Current Affairs

Baby names

October 31, 2008

Radio DJ and television presenter Jo Whiley has given birth to her fourth child, a baby girl. In their infinite wisdom, her parents have decided to call her Coco Lux. Let us just think about that for a minute. When Coco Lux gets older and has her own family, they will be greeted at family [...]

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Honesty is the best policy

October 30, 2008

They say that we should all take responsibility for our actions.  Keeping them secret is bad for the soul, and the ‘wrong thing to do’. Sometimes you have to be a big man and own up to previous indiscretions. Which is why I am amazed at the furore surrounding Russell Brands brave admission to Andrew [...]

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Beating inflation

October 16, 2008

Consumer inflation in the UK has reached 5.2%. This is just another sign that the country is going to the dogs.  With the credit crunch biting, the housing market stagnant at best, and the price of every day commodities rising faster than at any point in the last in the last ten years, something must [...]

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Advising Al Qaeda

October 15, 2008

I have previously written about the difficulties of working for Al Qaeda.  Not only do they have trouble recruiting staff, I mean, can you trust an employee who is motivated solely by the promise of eternal sexual favours?  But they also have the problem of funding. That is where I come in. Last week’s post [...]

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We have just one week

October 14, 2008

The internet is massive.  Absolutely massive. I do not think there has ever been an accurate headcount, but I will bet that there are literally thousands of people on it.  And of those tens of hundreds, I have just one request. Please, please, please write to Ringo Starr asking for a signed photograph.  We only [...]

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Petrol prices

October 10, 2008

I am in the fortunate position that I do not have to drive anywhere near as often as I used to.  Getting through a couple of tanks of petrol a week was not unheard of in my last role. Therefore I have not been hit particularly hard by the steady rise in the price of [...]

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Using the law to your advantage

October 3, 2008

It is now over seven years since the terrible events of September 11th 2001 (I say terrible, but I do not know if any Al Qaeda sympathisers read this site). A lot can happen in seven years.  Fortunes can be won and lost, careers made and then ruined.  Or, you can choose to hide in [...]

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Making history

September 30, 2008

I have fond memories of the recent men’s 100 metres final in Beijing.  Usain Bolt put in a performance that quite literally, made track and field history. Then I look at the state of the country today, with rising inflation, falling house prices, banks on the verge of collapse, recession looming large on the horizon, [...]

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Meaty Messages

July 23, 2008

If I was a benevolent deity, I would definitely speak to my followers by inscribing my name in the cooked carcass of a dead cow. It is the only sensible choice.  With all the spam emails, junk mail, and telesales cold calls we get in a modern society, you can only be sure to get [...]

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The bestest water

July 21, 2008

I heard over the weekend that Thames Water have been been given a “Best Water in the UK” award.  Or something.   I only half heard it on the radio, but it caught my ear due to my own recent water based heroics. There was no mention of cape-less crusaders delivering water to needy homes, which [...]

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