If there’s one thing I can’t bear its having to buy a card for somebody, not because I don’t want to, but because I always end up spending an age dithering over which one to buy. That’s because they all seem to be universally rubbish, buying someone a card is a highly individual and personal [...]

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So today is the day they quietly announce we’ve sold our Nuclear industry to a French company that’s partly state owned. With all the Gordon Brown focus it’s a great day to bury bad news. I cannot believe that the 20 years of successful protest across the country against nuclear has all been forgotten, and [...]

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Today was a good day, like the summer we never had, and it offered the chance to revel in the past manufacturing glory of Welwyn Garden City. Back in the days of Britain’s manufacturing based economy, before we became a service economy, important things were made here, air liners and domestic electronics, and they were [...]

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Have you noticed how this new term credit crunch seems to have come about because world governments just cannot bring themselves to say the word recession? Much the same way that Fonzie could never actually say “I was wrong”. They won’t say the “R” word in case it fuels the fire, and becomes a self [...]

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Just a comment on a recent phenomenon in our popular culture that drives me mad, it seems like proof that the media is helping society to dumb down.
The growth of reality TV has led to more “normal people” being granted airtime on our TV channels. Often young people, and often young women. I expect advertisers [...]

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Supermarkets often come in for criticism; they are so integral to our lives that we have to trust them to do right by us. It’s often reported that they are operating in their best interests and not ours though, Quell Surprise! The latest official criticism of them can be found at the end of this [...]

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