Best sellers
According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the top selling cars in the UK during 2009 were:
Wasted millions
It is costing the British taxpayer £6 million per year to provide protection for one Tony Blair (one is more than enough!!) as he jets around the world making millions for himself. Furthermore, the bill is likely to be higher next year as he makes cameo appearances at the Chilcot cover-up of the Iraqi war. It is costing more to …
The next level
Sudbury Council in Suffolk, England, has taken political correctness to the next level, and upset the local population, by banning the traditional bingo calls ‘two fat ladies (88)’ and ‘legs eleven (11)’ in case it causes offence and they are sued by overweight players or women who find the terms sexist Bingo callers must now only use the actual numbers …
Snowballs are serious stuff
So much for the season of goodwill. Hot on the heels of an incident in America when a policeman drew his gun after his car was hit by snowballs (hardly weapons of mass destruction), one man has been killed and another seriously injured in the UK after icidents involving snowballs. A snowball fight in Clos y Berllan in Rhuddlan, near …
Photography and Section 44
Taking photographs, quick snaps or otherwise, can be a great pleasure and a means of capturing a holiday moment, chronicling the growing-up of kids or recording a momentous event for posterity. In the UK it has already become very difficult to photograph your own children, be it at play or, for example, taking part in a school sports event without …
Bad influence
According to Professor Wilton: It represents a conservative political ideology that punishes individual initiative, opposes critique and change, and relegates females to supportive roles. OK, if it’s not NuLabour, then what is it? Any attempt by the down-trodden workers to break out of this controlled hierarchy to gain individual power, show initiative or dissent is met with punishment, usually because …
CCTV
Did you know that there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain and that in London, there is one camera for every 8 members of the population?
Startling discovery
The so-called Health and Safety brigade in the UK have, after two years of study costing in the region of £250,000, actually discovered a hitherto unknown danger to families, particularly children and teenagers. How this glaring danger has escaped everyone’s attention is baffling, but it has. It could, just possibly, be due to the fact that there has never, to …