In just over a week (6th to the 8th of August), 35,000 members of the entire UK modified car scene descend on Santa Pod drag strip for USC – one of the biggest weekenders of the year. It’s like a noisier, less civilised version of Goodwood! There are monster trucks, a jet car, Terry Grant’s stunt show, pro & run-what-ya-brung drag racing, the Fuel Girls and even some nutters trying to modify a car from standard to...

From PrisonPlanet.com: “New laws set to be passed in England and Canada would make it illegal to use bad language or take photographs of police officers, moving us further away from the idea of police as public servants and more towards the notion of cops assuming God-like status.” This is madness! The UK has more CCTV cameras than any other country (1 for every 14 people). If anyone objects to being filmed all day everyday...

Well, here we go. Every blog has to start somewhere and this one starts here. I can’t be certain where this is going to lead, but I do have some ideas, so let’s just roll with it.