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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 [...]
Bass-ackwards once again
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008The BBC is a good source for all sorts of news - including the stuff that really makes my blood boil. This latest story deals with a statement from the National Association of Head Teachers, calling for good parents to be rewarded for looking after their children properly.
Sorry? You want to reward people for doing [...]
Facebook again
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008The BBC have discovered that it’s easy to write a Facebook application that will, when loaded on a users profile, harvest all sorts of information about that person and their contacts. If the BBC are the first people to think of doing this, I would be really surprised, yet there seems to be a level [...]
And another one
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008After my post the other day about being requested to remove a post, I realise today from reading this story that perhaps I got off lightly. A blogger has been fined £150 and ordered to pay £364 costs for a blog post in which he “let off steam” about his treatment at the hands of [...]
It’ll get you buzzing…
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008… but only because it’s over 60% sugar!
On SocialSpark earlier, I came across a ‘Spark’ (read: things people want you to write about but they’re not prepared to pay you for it) about these lollipops that are supposed to be unique and give you lots of energy because of the nutrients they contain. Being involved [...]