admin | August 25, 2010
“The current financial crisis could bring about a change in the international economic order with countries like China and India becoming the dominant global economic powers. The Chief Economist of one of the world’s biggest banks, HSBC, believes Asia’s rise poses a threat to prosperity in the West.”
via BBC News – Hardtalk – Will a [...]
admin | August 13, 2010
Fast food outlets should hand out a statin pill, a cholesterol-lowering drug, to customers to combat the effects of fatty food, say an Imperial College London team.
I say the team need to take their summer holidays and rest, the poor dears.
via BBC News – ‘Give out statins with junk food’.
admin | August 2, 2010
I am currently working on a new project that is taking up all my writing time. I hope to be re-posting soon.
admin | July 21, 2010
With many young people leaving the education system this summer and many not realising the pain that awaits them in the real world due to the new Government’s policies, it would be very irresponsible of us not to tell our young hopefuls some home truths.
admin | July 20, 2010
We have been slating teachers for years. Many of us believe that the schools, especially inner city ones are staffed by a bunch of incompetents that fail to discipline the hordes that descend on the building for some 9 months of the years. We slate them for failing to engage our children with the result that a large majority of our kids cannot read and write as well as we remember we used to when we left school.
admin | July 18, 2010
Single parent charity Gingerbread recently published a nationwide league table of child maintenance debt showing a child maintenance ‘debt mountain’ of £3,761 million owed to children by non-resident parents, mostly fathers, across the country. Gingerbread’s Chief Executive Fiona Weir urged the ‘Child Support Agency has to do its job too in collecting debts and enforcing payment’ .
admin | July 13, 2010
“Set me free so that I may do to others what you did to me.” With South Africa celebrating the successful hosting of the World Cup below the surface of the celebrations lurks an ugly and scary scenario.
admin | July 6, 2010
A “big budget” pornographic film was shot in a London hospital when it hired out one of its wards to a film company. The movie generated “substantial income” for the hospital, Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt said BBC News – ‘Big budget’ porn film shot in London hospital.
Can we expect more of this when the budgetary [...]
admin | July 5, 2010
Football has a way to bring people together….. What more can I say?
admin | July 2, 2010
“MPs in Kenya have voted to boost their own salaries, making them among the world’s best paid politicians.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/10476388.stm.
