I think you can probably guess where I found this little delight. Christian Aid today launches its latest Alternative Tax Award – Tax Superhero of the Year – and invites nominations of suitably qualified firms and individuals. The award has been introduced to highlight the tremendous potential accountants have to change the world for the better by [...]
Click to play Mrs Rompuy apparently calls the new President Rambo. That and lots of other interesting stuff about Belgium and Belgian's from last nights BBC Newsnight . Also, take a look at Brown at the start, see how sad he looks that his 'friend' Tony Blair didn't get it. Perhaps he knew that if he threw his support behind him it would scupper his chances.
There’s a strange debate on the Independent’s commentators blog about whether to call Conservative women "Dave’s Divas" or "Cameron’s Cuties". But this sexist dialogue seems to have overlooked is the number of upcoming black or Asian candidates.
Ed Balls MP, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is a man very proud of children's achievements in schools. He also, as the man who would be Chancellor likes to think of himself as a bit of an economics/maths whizz kid. This makes the following from Parliament from Balls quite funny, because, whilst discussing GCSE questions he said the following, The third question comes from...
As most regular readers will know I'm a climate change sceptic. This morning one of my lovely readers sent me the link to a blog he reads regularly. It appears the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (the provider of much of the government's information pumped out to citizens), has been hacked and many many files have been released by the hacker or persons unknown. Start here and read...
I recently recorded a conversation with Toby Baxendale, who owns and runs a fish distribution empire, and who is the founder of the Cobden Centre. Listen to it by clicking here. Our chat lasted about fifty minutes and a lot of interesting biographical and intellectual ground is covered. For the benefit of those for whom that is rather a long time to spend listening to talk, I have written at greater...
From the article, which shows us just how Al Gore will profit by government intervention in the market in promoting environmental whacko ideas: "It would be very helpful if you have government initiative. Without it, it will take longer for these to be economically viable," Patterson told Cybercast News Service. However, Bert Ely, a financial analyst with Ely & Associates of Alexandria,...
The row over Dundee City Council's rebranding of the Christmas lights switch-on as Winter Light Night rumbles on, with numerous letters in the local press no doubt adding to official discomfiture. And Courier columnist John J Marshall argues that the name change had more to do with avoiding causing religious offence than the expanded programme planned for this year, citing the Director of City Development's...
At times, the Beautiful Game has less than beautiful fans, as this week so clearly demonstrated, “When you insult my dignity… I will beat you on the head.” That was the Egyptian president’s son Alaa Mubarak who attended the Egypt-Algeria soccer match in Khartoum, capital of the Sudan for the last World Cup qualifying spot from [...]
This morning was John Trollope’s funeral. It was a moving, and uplifting, occasion. As befits someone as popular as John, there was a good turnout with standing room only. I bumped into Castle Point’s MP there – my first face-to-face encounter with Dr. Spink. I do not like funerals and avoid them whenever possible. This is not [...]
Jack W asks: Were you up for Portillo ? It was perhaps the most iconic moment of the 1997 general election as Michael Portillo was defeated at Enfield Southgate by the eyebrow raising fresh faced Stephen Twigg. It was also one of the Conservative defeats that locked in the Labour landslide. A defeat that [...]
As many, many people have commented and emailed, the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia has been hacked and thousands of files released—over 60MB of them. They do appear to be genuine—not only would the sheer volume of information suggest that they are real, CRU have apparently confirmed it —and they blow the lid off the anthropogenic climate change alarmism movement....
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