With a population of 1.8 million (a seventh of London) of which only 280,000 are indigenous (the rest are foreign workers) and no history of football, it was only right that Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 World Cup in temperatures just below those on the surface of the sun. A cynic however, might say Qatar won the bid on the back of the following allegations of bribery:
£30,000 for ‘school fees’ for Liberian-born former Man City ...
I don't know if anyone else has noticed but there has been a staggering amount of media focus on UKIP in the last few weeks; all over the press and always it seems, second or third up on the mains news stations such as the BBC, C4 and ITV.
I had been finding it difficult to understand this, at least until I read somewhere that OFCOM had awarded UKIP temporary major party status in England and Wales (they are an irrelevance in Scotland...
I don’t know how many of you have been watching the BBC 2 documentary series about estate agents but if you haven’t, get on iPlayer and watch it, it is great TV with characters that you assume you are going to despise but somehow you can’t help but like.
Most of you on will have had some dealing with estate agents in the past but probably not as many as me (7 moves in 20 years) and I have to say that in the majority of cases, I have ...
I don’t know if any of you have been watching the Ian Hislop series called Olden Days but if you haven’t, you should, it is a fascinating insight to how us Brits have entrenched in us, a longing for a golden age where things were so much better than they are now.
Hislop’s series goes back hundreds of years to times when a writer would publish accounts and novels of the golden eras before them, creating mythical figures such as King ...
For the last few years, I have been fortunate to have been involved, at least loosely, with the refurbishment of some of the most extravagant homes in London.
When I say involved, I mean right near the bottom of the food chain as the supplier of electrical labour to one of my clients who had either the good sense, or good fortune, to move into this market when every other sector of the economy was spectacularly collapsing into oblivion.
If ...
