Dear Employer As you may know, I definitely enjoy working for you, I have absolutely no preference as to what nationality my employer is, I am happy to work for an American firm as such, just as I would a firm from any other location. However, please do not ask me to celebrate American Independence Day. Do the Germans celebrate Victory In Europe Day? No. Do the French celebrate the Batte Of Trafalgar? No. Do the Palestinians celebrate the 1967 war with Israel? No. Do the Argentinians celebrate the re-capturing of the Falkland Islands? No. Do the Pakistanis celebrate the … Continued
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Brilliant. Just brilliant. The Labour Party, became New Labour, and has now become Blue Labour. I quote from Wikipedia “It advocates the belief that working class and ‘squeezed middle’ voters will be won back to Labour through more conservative policies on certain social and international issues, such as immigration and crime, a rejection of neoliberal economics in favour of ideas from guild socialism and continental corporatism, and a switch to local and democratic community management and provision of services, rather than relying on a traditional welfare state that is seen as excessively ‘bureaucratic’.” So, Labour seem to accept that the … Continued
Unless you live under a rock, you’ll know that the UK economy is in difficulties, has a large debt (60% of gdp or 103.5% if you include future pension commitments and a few other things) and a deficit of about 13% of gdp, ie this is what we are adding to our debt every year. Note only Iceland and Greece have a larger budget deficit in the world. This is clearly unsustainable. Everyone has to play a part in getting the country working again, and back to a sustainable footing – those of us in the private sector have had our … Continued
1. I have 5 weekends in a row with really good plans; this one Martin’s birthday, 9th CITP (number 6), 17th meeting my sister, 23rd having a catch up with my best friend from university days, 28th (albeit a Thursday) Nicolas Jaar at fabric, maybe, just maybe, Ricardo on the Saturday. July looks very good 🙂 2. I had broccoli without gravy for probably the first time ever yesterday and surprised myself that not only was it edible without gravy, it was still nice without gravy. Bonus because I don’t always want gravy especially when it is rather hot, and … Continued
That has to go down as one of the more boring weekends that I have had this year, and I am increasingly having boring weekends…well 1 in 4 are anyway which is way too much for my liking. No money and no friends around to keep me entertained culminates in inevitable boredom. I actually had more fun at work last week. It isn’t quite time for a drastic change yet, it is after all the age of austerity so I just have to get used to being increasingly bored. All is not lost as the next two weekends promise much more fun, with a … Continued
Oh, Maggie, thank you ever so much. I have just read an interview with her, back in 1976, a full 3 years before she became Prime Minister. It is a fascinating read, if you have the time. She really was on the ball. So many comparisons between then and now. Just one quote for my blog, in reply to the interviewer’s question of “There are those nasty critics, of course, who suggest that you don’t really want to bring them [incumbent Labour government] down at the moment. Life is a bit too difficult in the country, and that … leave them … Continued
There are two schools of thought on how to save the Euro when it comes to countries like Greece (which is the one currently most in the shit), one controversial, one very controversial. Actually, there are three if you count the current one of keep lending to Greece but I’m not counting that as a solution as it is a temporary measure which to me is like a sticking plaster on a broken leg. The controversial one, is let Greece default on it’s debt, ie going bankrupt in the process, and therefore having to leave the Euro. This is espoused by … Continued
This is my new hero. A man called Joshua Seater, urinated in a resevoir, causing it to be emptied of it’s 8 million gallons of water… I had a lovely 12 hour sleep last night though I think I needed it to help me recover from the weekend, given that Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights I probably totalled 12 hours too. Work is a little quieter than normal this week so I am going to take the opportunity to catch up with my training hours. Outside of work is also very quiet, though that is mainly self-enforced due to the … Continued
I’ve always had an obsession with at least one form or other of dance music pretty much from when I first discovered it back in 1989, though until 1994, my only opportunity to hear new dance music was via the 2-3 hours of Pete Tong’s Essential Mix on Radio 1, from 1991. Discovering Twilight FM, a pirate radio station in Hull, circa 1994, changed all of that for me. It would start every week on a Friday evening, sometimes a Thursday if lucky, and go on through to the early hours, and then starting up late morning. Except if they had … Continued
Sometimes on a roadtrip, everything goes to plan – other times it is a comedy of errors and bad luck – this was definitely the latter category. There is always some kind of calamity when my very good friend Matt is involved, and this time it involved his car gaining a flat battery before we had left Reading. All was not lost, except a little time before we were back on the road and running smoothly – though with no guarantee that we would be able to start the car the next morning! The weather was of course delightfully summery in … Continued