Sir Savile The New Year honours list was officially released today [it was partially leaked before of course – with a few wrong names inserted in an attempt to cover the perpetrators’ tracks]. Over another one thousand people have received an award – is that overkill or not? It contains a shed load of names […]
Last weekend, there was major chaos & disruption experienced by thousands of rail commuters at Kings Cross & Paddington, two of London’s biggest stations. This resulted from ‘overrunning engineering work’ undertaken by Network Rail over the Christmas break [NR run the infrastucture of rails and statione etc]. This is just another nail in the […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,300 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]
Most of us in the United Kingdom have never had any experience of the organ transplant scenario – we have never needed a transplant ourselves, nor do most of us even know of anybody who has, and certainly we predominantly haven’t had any involvement in organ donation. We mainly have been shielded from the horror […]
Every year it come around again without fail doesn’t it? Christmas. Most of us dread it of course don’t we? We daren’t admit it though would we, as the stigma of Charles Dickens’ Scrooge would stick to us like glue? It starts very early in the year nowadays. It is supposed to be in December […]
Reeva Steenkamp killed The judgements of Judge Masipa in her handling of Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial have been widely criticised by some South African legal eagles– most of us outside observers were confounded and amazed at her decisions. There also has been incomprehension around the World on how a white rich South African self-confessed killer […]
Anni Hindocha [MURDERED 13 November 2010] Oh yes, the South African justice’s process has now been played out to the full in the Cape Town High Court, overseen by a very eminent female judge. A man has been cleared of involvement in a wife killing – but the trial didn’t run its full course did […]
Every year in the UK we have an annual budget by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, publically and ceremonially presented with fanfares galore, which beforehand is widely pontificated upon, predicted, and disgustingly even leaked. We have had Chancellors for about eight hundred years now, and use of the Budget ‘Red Box’ carrying the budget to […]
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