Outbreak of commonse in Birmingham

" The head of the UK's biggest education authority says some children should have the option to leave the classroom at 14 to learn a trade &…

Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (406)

Emailed in by Physiocrat, from the comments in an article on FT Adviser headed "The pound’s longer, sharper Brexit shock" : Paris azawak sa…

I thought everybody knew this?

From The BBC : Millions of dollars earmarked for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 went on buying weapons, the BBC has learned. An investiga…

Short lists

1. Mancunian TV presenters called 'Cox'. 2. Ginger-haired German tennis players who were very successful in the 1980s and 1990s. 3. Current U…

"People still willing to torture"

From the BBC : Decades after a notorious experiment, scientists have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others - if told to by …

Traffic Police Numbers

From the BBC RAC head of external affairs Pete Williams said: "These figures make a mockery of motoring law. If there are not enough police on t…

Bloody snowflake!

From The Telegraph : The first Supreme Court judge to not be given a life peerage has revealed his disappointment in Theresa May for denying him the …

"100 foot wide sinkhole swallows man"

This one was too late to make it into this morning's round-up of Daily Mail articles about random attacks by inanimate objects (and a deer): A …

A nice bit of maths by David Miles

First, let's get the spin over with The Home-Owner-Ist media were cock-a-hoop at a report brought out by David Miles, an external member of the …

Life Copies Satire

From The Onion, 8 December 1999: Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People From The Daily Mail, 1 May 2013: World's oldest rail…

Homey logic.

Public sector workers should get a payrise because otherwise house prices might fall . They've missed another important point, which is that wage…

@ Eurojohnny

Eurojohnny left a comment on my earlier post, Universal Credits/Single Unified Taper : Unfortunately, you have been a bit selective. Looking at your …

Munich

A line from "Highwire" by The Rolling Stones is "Another Munich we just can't afford, we're sending in the 82nd Airborne"…

"Petrobras Oil Reserves Likely to Swell on Iara Field"

Yippee and hooray! This find has postponed the day when the oil runs out by another couple of years. NB: the figures they bandy about seem to be all…

"Police examine Clarkson mobile picture"

The law is the law , and the police are supposed to enforce it. While they're at it, they could stick six points on Adam Blake's licence for …

Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (108)

One of the things which some LVT fans claim is that land is 'free', which is oversimplifying things somewhat. Dearieme countered with this : …

The Guardian on top form

From The Guardian : Damning government report shows depth of public sector pay cuts The new report found a 3% drop in median hourly earnings between …

First Ladies

Misplaced loyalty (and that's putting it mildly!)

Here's Dennis Cooper's letter on the Tories' ultimate act of treachery on 5 March 2008, so far printed only in The Scotsman . The only ot…

Beyoncé Knowles - champion of human rights

The Mad Mullahs Of Malaysia told Bouncy that she wasn't allowed to wear her skimpy outfits . Unlike the delightful Gwen Stefani, who wimped out a…