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There’s been a lot of fuss in the news about Amazon (and Google, Starbucks and the like) not paying their taxes and even calls for a boycott. I don’t see what the problem is. Yes, morally, they are probably being…
Continue readingSo, cheques are to be phased out by 2018, well I guess we do use them hardly at all these days? Or do we? What about the sending of personal cheques with birthday cards, or paying for services rendered by…
Continue readingI’m not a cricket fan, but I do find it amusing that @jane‘s twitter update beats the BBC’s breaking news in alerting of the fate of some ashes. Indeed, I went straight to the BBC news pages to read more,…
Continue readingSo Marks & Spencer are to start charging for plastic carrier bags. This is all very good and I applaud their decision. Why can’t they be giving away the cotton/canvass/jupe bags instead of the plastic bags for life in the…
Continue readingWhere were you on the morning of Wednesday 27 February 2008? I’d like to be able to say that I was being moved by quaking crust of the planet beneath me. Sadly, as with the ‘Hurricane’ of 1987, I was…
Continue readingFriday 11 January 2008 10:55 “If you try and sell your house, estate agents will tell you to get rid of the books, they are viewed as tired and middle aged,” says Prof Sutherland. I canât imagine ever living in…
Continue readingApparently the exchange rate from pounds to dollars is at its highest for 27 years. What amused me was hearing the English woman interviewed saying that with so many good deals around she wished she’d brought a bigger suitcase. Hang…
Continue readingThere appears to be a spate of gun crime in our town’s and cities at the moment. Just how much of it is an actual increase, and how much is the media reporting it more in light of recent events….
Continue readingWithout wanting to downplay the utter tragedy of loss and devestation caused in some parts of the country due to a month’s rainfall falling in a few hours, I do find myself wondering just when we, as a nation will…
Continue readingSome of my regular readers may have noticed, and indeed wondered about, the almost month-long silence in activity in these pages. I’m not entirely sure why that was, I did have ideas of what I wanted to say and posts…
Continue readingFlicking between radio stations on the way to work in the dark and the wet this morning, I stumbled upon BBC Oxford – yes, yes, I know, how could I even think about stooping so low…?!! Anyway I heard an…
Continue readingSo Greg Dyke has resigned as Director General of the BBC. So the BBC was wrong, and the Government were right over the intelligence evidence of WMD and the reasons to go war? What next then? Government appoints a new…
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