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Driving to Despair

by | 23 Jul 2012

All Roads Lead to… Driving from Brussels to Ljubljana, one gets a quite different perspective of our European partners, one that shows them in a more natural light. First, it’s through eastern Belgium and into Luxembourg, a route dictated by the fact that fuel...

Gnarled Barclays

by | 6 Jul 2012

Re-blogginated from the excellent Michael Spicer… Now removed from YooToob by the author – if anyone knows where it resides, please let me know.

Fifty Shades of Grey. Again.

by | 6 Jul 2012

Having lived most of my life in London, I’d come to the realisation early on that the one aspect I hated most was the weather. This would be of no surprise to most of its citizens, or any of its visitors (apart from those lucky enough to be there during the...

Fifty Shades of Gay

by | 6 Jul 2012

Some of you may find this a bit hard to take, so if you’d rather not be offended by poofs, lezzies, pillow-munchers and batters for the other team, please do not click the ‘continue reading’ thingummy. Also, my admission to being anti-gay may come as...

As discussed in the pub(lishing) house

by | 4 Jul 2012

A Very Important Statement It occurs to me that, if I remember rightly, I have been accused of being an opinionated bastard once or twice in the dim and distant past. Also, if memory serves, arrogant, forthright, a smart-arse, haughty, contemptuous and just a tad...

An Economy of (un)Truth : 2

by | 3 Jul 2012

Financial Services Authority, or… Lies, lies and more lies On the face of it, the FSA looks like an institution you can trust, doesn’t it? And in many ways, this is true, just as you can trust a tiger to do its best to eat you, or Chloe Smith to be…...