During quiet lunchtimes I often take a peek (ok I read all of the stories on the right hand side column) at the Daily Mail to see what scandalous things celebrities have been up to. Today there was a brilliant article on the funny things students write in test papers (may or may not be [...]
PMQs: Cherchez le cheval
I don’t know what I really expect from PMQs every week, but every time I follow it closely (i.e. actually watch it, rather than following thesublime @SteveHiltonGuru’s live tweets) I’m always disappointed by the same-old, same-old posturing. In fairness, after a slow start, it did get nicely raucous. It’s just a shame that, after lacklustre [...]
And so it goes on…
Last time, in 2008, I – like most – was capitivated by the rise of Barack Obama and the mythic battle he then fought with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination. Combined with John McCains transformation form heroic underdog to mean spirited curmudgeon and the meteoric rise to cultural fame of his infamous running [...]
The slow recovery in the UK service sector
This survey published today by the CBI could show the first signs of recovery in the beleaguered UK services sector. Although the statistics show that business volumes in the UK service sector continued to decline in the three months to the end of January, there are reasons to be positive. The overall decline was at a much [...]
Rising Sun
So The Sun came out yesterday… and what do we think? It all feels very familiar for a fresh start; if you ignore the date it could be the weekday paper, page 3 and all. The News of the World’s Fabulous magazine has been revived, presumably because its shoes/diets/ agony aunts content never caused controversy. [...]
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