A new-look Shire Network News hits the airwaves, with a new host, new attitude, and perhaps most importantly, no script!

 

We'll be moving to a weekly format from now own, and the show will probably be shorter and punchier. By which we mean if you don't listen to it, one of us will find out where you live, come round one night and punch you.

 

This week we catch up with a Canadian comedian who is being dragged in front of one of Canada's bogus "Human Rights" kangaroo courts for the hideous sin of...well, telling jokes apparently. Now you and I and certain other head-in-the-clouds no-hopes might cling to the charmingly antediluvian notion that it's not all that unusual for a comedian to tell jokes, but under close, time consuming and massively expensive legal scrutiny, this turns out not to be the case.

 

Guy Earle wasn't particularly political before this happened, but he's been...ahem..."radicalised" by the experience. He's due to appear before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal in Vancouver on March 29 - if you're in town that day, go along and support him. Keep him away from the hemlock.

 

Doug Payton is here with Consider This, ad we have a new contributor to SNN, the UK-based Dangerously Subversive Dad, with a tale of what happens when your wife fights off a drugged-up knife-wielding maniac bent on car-jacking her. She made the obvious error of fighting back. Even worse, she was successful! Those of you who have been paying attention know what's about to happen, but don't give out any spoilers - the look of shock on the face of newcomers to this sort of site when they realise what the constabulary is really up to is always priceless. Wait for the tale of the horse-tail-plaiting Witches of Sussex at the end. No, we're not kidding.

 

The new presenter, Murray, can be found here (swearing encouraged) and here (less swearing, more trebuchets). Tom is still going to be part of SNN each week, he's just going to be doing individual items and interviews rather than anchor the whole show. He kept complaining about having to "work" in order to "pay the mortgage" and be able to "eat food" occasionally or some such soft-cock excuse for total laziness.