A banker writes
No doubt by the time you read this I and my colleagues will be manning the barricades, creating makeshift shelters from upturned desks and filing cabinets in order to repel the rampaging hordes at our doors, at least if the combined wisdom of the media and the City of London police is to believed. As [...]
Mind your language
It seems that the right wing tabloids have found themselves a new hero, a brave “patriot” upholding British values in the manner of the infamous metric martyrs.
This time our hero is “patriotic postmaster” Deva Kumarasiri, who banned people who were unable to speak English from his Sneinton Boulevard post office in Nottingham.
Mr Kumarasiri, 40, [...]
I won’t be beating my wife (well at least until 2012)
Justin at Chicken Yoghurt points out that Labour MP Tom Harris is compaining about the blogosphere not taking notice of the government’s decision to deny bailiffs the right to break into people’s homes and use force against them in order to recover debts.
Presumably it doesn’t occur to Harris that the reasons for this are
1. [...]
Barclays documents online
The Guardian may have lost in its attempt to lift the gagging order won by Barclays Bank preventing the publication of documents detailing its tax avoidence strategy, but the documents have now been published at Wikileaks. The reasons why these documents are significant can be seen here and it is estimated that the various scams [...]
Tony Blair’s diary (exerpt)
27th June 2007: Got appointed Middle East envoy on behalf of UN, US, Russia and EU. Told assembled press that a solution to the region’s problems would require “huge intensity and work”. Gosh!
1st March 2009: Visited Gaza for first time.