30 November 2013

Always look on the bright side

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Veering towards the optimistic , perhaps, but Neal Ascherson is unlikely to be way off beam: What makes cheeky Salmond think an independen...
29 November 2013

The spirit of Christmas

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Is Boris a thicko?

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I have never been any good at IQ tests, so it may be that I find myself in the 16% of the population that Boris seeks to have dismissed to ...
28 November 2013

Quote of the day

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From The Guardian.   Tony Blair (yes him) explains to Rupert (yes that Rupert) the circumstances of his alleged dalliance with Wendi: ...
27 November 2013

Have Alex and Nicola worked this out?

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Hey, it amounts to 670 pages.  Do you expect me to have read the whole thing? But here's a bit you may find interesting.  From chapter...
26 November 2013

Less bonking?

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The Guardian  reports: The frequency with which Britons have  sex  has declined over the past decade, in what one researcher has suggested...
24 November 2013

Just like that?

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The SNP is perhaps veering to the optimistic with regard to this timetable : ALEX Salmond will this week announce that Scotland’s independ...
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19 November 2013

Knowing your onions

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Not a lot of people know this.   Bloomberg reports : Record  onion prices  and the soaring cost of rice and coriander are frustrating R...

Unanswerable questions of the week

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From a letter to The Guardian : What is it with George Osborne and hard hats? Not a week goes by without the chancellor appearing on t...

The last word ...

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... on Qatar's new sports stadium, whixh is somewhat inadvertently shaped : ... why not have 45,000 people crammed inside a woman...
17 November 2013

Who's in charge?

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Interesting problem , which is almost philosophical in nature, revealed by The Observer : The government's drive to introduce  more co...
14 November 2013

Carney's conundrum

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The Governor's work is never done.  Just because the recovery has "taken hold" does not mean that he can relax.   The Guard...
13 November 2013

Mine is bigger than yours

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Childish argument : One World Trade Center has been officially crowned as the tallest building in the western hemisphere after a row that ...
10 November 2013

Playing the man

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Are pro-union MPs motivated solely by ignoble selfish interests?   The Observer seems to think so : The reaction of some Scottish politici...
09 November 2013

A rather maudlin tale

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The bear who had never seen Christmas?
07 November 2013

Should I buy shares in Twitter?

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CityAM reports : SOCIAL media colossus Twitter priced its initial public offering (IPO) at $26 (£16.17) per share late last night, ready...

Stick or twist?

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The deal on the naval shipyards poses a problem for the SNP.   The Guardian sets it out somewhat brutally: Vote no to independence, and ...
06 November 2013

As others see us

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Bloomberg   has been reviewing the UK political scene, not unfairly, I think: ... the U.K.'s ideologically driven politics of class w...
05 November 2013

What?

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Oh yes, Beowulf, the great Anglo-Saxon epic (strictly speaking, it is written in the Anglian dialect).   All this over the meaning of the f...
02 November 2013

The goalkeeper's head and shoulders

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I blame those shampoo ads. He has never been the same since. The Guardian reports : Joe Hart has been dropped by Manchester City for Premi...