30 December 2011

Music of the week

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Baggy y-fronts and avocado:

Special pleading

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Yeah well, at this time of year, the smug marrieds may irritate us singles.  The Independent offers a cri de coeur : With the number of ...
24 December 2011

Music of the week

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Merry Christmas to all my fans ( shome mishtake surely - ed )

I'll take the fifth

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Do I feel guilty about being a baby boomer?  Not so much guilt as complacency.  The Telegraph reports : Baby boomers shouldn’t feel guilt...
23 December 2011

Cutting and running?

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President Obama on the BBC website ( here ) on 14 December: Mr Obama ... acknowledged it was not perfect, but said they were leaving behi...
20 December 2011

Hagrid visits the Harry Potter filmsets

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19 December 2011

Quote of the day

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I consider this (from The Independent here ) to be alarmist nonsense: Lady Neville-Jones was asked about a report that the Foreign Office...
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Sloth

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Useful seasonal advice from The Guardian 's agony Auntie Hadley ( here ): How many days in a row am I allowed to stay in my pyjamas i...
16 December 2011

Legerdemain

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Is it not amazing how, despite all of our economic problems, the government can suddenly magic up £450 million?  The Guardian reports : ...
14 December 2011

Music of the week

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Yeah well, an unreconstructed hippy.  But hey, dig it man ...

Money worries

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Is now the time to buy your euros for next year's holiday?  It has been many months since the £ rode so highly on the exchanges.  But...

Things I would rather not have known, part 36

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Is there no place left for romanticism?  Must we be always thirled to joyless pragmatism?  The Independent reports : Scientists have dis...

It's only shopping ...

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So that ended well (or maybe not).  Just because the Prime Minister is obsessed with TV personalities does not mean that he ever intends to ...

Hurting but not working

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What did the IMF expect?  The Guardian reports : The International Monetary Fund's latest, and fifth, report on Greece reads as a w...
13 December 2011

Keeping on keeping on

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That didn't take long.  All that anguish last Thursday night, the spats, the name-calling, the bladder control .  For what?  Nothing ver...
12 December 2011

Frighteningly pedantic

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Oh yes, adverbs: pesky little fellows.  Avoid if at all possible.  The Telegraph reports (apparently): Officials at the Department f...
11 December 2011

The explanation

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Don't mock!  The Telegraph may not be far from the truth : “So what was it?” demanded Sam. “What made you use the veto? Was is the ...

Quote of the day

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Will Hutton in The Observer ( here ): David Cameron is the best and worst of upper-middle class, home counties England – decent enoug...
10 December 2011

Chisellers?

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They're beginning to piss me off.  The Independent reports : Passengers planning to fly Ryanair next summer, beware: charges on...
09 December 2011

So who won?

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Well nobody did.  And, in any case, it doesn't really work like that. Cameron put the kibosh on another EU Treaty (or on an amendment ...