WHILE I can perhaps understand the thinking behind the reluctance of the Youth Hostels Association to rush back to Haut de la Garenne, that does not mean I wholeheartedly support it.
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Clearing the air and starting again
November 17, 2008 – 3:00 pm
AS you can imagine, the ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ corner of the pub – where all the old lads tend to congregate – was buzzing the other evening and it wasn’t because Tottering Hotspur were knocking lumps out of Liverpool on the idiot box either.
How representative was this sample?
November 10, 2008 – 3:00 pm
IT is sometimes said that, just as consultants sometimes produce reports that indicate further consultancy work is essential in order to achieve the client’s objectives, so surveys produce results which, by and large, are what the clients expect to hear.
Double our money in spending game
November 3, 2008 – 3:00 pm
WELL, surprise, surprise. The spending on consultants by that lot in the Big House – or at least some of them – has almost doubled in the three years since ministerial government began.
First-class, please, we’re the police
October 27, 2008 – 3:00 pm
WELL, it didn’t take Ian Le Marquand long to set the cat among the pigeons, that’s for sure, and it will be interesting indeed to see if whoever takes the boy Walker’s place as head lad has the bottle to give him the Home Affairs hot seat.
Feel free to film your children
October 20, 2008 – 3:00 pm
THERE have been two or three occasions in the past when I have criticised Em-ma Martins, the Data Protection Registrar, someone who even in political circles has been described as a bit of a loose cannon, although the way some of that lot in the Big House sound off, I’d have thought that all this […]
For us seniors, it’s time for a change
October 13, 2008 – 3:00 pm
TO absolutely mangle a phrase uttered nigh on 70 years ago by a master of the English language, never in the field of public participation in the decision making process has so much rubbish been written by so many as has been written about the simple issue of moving the little hand on clocks and […]
Mad for money? Of course we are!
October 6, 2008 – 3:00 pm
YEARS ago I was surprised, and not to say more than a little delighted, to receive a bottle of top-notch calvados from the agency in the United Kingdom which promoted the stuff and, unlike an old mate of mine who polished off a bottle of single malt given to him as a birthday gift at […]
A waste of time on sex and sensibility
September 29, 2008 – 3:00 pm
MY old granny was widowed at a relatively young age, although it has to be said that her six surviving children – she had eight but two died in infancy, as was not uncommon in those days – were all working for a living when their father died.
Voter apathy made every one a loser
WELL, that’s the elections done and dusted for another three years and the people have spoken, although in this small rock’s case the majority of the people entitled to speak through the ballot box chose not to.