Charitable Theft
Not content with sucking at the teat of the over generous taxpayer, charities want more. Charities are calling for a new tax on bankers’ bonuses […]
Articles by Longrider
Happy New Year
And so we say goodbye to 2010. For me, that is good riddance. It has, without doubt, been the worst year of my life. As […]
My Blogspace
My blogspace? Any suitable surface and a laptop. That’s it most of the time… If I use the desktop (as now) it’s that, a set […]
Questions, Questions…
The latest drive (pun intended) for organ donation is – on the face of it – merely a subtle change to the way drivers applying for a new […]
Empathic Satnavs
Both JuliaM and Man Widdicombe have picked up on this one. Prof Peter Robinson, head of emotional robotics at Cambridge University, is working on devising […]
Out With the Old, in With the New
Plod still doesn’t get it, apparently. The old Section 44 stop and search was deemed unlawful according to the European Court of Human Rights. Say […]
The Professionally Aggrieved
According to Aminatta Forna, the British have a problem with her name. The whole article is a thinly veiled accusation of racism against 60 million […]
Charitable Giving and HMG
Apparently, not content with stealing huge sums of money from us and frittering it on fake charities, hmg wants us to give even more of […]
What to Put on a CV
I recently attended a workshop organised by the local job centre. It was designed for people like me who have not had to apply for […]
Maude is Confused About Nudge
Francis Maude writes about the nudge policy. In 1921 there was a spate of road accidents in Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham. Rather than banning cars, […]