From the category archives:

Money

Unfairtrade

March 1, 2010

Fairtrade are making an awful lot of hullaballoo about making a million and one swap outs over the course of a week – they want a million and one iterations of customers replacing their normal bananas, chocolates, coffee and whatever else, with the Fairtrade equivalent.
And gosh, isn’t that a worthy idea? I mean, everyone knows [...]

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In the Beginning…

February 26, 2010

Today, an exhibition opens in London of an event, a life changing event, that transformed lives far more effectively than anything the Nu-Labour activists could dream of. It was a genuine revolution, a relatively bloodless one.
Today, Carnaby Street is 50 years old. That is not quite true, Carnaby Street was around in Dicken’s time, a [...]

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The Wrekin Rubi-Con…still doing the rounds…

February 25, 2010

Scene: Two men sit at shabby desks in a leaky portakabin at the edge of a railway station car park.  One of the men is reading Anna Raccoon while the other struggles to wrap a sizeable parcel, surrounded by rolls of brown paper, strips of sticky-tape and unravelled balls of hairy string. [...]

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You may have already won!

February 18, 2010

Congratulations!
You have been specially selected to enter the Reader’s Digest Special Prize Draw and have already passed the initial round! You are now through to the final “Administration” round and if fortune continues to smile on you, you will win the Grand Prize of “Insolvency”. This means that you will never again be assaulted by [...]

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Thought your MP was bad?

February 18, 2010

Council chiefs in England and Wales have refused to disclose the salaries of thousands of senior staff, claiming it would lead to a public outcry.
The Government had ordered local authorities to disclose the earnings of all executives after concerns were raised about the size of pay increases granted to council officers.
But local authorities claimed that [...]

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Disconnected from reality

February 15, 2010

Something that I’ve found over and over again when considering the arguments of “the left” is their incredible disconnection from reality. One only needs to cast a brief eye on the utterances of any Labour politician to get a feel for what I mean, but it’s even more disturbing when it comes from a group [...]

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Gordon Brown and the White Rabbit.

February 11, 2010

Come with me and you’ll be
In a world of pure machination
Take a look and you’ll see
Into their obfuscation
They’ll begin with spin
Trav’lling in a world of their creation
What you’ll see will defy explanation.
With apologies to Anthony Newley’s ‘Pure Imagination’.

What a wily little creature Gordon Brown is. Last March he was strutting the world stage as host [...]

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