I got some good feedback when I first posted these and I have tried to incorporate it below.  Rules 6 and 7 got reworked and I added a 6a as a modifier to 6.  I did not thank everyone who contributes last time but I did appreciate the feedback ( Read more... )

Basically MPs do not like the new expenses system which was brought in after the level of abuse of the old system got too blatant to ignore.  Several MPs reacted so badly to the new system that they became abusive to staff, in one case reducing a civil servant to tears.  This story broke earlier this week, if you missed it the details are at Read more... )

As expected it was incoherent drivel. Can anyone explain why the Doctor is fighting Draco Malfoy?

Sixty Three today still going strong and unfortunately still needed.

Applications for our 2010 graduate recruitment programme are now open. If anyone reading this is a graduate or likely to become one in the near future then the scheme is detailed at http://discoveruk.vodafone.co.uk/discover/ . We are looking for fifty graduates next year, ( Read more... )

I have just had an email from Oxfam advertising their current deal with Borders.  If you spend £25 at www.borders.co.uk and enter the code loveoxfam at the checkout you get £5 off and Oxfam get 5% of whatever you spend.  Obviously Borders are doing this to drum up business but if you are looking to order something online it might be worth checking ( Read more... )

The holocaust is without any doubt the single worst act in human history. However what I want to talk about is the lights in that darkness.

If you live in the UK and have seen the news in the last day or so then you will probably have seen the name Nicholas Winton. In 1939 Mr Winton was a stock broker planning a skiing holiday in Switzerland. He was ( Read more... )

I just had a call on the home phone which I assume was a phishing scam.  The person calling had a heavy foreign accent and mispronounced my surname even worse than usual.  They claimed to be calling from a reclaiming company although it took me three goes to understand them well enough to get that bit.

They said they were calling to offer to help me ( Read more... )

 The point of a trade is to leave both parties better off afterwards.  Please note, not feeling better or thinking they are better off but actually better off.  Of course this is dependent on the parties knowing what is good for them, if you buy lottery tickets and don't win anything on them then you are not better off but that is as much your ( Read more... )

The next guerrilla picnic is scheduled for Saturday the fifteenth of August.  The assembly point is in the grounds of Southwark Cathedral at 11 AM.

Currently on the likely to be there list are:

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