Unseen in Sedgefield
Newsflash: civil service stress update
"No, I'm not doing anything important…"
Following on from an earlier excursion into yoga and other hobbies comes this harrowing tale of the utter waste
Continue reading →Finish your cornflakes
Was it good for you, Darling?
Right, I’m quite insistent on this: finish what you’re eating. Put down your cup. Remove all sharp objects from your person.
Although
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BBC “green” pensions
A reader wrote to ask for more information about the BBC’s scurrilous failure to declare a pension interest in “global warming”. Here are some details in the Express, here Continue reading → Allow me to make a small prediction
I can't believe he's so stupid as to try it again!
It will play out like this: Labour will introduce a universal social care “levy” to extract
Continue reading →Caring for the planet
Hessian and sackcloth is soooo last year…
Cui bono? One of the fundamental questions to ask when faced with the more curious and excessive displays of human intransigence
Continue reading →Latest Update ==Tobacco, Alcohol,and other Drugs….
Note the order of words in the title!
My, but the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs have been busy little bees today.
No
Continue reading →Mephedrone Ban – latest news….
The resignation of Dr Polly Taylor – the veterinary medicine expert whose post is required by law to be filled on the committee – from the Advisory Council on
Continue reading →The Tarts With No Heart.
Spot the Con.
Saul on Sunday
Greenwich Park Life It was decided this week that Greenwich Park would be the venue for the Equestrian events at the 2012 London Olympics, despite a
Continue reading →Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.
AngryTeen for a thorough and intelligent fisking of BNP Policy.
Obnoxio for the ultimate car sales advertisement.
Continue reading →Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Byers was one of the queue
Continue reading →One in Ten
Chorus: I am the one in ten*Some int’rest on a debt
I am the one in ten
Settling such a monstrous bet
Nobody knows me
Even though I`m always there
A Continue reading →
There’ll be another one along in a minute…
Last December a double-decker bus full of school children, all around nine years old ,tried to drive under a low railway bridge. It didn’t make it. The top floor
Continue reading →Physician Heal Thyself…
Provisional Liquidator Appointed To Debt Management Company… The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills has presented a petition in the High Court to wind up 123 Finance Ltd in the Continue reading →
And breathe …
And breathe …
I certainly had to indulge in some heavy breathing after reading this farrago of nonsense:
Civil servants have been given counselling manuals advising
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A Few Clowns Short of a Circus…..
“Palpitating pageant of pachyderms, pulchritude and pantomime! Extraordinary wild animal exploits! Desperately dangerous displays of unrivalled aerialism! Colossally comic comedians! Dainty and dexterous displays of principal bareback equitation!”
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Tears on my Pilau
Dread news from the AP today, reporting from Gauhati in India, where the arms race has taken on a terrifying new twist.
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Dr Dolittle’s Prescription.
He
Continue reading →Straight out of the blocks
Ready! Steady! Lie!
The first little “Brownie” from the budget has just been highlighted:
“VAT and postal A.96 – From 31 January 2011 VAT will be
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Quote of the week
Alastair Darling budget speech 2010……
Nonsense on stilts!
“Tax relief on pensions will be restricted from next
Continue reading →Ko Ko Brown
As some day it will happen that an election I must call,I’ve got a little list — I’ve got a little list
Of snivelling back-benchers who should be voted out,
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Achtung Baby!
What is the German for "drool"?
One of the most amusing ironies to ever emerge from the burgeoning European superstate is that it may well be the Germans who
Continue reading →The Trouser Snake
Sleazily-weasily,Screaming Lord Mandelson
Crawls through the undergrowth –
Snake in the grass.
Prince of the Underworld,
Vicious and venomous
Mephistophelian
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+++Latest News +++
Another day, another career change. Nothing unusual in the life of Ms Raccoon, who never was a woman to say No.
Old Holborn has agreed to stand for election as
Continue reading →Corrugated corrigenda
A hat tip to Tractor Stats for setting me on the trail of this one….
Shortly after the
Continue reading →Chairman Brown’s Little Green Book..
Now that smokers are safely corralled in windswept doorways puffing on their soggy dog
Continue reading →The Celtic pussycat
Rowwrrrr!!
Begorrah! It seems that the Irish public sector has made an enormous leap that our bloated, thuggish “civil” “service” seems to be reluctant to:
Good
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Willie Haughey – Glasgow belongs to Me….
From today’s Sunday Times:
Strathclyde police is to seek guidance from the Crown Office on whether to investigate Labour’s biggest donor in Scotland and the
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