected the Tories because we're too stupid and state-dependent to recognise the justice of their cause, but why stop there? More than 60% of the UK's population voted not-Tory. Imagine the wealth of personality defects these brainless cretins exhibit! Perhaps an extended awareness-raising campaign focussed on denouncing the electorate's base ignorance and venality will push the Tories over the top in the inevitable revote in a few months' time?
- People, you're getting the wrong end of the stick when you accuse the world's Adam Boultons of political bias. Sure, there's an element of the British press that pulls inherently to the right or left, but the defining characteristic of UK journalism is its relentless, leg-humping boner for power.
I mean, check out The toxin in New Labour squats in his bunker or The Sun's Squatter, 59, holed up in Number 10; note the repeated invocation of the "unelected" PM. These aren't mistakes born of bias - these articles were written by well-educated and talented professionals who know full well that Brown is still PM on constitutional grounds, but whose bosses have bet the family silver on Cameron gaining power. Hence, they are sucking up to the Tories like a gaggle of starfucking groupies at a Rolling Stones concert, much as they did to Tony Blair back in the day.
Hell, case in point - think about how the American press treated George W. Bush earlier in the decade. After 9/11, Bush could've strode onstage dressed as Bozo the Clown and farted the Soviet anthem into a microphone, and the press would've fallen overthemselves to call him "statesmanlike" and ask him how his deep religious faith informed his politics.
Fast forward to 2007, and byline after byline started with some variation on "Gabbling like a pissed-up and lobotomised numbnuts with a skull full of clay, a clearly retarded President Bush dropped some unbelievably idiotic bullshit on the nation today..."
I mean, let's be blunt - even in his heyday, Bush wouldn't look statesmanlike if you munched up four sheets of blotter acid and looked at him through a kaleidoscope. What changed? The 2006 mid-term elections handed the gears of power to the Democrats, and from that moment on every hack in Washington queued up to boot the President in the balls again and again.
The situation in Britain is exactly the same, given our craven professional culture of kissing up and kicking down. So sure, the papers have their political affiliations, but the golden rules of the Godawful British workplace apply - everybody laughs at the bosses' jokes and makes fun of the bloke with the body odour problem behind his back.
- Angsty lefties keen to push a "progressive majority coalition", honestly, leave this one alone. The Tories are about to launch the most depraved and vicious series of public spending cuts this country has ever seen, and they're relying on a doddery alliance with a bunch of softly-capitalist, touchy-feely vegetarians to deliver it. This Parliament has "slapstick catastrophe" written on it in neon letters so big they can be seen from space.
I mean, sure, the public accept that spending cuts are needed, but they expect the new government to at least look a little guilty about it. The electorate are not going to respond favourably when the Tories start openly masturbating while slashing their schools' jotter budgets in about three weeks' time.
The Tories, being a bunch of addled Thatcherite closet cases in vaguely convincing "human being" fancy dress costumes, are unlikely to make it to Fireworks Night under these circumstances. I give it two months before the first new MP is caught bumming a sex-trafficked Phillipina maid or shooting panda cubs for sport - you know, stuff people will overlook when the economy is booming, but might dislike if it's tied to hospital closures.
Ah well, either way it'll be good material for satire. God knows the last government were a horrible enough bunch, but we're talking about people who pay attention when Norman Tebbit opens his wizened and twisted trap. Political triumphs are not of such stuff made.
All Modern Thought
You know, I'd be rather more amenable to this kind of chat if, say, we in the west had responded to 9/11 and various other terrorist outrages by sending Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar some frosted cheesecake and a thank-you card.
Bruckner's ideas - as expounded and heartily endorsed by people who should know better - mark a bathetic new low point in the development of white-guy rage into a semi-coherent and increasingly respectable philosophy based on blubbing self-pity and belligerent indifference to reality.
Let's just grant the idea that there are all too many people in the west who react to terrorist outrages by finding inventive ways to make it all the Americans' fault. Those of us who waste much of our lives online have argued with people like this and what they lack in numbers, they make up for in tenacity.
Let's also grant that, as Anthony and Cohen both say, loads of awful liberals said that Al-Qaeda attacked the Twin Towers and the London Underground in retaliation for American and British military activity abroad.* Hell, let's go the whole hog and just say that, as the lunatic Independent reviewer contends, "the Left" celebrated the 9/11 attacks and weren't upset in the least by the Madrid and London bombings.
Well then, what?
I notice that neither ourselves nor the United States have allowed this treachery to impede our policy of launching extremely violent, insane and unwinnable wars, nor of imprisoning vast numbers in secret prisons on confidential charges. If the horrible, self-hating guilt Bruckner describes is so all-pervading, what would a confident west have done? Invaded Iran? Nuked Cairo?
You really have to wonder who this stuff is supposed to convince. Perhaps the answer is None-too-bright book reviewers.
A couple of further points occur - maybe, if you've spent the best part of a decade pretending that the word understand is a synonym for condone and cheerlead and people still aren't joining in, it's time to change tack?
And there's a very good reason why people are wary of political theories of the type that can be encapsulated in the sentence We need to be harsher on the ethnics. If you think it's because they feel guilty because Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, you should probably stay away from sharp objects and hot liquids, since you are for real too stupid to avoid accidentally impaling yourself through the groin with a boiling kettle and a chisel.
*It'd be wise to accept this, not least since Al-Qaeda themselves told the world that this is why they did it. I don't rule out the possibility that this was merely a propaganda move, but painting what the terrorists themselves actually say their motives were as the pinnacle of anti-western hatred seems a little... How would the French put it? Cretineuse? Idiotique?
If Anthony and Cohen both correctly mock the notion that 9/11 was a justified act of retaliation for American adventurism, why do we think that neither of them realise that their contention - basically, that Al-Qaeda did it because Sayyid Qutb didn't like Americans dancing in the fifties - is just an equal and opposite stupidity?
Thursday, May 06, 2010
The Inevitable Election Live Blog
03.20: Paxman reckons talks have already begun between Labour and the Lib Dems. Me, I reckon they should just fuck and get it over with, because the rest of us are a bit bored.
03.05: 319 votes for Colin Fox - brutal, for a former MSP. Alistair Darling remains with his massive eyebrows, obvious sexual deviancies and wilted, stilted dialogue.
03.00: Looked down to listen to myself on the radio (used to think I sounded a bit rough and ready, now disabused) and looked up to see Cameron declaring victory like a deranged and fleshy C3-PO. Maybe, and who knows?
02.14: Looks like the Lib Dems are stuggling... That looks bad for a Labour/Liberal coalition and rather makes it look like we might wind up with an angry Tory minority forming their own weedy little parliamentary Death Star, then sending it drifting around the country ineffectually trying to blast public spending with their puny space lasers. Time will tell.
01.56: Politics is? I'm an English graduate, as well.
01.50: But of course, Brown did come across like a pissed and confused Bagpuss. Politics are a cruel mistress.
01.39: Gordon Brown holds Mrs. Rodent's constituency, unsurprisingly - miners and heavy industry workers who got fucked like Ron Jeremy's co-stars in the 1980s. Cowdenbeath high street is now a long run of charity and pound shops, off-licences, bookies and the odd ailing local business, a long way from what it was before external forces deliberately shot the town in the back of its head twenty years ago. The loyalty they've shown for Brown is touching and tragic, and the former PM's speech was more panegyric for New Labour and his own career than an acceptance. It's a shit way for what was once an excellent MP for a loyal constituency to sign off, it if turns out that way.
01.18: Hurrah! Alistair Campbell on television. Direct quote, when asked whether Labour should try to form a coalition with the Lib Dems, responds "I'm a hideous, duplicitous freak of a man who would be subject to forced chemical experiments in a world that was true and just". That's the message I picked up, anyway.
01:16: Jeremy Vine giving it some kind of wussy Morpheus-in-the-Matrix kind of What if there was a shift of six percent to the Bollocks Party dance on a virtual reality dancefloor. Better if he just started throwing kung-fu shapes and asked Do you think that's air you're breathing?
12.57: Even I feel sorry for Northern Ireland's FM Peter Robinson, defeated by the Lib Dems' ingenious strategy of not looting the Treasury and trying to keep your hard-shagging, adulterous fundie spouse out of the tabloids.
12.46:Mrs. Rodent off to bed - hardcore pornography break.
12.20: BBC Scotland following Gordon Brown's car, which hasn't crashed, broken down, caught fire, been hit by a derailed train, been shot at or called any grannies a bigot as yet. Does this bode well for the evening?
11.52: Of course, if Brown had called a snap election when Blair left, this could all have been avoided. Plus, if the Telegraph had any sense, they'd have left the expenses scandal until about March 2010.
11.45: What the fuck is up with all the UKIP candidates? All the ones they've shown so far look like sexually-retired lunatics with faces made of badly-sewn and roughly-chafed scrotum skin.
11.26: Labour lead by two! Mind you, Hibs were 6-2 up on Motherwell last night and were lucky not to get beat, so anything could happen.
10.49: They're reporting people have been turned away after queueing to vote. Not really a problem, since anyone who can't get it together to be at the polling station by 10pm was probably going to vote Natural Law anyway.
10.30: David Mundell (Tory): "People want change... They don't want to hear the same old arguments". Give that man a fucking banana.
10.27: The original was better. No Robert Shaw, USS Indianapolis, drinking to legs, firing an M1 at a moving shark or requirement for larger naval vessels etc. in this one.
10.20: Douglas Alexander looks like the Penguin from Batman on heavy tranquilisers and squeezed into a suit. Nicola Sturgeon's hair-helmet looks as well-fastened as ever, and should offer her complete protection from any falling lighting rigs.
10.15: They're interviewing young Tories on the BBC. That's young Tories in Scotland, without audible gunfire - God help us all.
10.10: There'll be a short interview with me about Decency and the election on Resonance FM at some point between now and half-three. I dread to think how it'll come out - I rub people up the wrong way in person, when they have the chance to interrupt me and call me on my crap. I did manage to call Tony Blair a "fork-tongued bullshitter", which may put the panel's backs up.
10.05: Exit polls suggest Con:307 Lab:255 LD:58, or a hung parliament in other words. I'll give you my expert analysis once Jaws 2 finishes.
09.40: Jesus, that Channel Four Come Dine With Me is like a Ricky Gervais script about a gaggle of insufferable pricks trying to outwanker each other in a cock factory.
Monday, May 03, 2010
Update!: @Dr. Rice: Condaleezances.
Saturday, May 01, 2010
In Which The Author Gets All Smug And Superior On Your Punk Asses
I still find myself baffled by the various left and liberal responses to the total failure of either Labour or the Liberals to issue any kind of defence of immigration or unemployment benefits, or the Mail's "Nick Clegg is a Nazi" headline.
I keep running across earnest assertions that the right wing press is a gigantic conspiracy aimed at subverting the nation to gibbering Randroid idiocy, and that the lack of humanity in our national debates stems from tabloid viciousness and contempt for reason.
And sure, there's an element of this. What this analysis misses is that outfits like the Mail are not political enterprises - they're businesses, and their priority is shifting units. Heat magazine doesn't publish all those pictures of skeletal celebs because it's desperate to publicise the horrors of anorexia, after all. They do it because there's a market for schadenfreude.
It'd be impossible for a gaggle of sexually-repressed racist fuckheads, jammed to the arsehole with royalist economics, to impose their ludicrous persecution fantasies on the nation. This suggests that there's a substantial market for extreme reactionary horseshit; that a minority are not gulled into consuming conspiratorial rage porn by covert manipulation, but rather that a subset throw themselves into the enterprise joyfully, begging to have their brains washed with the most hateful and deranged propaganda.
It suggests, in short, that lots of us are just pretty mean and nasty people, and always have been. For such people, today's enemies lists are just updates of older ones, wherein the nation's woes - and there has never been a period where we were not undermined, reviled and ripped off - were variously blamed on a treacherous cavalcade of Papists, the French, Jews, seditious Celts etc.
Standard left wing thought on human nature seems to be that we're basically a decent bunch, and that people will usually vote in favour a fair and equitable society, if the concept of fairness is well explained. This is true of the huge majority, but it's blind to the fact that a small but vocal minority of us are basically horrible, spiteful shitbags, and that the rest of us love nothing more than a good wallow in self-indulgent anger. The right wing press and their politicians have a huge advantage in recognising this, and clutch for that throbbing jugular of self-pity and bile like clammy-handed sex offenders every day of the year.
This is why the failure of politicians to defend their positions on social issues is such an utter disaster. In my experience, most people will listen to reason on most issues, from fiscal policy to football; by hurling Phil Woolas at immigration or dropping the scum-bomb on the unemployed, they're doing the reactionary's work for him. You will never, ever outflank the race-baiter or the draconian justice theorist to the right.
I talk to a lot of folk about politics, and the one thing I keep hearing again and again is the sheer, cathartic joy in people's voices when they detail the inherent malignant evil of their various bugbears, and the endless bombardment of slight and insult that is their existence. These are usually Good People too, but as prone as any of us to creating baleful threats and enemies out of thin air. Hell, I do this all the time - I built this blog on cruel humour and cursewords, and even the stupidest Tory is going to spot the numerous insults I've thrown in this post alone.
You want examples? I've spoken to a career criminal who complained of racist mistreatment over his fourteenth prosecution for shoplifting, on the basis that a "Somalian asylum seeker" wouldn't face such stern punishment. Presumably, non-white skin entitles the wearer to at least a fourteen-crime streak before the authorities lose their rag.
Just this week, a friend who's a single mother told me she intended to vote Tory because they'd crack down on benefits. "Why should I pay for these lazy bastards?" she asked, not pausing to consider whether the Tories might also put the kibosh on her son's subsidised nursery place or slash all the benefits she claims.
The work colleague who thinks immigration is out of control, yet surely isn't getting that impression from the smallest and whitest town in the near-minority-free region of East Lothian where he lives; the family member who reckons the Germans are bastards, because they're arrogant and have no sense of humour; the friend who chuckles when American soldiers are shot on duty in Baghdad; the woman who phoned me at work to complain that she'd been barred from a boozer on racist grounds, since they'd never dare bar a "Lithuanian" without making the reasons crystal clear...
None of these examples are evidence of villainy, because almost all are ordinary, good natured people who happen to hold some mildly wacky ideas. These notions certainly aren't implanted by the press or jammed into their eyeballs by crank politicians. They're the kind of generalisation we're all prone to, but they're the cracks in the foundations into which mad bigots and calculating wingnuts drive their wedges.
What separates the ordinary punter from the cackling shithead who greets every murder, economic crisis or political scandal as a glorious vindication of his fucknut worldview is the desire to embrace fucknuttery as a project. The longer people are exposed to this loopy reality, the more we see of the latter.
Ach, Hell - I could've shorterised that ramble by just observing that the godawful state of our politics - bleating about the unemployed after the super-wealthy destroyed the financial universe, for example - is the fault of those who thought they could ride the bigot vote* forever without being thrown into a huge pile of shit. Gordon, Tony - I'm looking at you.
Or, even shorter - blaming right wing lunatics for exploiting our nasty media and our nasty politics is like blaming a dog for licking its balls.
*Troll bait.
I'm Supporting 'Em All The Way To The Semi-Final
With the 2010 World Cup in South Africa almost upon us, it's time to start asking the big question that will obsess the press for weeks.
The England squad have finally found a competent manager, are fielding perhaps their strongest team in years and are in a qualifying group that's only a little tougher than a bye to the knockout stage.
Which prompts the urgent question - Which treacherous Scotch will stab poor England in the back this time?
It's an important issue. Previous years have seen contenders such as walking white-guy afro Andy Murray and former First Minister Jack McConnell traitorously refusing to support Britain's only representatives, or even worse - actively rooting for everyone else.
As a shocked nation was rocked to its very core, article after article splattered our eyeballs with endless, sobbing, self-pitying boo-hoo, fiery fuck-yous over racist indifference or antipathy to the team.
Well, it's World Cup time again and a host of Scottish sports stars, minor celebrities and politicians are steeling themselves to answer the inevitable journo question - Will you be supporting England at the World Cup? Even as I write this, I can almost hear the inevitable I don't really care about football and Probably nots, thus kicking off a firestorm of tabloid fury.
The question is, exactly which Scotsman or woman is going to play Lord Haw-Haw this time? Readers, register your vote for Most Treacherous Scotch in the poll below...

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#5 looks like Jackson Hole/Tetons. I'll add a few of my own
We have spoilers for Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona. We're missing 1 state.
Hey, lets dump Montana stories since they obviously now have been shown that it was not TAR they were shooting scenes for.(unless they are about Joe Montana)
Amazing Race makes stop in Billings BILLINGS -- The latest season of one of TV's most popular reality shows begins Tuesday night on KTVQ. And part of this year's "The Amazing Race" will look very familiar to viewers in the Billings area.Q2 has learned that the contestants and crew of "The Amazing Race: Family Edition" stayed in Billings for several days.CBS won't say where the production crew spent time, or how far along in the series the Billings stop was.In the Emmy-winning reality show, teams follow clues and race each other around the world on a limited budget.For the Family Edition, instead of couples, nine families of four are competing for a $1 million grand prize.The season premiere of "The Amazing Race: Family Edition" airs every Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. on KTVQ.http://www.kpax.com/Global/story.asp?S=3907496&nav=menu227_2
The Amazing Race: A RumorNow that the Amazing Race has started, the rumor mill is grinding. I heard a rumor a month or so ago that the Amazing Race contestants had been in Montana. And in Billings no less. But today I heard another rumor from a pretty reliable source. Not only were the Amazing Race contestants in Montana but the pit stop for that particular point in the race was a ranch not more than 45 miles from where I live! Whether this is all true or not remains to be seen. But this is the way I heard it. The Race leaves Cody, WY and heads for Fishtail, Montana through Red Lodge. They camp at the ranch for their mandatory rest period and then head off to the airport in Billings. Which means they had to pass by the town I live it! This is all too exciting! This is all speculation, however, but it sure makes the race fun to watch. http://www.terrestrialball.com/offerings/2005/09/the_amazing_rac.html
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The other vehicle was described as a light-colored mid 90's Honda or Toyota. It was driven by a young female between 18 and 20 year old with longer blond or light brown hair. There were reportedly two male passengers in the vehicle. The vehicle had a strap or bungee cord holding the trunk closed and would have sustained damage on the driver's side. The plate on the suspect vehicle possibly starts with 454, and was last seen traveling westbound on South Ave. from Reserve.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. - A weekend which saw the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team start in first place, saw them finish with a pair of losses and end the weekend in fourth place. And so it goes in the topsy-turvy Big West Conference.
The Gauchos were swept for the second straight night, this time losing 25-20, 25-19, 25-23 to Long Beach State on Saturday after falling in three the previous evening to Cal State Fullerton.
Santa Barbara drops to 13-11 overall and 7-4 in the Big West while Long Beach State improves to 17-6, 7-3.
The top half of the Big West currently looks like this - Cal State Fullerton, 8-2; Long Beach State, 7-3; Cal Poly 8-4; UCSB 7-4; UC Davis, 7-4; Pacific 7-4.
"We definitely played much better than Friday," UCSB head coach Kathy Gregory said. "Offensively we weren't as sharp as we could have been. Our all-around intensity was better, but offensively, we were struggling."
UCSB had another difficult night on the offensive end, hitting just .158 for the match and again had just one player reach double figures in kills. Charlene DeHoog had 12 kills for the Gauchos while Lily Lopez and Stacey Schmidt had seven each.
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Kara Sherrard had 12 digs and six kills while Dana Vargas had 32 assists and five digs and kills. Kelly Heenan led UCSB with 15 digs.
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This is what I am -Science/Math nerd
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Well it didn't exactly paste the way I wanted it to -- but you get the idea. I am a Science/Math Nerd.
I am a Musician according to test.
According to the test, I qualify as a Literature Nerd:
"Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category perfectly! You love the power of the written word and it's eloquence; and you may like to read/write poetry or novels. You contribute to the smart people of today's society, however you can probably be overly-critical of works. It's okay. I understand."
I thought you would be a Literature Nerd Gwaithmir.
I am this -- what will you be?
Your Result: Science/Math Nerd
(Absolute Insane Laughter as you pour toxic chemicals into a foaming tub of death!)
Well, maybe you aren't this extreme, but you're in league with the crazy scientists/mathmeticians of today. Very few people have the talent of math and science is something takes a lot of brains as well. Thank whosever God you worship, or don't worship, so thank no deity whatsoever in your case, for you people! Most of us would have died off without your help.
I have another "nerdly" quibble with the quiz: it assigns you a single type no matter how close other subscores are.
My top two types are Science/Math Nerd and Musician, with the result sensitive to the answer for how I self-identify; changing that was enough to flip the result. Computer Nerd, Literature Nerd, and Social Nerd were also high.
I'm a Literature Nerd.
This is a fun test -- see what you get!
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