No need to stress!
Something that I’ve found over and over again when considering the arguments of “the left” is their incredible disconnection
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Lunchtime Bonkers
What could possibly go wrong?
To ensure we’re all clear about the banking sector having learned its lessons, the Financial Times yesterday noted that Peter Hancock (a prime mover in
Continue reading →And Steve Jobs spake, saying
Who's going to surf the Internet with one of these?
You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is from Nokia, or
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Debtmanship – Man Bites Dog….
Side
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Jingle Tills, Jingle Tills …
Because, of course, Christmas shopping is JUST like this, isn't it?
As someone who is reasonably widely travelled, it never fails to amaze me at how consumerist British society is. I
Continue reading →Dubai World’s Default: Reasoning and Implications
Would you like a diamond-encrusted Rolex with that, sir?
(Editor’s note: This is our first post from Di Gestive and we would like to thank her
Continue reading →Equality begins in the home.
That shrill group of legal harpies, Harriet Harman, Maria Eagle and Vera Baird, otherwise known as the Government ‘Equalities’ Office, have chosen today to launch
Continue reading →God Speed Ye Legal Gentlemen…
God speed ye Legal gentlemen, let nothing you delay,In ending piglet’s troughing ways,
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Back to School
Born under a bad sign,I been down since I began to crawl,
If it wasn’t for bad luck
I wouldn’t have no luck at all* (*Music by Booker T Jones, lyrics by Continue reading →
A Very British Beef…
We’ve all been told it’s very rudeIf we neglect to chew our food
But what is stocked in one big shop
Has caused my lower jaw to drop
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Catching Balls, Twitterati Supremo.
Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children.
Salary: £142,000 pa
Claimed expenses: £21,429 last year
Outlined above is the official nature of Ed Balls’ job
Continue reading →Court of Protection: Masters of Lunacy
The Mail on Sunday holds out the delicious prospect that we may yet see some ‘naked’ civil servants. Whilst I have lambasted them previously for their inaccurate reporting, they have taken another bite
Continue reading →The Difference a Word Makes…
Whadderwewant?
Whadderwewant?
Twenty million quid!
Whydowewannit?
‘Cos we’re borassic thanks to bankers, Patricia Hewitt, an’ being crap!
Howdewegerrit?
By destroying the UK holiday sector!
Yippee!
Twenty million
Continue reading →What is the measure of a society ? Court of Protection
I ask this question because there is a maxim that says “a nation is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens”. This is from US President Hubert H. Humphrey and the full quote is:
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Court of Protection
I am so coldly, rigidly, white knuckled angry, that at 3am I still can’t sleep.
The cause of my anger is an article, so poorly researched, so sensationalist, so, so utterly, incompetently wrong, written by a ‘Whitehall Editor’
Continue reading →Swiss Roll Ball into Own Goal.
When you don’t have many claims to fame, you need to work hard at protecting the ones you do have.
The history of
Continue reading →Government Moves to Regulate Markets.
No, no, no – not that Market, not the Stock Market, they’ve given up all hope of controlling that market.
They have turned their attention to one of the oldest examples
Continue reading →Brown’s Yard Sale – Everything Must Go!
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of his success at flogging off the family Gold at a stomach lurching $275 an ounce in 1999, Brown the spiv is out on the corner again this
Continue reading →One Eye on the Bacon Futures.
July 20th 2009 was a good day to bury bad news. All eyes were on The Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill which was having its first reading in parliament and
Continue reading →Circumlocuting Mandelson’s Foreshite.
Archimedes was sitting in the bath when he discovered the relationship of weight to volume.
Newton was out scrumping apples.
Get it all Down – the Money’s Right!
From next month, a team based at University
Continue reading →Laying off the Layabouts.
Unravelling the Rubi-con.
Sometimes, having the face and the tenacious nature of a pit-bull terrier isn’t always an entirely miserable thing. Sometimes, doggedly following a trail which has grown so faint that it has
Continue reading →The Balance of Pensionability
Less than one week ago, Age Concern and Help the Aged retired beaten from the High Court after a ruling by Mr Justice Blake that the vicious Default Retirement Age brought in
Continue reading →Out of the Frying Pan and into … Gold
‘And it’s too late Benny, it’s too late, though you really did try to fake it ’
The recession’s over, right? The world economy will return to growth,
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