SO it’s not illegal to force folk in the UK to retire at 65 – men that is. But who’s challenging the status quo? Age Concern is, and took their case to the European Court.
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Clock-watching in our changing times
November 19, 2008 – 3:00 pm
SO, winter is drawing in again. Despite the appeals to our Continental inclinations, 15 October 2008 won’t, after all, go down as heralding a new era of balmy late evenings on summer terraces awaiting the twilight.
Oh what a web we weave …
November 12, 2008 – 3:00 pm
ARE you a cyber-friend? Do you have a web-buddy out there with whom to exchange your virtual secrets?
Poppy Day is not just for past heroes
November 5, 2008 – 3:00 pm
I had originally planned to return home from Bordeaux via Paris next Tuesday, 11 November – until my French neighbours counselled against it.
The bridge of no financial return
October 29, 2008 – 3:00 pm
I’M no Victor Meldrew, but I confess that I erupted with his classic outburst of disbelief to discover the notion of constructing a bridge from Jersey to France is to be given serious consideration. Since it was first mooted in April – I know it was April because of all the ‘April Fool’ responses it […]
Together in sickness and in health
October 22, 2008 – 3:00 pm
IT all happened in a flash. One minute perched with pruning shears among the branches of a decaying pommier in what passes for a garden in my Southern France retreat, the next, spread-eagled in the cabbage patch, vaguely aware of a crescent of questioning eyes.
Can this law be made to make us equal?
October 15, 2008 – 3:00 pm
IT must surely be the desire of any influential politician to leave the stage with a legacy which improves the lot of their fellow men – and women.
Any colour as long as it’s black
October 8, 2008 – 3:00 pm
WHILE the Ford Motor Company has spent much of 2008 celebrating the centenary of its founder’s automotive inventiveness, the onslaught of high oil prices and economic downturn has seen a slump in output for all the main players.
The cost of our healthy growth
October 1, 2008 – 3:00 pm
IT must be something in the autumnal political water. No sooner has the ink dried on the States’ endorsement of free nursery places for three- to four-year-olds than up pops Gordon Brown offering publicly funded nursery care for UK toddlers scarcely able to talk. Is somebody trying to curry voter favour?
Home defeat for tradition
WITH Christmas approaching, the prospect of dining out with colleagues, friends and familiy is one of the traditional pieces in the annual jigsaw of celebration.