Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York has been very busy in the last few days. He’s also been very visible explaining and defending what his administration has been doing to deal with the unusual snow falls of recent days. That’s what real Mayors do: they talk to the people they work for, they explain…
I remember a lovely story from a friend who worked in a bank many years ago: a customer came in to make some transaction and was asked for some identification. A Driving Licence and something else would do. All she could find was a driving licence, but as she left to go home she remembered…
It’s been over a month since I wrote something here and I’ve only missed the trivial events of an election, a coalition and a World Cup to comment about, oh and a defence review, a change of commander in Afghanistan and Wales in NZ. But I’ve only been idle here whilst being busy elsewhere. Image…
According to reports on the Beeb the Chief Exec of Cardiff Council received a 33% increase in salary last year, which coincidentally was his last year in the role as he then quit his job rather unexpectedly. It’s also pretty amazing to note that all but one local authority Chief Exec is paid over £100,000…
Like many I am pretty disappointed in the Gordon Brown & Piers Morgan love in that will be broadcast tomorrow night. The programme contains private revelations: so private in fact that they have been on every news programme for the last 36 hours. It shows a significant lack of judgement for ITV to make such…
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I stayed in a nice hotel in Swansea last night, city centre, 4 star, amazing old building done up to a very high standard etc etc. But when you get into the experience it’s not all that it might be. Yes of course; it looked great. But it was the small things that were irritating:…
Have the lunatics taken over the Asylum Assembly? Well it certainly looks that way if Martin Shipton’s report in the Western Mail today is correct. Civil Servants are going to be paid a one off grant of upto £2500 for moving to work in offices that could be closer to their home. Just read that…
“Don’t worry darling, you can stay in bed, it’s a bit cold outside” – words I never heard from my parents yet words that have been spoken in many a home this week no doubt. What ever happened to the notion of “getting on with it”? A little snow falls and we all come to a…
The New Year’s Honours List raised the bi-annual moaning and groaning about how passé the whole idea of honours really is. I just don’t get this argument! In recent years the notion of Celebrity has grown ridiculously and we’ve now got people who are famous for being famous, with that fame often gained through eating grubs…
A man walks into a flying school and books some lessons, lots actually and is prescriptive about what he wants to learn: no take offs, no landings, just a bit of turning and “straight and level”. A flying instructor thinks it strange and tells the authorities. Another man buys a one way ticket and pays…
There’s a lady in Bournemouth that has 3 careers to look after her and in a gesture of thanks and seasonal jollity she wants to give the carers a pressie. Nice touch. In an act of stoooopppdity the Council have told her not to give the pressies as it contravenes the rules of the Care…