Europe has launched the Golgafrinchan Ark 'B'.

Welcome aboard, fellow telephone-sanitisers.

( An explanation, for those who have forgotten the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy... )

What will you do if the British referendum on European Community membership votes for exit ( Read more... )

Much has been said about the resignation of Ian Duncan Smith, our long-serving Secretary of State for Work and Pensions ( Read more... )

I came back from Darkest Somerset with some sewing to do:


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I need to post more...

...And I have no ideas. Except this: I've never started a meme.

Post a link to something you blogged, ten years ago today.

...And post:

1: An interesting snippet from it, as clickbait;
2: An interesting fact about someone in the post (without naming them!) that has changed in the last decade.

Got that?

Here's mine:

I ( Read more... )

Reading changes us, and some of those changes only become apparent after years, and only after some reflection.

So how did Sir Terry and the Discworld change me?

I learned that humour need not be cruel - indeed, that the best of all humour isn't cruel at all - through my reading.

And I learned it rather later in life than I should have.

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Anyone seen this, From the Tax Reseach blog?

Please Don't Argue That We're Overtaxed.

I don't mind paying more than the average; I earn more than the average. I do mind that people earning more pay less.( Read more... )

Morning all: I am trundling Londonward from Leicester, having celebrated my father's 85th birthday with the wild party animals of Oadby Launde Rotary Club ( Read more... )

Does anyone remember the Trafigura toxic waste scandal a couple of years ago?

Dust off the newspaper cuttings, or look up that link: it - or something like it - will be news again, soon. Or worse, not news: secretly disposed of, and silently killing people.

( A bit of background on 'Tank washing'... )

Oh dear: I've just read an unfavourable review of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, by an accountant .

I have maintained the view that Osborne's sole economic objective is to accelerate the concentration of wealth; and, measured against his objective, he is the most effective and successful Chancellor that we have ever had.
( No, really: I *am* going to say something nice... Eventually )