The case for imposing a minimum selling price for alcohol
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Minimum price for alcohol
Posted in Economics & Finance, Life, society on March 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Women, shopping, checkouts and purses.
Posted in Life, Manners, tagged card, checkout, payment, supermarket, women on December 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Why are women in checkout queues so slow.
curved cucumbers & bent bananas
Posted in Civil liberties, Life, Politics, tagged bananas, cucumbers, directive, EU, European Union on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So after years of lying to us, and complaining that stories of bent bananas and curved cucumbers were wicked myths, put about by eurosceptics, the European Commission is today set to remove many of these ‘mythical’ directives from the statute book. Sadly however not all. So whilst the EU commissars are now permitting bent cucumbers [...]
Poppies
Posted in Life, Political correctness, tagged poppies, Remembrance day on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Years ago the wearing of poppies in advance of remembrance day was left to the individual. In recent years I’ve noticed that when it comes to the television media, poppies all break out at precisely the same time. If one person appearing on a TV programme wears a poppy then everyone does.
Now whilst I applaud [...]
Ross and Brand
Posted in Life, Manners, tagged BBC BBC, Brand, Manners, Ross, Sachs on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If anything sums up the generational gap, it’s the reaction to the disgraceful episode of the abuse suffered by Andrew Sachs at the hands of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand in their BBC radio programme. Vox pop interviews yesterday clearly demonstrate that in general the younger generation think there has been a complete over-reaction. They [...]
Entente not so cordiale – or France: get over it.
Posted in Life, Political correctness, tagged agincourt, france, revisionist, saint crispin on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The revisionist historians are at it again. After nearly 600 years the French have finally worked out an excuse for losing the battle of Agincourt on St. Crispin’s day in 1415. It’s all down to beastly behaviour and ‘war crimes’ committed by Henry V’s troops.
Ironically it was the French who put St. Crispin to death [...]
WWF misleading propaganda
Posted in Climate change, Life, tagged IPCC, propaganda, sea level, WWF on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the Times newspaper on 20th October, there was a full page advert placed by the WWF organisation.
The advert starts, Dear Mr Miliband, Which direction will you choose? At the top of the advertisement is a large graphic of a directional road sign which says:
7 metre sea level rise.
The overall subject matter is climate change and [...]
Prisoner ‘contracts’
Posted in Life, Political correctness on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What on earth does Gordon Brown think he’s about? Today on the BBC Radio4 Today programme, after he had blocked plans to give prisoners a 37.5% pay rise, (there couldn’t be any local elections tomorrow could there?), he was burbling on about how important it is that any pay rise must be based on a [...]
Patronising instructions. An open letter to Rooney Anand, CEO Abbot Ales.
Posted in Life, Manners, Political correctness, tagged Abbot Ale, beer, Life, Manners, patronising on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Good evening,
Tonight, whilst enjoying my usual Friday night beer and curry at home with my wife, and in an idle moment, I happened to read the label on my usual bottle of Abbot Ale. Not something that I usually do since I’m usually paying more attention to savouring its contents.
However, read the label I did, [...]
A coarsening of society.
Posted in Life, Manners, tagged coarse, obscenity, swearing on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the train from Manchester to Liverpool the other morning, I was sitting opposite two young girls, probably in their mid twenties. They were wearing similar clothing, and in particular the same sort of headgear.
Nothing surprising in that you might think, except that embroidered across the front of the hats were the words, “It’s none [...]
