X-Factor’s Back
I see the BBC was advertising the new series of X-Factor this morning – which struck me as pretty curious. I’d have thought by now that this much-hyped money-making machine for Simon Cowell might have slipped off our screens… but no, now the BBC apparently can’t get enough of it either.
Weirdly, the BBC’s excuse [...]
Metal Money
Has anyone else noticed how strange our coins are now looking. It was not until after our summer holiday when I was separating out the foreign and UK coions that I realised I couldn’t tell the difference any more! Maybe this is just a side effect of getting older – but I don’t [...]
August 19, 2009Going Mad about Mad Cow Disease
I see Mad Cow Disease has moved back into the news. Not in the way I am waiting for – but in a call for coroners to check for the infection when they are poking about in dead people’s brains. Apparently, despite the government wanting them to look for something they hope [...]
August 18, 2009The Ever-so-Fast Show
Like a few billion other people worldwide I have been watching the antics of Usain Bolt with slack-jawed amazement at the World Athletics Championships. You have to hope he isn’t too good to be true – because ever a sport needed a shining new light to transcend the sport – it is athletics.
The reason [...]
Are you a bath or a shower person?
Here’s an interesting thought for the day – when was the last time you had a bath? I am not sure I can honestly answer that one. Not because I reek of body odour and can knock out the dog at 5 yards – simply which I prefer to take a shower rather [...]
August 16, 2009Polytechnics beating Oxbridge for jobs
A heartwarming story in the Sunday Times today. If you want to get ahead – get a polytechnic education - because you stand a much better chance in the employment market. Well maybe I am misquoting the findings of the most recent graduate unemployment league table – but they do make interesting [...]
August 16, 2009Real Live Ghost Ship
Did you catch the news about the good ship Arctic Sea after it disappeared following our coastguards waving it through the English Channel long after Interpol issued a piracy alert after the ship was seized in the far-off Baltic Sea? All week a very strange story got more and more bizarre,
A week ago it [...]
Oh dear - the football season has started
Ho Ho - I see there is football on ITV and football on BBC tonight. That’s a thrilling choice that will get most people reaching for the remotes and turning the television off. The strange thing is that we are in mi-August and the Premier League hasn’t even kicked off. [...]
August 13, 2009Your chance to own a Bugatti Veyron
According to today’s Times, Jensen Button has put his Bugatti Veyron on the market – a mere snip to you and me at £900,000 with one not-so careful owner. I hope he does better than me the last time I put a car in Autotrader. I got a lot of telephone calls from [...]
August 13, 2009Why are we world leaders in CCTV?
Has the time come to ask some tough questions about the proliferation of CCTV cameras in this country? You must have noticed that they seem to be snooping on us everywhere. Wherever you go you can see them on the high street, in shopping centres, at stations and public building, even peering somewhat aimlessly [...]