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Employment Rights and the Abuse of Small Employers
Being someone with self-confessed socialist values, I have always supported employment rights of the worker against overzealous paymasters and there was without doubt, a time in the days of heavy industrial output, when workers required protection with regards to working conditions, pay and sickness in particular. However, times have changed and a good 50 per cent ...
War Porn and the Magna Carta
What a crazy few weeks it has been on the the television, with programmes featuring all the glory of war, the holocaust, Churchill and the Magna Carta. As interesting as they are, I often find that these programmes about modern history seem to have a somewhat elitist bias to them, possibly because the majority of the arts and media industry is dominated by the ...
Oh God No…Not the End of Page 3?
Apparently, The Sun went down on page three girls yesterday (good pun there, chortle, chortle) as women exposed their breasts for the last time in the comic that is, ironically, printed by a company with a grandiose title (News International) and is owned by the perennially lovable Rupert Murdoch. I don't really know much about The Sun, as it was effectively ...
BBC Gripped by Weather Hysteria…And There’s More on the Way!
It would appear that The BBC is suffering its worst spell of weather hysteria this winter with experts predicting that this condition will last for at least the rest of the week. Clare, a BBC Breakfast reporter on a motorway bridge in Huddersfield, reported that last night the temperature had plummeted to -3c with a dusting of snow that is normally associated with ...
Don’t Let the Paris Atrocity Compromise Freedom
Whilst running the bar at the cricket cricket centre last night, I got chatting to an Asian chap about the demise of Test Match cricket and the rise, particularly in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, of the one day and 20/20 forms of the game. Stay with me please, this isn't a cricket blog. He then informed me that he was originally from Islamabad in Pakistan, ...