Apologies blogfans. Have been absent with some quite olympian domestic stuff for which there is no medal though people often tell me I de...

(*inspiration provided by Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East , and her judicious use of song titles for blogpost titles; this one irresista...

Coincidentally , last night Andrew Marr, in his series Britain from Above, looked at, among other things in the programme, the development ...

Unsurprisingly, the report Cities Unlimited (available free from all good Google searches), part of a trilogy, from the 'think-tank...

I turn my back for five minutes and war breaks out. Now being more something of an amateur expert on domestic policies in my own home, ...

A Nudge as I have illustrated above and as popularised recently in a book of the same name is a way of presenting choices to people but wit...

Two feisty ladies fight back... Lady 1: "Despite working the night shift, Clara is paid £6.10 an hour. According to the payslip hande...

I mentioned in a recent post that I had noticed a tendency of bloggers to play with politicians names to create nicknames for them, one not...

The Gordon Brown Leadership Speculation stories need no further fuelling. The issue has been well and truly doused with accelerant, lit and ...

Alan Sugar has come out in defence of Gordon Brown. Read his article in The Sun Watch the BBC interview here 3 more sugar lumps too...

This is the way to handle one's critics. See The Huffington Post for how Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama was heckled...

The above counter shows how much at this point in the week (Friday lunchtime) a person on the National Minimum Wage has earned. It also s...

...as noted by Pootergeek : Red Hot Chilli Consumption Is Harmful in Patients Operated for Anal Fissure - A Randomized, Double-Blind, ...

Now the woman doesn't need the extra publicity (so I won't link to the article and I would recommend you ignore it altogether, don...

How the media are spinning this article by Delicious David... The content has been largely overlooked in favour of analysing to death ...