In the interests of impartiality, (I know, I know, Ladbrokes have stopped taking bets on my succession to Ban Ki-Moon), I have tried to look dispassionately at the Shadow Chancellor's pledge to raise the top tax rate to 50p if/when Labour retrieve the keys to No's 10 and 11 Downing Street. This notably coincided with the announcement last week of a record drop in unemployment. Firstly, like the...
January 2014
... saw two teenage lovers re-enact their own modern day version of Romeo and Juliet, swapping the balconies of Verona for the poolside of a five star hotel in the Dominican Republic, special parking badges being issued to people too fat to walk any distance from their car, (and before the indignant start screeching about medical conditions, I know, it is called E.T.F.M. Eating Too.. - you can work out...
..Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." The words of none other than Henry Ford. (Even if you don't know of him, you must recognise the surname? No-one is that insular are they?) It is a belief that perhaps should have been heeded by some of our political figures during the past week. When Labour came to power all those years ago, (trivia question: Name the (now) professor who...
...Those who predict don't have knowledge." Wise words from the 6th Century Chinese poet, Lao Tzu. But rarely heeded over a millennia later. Just as every year has its in thing to be doing/wearing/following, (in 2013 it was the year of the 'selfie', an obsession with Royal babies and Miley Cyrus's heroic efforts to make us forget that she was ever a protégé of the Disney factory), 2014 is already...
....As the O.B.E. (Order of the British Empire; established on June 4 1917 by King George V for all you anoraks out there) is more commonly known. By some blip in the postal system and/or a typing error on the list that was prepared for the Honours and Awards Committee, my name did not appear on the New Years Honours List. Shocking, I hear you say. Bearing in mind that it was established as an order of...
