August 2009 - Posts
The passengers are revolting. The Conservative MP David
Willetts is one of the commuters complaining about the number of announcements
on South West Trains' Havant to London rail line. Read More...
It is Broken Britain week at Conservative Party HQ, with
shadow home secretary Chris Grayling attempting to remind us how bad things
have become. And he mentioned political correctness only once. Read More...
Panorama last night looked at the move towards ending warden
assistance in sheltered housing - and the longer I watched the programme the
greater the impression I formed that councils and organisations were exploiting
the unwillingness or inability of...
Any busker whose repertoire includes George Michael's Faith
deserves to be banned from the streets to my mind. Read More...
A report has demolished the myth peddled by some that the
whole world is champing at the bit to settle in the UK. Read More...
Do you know any Tory social workers? Conservative Party chair Eric
Pickles says he does and they are lining up to become MPs after the next general
election. Read More...
On the day that think-tank Compass urged the setting up of a high pay commission , another organisation published an audit of the UK's low earners. And guess what? Social workers
were among them. Read More...
So would you buy your clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch? Read More...
And now comes the inevitable compensation claim. It is
reported that the biological father of Baby Peter is to seek reparations from
Haringey Council for the toddler's death. Read More...
Ah, the power of the
fourth estate: so mighty were the combined forces of the Mirror group and the
Times, along with the BBC, that a High Court judge simply had to reveal the
identities of the mother and stepfather of Baby Peter. Read More...
So what is
"inefficient" use of money? Is it: a) subsidising over-60s to so that they can
travel free on buses; or b) widening the M25 at a cost of more than £ 5bn so
that traffic can queue in four lanes instead of three? Read More...
Perversely, it was probably a good thing that two court
hearings concerning loan sharks coincided yesterday. One alone could have given
the impression of an isolated case. Read More...
In an admittedly
superficial experiment to put myself in the position of a potential settler on
these shores, I took the UK citizenship test . I failed and should be deported
immediately. Read More...
The appalling statistics about pensioner poverty and the
number of children living in overcrowded housing were timely. Read More...