What Has the Eu Done For You?
One question I can't find an answer to through Google right now, is why the right-wing media in the UK as so fervently anti-Europe? Pitifully, 80% of the British media is owned by billionaires who do not pay any UK taxes, with the Barclay Brothers (Telegraph) The Rothermere's (The Mail) and Murdoch (The Sun, The Times and Sky) all living outside the UK. I am not sure where Richard Desmond (The Express, Asian Babes, Television X) lives, but ...
Reader Offer – Limited Edition Computer Desk
Bob Lethaby's blog page is delighted to offer its readers the opportunity to purchase a limited edition chipboard and budget metal computer desk constructed exclusively by famed manufacturer, The Wanklin Mint. One of only 4000,000 produced, this masterpiece was constructed by four year-old children in a condemned Malayian factory before being lovingly packed and sent budget class, to a warehouse on the Slough Trading Estate. To apply to ...
A Better Working Environment!
I have long been an advocate of a nicer working environment creating better results from employees who, in nicer surroundings, respond accordingly. In fact you can take this into other aspects of life as well; football supporters for instance. When, in the not too distant past, football fans were caged into terraces and regularly kicked around by Thatcher's boot boys, they responded like animals but as soon as the fences came down, the ...
Are we Heading For WWIII in Syria?
Rumours are afoot in the world of conspiracy theorists that we are now just weeks away from World War Three, with the epicentre for Armageddon being where else but Syria of course. Everyone wants a piece of the action in this country, Russia, America, the U.K, France, Saudi Arabia, Turkey...Shall I go on? "NO, PLEASE DON'T", I hear you cry. If we were to work by the rule of thumb, this means one thing; there is big money and big money ...
The Three Cups and Stockbridge!
As it was a stunning late winters day today, Jennifer and I took a stroll in the sparkling sunshine up on Danebury Hill Fort, followed by a trip to Stockbridge High Street for some lunch. For those of you who don't know Stockbridge, it is a conservative heartland of Hampshire on the banks of the stunning River Test, a trot stream that has its source in the tiny hamlet of Deane, near Basingstoke, and ends in the Solent, Southampton. Along ...