Save our Savings
One of the reasons this country is so deep in the mire is that our habit of living off borrowings has come back to bite us. Even that most sacred of British holy grails – giving yourself the millstone of a mortgage only works if you believe that the house you will eventually own [...]
February 27, 2010Popcorn - the cereal killer lurking in our cinemas
Did you catch this weeks truly shocking news? Rarely has the news been so shocking. Well – maybe the furore created by the revelation that Sugar Puffs had a high sugar content comes close… but the news today is that the muck people buy in cinemas is not exactly healthy. Popcorn, [...]
February 25, 2010Now Falkland Islanders think it’s oil over
At last we know why Britain went to war with Argentina over the Malvinas. It seemed at the time that a few thousand sheep and a couple of wind-swept, treeless islands in Argentina’s back yard were not really worth fighting for.- but all is now a little clearer. The Falklands are sitting [...]
February 24, 2010Is health insurance in good health?
It’s a fact of life (and death) that insurance is one of those things you don’t need until you needed it. Then, maybe, if you are lucky, you’ll be glad you got it. And then you might find there is something in the small print that suggests payment is not an option. [...]
February 23, 2010Having Children is a Costly Business
Did you see the news this week that having a child costs the parents a mere £200,000? I am not quite sure just how they arrived at such an eye-watering figure – but presumably it doesn’t include designer baby wear or champagne instead of baby milk.
All of which got me wondering why is it [...]
Are self-obsessed sportsmen really news?
I thyink you might agree with me on this one. There are surely rather too many vacuous sportsmen apologising for their inadequacies at the moment? Now admittedly, I don’t think we’ll ever see Ashley Cole apologising for anything, no matter how crass his behavious. But recently, even his noxious behaviour has been [...]