21 January 2015

Sacrilege

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The Guardian   reports : Lidl’s fashion prowess  knows   no bounds:  ahead of Burns night on Sunday, the budget supermarket has started se...
20 January 2015

Music of the week

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Demon drink

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The Independent   reports : In what may prove to be badly timed news for those struggling to observe “dry January”, scientists have discov...

Am I smug?

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Is the government being too nice to us pensioners?   CityAM  certainly thinks so : Quite simply, due to pensioners’ greater propensity to...
19 January 2015

Reading and writing

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It is indeed a scandal that so many children leave primary school without learning to read and write properly.  But are blanket targets t...
18 January 2015

What is the world coming to? (part 137)

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From The Observer  ( here ): After closing for its annual maintenance period in early January, the London Eye, one of the most recognisabl...
17 January 2015

Quote of the day

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From The Guardian  ( here ): David Cameron has been telling parliament and Barack Obama of his desire to make bulk surveillance of the en...
15 January 2015

Daft money

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The Guardian   reports : Wilfried Bony will earn a £20,000-a-game bonus on top of his basic £100,000-a-week salary at  Manchester City  af...

What Cameron didn't say ...

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... about his wooing of the Greens ( here ): “I love the Greens more than life itself. Caroline is my rock. Without her, I just can’t go o...

Politics as farce

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13 January 2015

OAP blues

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I can identify with this : I’m fast approaching bed-blocker age, and it’s making me nervous. Nobody likes  an elderly bed-blocker , especi...

Quote of the day

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From The Guardian ( here ): Monday 12 January 2015 will go down in confectionary history as a bad day. A hurtful day. The day when it...
12 January 2015

Economic nonsense

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The Guardian reports : Britain will be on the “path to ruin” if Labour takes charge of the public finances, David Cameron will say on Mond...
11 January 2015

Music of the week

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Sometimes, my memories of a vaguely hippy tendency emerge:
09 January 2015

Sauce for the goose

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In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings, Nigel Farage has been widely condemned for his immoderate remarks about “gross multiculturalism...
08 January 2015

No sympathy

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The Guardian  takes a hard line with those of us seduced into investing in Boohoo: No tears should be shed for investors in boohoo.com: a...

I learn something new everyday

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Prosecco, the Italian sparkling wine, is becoming ever more popular.  But it is only prosecco if it comes in a bottle.  If the same stuff...
07 January 2015

How quaint

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The minutes of the meetings of the Court of the Bank of England during 2007 to 2009 (the great banking crisis) reveal that such an august bo...
06 January 2015

The dodgy dossier

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Who has been a naughty boy, then?  Osborne's analysis of Labour's spending plans seems to be slightly misleading : Problem numb...
04 January 2015

Go Rikki!

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For those of you (like me) for whom Hogmanay is just not the same without some Scotch and Wry: