Friday, 2 July 2010
How Tired Is Your Pilot? – 9
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Just to emphasise that the start of the silly season approaches, this week has seen the regurgitating of an air travel classic: there is a s...
Thursday, 1 July 2010
Not Beyond Our Ken
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One of the greatest of political survivors is the new Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, who has fearlessly made the suggestion that the curren...
Lies, Damn Lies, And EU Directives – 3
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Moving the Zelo Street investigation into the non-existent “ EU Bans A Dozen Eggs ” story a little further, I’ve been considering the man wh...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Lies, Damn Lies, And EU Directives – 2
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Three days on from the attempt by a variety of Euro-hating newspapers, with the Mail On Sunday in the vanguard, to try and fool the public ...
Five Go Mad On The Ale Trail – 3
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Seven and a half miles up the Colne Valley from Huddersfield, the village of Marsden managed to cling on to its train service – just – as cl...
Managing Expectations
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Following the exit of loose tongued Stanley McChrystal (who, it’s confirmed, will be leaving the military for good after the fallout from th...
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Yikes Chaps, I’ve Been Bendied Again!
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Still the bendy buses go: Mayor of London Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson remains convinced that they are inherently bad, that they are r...
Good Riddance, Terry Tesco – 4
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Anyone doubting the determination of the Tesco empire to bring its particular version of choice to a part of the country near you – whether ...
Five Go Mad On The Ale Trail – 2
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And so we arrived, in a pleasantly mellow state, in Huddersfield, where the magnificent (and listed) station frontage is home to two waterin...
Monday, 28 June 2010
Lies, Damn Lies, And EU Directives
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One newspaper was missing from yesterday’s roll call of Europhobics queuing up to relay the “story” of how the EU was intending to “ban” sel...
Your Fifteen Minutes May Be Up
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Yesterday morning, during the paper review on the Andy Marr Show, the front page of the Mail On Sunday was briefly shown to the camera. The...
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Cars For Everything
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Yesterday evening, a neighbour had a takeaway delivered by Domino’s Pizza. But, so what? Well, apart from my usual warning against supermark...
Sunday, 27 June 2010
Ingerlundflags! – 5
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Oh well. That’s it for another four years: England bundled out of the World Cup by the hated Germans, a wrongly disallowed goal, the likelih...
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Five Go Mad On The Ale Trail – 1
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The idea came from a friend and regular visitor to Zelo Street: to follow the Real Ale Trail that has become established between Leeds and M...
Friday, 25 June 2010
Crikey Chaps, Competition!
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The next election for Mayor of London, the office currently held by Young Dave’s jolly good pal Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, is not u...
How Tired Is Your Pilot? – 8
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Anyone wary of taking up the headline prices advertised by the more aggressive budget airlines will not have had their doubts eased followin...
Thursday, 24 June 2010
Ingerlundflags! – 4
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So England have progressed to the last sixteen of the World Cup. They did, however, only score one goal, which means that the USA, who were ...
Not A MacArthur Moment
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Following a breathtakingly indiscreet piece in Rolling Stone magazine, the man until recently heading up the campaign against the Taliban i...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
No Surprise There, Then
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So VAT is to go up to 20%. The most predictable part of the first budget delivered by the Rt Hon Gideon George Oliver Osborne, Heir to the S...
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All Aboard The Fayed Flyer
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And the best thing for Mo is that he doesn’t need a British passport to ride it ...
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