Something I do understand about the media; they do love to blow-up a story and with a full blown credit crisis unfolding in the global banking system its not surprising they are singing like canaries. Bless ‘em. I do however get occasionally irked when it gets to the point where there are materially affecting the [...]
I’ve spent most of the last week going through some sort of nail-biting home IT hell centred around a gradually failing system disk in my PC. Its only about a year and a half old but suddenly it started failing to boot on a regular basis, only saveable by chkdsk. Clearly on its last legs [...]
I don’t know about you but I’ve really just about had more than enough of the Madeline McCann case in the press, the media saturation is one thing but the hysterical oscillation from one extreme position to another I’m finding very disturbing and worrying. Not just for the McCann family, for which I have considerable sympathy [...]
I’m currently trying to watch the “Live Earth” concert on my [carbon obscene] plasma TV, however I can’t hear the bands very well as its being drowned out by the constant noise of passing helicopters leaving the Battersea London Heliport. The helicopters started at about 08:30 this morning as they shuttled limousine passengers hither and [...]
Poor old Patrick Mercer seems to have been selected this time for slaughter on the shrine of the politically correct race relations god whilst the news agencies dance around in the flickering firelight howling for his blood like crazed pagan savages. Its the new inquisition and I’m sure I’m not alone in getting very tired [...]
Somewhat of a storm in a tea-cup is brewing over events in the Celebrity Big Brother house over on Britain’s Channel Four. In case you are sensible enough to not waste your life watching this lumpenprole drivel a brief synopsis would be that certain contestants have ganged-up on another contestant of Asian parentage and have [...]
Its been ten years since I last visited India.
There has been much said in the press regarding the economic development of the Indian sub-continent with speculation that it is soon to become a major economic power in the world so I was both interested in seeing it for myself and was expecting things to have [...]
The Press has been having a field day here in the UK over the last week with the Litvinenko murder, its been of the usual quality. Hysterical headlines, unsubstantiated accusations and rampant fear-mongering so one wonders once more whatever happened to good old investigative reporting because the first thing that sprang to my mind was [...]
In case you missed it there is a video doing the rounds, it was on YouTube but has been pulled for legal reasons, which was used as a video resume by a Yale student in an application to UBS. For those who don’t work in finance its an astonishing window into a world of monster [...]
I was going to write a lengthy rant about The NatWest Three being extradited to the US to face trial for their part in the Enron fiasco however its been dealt with most admirably by Jackart over at A Very British Dude and covered some more by Steve at The Sharpener, so you may as [...]
