Archive for December, 2007
No decent telly for the holidays.
At this time of the year, before the Christmas holidays, I often buy the double-issue of TV magazines like the Radio Times to see what goodies they may have on the box. The problem is, in recent years, I believe the standard of Christmas television has gone down. I took note of a few of [...]
Capello takes on England soccer post
Fabio Capello will be unveiled as England’s new national football team coach today. His appointment by the Football Association will be seen as a typical act of desperation by the media in yet another bid to end England’s long, long trophy drought. As I commented in a previous post, the FA should have taken their [...]
Former Prime Minister accuses Labour of sleaze
The latest person to jump on the anti-government bandwagon is the former Conservative Prime Minister, Sir John Major. In a television interview shown earlier today, he accused the government of presiding over ten years of “systematic sleaze“. Speaking on the BBC, he slammed the government for being…”institutionally careless” and called for his successor Tony Blair [...]
Government’s education plan is really pie-in-the-sky
Another re-heated education policy has been put forward by the government in a desperate bid to counter increasing criticism over their policies. The Children’s Plan, launched yesterday by ministers, is a £1billion 10-year strategy for education, welfare and play. Some of the significant parts of the plan include changes to the primary school cirriculum, and [...]
Police force set to strike?
With the rising tide of crime, and the mountains of paperwork they have to deal with, police officers have in the past had to either like it or lump it. But it was the recent decision by the government not to backdate a 2.5 per cent “pay rise” that really got them angry. Now the [...]
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