Author Archives: swanny

And so to another bent planning matter! In November, I revealed how this site was being lined up for a phoney “remediation” scheme in the same way as rattlechain lagoon was back in 2013. The prelude to this dodgy application … Continue reading →

      This post proves two things. One, that Albright and Wilson as a company were totally incompetent at handling and storing this destructive chemical weapon, particularly it seems under the management in the 80’s and early 1990’s of … Continue reading →

The “cat” that truly appears to have nine lives has returned to the area of Langley! Local reporters and social media users have recently noted that the smell of Tom Cat piss is wafting over the area, and dispersing on … Continue reading →

  It has recently been announced that this useless document which sets out proposals for building yet more houses over the next several years to 2039 attracted thousands of comments- most I would imagine in objection. It was also revealed that … Continue reading →

  There is nothing more perverse to me than the Liberal mindset. It is a thinking based on some noble large intention, but the problem for the Liberal is that it is completely unobtainable and doomed to failure in the … Continue reading →

His partnership with John Wilson spawned the chemical vile polluter of his name, and like most of his peers in business, he also had political aims for furthering his business links via the philanthropist Liberal fakery. In 1874, the pompous … Continue reading →

  Samuel Barnett was quite clearly a local rogue in the Tipton area, and with the involvement of his sons into the brickmaking empire things don’t appear to have got any better, even after his accidental bizarre death. The canal … Continue reading →

As evidenced in the last post, matches containing white phosphorus were deadly for consumers, but even more so for the poor unfortunates who made them, particularly for scumbag Quaker companies like Bryant and May. The toxicity of these matches had … Continue reading →

  This white phosphorus misadventure concerns a monsieur who got more than he bargained for when striking a light in Paris. The newspaper reporting the matter on 24th August 1878 was the Kenilworth Advertiser. He had struck a match using his thumb … Continue reading →

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, except if you worked for Albright and Wilson or Rhodia, in which case UP YER BUM!! Yes it’s that time of year when Solvay push a calendar through local doors blowing their own trumpets, and … Continue reading →