“I encourage you all to go shopping more.” George W. Bush December 2006
General
Something New
Recently, I posted “Oh look, someone has noticed”, remarking on how the Government has suddenly noticed that we have a problem over food security and fuel security. Today we have something new: But Mr Woolas, who became immigration minister in the reshuffle earlier this month, said: “This government isn’t going to allow the population to […]
Persistence
This is the second time (that I have seen) that our cat has chased this squirrel up this little tree. Sneaky little devil hid until the squirrel came back down and then chased off after it again. I think his chances of catching it are slender.
Parental Responsibility
The state of Nebraska passed a law recently that allowed desperate parents to abandon their newborn babies at drop-off points in the state’s hospitals, the idea being that the parent wouldn’t face prosecution and the babies would be cared for. All 50 American states have similar laws, since Texas kicked off the project in 1999, […]
Kerboom
So we must break from the short termism of the past & the economic instability that has characterised the British economy not just in recent years but for most of the century. That is why I want British economic success to be built on the solid rock of prudent and consistent economic management, not the […]
Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Once we have bailed the banks out and subbed them so they can meet their short term liabilities, they will be able to get back to their usual work of driving genuine wealth-creating businesses and hard-working people into bankruptcy because they are unable to meet their short term liabilities. These people are very possibly going […]
Where’d it go?
Just been at www.scotland.gov.uk, “website of the Scottish Government”, and at www.wales.gov.uk, where there are in fact two web sites – “National Assembly for Wales website” www.assemblywales.org and, oddly, the Welsh Assembly Government website at http://new.wales.gov.uk/ (why ‘new’?). Then I went to http://www.england.gov.uk/ . Nope, nothing doing. No Government for the English. How will we […]
Finally, Good News
If you had purchased £1,000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, With HBOS, earlier this week your £1,000 of shares would have been worth £16.50, £1,000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5, If you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago, […]
Meet Sally
The security services planned the arrest of the journalist with painstaking care. They bugged her contacts and assembled an elite squad to take her down. On 8 May 2007, eight detectives swarmed into her home and seized her address book, mobile, laptops and bank statements. In a simultaneous raid, a second team searched her newspaper […]
Apocalypse Now
Not my usual reading, but these two articles by Peter Osborne in the Daily Mail caught my attention:- Apocalypse Now?: New world order could have devastating implications for Western nations …. “The British economy is in the same position as the Texan coast earlier this month as Hurricane Ike approached – apparently calm, with life […]