Martin Lee Stephenson Weblog

What a fracking month I've had...

Anyway, congrats to Kuljit Bhamra for recieving his MBE from the Queen, for services to Asian/British Bhangra or something, well done lad...now re-release those albums!

YEAH!!!

Love it!

Well done England.

...and Arsenal looking good, 4-1 against Pompei. What a player Thomas Vermaelan is, and young Ramsey.

Much as the BBC's coverage is {mostly} much needed for those of you don't want to wade through the mud, swine flu and urine at Glastonbuy. is it really a good idea to allegedly send 450 staff on a bender,  on license fee money?

Now confirmed.

R.I.P.

News coming in that Michael Jackson has had a heart attack, some reports even saying he has died.

Wow.

I've been a tad busy, so not been updating like the naughty blogger I am...

David Carradine died today. You know, the guy in Kill Bill and KUNG FU...just bought the box set of the series, not a great martial artist but I loved the series as a kid.

Arsenal kids won the youth double, and the ladies the treble, so well done to them. Now lets see the first team win something next season, while the rest of the idiots spend money like the villains and twats they all are.

Screw the election...crooks.

Spooncurve at the Mercury? Watch this space.

Kwai Chang Caine, RIP.

There he was again, my old mate...looking good!

Reminds me, I must get down to Southall for a ruby...

CESC and ADE are back! Yeah!

Animal Aid's Race Horse Death Watch was launched during the 2007 Cheltenham Festival. Its purpose is to expose and record every on-course Thoroughbred fatality in Britain.

The horse racing authorities have resolutely failed to put horse death information into the public domain, preferring to dismiss equine fatalities as ‘accidental’ and ‘unexplained’. Even when several horses die at a single meeting, the term ‘statistical blip’ is often deployed.

Animal Aid has produced a series of revealing reports over the last seven years exposing the welfare problems associated with Thoroughbred breeding, racing, training and disposal of commercially ‘unproductive’ horses. Our research indicates that around 420 horses are raced to death every year. About 38 per cent die on racecourses, while the others are destroyed as a result of training injuries, or are killed because they are no longer commercially viable.