Recent sessions in the UK parliament have shown such lacklustre performances by Labour party politicians that it’s become worrisome. The new cabinet members don’t appear to have an understanding of their briefs and the overall effect is of a drifting Labour government which is not in control.
The worry is also that labour members have achieved their political [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2007’
Is Gordon Brown and his cabinet up to the job?
BUPA - TV ads show NHS system best?
The smug TV adverts from private health insurance provider BUPA, promising one to one treatment in private hospitals in leafy spa type conditions only shows why it was right for the Labour party to set up the NHS.
What BUPA doesn’t tell you is 1) the exclusions to health treatment, and 2) the health insurance rates are [...]
Home insurance premiums up - cover down
While UK insurance companies rack up the prices for home and contents insurance, a closer look at the policies shows the cover on the schedules is being reduced. Terrorism exclusions have been added, an illogical step given that the UK is rarely subject to terrorist attacks, and that in comparison to other risks there was no need to [...]
Strippers for UK pubs
In a combined conspiracy by default, pubs across the UK are hiring strippers to tempt smokers back into the bar. The recent laws outlawing smoking in enclosed spaces in the UK have hit public houses hard, even though evidence from Ireland shows that in time bar takings have returned almost to normal.
During the summer there [...]
Iran making good progress with nuclear bomb program
They may say it’s for peaceful purposes, but Iran’s President Ahmadinejad has gleefully announced that Iran has three thousand centrifuges busily working to produce fissile material. True, it’s a long way from completing production of the bomb, but this landmark is another step to Iran’s goal of countering Israel’s advantage in being the only nuclear power in [...]
US cops to be armed with M-16 rifles
The Bonnie and Clyde criminal gang conspiracy may be viewed fondly by some with rose tinted spectacles, but today’s gangsters on US streets arm themselves with AK-47’s, which fire ten rounds per second, and cops are finding themselves outgunned in street battles. So a cop version of the M-16 has been developed to level the [...]
