On one of yesterday evening's news broadcasts, George Osborne made a comment...I believe it was about the departing Louise Mensch's contribution to Parliament and her constituents...involving the...
I'm watching the diving. I thought that the verb "to medal" was bad enough. In diving, the dives are graded according to degrees of difficulty, which affect the judges' marks. The...
"He's having kittens over it", "The goalkeeper's giving his defenders kittens" and so on. When and where did 'giving s.o. kittens' or 'having kittens', meaning creating, or...
He is the husband of a friend of ours and he is a fireman and is 50 next year and can retire on full pension. He is always on about the holidays he will be taking and how he will find himself another...
Boris Johnson suggests schools should have two hours of PE every day, which would be almost half the school day. Where does he think the time is going to come from ? The curriculum at both primary and...
I'm thinking about getting a slow cooker as I would like to eat more lean red meat but am not sure of any good recipes, or in fact, anything about them! Do you use one and what recipe would you...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/.../uk-politics-19149212 No Lords reform = no support for boundry changes Does this mean Cameron is now leading a minority government? With their current popularity I can't see...
http://www.bournemout...Scottish_note/?ref=mr
But many places won't take Scottish notes because they are a right pain in the proverbial. Surely we shouldn't have more than one issuer of notes....
Boris johnson trapped dangling from a cable car, clutching two union jacks. was it a cheap publicity stunt , to advertise the Boris Johnson circus ?? should have left the idiot there.
I have been researching on my local area. One of the directories comes up with trades and professions and one person is listed as laroker. Never heard of this and found nothing on google so far. This...
There is a concerted effort by sections of the right whinge press to slate the Olympics at every possible turn. Sure, it's expensive, and sure traffic in London will be a nightmare for the next few...
Bit of a hoo-ha this morning because Ryan Giggs and Ifeoma Dieke refused to sing the national anthem. I found this on an old report frm the BBC: The little-known and even less-sung sixth verse of God...
// PCS general secretary, Mark Serwotka, said a Home Office decision to hire 1,100 staff – including 800 border employees – had convinced the union to cancel its [strike] plans. "We...
Personally I think this minister has a bit of a cheek. Just who are politicians to preach to us all o te morality of things? Perhaps if they gave up their 'perks' and freebies they may have a point,...
It has been suggested that another hung parliament could result in a Labour /Lib/Dems coalition.
Is that possible ?
http://www.telegraph....lt-says-Miliband.html...
I saw Boris Johnson on the Andrew Marr Show today, is there any chance of
getting G4S to lock him up until the Olympics have finished, to save the rest
of the world laughing at us?...
One of the sub-headings in today's Times Online reads, "Bunch of clowns welcomes incoming competitors."
Obviously, I thought it referred to Coe, Hunt and May! Sadly, it did not....
OK, so it is just a poll mid term of a Government. But all the same, it is not happy reading for the Conservatives. Calls for them to ditch the coalition and call a snap election would seem to be...
