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David Taylor »
My father often joked that the first time he went to France it was as a Vandal. by DaTa
Posted on 1:15pm Saturday 30th May 2009
My father often joked that the first time he went to France it was as a Vandal. by DaTa
David Taylor »
Quite a few people, some who should know better, have castigated the Shuttle for publishing advertisements for the BNP.by DaTa
Posted on 4:04pm Thursday 28th May 2009
Quite a few people, some who should know better, have castigated the Shuttle for publishing advertisements for the BNP.
Verity Worthington »
Cyclone Aila
Posted on 10:01am Wednesday 27th May 2009
It has been a long time since I wrote anything. Blame nuns, or frequent power cuts in overcrowded cyber cafes ... blame the fact that I'm perpetually exhausted, and that there aren't the words to describe everthing I desire to share. I've been back in the City of Joy for over two months now, and my days continue to be filled with challenging, varied, and amazing experiences. None quite so blustery as Tuesday's cyclone which hit Kolkata with speeds of 120km/hr. I have never experienced or seen such devastation - at one point I was literally blown over, landing on my arse in a puddle of mud [one can only hope it was mud!]. Trees were uprooted, cables fell down, cars were swept away, and of course, many of the poorest of the poor not only lost their homes, but their lives. It is such a harsh climate - one moment you're baking in 43 degrees with 87% humidity, and the next you're drowning in muddy water. Debris was flung around the streets, and it was genuinely scary. Today we read that 200 have lost their lives in West Bengal, with the Sunderbans worst affected. Here in Kolkata we are clearing up the wreckage and back to the unbearable humidity we have become acclimatised to.
Author Unknown »
Incommunicado by DaTa
Posted on 2:37pm Saturday 23rd May 2009
I have been without the Internet for about three weeks so you have had a rest from my ramblings. What I have learned is just how much we now take for granted. When I were a lad we had the third car in the street, the third family to get a telephone (party line of course) and about the third or fourth to have a TV installed (for the Coronation, what else?). I remember the widespread use of Horse-drawn local deliveries (quick lad go get the shovel and spread that round your Ma’s roses).
David Taylor »
MPs and the chronic shortage of probity. by DaTa
Posted on 1:56pm Saturday 23rd May 2009
I posted a blog (Get your house in order) as far back as May 2008 calling for a radical overhaul of Westminster MPs expenses system.
Primrose Coley »
Ale and Hearty
Posted on 5:47pm Friday 22nd May 2009
The headline screams, M&B profit falls flat. Boss quits as £69m gamble goes wrong. The company also revealed, its profits, over the last six months, are down by nearly 50 per cent. In the meantime, while M&B's chief executive, Tim Clarke, comes to a bitter end, please read on for the good news........
Lord Baldy of Kidderminster »
Will They Never Understand?
Posted on 11:09am Friday 22nd May 2009
After all this fuss about MP,s expenses claims they still do not understand what it is all about. Just how thick are these grasping gits? In the latest answer to their greedy claims two of these bods are still saying they have done nothing wrong because what they did was just about within the rules.
Hugh O'Neill »
FUNDING TELEVISION by Hugh O'Neill
Posted on 4:26pm Wednesday 20th May 2009
The current debate upon funding television (and other broadcasting) is interesting but it is still skirting around the nub issues.
Teresa Phillips »
Teresa’s TV blog: Put this ‘travel presenter’ on a slow boat to China
Posted on 12:43pm Tuesday 19th May 2009
AS a past visitor to the unique Channel Island of Sark, I was looking forward to the final instalment in Martin Clunes’s Islands of Britain series on ITV on Sunday evenings.
Primrose Coley »
Coping Strategies Gone Retro
Posted on 6:08pm Monday 18th May 2009
Have you noticed the retro coping strategies, which are slowly but steadily gathering pace?
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