Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading and the 25-Hour News.
Moor Larkin continues to plough his way through the muddy fields of the Leeds General Report.
Barnardos castigated for telling a women ‘raped for six months’ that she could have avoided this….
Log book loans – a warning.
John Ward on the Nigel Farage show. He enjoyed it – personally I thought Farage had it bang to rights when he said it was a typical ‘BBC hatchet job’. Panorama ain’t what it used to be.
Francis Fitzgibbons on the bottom feeding Grayling…
Jon Robins on Tom Sargant and the Court of Last Resort.
Barrister Blogger on ‘Kicking a man when he is down‘.
One man’s fight against Ebola.
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October 18, 2014 at 1:19 pm -
On 25 Hour News.
George Osbourne on a building site without a hard hat or hi viz jacket??
I bet there were letters about that!!
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October 18, 2014 at 1:40 pm -
Logbook Loans – have I tale to tell about those bastards from a few years back (something I must write about in good time)
In terms of debt & the young, from what I’ve seen most of them are in the mire as soon as they are old enough to borrow, which means of course they will be so for the rest of their lives.
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October 18, 2014 at 6:00 pm -
But what chance do the acne-carriers have when they are ‘sold’ the notion by their ‘leaders’ that going to uni is the only way to have a future and they’ll have to get into hock for £30k+ to cover it, even before they’ve turned a hand at the real world of work or some even before their voices have broken?
Ater that state-inspired introduction to the world of easy debt and usury, a few hundred quid from Wonga or Lovely Log-Book Loans Inc must seem irresistible.-
October 18, 2014 at 7:16 pm -
If you can borrow £10k a year with no interest and no requirement to pay it back until you are earning over £20k a year, I hardly think you’ll be turning to Wonga, and if the most intelligent in our society are doing so, then I think Wonga is the least of my worries…
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October 18, 2014 at 1:43 pm -
re John Ward on Nigel Farage.
So Mr Farage was exposed as a bit of a weasel & hypocrite, and unsurprisingly the BBC were doing the self appointed judge & jury bit.
I don’t think any of this is new, nor is it likely to be damaging.
By comparison, Clegg, Cameron & Miliband may well float a foot off the ground on odour of sanctity, excreting barley sugars.
The point is that a lot of us don’t want what they’re selling, no matter how breathily, how earnestly they preach, no matter how squeaky clean they are.
I don’t suppose anyone seriously thinks Mr Farage is ever going to have any real power to deliver, so any ‘policies’ outside the core issues are unimportant.
But given the core issues, and the headlock that the mainstream parties have on the entire political process, what else can be done? It’s almost a ‘closed shop’ business.
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October 18, 2014 at 4:39 pm -
personally I thought Farage had it bang to rights when he said it was a typical ‘BBC hatchet job’. Panorama ain’t what it used to be.
I agree —I didn’t watch the whole programme –not because Farage is not an interesting character but because the journalism was so patently and obviously poor. One of those ‘documentaries’ that says more about the journalist than it says about the subject. Apart from a Knighthood in the New Years honours no doubt MW T will become Head of investigative jounalism BBC
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