From time to time, we hear that the private sector should do pretty much everything because it is more efficient, more effective, better and so on. While I don’t doubt that there are problems with the public sectors (nota bene plural), there are some problems with the private sector, too.
As I understand it, someone earning [...]

It would appear that oil touched US$100 a barrel for a short while because a trader wanted to be the person who made that first trade. Simultaneously, we are told that speculation isn’t driving prices up.
As Mr Eugenides puts it:
twat
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I would like to wish a very peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year to all the readers of this blog and their families.
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Well, there’s an interesting title for a blog posting.
The BBC World Service had a fantastic edition of its ‘One World‘ programme last Wednesday evening, focussing on the domination of the world by… the Friesian Holstein cow. The argument raised was fairly simple. The Friesian - the black-and-white cow that schoolchildren would probably draw - is, [...]

It is probably not an unreasonable fiat to say that certain newspapers - the Mail, the Sun - would regard the Health & Safety Executive as ‘elf ‘n safety nazis. Two recent events give the lie to that position.Common sense is, as we know, not that common. What is obvious to one person is not [...]

I moved from Blogger to Wordpress, I think, reasonably successfully but there was an amount of rewriting code. If anyone sees any errors, omissions, glitches or annoying things that they’d like to kvetch about, feel free to post here. I’d be very grateful.
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The New Zealand Bakery of the Year Contest (words I never thought I’d write) has gingerbread men doing the haka. It’s wonderful, even if slightly cute gingerbread men doing a throat-slitting action disturbs me.
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In some ways, I am incorrigibly British and I have the great good fortune to live within hearing distance of Big Ben. I was delighted to hear last night, for the first time since August 11th, the sonorous chimes on the hour. The sound of Big Ben and the Shipping Forecast are, I would go [...]