Platitude of the Day
Rather excellent website I stumbled across which translates the thoughts from BBC R4’s “Thought For The Day”. Here’s a cracker:-
You will doubtless recall Jesus’ famous words: “Blessed are those who recycle.” Claims that we’ve simply latched onto the environmental bandwagon decades after the real environmentalists, and that we’re now retrospectively re-interpreting our […]
Excellent programme on Radio 4 this morning bringing together some of the veterans of Bletchley Park, the people who decoded enigma messages.
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I was listening to the radio this evening reporting about Rudy Guiliani’s strategy for Florida, and started to wonder just how many people in the UK actually give 2 hoots about the US primaries.
I consider myself something of a wonk. I read quite dense political articles on the net, bloggers like Tim Worstall, Dizzy, Croydonian, […]
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There’s a very funny comedy on Radio 4 at the moment, produced by much of the Fast Show team called Down the Line. So funny that I had to turn off at Reading Services to sit and listen to the rest of it.
I’m surprised that no-one tried to mine the rich seam of comedy […]
I generally avoid Today, preferring the genteel humour of Terry Wogan on radio 2, but sometimes, when there’s some pop country comes on, I get bored and start surfing around the stations, frequently ending up at Radio 4’s Today programme.
Despite elements of the press marketing him as a welsh terrier, John Humphreys is nothing […]
A week or so ago, the BBC made a documentary about how some supermarket branches had staff who were doing things like trying to deliberately extend the shelf life of food for sale. Not only did they show the documentary, but it was trailed on BBC breakfast and BBC news outlets.
So, I was a little […]
UK Firms ‘Exploiting’ Bangladesh
It (War on Want) said that while Primark, Tesco and Asda had all signed up to a set of principles to provide decent working conditions and wages for workers in their supply chain, some of their suppliers were "regularly violating" such rules.
If Primark, Tesco and Asda have been doing this, then that’s […]
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