July 2009

Economic disaster?

July 31, 2009

Terrible news for me this morning. Chief Mustapha Ouank was due to transfer $47,500,000.00 (forty seven million, five hundred thousand United States dollars) from the National Petroleum corporation into my account this morning, and it hasn’t arrived. Now I discover that the SAT – 3 cable which connects Nigeria to the Internet has been damaged [...]

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No runs, so they went for Bruns…..

July 30, 2009

Even for dyed in the wool English cricket fans, several hours of rain sodden non-cricket at Edgbaston at the England vs Australia Ashes proved terminally boring. Somehow the on-line conversation turned to Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George IV of the United Kingdom from 1795, and his queen consort from 29 January 1820 until her [...]

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Storming the beaches in style.

July 30, 2009

Troughing is not an exclusively English Parliamentarian pursuit after all. The German Social Democrat (“we speak for the poor and the vulnerable”) Health Minister,  Ulla Schmidt, has been caught out arranging for her S-Class armoured chauffeur driven Mercedes to drive some 2,000 kilometers to Spain ahead of her arrival – presumably to put the towels [...]

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The all-you-can-eat Pussy Club……

July 29, 2009

Oh dear, Oh dearie, dearie, dear. The Recession has hit the German brothel market. The Berlin Pussy Club is now offering a flat rate, sleep-with-as-many-as-you-like deal for €70 euros, including unlimited food and drink. The owners have also offered rebates for pensioners, the unemployed and those on welfare. Some have offered discounts to taxi drivers [...]

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PC WPC

July 29, 2009

Chief Constable Colin Port’s Avon and Somerset Police force is in the news again; not for disrespecting the High Court this time, nor for paying £90,000 of taxpayers money to to stop reports of a multi million pound contract in which he and his wife had a direct interest, nor even for paying out an [...]

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Learning and Skills Council can’t add up.

July 28, 2009

The Learning and Skills Council, which oversaw a mismanaged national rebuilding scheme, allocated £2.7bn more than it could afford to rebuild England’s further education colleges, says a Public Accounts Committee report. The government said mistakes had been made but the way forward was clear.” (Good old taxpayer!) The committee based its report on evidence given [...]

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Vestas strike in the wind…….

July 28, 2009

Nothing to do with Swan Vestas, I’m afraid, but everything to do with Vestas, wind and the ability to strike……. Down on the Isle of Wight, 625 workers at the Vestas Wind Turbine factory have gone on strike to try to save their jobs. 25 of them have barricaded themselves in the management offices with [...]

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