The Government has been ordered to drop two adverts based on nursery rhymes which exaggerated the risks of so-called 'global warming'. Using taxpayers' money to pay for indoctrination of very young children is just the latest arrow in the warmists' quiver of deception. It also got me wondering what other nursery rhymes could be updated ...
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To inflation-link expat pensions would cost an additional £500million a year. That is money that will disappear from the British economy. It will not be recycled in High streets and businesses. ...read
Miss Williams is claiming her annual spend of £4,500 on hair and clothes is necessary for her job and therefore should qualify for tax relief. For their part, HMRC argue that she cannot claim a £1,800 tax rebate on her shopping because 'it is impossible to divide the business and private benefit of such expenditure'. ...read
To the great parliamentary trial of Tory donor Lord Ashcroft. Except that, oh, the defendant himself was absent. Lord Ashcroft had decided to flick two fingers to the Labour-run Public Administration Select Committee ...read
The real reason behind Gordon Brown’s decision to appease his union brothers rather than come to the rescue of the long- suffering British travelling public is that Unite has cynically bought his silence.
At a time when one UK transport institution is pulling itself slowly through the mud, I'd like to thank another famous name in the world of travel - one that has suffered its own bout of negative publicity.
That many Tories greatly admire Tony Blair there can be no doubt. Michael Gove, the shadow spokesman on schools, declared on Tuesday that his party now represented Blairite values at their best. In rightly condemning Labour's lurch to the Left, he wrongly championed its flawed ex-leader. But he was only repeating what Mr Cameron himself told newspaper executives at a private dinner in October 2005 shortly before he was elected leader of the Conservative Party. ...read
The target culture brought in to benefit patients is having fatal consequences as NHS managers fly in untested foreign doctors to plug gaps. We can't blame them for wanting to come - but they should have to demonstrate their ability so we can prevent more tragedies like that of Ena Dickinson. ...read
British universities will soon learn exactly how much their individual budgets will be reduced, following cuts to higher education. But they already know one general consequence of these cuts. There are likely to be over 100,000 disappointed applicants this year. On top of this startling figure, there are 46,000 disappointed applicants from last year who, despite being rejected from their first choice universities, have the necessary qualifications and are applying again. ...read
At last there has been a rousing message to parents who pay school fees – they should stop being made to feel guilty for doing the best for their children.
I hated the best sports teacher I ever had. He was, to my 13-year-old eyes, an unmitigated sadist. He thought nothing of an hour-long PE lesson containing no actual element of ‘fun’.
Once, it was considered bad form to use political wives to prop up their husbands' careers. A different world altogether now, it seems.
While their parents scrimped and sacrificed through the Depression and World War II, baby boomers have basked in the long boom of an affluent society.
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