My Summer in the Sun
Tomorrow September takes the baton from August and with it, the summer dies. Although over the past couple of weeks this moment has been fore-shadowed […]
Month: August 2009
Foreign Registered Cars in the UK
I publish below a letter sent to Connexion following their story about the UK police targeting foreign registered cars in the UK. The gist of […]
Obnoxio on Motoring
Obnoxio digs out a couple of rants from his archives for our delectation. The first is a general peeve about people who drive Renault Scenics. […]
File Sharing TV Programmes
Apparently people are using file sharing to illegally download their favourite TV programmes. Yes, really… Millions of television viewers are now using illegal file-sharing services […]
More Professionally Offended
I see that CiF surpasses itself following the risible article by Peter Jones the other day. Joseph Harker, permanently offended by anything that he might […]
More Blog Spam
Following on from the spammy email I received the other week, I have been approached again – although this time the company concerned appears legitimate, […]
Po-Faced Piffle
Via Johnb, this wonderfully hilarious piece of po-faced piffle from Peter Jones, demonstrating once again that Guardian writers are, without doubt, a bunch of weapons […]
Roy Hattersley on a Motorbike?
I don’t often agree with Roy Hattersley – usually, he talks bunkum – however his piece in the Times today, is one with which I concur. […]
Scottish Boycott
I suppose that it was inevitable that there would be calls for a boycott of Scottish goods and services – much like the pathetic French […]
Comments on the French Work Life Balance
Writing in the Groan (yes, I know…) James Bennett criticises the French. I love France. I’m half French and bilingual, have a French mother and […]