Guido Fawkes, via Tory Radio, complains about the cost of the person who’s helping out with David Miliband’s blog. Both articles imply in their headlines that £60k is being spent on the civil servant; it is a fraction of this. Firstly, salary and cost to employ are different. Secondly, you need someone who knows whats [...]

This might turn into rather a long post, but do please at least look at the photos. If you click on them, they’ll be larger and you can see more here. Alice, my girlfriend, and I went to San Francisco last week on holiday, largely courtesy of some air miles from my father. San Francisco [...]

McDonalds is launching a campaign to change the dictionary definition of a McJob. The current definition is “An unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, esp. one created by the expansion of the service sector” according to the OED. McDonalds apparently had the slogan “McProspects – over half of our executive team started in our restaurants. [...]

The Routemaster bus is almost no more – it runs on a couple of heritage routes in central London. Otherwise, buses are (more or less) accessible. I’m glad that they’ve been replaced, both because they were useless if you had mobility problems and because they were designed when people were smaller. I can only fit [...]

It took fifteen years to repeal the homophobic Section 28. Homophobic is precisely the right word as it was founded on a fear of homosexuality and the belief that homosexuality is inherently dangerous to children. The Polish deputy education minister, Miroslaw Orzechowski, has announced plans to bring forward legislation that will punish anyone promoting homosexuality [...]

Following on from the victory of the Kim Jong-Il Appreciation Society last term in the ULU Pub Quiz league, the current incarnation of the team, the Saddam Hussein Execution Film Crew, won the final quiz but only came second in the league, behind Fat Kids are (Insert Something Controversial Here). Although Fat Kids has a [...]

I return from holiday to see that one of my favourite blogs, The Daily, is no more. Always well written, it was interesting, intelligent and frequently picked up ‘unconsidered trifles’. I was flattered when they linked to me. So long, and thanks for all the fish. xD.

I should probably have said previously that I have put a tracksy widget on this blog, and so I can see that people have been visiting this past week. I, however, am on holiday in San Francisco. I was going to be blogging from here but I doubt people want to hear about my holidays; [...]

I like this post from Devil’s Kitchen. xD.

I rather like Chris Ireland/Manic’s blog. He was nice to me when I (think I) ran into a Fawkesite. However, I did beat him to the problems with ‘World Without America‘ clip from 18DoughtyStreet. xD.