Oh dear, perhaps you haven’t heard of Jenga? Well it’s a block-stacking, and finally a stack crashing game. A set of wooden blocks are first stacked-up in a sturdy tower, whence you then chance your arm, against the laws of gravity, by pulling out an individual block from the pile. When a critical block […]
THE REAL VICTIM Well, well, well, in one of the most bizarre twists one could imagine in any criminal trial, Amanda Knox has now been acquitted of involvement in the murder in Italy eight years ago of her flatmate Meredith Kercher (a twenty-one year old Londoner) – this judgment squashing the conviction, came in […]
England’s footballers put up a very poor performance in the Euro 2012 Championship competition (co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine), and gave us a disastrous dog’s dinner show in the Rio World Cup last year (our worst performance EVER at the Finals). As the so called home of the ‘beautiful game’ it has all been a […]
The British are world beaters at the elaborate pageantry and pomp of State ceremonies. Year upon year, event after event, they all go swimmingly well, providing glorious spectacle after spectacle. Big public occasions watched in person by amazed thousands, seen on television by mesmerised millions from all around the World, and promulgated & beloved […]
tired out MPs? The Tory led coalition government wasted no time on assuming power in 2010 to bring in ‘unannounced’ and ‘un-mandated’ legislation to invoke a fixed length parliament of five years. This move has overturned centuries of tradition involving the British House of Commons. Why you might ask? Who wanted it you might ponder […]
Well, well, well, George Osborne presented his last Budget of this Parliament. like a magician in a black cloak, pulled comatose rabbit after rabbit out of a top hat to the tumultuous applause of his Conservative parliamentary honourable friends (MPs) – mind you they would have cheered if he had announced that they were […]
With most Budgets everyone in the UK is in a state of panic to second-guess the Chancellor’s intentions, aren’t they? The worry for most of us consumers in the population was that he (there have been no she’s) would tax or increase tax on something important to us – should we rush to the off-licence […]
Reeva Steenkamp killed Oscar Pistorius’ smart-arsed lawyers have actually ‘failed’ in their bid last week to get Judge Masipa to accept their Application to ‘supposedly’ block the State’s appeal to the Supreme Court in Bloemfontein, on her acquittal of him last September on murder charges. All indications are that it was just another ploy […]
The Poll Tax and the Bedroom Tax certainly have two things in common – first, they go under popular & common descriptive rather than official & correct names,. and second when introduced they were utterly despised by the general population (the ‘well-off’ were big supporters of both though, weren’t they?). The Poll tax was […]
On next Wednesday, Chancellor Osborne will rise and stand at the House of Commons Despatch Box to deliver his next budget speech – but will it lead to his dispatch from the job, you might be thinking? You see, this budget is the last chance for the Conservatives to attract and bribe voters with […]
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