However horrible tomorrows UK inflation figures turn out to be, spare a though for Chinese consumers having to cope with huge price rises in basic foodstuffs. Via ZeroHedge, the following is something of an eyeopener and may be a starting point for unrest on a massive...
Sunday Proverb
One I can relate to especially during each Summer when I have to return to the UK from foreign lands : Partir, c'est mourir un peu. Trust the French to capture this feeling in words. For the philistine tendency (including myself) : To leave is to die a...
Yet another coalition cuts U-Turn
Following on from the reprieve for Booktrust and an unchopped Quango or two, we have yet another saving reversal with the Department for Business finding a few million quid tucked down the back of a sofa : Hundreds of specialist debt advisers facing redundancy have...
Your life according to the (US) government.
A short and rather amusing video via ZeroHedge with a US centric view of life according to the government. Worth watching for amusement and quotes like the following : "You go to school where you learn the basics of life - math, reading, science and history through...
More evidence for the pointlessness of Parliament.
Via The BBC, the government was defeated in the courts today over it's cuts to the truly wasteful school building program (emphasis mine) : The government has been defeated in the High Court over the way it scrapped part of England's school building programme. The...
Why exactly do MPs still vote if the result is meaningless?
An article fron The BBC about the ongoing issue of voting rights for prisoners has a couple of very interesting lines (emphasis mine) : MPs have overwhelmingly voted to keep the ban on prisoners voting, in defiance of a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights....
Estonian “wear your seat belt” advert.
Humorous, to the point and not nannying at all - if you are going to make public information adverts then at least try to incorporate those three points and you will get people to think : _ The eagle eared may have noticed that it is in Russian but as 30% of the...
The Telegraph web editor is having a very bad day.
Nothing cheers one up more than the misfortunes of others and it looks like the web editor is having one of those days over at The Telegraph : In Health News : Doubling up the stories under different headlines - two for butt(o)(u)cks and two for NHS direct. What else...
Pictorial Interlude – And you think your job is bad!
Whatever you may think about your current occupation it could always be a lot worse : If you happen to be bored and in need of a good laugh then Imgur has a hell of a lot more of these.
Belgians too busy fornicating to form a new government.
At least according to Senator Temmerman in a Telegraph article : Marleen Temmerman, a Socialist senator, has urged the bed partners of MPs, senators and party political leaders to keep their "legs closed" until the deadlock, which is closing in on a world record of...