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Thursday, May 15th, 2008Stephen King’s taking some flak at the moment for comments he made about the US education system and how it’s failing its students. He suggested that many leave with barely enough education to function and have limited career options. He goes on to suggest that, because of this, many end up in the armed forces [...]
All four trotters in the trough
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008These two stories from the BBC concerns a wider issue that has been bubbling away in British politics for a little while now, the issue of MP’s expenses.
Given that an MP currently earns just over £61,000 - and a Cabinet Minister earns an extra nearly £77,000 on top of that - it seems somewhat obscene [...]
We’ve never had it so good
Monday, April 7th, 2008Now that we’re into the new tax year, the tax changes introduced by Flash Gordon in his final Budget as Chancellor have come into effect. To support a 2% cut in the basic income tax rate, the lower 10p threshold has been abolished. This means that while he’s giving back 2%, he’s taking tax on [...]
At it once again
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Leading on from my recent posts about data security, both nationally with the UK Government and internationally with Facebook I’m now getting somewhat jaded about the whole subject; it seems that almost everyday there’s some new story about data being treated irresponsibly some Government department that’s supposed to be looking after it.
Today we’re treated to [...]
Oh how we laughed!
Thursday, January 10th, 2008Just had to give everyone a heads-up to this one; Reuters is reporting a case where an FBI wiretap was disconnected because they didn’t pay their phone bill! Apparently, the Feebies accounting system is “inadequate” and they’re working to improve it. Perhaps what they should also look at is their employees stealing $25,000 at a [...]
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