Three links: The first to open your eyes, the second to make you puke and the third offers a little smile.

Shattered in the shadow of death: The Mail joins our troops on their biggest ever assault against the Taliban.  This is the headline of a long article packed with pictures which brings it home what our soldiers in Afghanistan are going through in our name.

After the recent deaths of Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe and Trooper Joshua Hammond in this conflict it is all the more poignant to read an article entitled: - Our Right Honorable liars and the debauching of democracy.

Remember that it is these dishonourable clowns who sent so many of our troops into foreign conflicts to further their own agenda.

The third link: - So who finally got to give Tony Blair a black eye? is not included purely to be light hearted.  We all wish that it could have been us of course.  For Nationalists this is an, “I am Spartacus”, moment.  On a serious note though the bastard is being presented with a medal.  Can you believe it?