March 2010

Unseen in Sedgefield

March 31, 2010

(The following are un-reported excerpts from Mr Blair’s recent speech at Sedgefield, which were mysteriously omitted from the televised version.) Hey, look — I know I promised to be whiter than white. Maybe that didn’t always work out. Perhaps beige would have been a better choice. But none of it was my fault. None of [...]

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Newsflash: civil service stress update

March 31, 2010

Following on from an earlier excursion into yoga and other hobbies comes this harrowing tale of the utter waste endemic to government: Worse though is the tale told by a friend. She had had a stressful couple of years as HR boss of a firm that was cutting half its staff and she decided when [...]

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Finish your cornflakes

March 31, 2010

Right, I’m quite insistent on this: finish what you’re eating. Put down your cup. Remove all sharp objects from your person. Although the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was more than happy to talk about his sex life to Piers Morgan — he claimed to have slept with up to 30 women when he was [...]

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Allow me to make a small prediction

March 30, 2010

It will play out like this: Labour will introduce a universal social care “levy” to extract more funding to pay for the things, for which,  they already tax us. Everyone grumbles, but gets used to it. The government is pleased as punch, having found another way to squeeze us till the pips squeak. To great [...]

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BBC “green” pensions

March 30, 2010

A reader wrote to ask for more information about the BBC’s scurrilous failure to declare a pension interest in “global warming”. Here are some details in the Express, here is a link to sources of the information in the public domain, and here is some scathing analysis from a blogger.

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Caring for the planet

March 30, 2010

Cui bono? One of the fundamental questions to ask when faced with the more curious and excessive displays of human intransigence is “who benefits from this?” In many cases, following the money can lead to surprising revelations. When the alarmism around man-made global warming kicked off, anyone daring to question it was slapped down as [...]

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Latest Update ==Tobacco, Alcohol,and other Drugs….

March 29, 2010

Note the order of words in the title! My, but the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs have been busy little bees today. No sooner did they appoint the Dentist, to correctly constitute the committee following the resignation of Dr Polly Taylor – than he said ‘open wide’ and they shovelled a freshly minted [...]

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