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Ranting Gets You Jailed

May 29, 2012 Longrider 50

Jacqueline Woodhouse may not hold very pleasant views and her decision to engage in a drunken, expletive ridden rant on the underground was, perhaps, ill-advised and […]

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Cookie Law

May 27, 2012 Longrider 1

It is now a legal requirement for websites to let users know about cookies on their sites and what information they gather –  and to […]

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Blame the SatNav

May 24, 2012 Longrider 54

Another blame the satnav story. Lauren Smee, who passed her road test three months before the accident, was driving in the dark when she approached […]

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Summer

May 24, 2012 Longrider 15

Y’know, this country barely does summer. Most of the time, the season is noted by slightly warmer rain. Then we get a rare heat wave, […]

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Racism Industry

May 23, 2012 Longrider 9

I see that the racism industry is in the news again with nearly 88,000 “racist incidents” being recorded in schools in the past five years (which […]

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It’s Done

May 21, 2012 Longrider 11

Today I handed in my resignation to Sainsbury’s. A part of me is wondering whether I have done the right thing. After all, tedious work […]

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Migraine

May 20, 2012 Longrider 11

Eva Wiseman describes migraines. And, my, does she do an upstanding job. I know precisely what she is writing about. I had a sick headache […]

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Medicating the Healthy

May 17, 2012 Longrider 22

Again we get a story about statins and in particular, medicating healthy people. Thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be prevented if the cholesterol-lowering […]