As Quote of the Day this is a fine contender: “This makes MPs into petty accounting clerks”Labour backbencher Eric Illsley, who says that MPs should not have to submit receipts for their expenses claims) At least it would actually involve them doing some work with numbers though, which would put […]
With Americans on both sides of the political aisle busy calling their opponents in the Obamacare battle ‘Hitler’ and ‘Nazi’, it’s quite enlightening to find out from the original version what HE thinks of the whole thing. And in other Hitler-related news, we learn from the BBC: Gaza’s ruling Islamist […]
Five years ago today, Chechen jihadists attacked a school and took more than 1,100 hostages. 334 adults and 186 young students died in the siege. Read the memories of Jim Hoft and watch the BBC video of interviews with surviving children of Beslan. AFP reports on the Beslan parents’ concern […]
Sarah Palin will be jetting to Hong Kong to talk finance: The former Alaska governor will visit Hong Kong to address the CLSA Investors Forum, a well-known annual conference of global investment managers, the host announced Monday. Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Alan Greenspan have spoken at the event, hosted […]
Everyone has a different view on what constitutes “art”. That’s a bit of luck, as the alternative would be a world entirely decorated in Athena student digs posters of the tennis player scratching her backside, or a planet engulfed in Prince of Wales style watercolours. The one thing uniting us […]
You’d hardly put Romania in the “leading the way” department unless ‘inventing vampires’ was a subcategory. However, Romanian government ministers across the board have taken a 20% pay cut as a gesture towards sorting out their economic mess. For those who dimiss such moves as tokens, consider this: in an […]
Further signs of a slippery slope in Ireland, where a proposed new law could do all sorts of fun things (in a bad way) to the Irish courts system. The lawyers are going to have a field day. We read that: “The Irish government plans to bring into force a […]
A group of Florida students have been sent home after wearing “Islam is of the Devil” t-shirts. This apparently isn’t good. Understandable though it is that Muslims might get rather narked by somebody expressing this point of view, anyone who has read the Swords verses in the Koran is going […]
On the other side of the Pond, the US Chamber of Commerce has the Sierra Club running scared with their Climate Trial idea (blogged about here previously). The Sierra Club now has a petition calling for companies to resign their memberships in the Chamber if they do not drop the […]
That’s it, yes, you. Thicky. Jana Bennett, director of BBC Vision*, said that members of the public (that’s you again, keep up you idiot) won’t understand why the salaries of our highest paid “stars” are so high. The issue is too complex for you to comprehend or usefully contribute to […]
Recent Comments