Protect your password from Orange

Information about you is private, everyone understands this. There are different levels of private data, and the things you really don’t want others to find out are classed as ‘sensitive private data’.

So you can imagine my surprise when, during a complaint resolution case with CISAS, Orange posted them all of the seucrity details you’d [...]

Who likes Costa coffee?

The last time I tried a Costa Coffee it was from their outlet which is joined onto the Premier Inn hotel at London Euston, and it was rank. Not enough coffee, lukewarm milk, and a generic cheap-coffee dishwater taste. The second one a week later was no better.

You can imagine my scepticism when I [...]

The Lib Dems help us in hard times?

The Liberal council has set its budget for the next year, which will apparently help those of us in the King’s Cros area during “Labour’s” recession. Quite how it belongs to them, since we’re in the midst of a global financial meltdown with roots in the USA is quite beyond me.

“Labour councillors suggested that [...]

World gone mad, courtesy of Ryanair and Ivell Marketing

Two stories caught my eye today. BBC News report that Ryanair are considering charging passengers for using the toilet during a flight.

Of course, Michael O’Leary is worried that Ryanair is losing money hand over fist, and needs to get some of that back in his pocket, where it belongs.

O’Leary’s business model worries me. [...]

The God Bus Duel

I’ve been watching the ‘God Duel’ on the London Buses. To cut a long story short, British Humanists paid £50k for adverts on the side of bendy buses proclaiming “there is probably not god, so stop worrying and enjoy your life”.

The Christian Party in the United Kingdom have recently brought this poster out:

Tornado in London

Value for money

Value for money is a term used an awful lot by people nowadays, and mostly used as an alternative to ‘cheap’.

The term has been used by corporations such as the BBC, Gordon Brown, local councils and even supermarkets, to give their message the idea that cost is an issue, and that every penny [...]

If the roles were reversed…

… and Israeli people were petitioning the BBC over impartiality for showing the DEC Gaza appeal, would the British Population give such a damn about their perception of the impartiality of the BBC?

Damian Green MP arrested

Looking into the story about the MP who got arrested under anti-terror laws, I went to Damian Green’s website.

I was slightly perturbed to find that the Tory shadow minister for immigration, who lives in Ashford, Kent, seems to use some strange language in regard to the French. “We can’t control them” seems to be [...]

BBC Local Video Scheme Rejected

According to the BBC (so it must be true!), the BBC Trust has rejected a £68 million scheme to launch a network of 65 local news websites.

This comes in the same month that local newspaper bosses lobbied the Government, that local papers, which are already struggling, would be further damaged by an “out-of-control” BBC.

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