'Of all the sensations of joy and release that Nature in her kindness has bestowed on the human race, there is little or nothing to beat the moment when you get rid of the baby’s car seat. It beats...
According to this BBC article, the sports received a total funding in excess of £220 million – whilst there might be national pride in our Olympians doing so well, I could think of better things to...
‘The world population is now 6.7bn, roughly double what is was when I was born. If I live to be in my mid-eighties, then it will have trebled within my lifetime....I simply cannot understand why no...
The Norwegian women’s beach handball team were fined for not wearing bikini bottoms – this got me thinking, do the men’s teams have to wear budgie-smugglers?...
7 days – Time it took then Conservative leader Michael Howard to sack Boris Johnson for lying about an affair after it was exposed in 2004. 2 days – Time it took Conservative leader Boris Johnson to...
The latest edition of Private Eye has an interesting article which begins by detailing Boris Johnson calling the hounding of Journalist Nick Watt ‘Disgraceful’. It then goes on to detail (including a...
‘We never had a national shortage of PPE’ – Health secretary Matt Hancock to the Commons health select committee (10 June). ‘In March [2020] the NHS experienced severe shortages of PPE...’ – Wording...
More good news if you are the CEO of a mobile phone company. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-9721577/UK-mobile-operator-EE-bring-roaming-charges-EU.html Now that our industry has...
The recent announcement of a trade deal with Australia has an estimated economic benefit of £400 million per year. This compares to the £2 billion quarterly fall in UK food and drink exports to the EU...
On today’s Money Box program on Radio 4 – the relaxation of China’s two child policy (being increased to three) was mentioned. It was also stated that only three countries in the world have policies...
The International Astronomical Union, responsible for the official naming of celestial bodies has announced it is to rename the planet Uranus. Over the years the name has been the subject of schoolboy...
If the company I worked for lied in court, resulting in me being jailed – the starting point for compensation I’d want would be £1 million, and would quite reasonably reach £10 million or more. You...
Boris Johnson is incompetent and has a complete lack of integrity.
Other breaking news, bears defecate in the woods.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56863547...
It seems to me that all of the 1,000 or so engineers who have refused to agree to the change in employment terms will take a case for constructive dismissal before an employment tribunal. Hopefully a...
On a visit to open the headquarters of GB Airways at Gatwick Airport in 2000, Philip chatted to pilots and cabin crew and told them: ‘When you think of all the publicity about planes being dangerous...
In 2008, to a soldier whose head had been injured by shrapnel from an explosive device packed with ball-bearings: ‘Does your head rattle?’ In 1955, when asked what he felt about his life: ‘I’d much...
The Duke's most infamous gaffe came in 1986 when he told a British student in China: ‘If you stay here much longer you’ll be slitty-eyed’ ‘I declare this thing open, whatever it is.’ During a visit to...
During January of this year, Beef exports to the EU fell by 91.5%, Cheese by 85.1% and Pork by 86.9% - some exports such as breeding animals, seed potatoes and certified seeds stopped entirely – with...
