Golf makes dull viewing
The Open golf championship is under way at the home of golf – St Andrews. And this being Britain, it does of course mean that the British even is the best in the world. Jingoistic commentators in every media pronounce this as though it is a matter of fact. But they seem [...]
July 16, 2010Capello INdex Shows UPOverated England Players
I was intrigued to se that England boss Fabio Capello has demanded that player ratings website the Capello Index be removed from the internet. I would have thought he would have wanted them engraved in tablets of stone.
The rankings, which score players on their performances in this summer’s World Cup, appeared online on Saturday.
“I [...]
Virgin Galactic spaceship tested
If you feel you can trust Richard Branson just about as far as you can throw him, then maybe space travel is not for you. But the toothy entrepreneur is on the brink of offering tourists a quick trip into space.
His slightly more practical version of the space shuttle appears to have come through [...]
Diving in for vintage champagne
A group of divers exploring a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea have found bottles containing what is thought to be the oldest drinkable champagne in the world, made in the late 18th century. “I picked up one champagne bottle just so we could find the age of the wreck, because we didn’t find any name [...]
July 10, 2010Working in office cleaning works for me
What is it about work? We are led to believe that we should all want to work for a living, never take a day off sick and basically work until we drop. I have to say I take exactly the opposite view. Maybe there is something wrong in my make up- - [...]
July 5, 2010How to sell mobile phones
What is it with mobile phone contracts? Every single year you get offered yet another phone. It’s a though somehow this year’s must-have gizmo makes up for the appalling cost of making phone calls on a mobile network. This probably explains the sudden emergence of all those TV advertisements urging me to sell [...]
June 26, 2010Here comes the tour de farce
Here’s a question. What country does the Tour de France start in? Easy isn’t it…. Belgium apparently. If my memory is correct, the Tour de France has even popped across le manche and seen a bunch of lycra-clad drug takers pedal their way through a part of the UK.,
All of which is [...]
Money matters
Money, Money, Money
Did you see the astonishing financial news this week that British banks are allegedly amongst the best (and best-off) in the world? How can this be? These are after all the reckless institutions staffed by utter incompetents that the taxpayer bailed out.
To my mind, banks are dull utilities. And [...]
BBC is a lottery winner’s dream
I think I rather resent paying the BBC licence fee. Why should I fund their largesse when they could generate funds through better marketing – not to mention a bit of advertising. I am not overly interested in how much they over-pay their alleged ‘stars’.
I am much more interested in all the [...]
Frozen Eggs is getting cool?
Startling news on the BBC today. Women in their late 30s are freezing eggs because they are still hunting for “Mr Right”, research suggests. It makes you wonder what has happened to romance.
A study of women at a Belgian clinic found half wanted to freeze their eggs to take the pressure off finding [...]