Archive for month: August, 2013

Parking pickles

26 August, 2013 (19:36) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

This is a dark day indeed. I find myself in agreement with Eric Pickles. My doctor has prescribed some booster hate injections for me, and assures me all will be well again soon. Normally, like every right-thinking person in the land, I find Eric Pickles makes as much sense as an International Cricket Council ruling […]

Back to the future

19 August, 2013 (20:13) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

What’s got me all along, all through this wretched recession, has been the approach to getting out of it. All along, the target has been to get back to where we were before. Few politicians in the West have had the courage to say that maybe our strategy ought to be to head to a […]

By their Tweets shall ye know them

12 August, 2013 (14:32) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

By their Tweets shall ye know them. It’s only 140 characters, but you can say a lot in 140 characters. Here’s what the prominent Tory MEP Dan Hannan tweeted: “Why do politicians ‘boast’ about record low interest rates? How is it meritorious to punish thrift and reward debt?” And doesn’t that tell you a lot […]

Some very bad language

5 August, 2013 (12:04) | All articles | By: Stuart Fraser

I really must apologise for this week’s content in advance and suggest that if you are offended by swearing you should look away now. It’s my own little tribute to the new Doctor, and it’s prompted by the weather. (When I predicted that summer would end at 3.15pm prompt on Friday, July 19, when the […]