Hot off the presses, yet another proposal for forcing the majority to buy yet another licence to deal with a minority problem blown out of all proportion by the tabloids. The proposals were outlined in a leaked document prepared by officials at the Department for...
Brave New World.
Aldous Huxley must have seen the future when he wrote Brave New World : "No offence is as heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual – and after all, what is an individual? We can make a new one with the greatest ease – as many as we like....
In the spellchecker we trust.
Spotted over at FT Alphaville we have this extract from Jeffries Fixed Income (emphasis mine) : Although encouraging that Q4 UK GDP was revised up from a rise of only 0.1% to 0.3%, arthritically this was largely the result of general government expenditure (see chart...
Stupid people saying stupid things.
Heard on Radio 4 this afternoon in a report on pets and their impact on the environment : .. and can you tell what the carbon footprint of a rescued battery chicken is? Can't get any worse than that really. The person answering giggled nervously as if she was being...
Puritans in the Supermarket.
I wrote earlier about the sheer amount of government advertising to be heard on commercial radio in every single ad break - annoying, patronising and a complete waste of my tax money. Being out and about not listening to the radio has brought relief from the constant...
UK Hospitals and UK leaders.
Over at Old Holborn's place, a very good read by Stanislav on the state of the UK. As a taster (do go and read the whole article) : ... We live in a Nazi state, our SS shoot us at will, whip our women with batons, corral and batter our children as they fight for their...
Sad news
Mostly, Wasp doesn't feel much when reading news but this story from the BBC is fairly shitty on the standard news shitty scale : Man believed to be the son of a 100-year-old woman found stabbed to death at her home in east London has been arrested by police. You...
Classic comments
From a commentator over at zero hedge opining on the behaviour of various members of the US Federal Reserve: These folks are like arsonists who push for the bomb-making material and then, after planting the bombs and lighting the fuses, extort the firemen and get a...
Peurile thoughts
The English language always amazes me with the endless opportunities for creating entertaining double entendre as well as phrases that can be quite easily taken both ways (the last bit there will have activated the snigger region of the brain in anyone with a so...
Tits banned on the iPhone
Apple has upset a few developers of iPhone apps by pulling (wrong choice of verb I think) various apps with an adult theme. The BBC article has the following : ChilliFresh is an Australian company that creates apps for the iPhone, including the recently banned...