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“I encourage you all to go shopping more.” George W. Bush December 2006

This is the second time (that I have seen) that our cat has chased this squirrel up this little tree. Sneaky little devil hid until the squirrel came back down and then chased off after it again. I think his chances of catching it are slender.

The state of Nebraska passed a law recently that allowed desperate parents to abandon their newborn babies at drop-off points in the state’s hospitals, the idea being that the parent wouldn’t face prosecution and the babies would be cared for. All 50 American states have similar laws; since Texas kicked off the project in 1999,…

So we must break from the short termism of the past – the economic instability that has characterised the British economy not just in recent years but for most of the century. That is why I want British economic success to be built on the solid rock of prudent and consistent economic management, not the…

£500,000,000,000 / 60,000,000 = £8,333.33

Once we have bailed the banks out and subbed them so they can meet their short term liabilities, they will be able to get back to their usual work of driving genuine wealth-creating businesses and hard-working people into bankruptcy because they are unable to meet their short term liabilities. These people are very possibly going…

How will we cope in a world that can no longer rely on cheap and plentiful supplies of the one commodity – oil – that keeps it going? Guests: Matthew Simmons, CEO, Energy Investment bank Simmons & Co. Richard Heinberg, Senior fellow, Post Carbon Institute John Hemming MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary group…

Just been at www.scotland.gov.uk, “website of the Scottish Government”, and at www.wales.gov.uk, where there are in fact two web sites – “National Assembly for Wales website” www.assemblywales.org and, oddly, the Welsh Assembly Government website at new.wales.gov.uk (why ‘new’?). Then I went to www.england.gov.uk. Nope, nothing doing. No Government for the English. How will we cope?

If you had purchased £1,000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, With HBOS, earlier this week your £1,000 of shares would have been worth £16.50, £1,000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5, If you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago,…

The security services planned the arrest of the journalist with painstaking care. They bugged her contacts and assembled an elite squad to take her down. On 8 May 2007, eight detectives swarmed into her home and seized her address book, mobile, laptops and bank statements. In a simultaneous raid, a second team searched her newspaper…