Too many cheats, not enough rules
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have been quite busy hunting down all the benefits cheats. It seems in the last month, many people have been arrested, charged, or under investigation. Makes you wonder how many are still falsely giving information in order to obtain benefits. I would not be surprised if thousands are [...]
Sir Fred Goodwin’s Just Reward
Admittedly, it takes a lot of dedication and thankless hard work to ruin a major high street bank, but former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin is determined not to go unrecognized for his contribution to the bank‘s demise. Late last year, Sir Fred, 50, who had stuck to his task commendably over the preceding years, [...]
Lord Ahmed gets 12 weeks
The Labour law lord, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham yesterday was jailed for 12 weeks (of which he must serve six behind bars) for an act of dangerous driving. He admitted sending three, and receiving two, text messages while driving in excess of 60mph, in the dark, in the fast lane of the southbound M1 motorway.
Two [...]
Child actors were not Slumdog millionaires
The news article about the Slumdog child actors being re-housed is confoundedly outrageous. Not that they are being re-housed, but that they even had to be. Imagine being in the spotlight briefly on Oscars night, then returning to the slums. That their participation in an Oscar-winning film did not earn them enough to even move [...]
Is the African crisis being ignored?
The more I hear about what is going on in some of these African nations, the more I want to say “Let’s go bomb ‘em”. It seems nothing, short of sheer brute force, will make these African leaders respond to growing international demands and sanctions. They are all self-serving idiots who want to keep their [...]
Simon Cowell joins list of cryonics believers
Is he serious? Is he truly serious? Simon Cowell wants to freeze his dead body so that science can revive it in a 100 years or so? Well, he must be. After all, he is an egomaniac. And, he’s not the only one in the world to believe in cryonics. But let’s look at the [...]
What is so special about Slumdog?
How many rags-to-riches stories have you seen in your life? How many variations does it take to make you sick of them? So, what makes Slumdog so special that it has received such adulation? It can’t possibly be the story line. It can’t be the acting. None of those actors and actresses received a single [...]
Stricter rules for immigrants do not address full crisis
There has been furor in Britain after it was recently announced that the number of foreign workers in the UK almost doubled from ten years ago. To make it worse, two-thirds of that number come from non-EU countries, where permits have to be obtained prior to work. This made a mockery of Labour’s claim to [...]
Call to celebrities – Shop! Spend! Help!
I don’t know how Confessions of a Shopaholic is doing at the box office, but I for one, do not care to see it. After seeing Sophie Kinsella give a reporter advice on how to shop during the recession, the determination was cemented. Perhaps, she only meant to be funny, but it seemed that she [...]
Did toddler really marry dog?
There was an outrageous story printed on the internet yesterday about an 18-month old boy in India, who was married to the village bitch in order to avert a superstitious belief. Can this possibly be a true story? It surpasses my belief, so I think it must be a hoax. Unless someone out there knows [...]
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