"The greenest Government ever". Well, David Cameron. That was a big fat lie, wasn't it? Your Coalition government has as much chance of achieving that aim as I have of beating Usain Bolt in a 100 yard dash to the pub.
Read More »Way to go, Paxo
I think I may have a new hero. Up there with Sir Steve Redgrave and 19-times champion jockey AP McCoy now sits the bearded wonder that is Jeremy Paxman.
Read More »Super-troopers
The Beatles, ABBA, Take That and now UNIBUS or NMBER: as of next February there will be a new Supergroup to deal with.
Read More »Building? Yes please. Just not there. Or there.
They say confession is good for the soul. So, here goes: my name's Fiona and I think I may be a NIMBY.
Read More »We’ve been helped to buy, now what next?
We asked for Government help to boost the housing market and we got it, eventually.
Read More »Good news: bad news, take your pick
When you see the animals in the neighbourhood wandering down the road in pairs, you know you're in trouble.
Read More »Cold Homes Week
Has the statue in your town centre suddenly sprouted a brightly coloured scarf? Fear not, gentle reader, for you are neither imagining things, nor going loopy.
Read More »End of days?
The four horsemen of the Apocalypse - aka Chris Smith, Ed Miliband, David Cameron and Eric Pickles - are bestriding the flooded plains. What amounts to a new sea is settling in on the Somerset Levels. There are landslips everywhere. The Tory heartland of the Thames Valley is under two foot of water. The West…
Read More »A dead database
What with emails and the world-wide Google-web, one doesn't get much proper post these days. So anything that does make it through the letterbox stands out.
Read More »Green and pleasant land (2)
A story that one might have expected to hit the headlines as a result of 'silly season' - when newspapers (by which I mean all kinds of news media, printed and online) resort to writing any old rubbish, just to get the pages filled - was doing the rounds this week.
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