Eyes outside Houses of Parliament

It is said the average Londoner is captured on camera 300 times daily. One assumes cameras have captured the monsters responsible for these attacks and can only hope they will be swiftly apprehended.

7/7/05

We are all Londoners now. The sickening reality of the 21st century strikes swinging London. Over 2,000 years of history on the Island of the Mighty, from Roman times to the age of heroic chivalry, the Domesday Book, the Magna Carta, Shakespeare's stage (and thousands of other important events not yet chronicled on this blog) mean nothing to the twisted evildoers who seek to alter foreign policy through explosive devices. Or will these fresh rescruits be satisfied with nothing less than the destruction of Western civilization?

Communal hairbrushes and combs nixed in Houses of Parliament

British lawmakers nit-picking

Shared combs and brushes have been banned from Britain's lower House of Commons in a bid to thwart headlice, a newspaper said. The Sun reported that communal hairbrushes and combs were being axed under health and safety regulations. The sweeping new rules were also intended to halt the threat of blood-borne diseases like AIDS being spread.

Combs and brushes have been provided in the washrooms for centuries so lawmakers can smarten up before meeting visitors or entering the chamber. The move has left some members itching with fury. "Health and safety have run riot. It's lunacy," raged main opposition Conservative lawmaker Anthony Steen.

Speaker Michael Martin soothed fears the days of well-coiffed members were over. "MPs can bring in their own combs," he said. Nick Harvey from the smaller opposition Liberal Democrats also brushed off the complaints. "There have been no reported cases of communicable diseases or infestations relating to the use of communal combs and hairbrushes in members' washrooms over the last 10 years. "The risk of anything being spread was low - but it did exist. "Nothing would ever have tempted me to use these objects," he added.