I just heard (at 10:08AM) two air raid siren test bursts, lasting approximately twenty seconds each, here in South West London. The council knows nothing about it, “very strange” they say, and, “there is no emergency going on right now,…
Every adult should be forced to use a ‘carbon ration card’ when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy, MPs say. The influential Environmental Audit Committee says a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.…
There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian’s declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet. The tax authority’s website was inundated by people curious to know how much their neighbours, celebrities or sports stars…
He will not dance with Brazil: Barak Samba Heinous We knew this: Barak Bias Houseman The Cult leader: Barak Mania Bus Hoes Amen Hub Barak Oasis His very own 911 is coming: Shaken Airbus Obama Obama Airbuses Khan Anointed by…
We wrote recently about naive idiots in York, wearing leather shoes, eating eggs, taking medicines developed in animal models and bleating over a restaurant serving foie gras. Now we read this: A Cambridge restaurant announced last week that it would…
BERLIN, Germany (CNN) — German tax authorities are chasing as many as 1,000 wealthy Germans in one of the largest tax investigations in the country’s history, spokesmen for the Ministry of Finance said Tuesday. Spokesman Stefan Olbermann told CNN the…
Do you know what I hate the most? People who cannot see the world through the eyes of other people: EU visitors to have fingerprints taken This title is backwards. It should read, ‘Visitors to EU to have fingerprints taken’.…
America could return as the pre-eminent financial center of the world in the face of sour grape politics going nuclear in Britain: Proposed legislation could seriously impact on London as a financial centre, writes David Rothenberg People from overseas who…
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