The ‘No-Smoking in your place of work’ ban.

An entirely unproven risk to potential passengers from the alleged second hand smoke that might be present in a taxi where a smoker has once sat

I see the politics of prison are back in the news again.

As a fairly strict libertarian, I am faced with the apparent conundrum of having to support some agency, whether it be the state or some other agency

Educating children is a delicate affair, not for the feint hearted.

The Lord Mayor of Leicester did his best at a ‘Global Educational Summer Showcase for Schoolchildren’.

The decidedly ‘global’ Lord Mayor

My attention was drawn to an article in the Spectator, well, not so much an article as a graph, really:

And

Blimey, not only but also; past present and a few future UKIP members have been roaring around the blogosphere in hysterical outrage following the Mail’s predictable anti-European blast that ‘the EU is planning to ban

20 odd years ago I was sitting at home, chaffing; the Doctors had stopped me driving whilst they tried to sort out my eye, and long days free of work is a tough billet for a dyed in the

Over at the Hadron Collider – haven’t heard of that for a while have we? – they are still playing ‘let’s find God’, shooting beams of proton particles 27 miles under the Swiss mountains in the hope

I knew a Solicitor once, a solid respectable man. His child was of a class of person about to be seriously disadvantaged by forthcoming legislation. He lobbied hard against the legislation; he wrote letters, made

Our Vera at Pontypridd Magistrates Court.

Long time no here (sic)

Those were the days eh? When you were Solicitor-General and late at night the mood took you to try

You have to admire the woman’s Dunkirk spirit. Totally unsuited for the voyage, bravely fighting her way to the front, can’t actually do anything useful when she gets there, too small, too insignificant, too unbalanced,

Late last night I turned on the English TV in time to catch the inevitable whinge about the budget. There is always a whinge; the only matter of note is who is doing the whinging.

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