MPs should be forced to do community service to make amends to the taxpayer using whichever items they have pocketed on expenses.
Entries Tagged as ‘politics’
April 10, 2009
This government’s ‘legacy’ will be the demise of plain English
The Olympic Development Authority has replaced the word ‘future’ with the word ‘legacy’, presumably using the useful ‘edit / replace’ tool on Microsoft Word.
March 23, 2009
Did the black cab rapist strike in Hackney too?
Hackney police may have “missed an opportunity” to catch black cab rapist John Worboys in 2004, according to a senior Scotland Yard source.
March 14, 2009
Our deafening silence on HIV in the UK
“When you tell peopleyou have HIV, you kind of think everyone is going to be ok, because it’s the 21st century. That’s actually not the case.”
February 23, 2009
“After the earthquake, people said that God had left us”
“There were kids there, under the rubble, screaming. The mums were outside, just crying. No one can even imagine. It was unbearable.”
January 27, 2009
The BBC is being cowardly, not impartial
The point of impartiality is that it imparts the freedom to say whatever is judged to be true, however unwelcome, however painful, however unpalatable. It is not to make us polite.
January 12, 2009
Cameron’s latest through-the-keyhole antics reveal he has lost the plot
Those worktops are just so obviously just going to wind everyone up, especially the newly cash-strapped middle class, who have had to downgrade from great slabs of granite to MDF covered in sticky back plastic.
January 11, 2009
An apprenticeship in spin
A press release I read today suggests that we journalists aren’t doing our job.
December 15, 2008
Testing Questions
“How can you be at home with your pet dog and then go into work and poison one?” an animal rights campaigner asked. I tried to find out.
