So Harriet Harman has pledged to “look again“ at the issue of blacking out details on MPs’ published expenses claims.
That’s nice.
Staring at a black piece of paper with the odd figure peeking out isn’t very enlightening.
And MPs’ could also face up to a year in jail under plans for new criminal charges for Parliamentarians.
That’s interesting.
Strange [...]
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A pain in the blacked-out passage
Here comes the sun?
Weather , weather all together what’s it gonna’ do?
We don’t know so let’s just ask weather man Emu!
- EBC 1, Emu’s Broadcasting Company (Children’s TV: Late 1970’s)
I’m not sure if it shouldn’t be weather Emu Emu, but I’m not going to complain. I’ve got other fish to fry. (Mmm, trout with fennel on a bed [...]
Please close the gate
Now that the boys n’ girls in da house are rushing to don their sack cloth and ashes to atone for their sins (mainly because of David Cameron’s boot up their collective arses) and try to find out which right royal bar steward dobbed them in. I thought it would be nice to consider other [...]
Cannonball Run
It’s been a little while since I slagged off, I mean talked about cricket, so I thought what better time, as the season to bash extremely hard balls about is bowling off in earnest, than talk about the bloody sport.
I mean bloody in the kindest (you know me) sense of the word. I’m amazed that [...]
Can the can
I was mooching on the net yesterday, wondering if the irritation in my nasal passages was Swine Flu or just pepper from teatime. (Spicy burgers don’t y’know.)
Anyway, I had next to me my trusty can of coke (other beverages are available) and I got to thinking that this little guy had done nearly as many [...]
Snap, Crackle and Flop!
Now that our Alistair has written out British Historys biggest IOU and left the nations great-grandchildren in hock to who knows who, for how knows long; It was nice last night to settle down and take solace in the latest episode of The Apprentice.
The two teams had just two days to become media advertising geniuses [...]
The end of the world as we know it
Quoty quoting from The Washington Post: Scientists have produced strong new evidence challenging one of the most fundamental assumptions in biology: that female mammals, including women, are born with all the eggs they will ever have.
In a provocative set of experiments involving mice, Chinese researchers have shown for the first time that an adult mammal [...]
The pen is mightier than the sword
(Especially if you’re using one to fill in a claim form. A bit easier too.)
I’ve got an expenses claim form I’ve been struggling with.
The problem isn’t what items I can claim for. You know, should I claim for that coffee? Was the taxi really necessary or should I have got the bus? Nah, I can [...]
G2 or not G2? That is the question
So what’s this G20 thing all about?
Apart from, that is, the chance for certain well known leaders to hang around Obama and catch a bit of the glow?
Is it a meeting to solve all the Worlds financial ills? I don’t think so, they’ll hardly have time to get their abacuses out before it’s roll up [...]
For what we are about to claim …
… may the Lords (house of) make us truly thankful (that we don’t get caught.)
You know you couldn’t make this stuff up better if you tried. I can’t imagine the atmosphere in Jacqui Smith’s household right now, but I imagine it’s a right Carry On.
The country’s going to the dogs and all the while someone’s [...]
