On the same day Dr Fox finally resigned his post in the cabinet, after realising the ‘sorry’ excuse didn’t work, another minister is forced to try the same tactic. Oliver Letwin, a minister in the Cabinet Office was observed by the Daily Mirror, on at least five separate occasions, disposing of paperwork in the wastebins […]
Year: 2011
When Sorry Really Isn’t The Hardest Word…!!
I’ve not posted on here for a long time and I just want to say ‘sorry’. I don’t mean sorry in a genuine remorseful way but sorry in the sort of way that hopefully you will just accept I am sorry and forget to look any further into the reasoning for me being sorry in […]
Are We Just Feeding The Madness?
If you ever needed proof of what a mad mad world we live in, you only had to watch last night’s BBC news bulletin on TV. The top story concerned the present crisis in Ethiopia and the plight of the thousands who are likely to die of malnutrition over the coming months, due mainly […]
Is Our Value Of Life Going To The Dogs?
The news about the horrific deaths of two police dogs, as a result of being locked all day in a police officer’s car, was tragic to say the least. Despite colleagues of the officer breaking the car’s windows to save the animals (they had been suffering all day in high temperatures) animal welfare staff at […]
The BBC (unwittingly) Discovers The Answer To Declining Marine Life!
It’s not often that the answer to a worrying environmental problem can be found on the same news page but, today, the BBC News website managed it without even realising it had. At the top of the page its editors featured this: A deeply disturbing story on the decline of the world’s marine life, for […]
To AV Or To AV Not?
With just two weeks to go until we all rush to the polling centres to express our wishes regarding who should be making local decisions and whether we should change the voting system, I am still none the wiser. For the local part, I don’t see a problem with the present ‘system’ as I have […]
MPs Just Clowning Around!
I was playing around with an idea of comparing the antics of parliament with a circus, when I came upon a website called clown-names.com I just couldn’t resist the temptation to feed the following names into the clown name generator to see who their clown alter egos would be: David Cameron = Baron Noogstein Nick […]
Pensioning Off Our Right To Retire…!
The Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has unveiled details of his plan for reform to the welfare system. While he is correct that the present system is ridiculously complicated and needs simplifying, he is wrong in his assumption that most people want to stay in work indefinitely. He claims that most people want […]
The Lame Excuse For Action In Libya
Announcing the commencement of military action against the Gadaffi regime’s refusal to capitulate to the wishes of the UN our PM, David Cameron, said: “We should not stand aside while this dictator murders his own people” It seemed to be a rather strange and weak reasoning for entering into what could well escalate as a […]
Respect To The Survivors In Japan!
If the recent events in Japan were the plot of a Hollywood disaster movie, we could all be forgiven for laughing at the lack of credibility in the story and suspecting that the scriptwriters had been sniffing too much apple juice. Sadly, they are reality! Five days after the initial earthquake and the devastation of […]