Tomorrow is local elections day in many parts of the UK, and all boroughs councils in London are up for re-election. This has meant over the last few months that I have been given many thousands of moribund leaflets to deliver to the streets around where I live. I have […]
Sometimes things just go so well with the design of a new website. You get in the groove, the design is fun, and the programming doesn’t get you down. This was very much the case for the new website that I was proudly launched today for a friend and member […]
1st of May. Workers’ Day. Tends to be a day in the UK for a bunch of anti-globalisers to cause a fuss in central London, and not much else in the UK. The Labour Party has tended to steer clear of the day in recent years, wishing to avoid being […]
I went to a branch of Barclays Bank in central London yesterday in order to make an international bank transfer. Should be fine you would have thought? London, international banking centre etc., etc. Firstly, you have to fill out an enormous form in the bank – it takes ages. But […]
The local Lidl supermarket puts flyers through doors in Clapham, letting the locals know about its latest offers. Some things are quite amusing – they were promoting care products for your horse (yes, indeed, in Clapham!?!) a few weeks ago. Anyway, this weeks promotion tops all the previous ones. The […]
He gained the nickname 2 jags for driving 200 yards in a Jaguar, then 2 jabs for lashing out at a protestor who threw and egg at him. Now the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been labelled ‘2 shags’ by the Daily Mirror, having admitted to having an affair. […]
David Cameron and the Tories are trying to portray themselves as green. They have been heavily criticising Labour’s record on protecting the environment, and on greenhouse gases. I reckon they have a decent case – Labour has not done as much as it should have done – but then again […]
European Ombudsman Nikiforos Diamondouros yesterday delivered his report about complaints to the EU in 2005. The press release from his office about it can be found here, plus additional reporting from EUObserver and MaltaMedia. Best of all was his quote about the overall structure of the EU institutions’ administration: The […]
Interesting news today as Ericsson, the telecoms company, offered a voluntary redundancy package to up to 1000 of its staff based in Sweden. The catch is that the offer is only for employees between the ages of 35 and 50. For the full details of the story, see this FT […]
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has found herself embroiled in a bitter dispute over job cuts in the National Health Service in the last week. Everyone is crying foul – patients, the Unions, the nurses (all BBC links) – but what is actually going on and who is to blame for […]
I’ve spent a lazy weekend in London, mostly doing website work… Only this weekend has been website work with a difference! Instead of never-ending PHP and MySQL wrangles with Typo3, I have been working with WordPress to design a blog site. WordPress is so fast and so simple, and it […]
A new Rough Guide to England has just been published, and understandably it does not mince its words, saying that talking to strangers, especially in London, “can be seen as tantamount to physical assault“. As a resident of London that strikes me as very close to the truth! I have […]
