As red faces go, it must have been almost on fire! Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, has been forced to pay back money claimed on her expenses. Her husband had been watching pay-per-view adult films on a cable TV subscription, paid as part of her controversial second home allowance. Ms.Smith has already been in the spotlight […]
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Guilty Joke!
Q. "What do you call a Pakistani cloakroom attendant?" A. "Me hat, me coat." Did the above joke make you chuckle or did it offend you? If you chuckled are you feeling you are racist or are you just amused by jokes that are a simple play on words? If you happen to originate from […]
Facebook Terrorists!
The news this week, that the government want to monitor all the details of one-to-one activity on social networking sites like Facebook, must have come as a major relief to prospective terrorists in the UK. They will now feel safe in the knowledge, that while the security services are drooling over pics of nubile mini-skirted […]
Stop Borrowing You Fiscal Fools!
The Governor of The Bank of England, Mervin King, has publicly stated what anyone with a brain bigger than an ant, has known all along – you cannot spend your way out of trouble! After distributing £20bn of borrowed money on a so-called stimulus package last year, the government have failed to ‘kick start’ a […]