Image by Danny McL via Flickr The cost of an identity card has been forecast at £60 and was launched today with an introductory offer of £30 off (or is that BOGOF for couples?). Famous for its law-abiding citizens, Manchester will be the test bed for this week’s laughable Government policy. How long it will last…
I don’t really want to comment on the machinations of Damian McBride and his ilk, but want to look at the issue from a slightly different angle and that is to do with who was paying these guys. Sadly, it’s the public purse and I can’t help but fell that that is fundamentally wrong. If…
Whilst Bob Quick may have made a balls of it on Wednesday when he arrived at Number 10 with a memo that may have given warning of the imminent terror arrests, at least he has had the decency and principles to take it on the chin and resign. If only some utterly incompetent Ministers would…
When I was a kid, I thought politicians were pretty special people. I’m old enough to remember Harold McMillan and Enoch Powell, found Harold Wilson a bit different and was always fond of sunny Jim Callaghan. But one thing that was consistent was that most people had some respect for this group, even if we…
I’ve had a bit of a ‘mare this week with my internet/pc/router and that’s caused a real slow down in my blogging and has shown me some interesting approaches to Customer Service. And it all comes down to what do you get and what do you expect to get when you buy something? First off:…
I’ve just spent a weekend in West Wales and heard a lot of people talking about a proposal to regenerate part of Aberystwyth. It involves the compulsory purchase of 15 surviving, and therefore probably reasonably successful, small businesses and their premises so that they can be bundled in with the empty Woolworths and converted into…
It came as a bit of a surprise to many people in Wales to hear about the proposed refurb of the old Welsh Office in Cathays Park. It’s an old building, a bit like some old Lufftwaffe buildings of yesteryear, quaint, functional but definitely not modern. But it’s probably “OK” as an office block. It…
Somebody got it wrong with both his salary and pension plan, but to hear the Chancellor on the radio this morning suggesting that Fred could make it alright by waving his pension is like expecting all the turkeys to vote for Christmas and Thanksgiving on one day. It just won’t happen. And why should Fred…