admin | October 9, 2008
Zimbabwe can’t keep out of the news, can it? See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7660569.stm. I tried explaining to my nine and thirteen year old what 231,000,000% inflation means in real life. Here is where I started. If you have £230 million today, in a year it will buy the same items you can buy [...]
admin | October 9, 2008
‘A nation of bankers’ is what the Metro headline said. I could not help and think it should have said something completely. Here we are the people who paid to keep them lot in gravy for years and when the stuff hits the fan, guess which muggings have to pay again to [...]
admin | October 3, 2008
Not sure if I picked this up from somewhere or whether I made it up myself, but for sometime I have been saying that ‘you can tell the level of comfort in a society by the headlines of its independent press’.
A great example of this is the ‘falling’ profits at M&S. Is that [...]
admin | October 2, 2008
This is going to be short and sweet. Now we are going to blame colonialism for the spread of AIDS – see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7646255.stm? Nice, another excuse not to own up and accept that we are sometimes to blame for our predicament. How did colonialism come into this? From other areas of [...]
