You jump when they say jump And you don't ask how high
Read More »Worrying Times
Excuse my French, but my first thought on reading the headline in The Times today was “WTF?”
Read More »Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose
Maybe it’s a hangover from the back-to-school days, but September always strikes me as a good time to start things afresh.
Read More »Flushed with success
The fact that a lady has been taken to court by her neighbours for flushing the loo too often at night sounds like a real silly season story. But if you dig a little deeper there are issues here which go behind that of dodgy neighbourhood relationships.
Read More »Down, down, deeper, n’ down
Good gracious. The news about Wolseley's 2,000 job cuts in the UK just made the BBC lunchtime news.
Read More »Fool’s Gold
It being April 1st today, it crossed my mind to add in a spoof, April Fools news story to today's e-newsletter.
Read More »Boiler petition: sign up now
So, according to the Government and the car industry, the cash-for-old-bangers' saw more than 15,000 people buying a new car as a direct result.
Read More »Too little, too late
As usual it seems, Chancellor Darling's last Pre-Budget Report for this Parliament (possibly ever), was a mixed bag full of , well, not very much. I suppose you could call it another curate's egg, although not a particularly nice egg.
Read More »Now we’re talking
Passion. That's what this election has been missing so far.
Read More »Slow news
The first thing they teach you at journalism school is that a story about a dog biting a person isn't really a news story at all. Man bites dog - now that's a story.
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