Effectively ruining your charity

Pratt on BBC News last night

Christine Pratt was a name none of us had heard of before Sunday. She is the woman from the National Bullying Helpline that told the BBC her charity had received calls from employees in Downing Street.

When I heard this on the news before going to bed last [...]

Centilitres of Alcohol versus Units of Alcohol

This one made me chortle. A nice crisp winters morning at work, nursing a hangover from a Tuesday night which got far too alcoholic, far too quickly.

The UK’s Conservative Party has said that the ‘units of alcohol’ should be scrapped because it’s too confusing.

Andrew Lansley, the shadow health bod in the Tory Party, [...]

You're culpable for the unpredictable

BBC News report today that the Conservative MEP Nirj Deva has said that the Chief Executive of Eurostar should step down.

From an engineering perspective, the problems with the trains are totally understandable – the electric trains are running very cold in the outdoors where temperatures are below zero, and condensation forms inside the [...]

Alan Johnson lost his Nutt

Home Secretary Alan Johnson certainly lost his cool when being interviewed on Sky yesterday. Finger pointing and everything! I would assume that the Home Secretary thought he was being clever, and pointing at the interviewer in an ‘oh, I’ll teach you a lesson’ kind of way.

He’s exacerbated, it’s been a long weekend for him. [...]

Was it the right choice for Camden?

I’ve been reading on the Camden Liberal Democrat’s website that they forged their partnership with the Conservatives of Camden because the voters ‘decisively rejected the Labour party’.

Statments like this, which lack any source or corroborative information always make me wonder, so I checked out the election results.

Labour lost 17 seats in the 2006 [...]