The home of political correctness
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 29th, 2009
A dutch colleague of mine introduced me to a new term last week - ‘emotional incontinence’. It refers to the way in which we are constantly engulfed by outpourings of emotion about all kinds of things. It probably started with the completely over the top reaction to the death of Princess Diana (a tragedy but [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 28th, 2009
Where was I now? Well the waterfall in the conservatory is now ended but a whole new set to challenges awaits. Went to Nice at the beginning of the week for a conference which was good because it was not raining and there was no waterfall in the hotel.
But back to reality. Broadband connection has [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2009
So Kevin Rudd - the Australian PM - has done it again and offended some people by daring to suggest that immigrants to his country should be the ones to adapt, rather than Australians. His approach to the whole question of immigration is so refreshing. If he were PM in the UK the BNP would [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2009
Went to see Status Quo last night. Excellent or what. Brilliant band, so professional and just great music. Impossible to keep still - whole audience was rocking.
And the most amazing thing was that about 80% of the audience were old farts. Whatever else can be said about our generation at least we have not given [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2009
So Tony (he who walks on water and of the catholic faith) isn’t going to be President of Europe after all. Clearly the spin machine broke at some point in the campaign and some of the real man showed through. Anyway a lucky escape for us all. Don’t think I could have lived with Tony [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 16th, 2009
Well now you have got to stop treading on insects and sucking them up in the vacuum cleaner. In a brave new initiative the Government has decided that children will be taught to respect insects because they have rights too - and no I am not making this up.
Lessons on insects and how to ensure [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2009
So we nearly drowned last week and we now overlook a lake rather than a river. Mind you there was a waterfall in our conservatory and it was very impressive. Caught us a bit by surprise as we had not intended there to be a waterfall in that position but I suppose one must not quibble.
Also [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2009
Some research has just been published that confirms what all us old farts already knew. The rise of the meritocracy took place in the years following the end of the second world war up until about 1970. Yes that means you and me. Our parents - and indeed all our antecedents - simply did not [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 8th, 2009
Well I am sure you remember being assured that all our worries about immigration were ill founded and that it was all under control by our wonderful Government. You will therefore want to know that following Alan Johnson’s admission that his predecessors (not him of course) made a bosh of it all, it now transpires [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 7th, 2009
Well guess what, Gordie has been on TV telling everyone how important it is that we remain in Afghanistan despite the fact that our soldiers continue to get killed for no discernible benefit. Did this man never study history and the futility of trying to bring civilisation to that god forsaken country?
Meanwhile on to more [...]