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Food Labels

October 24, 2011 Longrider 6

Apparently, we don’t read the nutrition labels on food because the labels are in the wrong place. Nutrition labels should be placed in the centre […]

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Tempus Fugit

October 23, 2011 Longrider 3

It’s seven years to the day that I started this blog. My, how time flies. My style has changed somewhat since then. Still here though, […]

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Off You Go, Then

October 22, 2011 Longrider 1

SNP leader Alex Salmond has issued an independence rallying call, as he warned the UK government that its days of telling Scots what to do […]

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Really?

October 22, 2011 Longrider 10

Apparently, we are all to become New Zealanders tomorrow. It is an odd, unsettling thought, but for two hours tomorrow we will all become New […]

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Sickening

October 21, 2011 Longrider 37

While I disagreed with the NATO intervention in Libya, it would take a pretty sick person not to be relieved somewhat on behalf of those […]

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Get the Old Fogeys Out

October 19, 2011 Longrider 17

Thanks to Greg in the comments my attention is drawn to this egregious, insidious little campaign. Older people should be encouraged to move into smaller […]

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Inside the Nudge Unit

October 18, 2011 Longrider 5

The BBC goes to a brainstorming session inside the nudge unit. At the heart of Downing Street, a select group of strategists known as the […]