My Incapacity Benefit petition…

What about a campaign for an extra day’s benefit every leap year? Why not; if the government feels free to screw us at every opportunity, why shouldn’t we return the compliment?
On a more pragmatic level, we get a £10 bonus at Christmas – welcome, but no-one, surely, thinks that a tenner makes any sort of [...]

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Plastic carrier bags… is the end in sight?

There’s no doubt that plastic carrier bags are a planet-wide blight – the buggers are everywhere, choking turtles and dolphins in the oceans (and just who are the witless trolls who think the ocean is a good place to discard plastic anything? It floats, you pillocks!), festooning trees and hedgerows everywhere (and thank you, dog [...]

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New ME petition…

I emailed my ME contact group with details of this, then promptly forgot to post it here:-
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to protect & help people receiving DLA who are having to reapply due to Government changes in how this benefit is allocated.”
“People who are genuinely chronically ill/disabled & have been receiving DLA/SDA [...]

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More Comment is Free…

A couple of weeks ago, the Guardian online gave blog space to the spectacularly talentless son of one of their contributors, so he could keep us all enraptured reporting his travels in India.
Readers swiftly caught on to the shameless nepotism, and the lack of talent (and what a tit he really was – every [...]

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Prozac…

One piece of recently-published research suggests Prozac may not work, and everybody jumps on the bandwagon. Almost any research of this sort, though, is pretty worthless unless its results can be independently replicated (so it’s too soon to write off Prozac), but I do have to wonder if they may be on the right track [...]

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Muslims offended – shock, horror!

The Islamic world, or at least a vociferous part of it, is up in arms because Wikipedia has posted images of Mohammed.
“Why are wikipedia admins insisting on inflicting pain and hatred upon muslims?” asks one complainant, completely missing the point that Wikipedia is not inflicting anything on anybody – any pain and hatred [...]

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Brit School…

What is it with alumni of the Brit School (Kate Nash, Lily Allen et al)? Their music’s OK (for a given value of OK), but almost without exception, the buggers can’t speak English.
Listening to Kate Nash at The Brits last night (and, god, wasn’t it an evening absolutely littered with dog-rough women – [...]

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Comment is Free…

The Guardian online has a blog segment called Comment is Free, whereby contributors write articles, and the great unwashed get to comment on them. I spend a lot of time there – it’s interesting – and I occasionally post comments myself.
There is, though, a massive problem – a bunch of fascists who call themselves the [...]

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Science at work…

I was mooching idly round the chemist’s today, while they put my prescription together, and I found myself by the baby food shelf, where I was struck by a thought.
How much research, testing and plain, old-fashioned hard graft, I wonder, goes into ensuring that baby food is exactly the same colour and texture at [...]

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Fruitcake…

I can’t help wondering, as the Princess Diana inquest sinks into Alice-in-Wonderland territory, how much longer Mohamed Al Fayed is going to be allowed to promulgate his insane lies.
Henri Paul was drunk, as a direct result of which he crashed the Merc. Diana and Dodi Al Fayed (and others), died. End of discussion.
Unless, of [...]

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