YES . . . . if you were Bobby Sands or the seven other 1981 IRA hunger strikers. This 1979 BBC clip aimed to show that the Iron Lady was an old softy at heart. Mrs Thatcher on Two Little Boys achieves the opposite effect. Not quite as harrowing as Hunger, the first feature from [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Wobbly fruit is OK again
November 15, 2008 – 12:00 am
Over 20 years ago Brussels had decreed that henceforth fruit and vegetables needed to comply with ideal standards of shape, size and colour. Vegetable eugenics was a boon to Europhobes, supermarket buyers and agrochemical manufacturers alike. It accelerated the demise of smaller arable farms and prompted a growth spurt in plastic cloches, despite the best [...]
Lateral thinking about city job losses and traffic calming
November 14, 2008 – 9:40 pm
The financial meltdown has resulted in obvious job losses in the oxymoronic investment banking community, with the result that a lot of loutish oafs can no longer afford to go to strip clubs after work. This has caused collateral damage to the pole dancing community, many of whom have been laid-off by employers such as [...]
What about Pikey Police?
November 14, 2008 – 2:02 pm
This morning on Radio 4′s Today programme I heard about yet another report calling for a study into why more Muslims aren’t joining the UK police or getting promoted to grand wizard or something. ‘Muslim police chiefs are calling for “urgent” action to boost the number of Muslim police officers in Britain, to help tackle [...]
Identity cards are great – put me down for a couple!
November 14, 2008 – 1:06 pm
Despite heavy opposition in the House of Lords, the UK government is trudging ahead with its identity card project. Opposition counts for little in our authoritarian 21st Century democracy, even if some of it is from your own tribe. From 2009, all new johnny foreigners will be obliged to carry an identity card while applying [...]
Beyond Them and Us
November 8, 2008 – 10:45 am
It is sobering to consider that half of humanity exists at a level of the economic inferno which we blithely label as “less than a dollar a day.” Just stop and think about what that means. Is there any part of your own life that you can recognise in that? I live in India, and [...]
SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ARE UNBUSINESSES. THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR BUSINESS. IF WE LIKE THEM, WE SHOULD PAY.
November 6, 2008 – 6:49 pm
Despite the success of Facebook, which even I use, and twitter, which I certainly don’t, these sites may find it hard to make money in a falling stock market and advertising recession. Then what? They attract huge traffic and perform a useful function, but so do telephone networks. People are used to paying a subscription [...]
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November 6, 2008 – 9:35 am
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It does not have to be that way
November 4, 2008 – 10:49 am
THUS aims to consolidate fresh thinking about life-changing issues, bridge the truth gap left by today’s political and business coverage and add fact-based appraisal of the best forward thinking from a host of informed sources. It will do so with good humour, optimism and empathy. You should not need a PhD to understand or enjoy [...]