30 November 2010

Hey, it's not warm ...

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At least the penguins at Edinburgh Zoo are happy. Well some of them anyway. See them here .
27 November 2010

It's not getting better

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Yeah, yeah, pull the other one. The Independent reports : As rumours spread across financial markets that talks over a bail-out for Portu...
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24 November 2010

Bald men and a comb

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Mr Swinney has been a naughty boy. Allegedly, he failed to tell the parliament that the Scottish administration had refused to pay HMRC t...
23 November 2010

Penny wise, pound foolish

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Well that'll teach me a lesson. Buying shares is a mug's game, especially when they are RBS shares. The share price, heavily influ...
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20 November 2010

Here's to you Mr Robinson (again)

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I'm an educated sort of chap and I don't really understand why I take such pleasure from the fact that fifteen young ruffians (plus ...
19 November 2010

No smoke, no fire

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What? The Scottish Politician of the Year Awards at Prestonfield House Hotel and nobody set fire to the curtains? How disappointing.

Universal suffrage

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Who knew voting could be such fun?
17 November 2010

Spooks again

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The Guardian reports : The work of Britain's security services will be permanently hidden from court hearings under plans designed to ...

Quote of the day

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Up-chuck material from The Telegraph ( here ): But the monarchy is also about magic. It sets Britain apart. It reminds us that this is a ve...
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13 November 2010

Brave new world

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Well what did you expect? You should have known that the Tories were utterly shameless when it came to getting into bed with big business. ...
11 November 2010

Compare and contrast

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Grace under pressure : Rangers manager Walter Smith was full of praise for Hibs and accepted culpability for the champions' lacklustre d...
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10 November 2010

Music of the week

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I couldn't resist the verbal felicity that afforded the young lady a tattoo too.

Basta!

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I really, really do not want to read about: 1. Gordon Ramsay's tortuous relationships with his father in law, with his mother in law o...
09 November 2010

Time to go home

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And so another holiday in paradise (albeit a somewhat down-market paradise) draws to a timely close. The days are growing colder and my sho...
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08 November 2010

Quote of the day

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More Orwellian gobbledegook. David Cameron on his new ploy for making the centre more effective in order to weaken it? From here . "T...
07 November 2010

Wielding the axe

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Oh dear, the axe is whistling towards Scotland's senior bureaucrats. Scotland on Sunday reveals : Scotland on Sunday can reveal that m...
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03 November 2010

Quote of the day

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Blinded by ideology: Michael Gove, Secreetary of State for Education ( here ): Michael Gove, the schools secretary, has denied that student...
01 November 2010

A case for callming down?

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A fluttering in the doo'cots. The Herald reports : A ruthless al Qaeda bomber who recruited his own brother for a suicide attack was l...
22 October 2010

Worth a read

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Krugman in NYT : In the spring of 2010, fiscal austerity became fashionable. I use the term advisedly: the sudden consensus among Very Serio...

Quote of the day

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From The Independent ( here ): Authorities in the South Korean capital are trying to untangle themselves from a slimy row: how many octopus...