I’m not going to make a habit of this, don’t worry, but I’ve read something on Socialist Unity that I actually agree with.
A London couple is applying to have a civil partnership. Nothing unusual in that, thousands of couples have entered into civil partnerships. Iain Dale has done it, Matt Lucas did it (and got “divorced”), even Elton John has had a go. But there is something unusual about this couple from London – they’re straight.
Just as gay people are banned from getting married, straight people are banned from entering into a civil partnership. It’s all a bit daft really and these two are aiming to highlight how daft it is.
Best of luck to them. They’ll need it because the law doesn’t protect anyone who isn’t part of a minority. If they chop their legs off, convert to Buddhism and claim to be albino transexuals from Burkina Faso they’re probably in with a chance.
One “scientist”, Tim Osborn, told his colleagues to delete data rather than release it under the Freedom of Information Act. Another “scientist”, Phil Jones, explained how he used a “trick” pioneered by another “scientist” to hide cooling trends.
I was disappointed to find that not only was £5pm the cheapest option for data, but new customers would only receive 250mb for their £5pm, rather than the 500mb limit that has been available until recently. I was considering adding the data to Mrs Sane’s phone package but 250mb for £5 is even worse value than the already poor offering of 500mb.
Well, today was Remembrance Day and guess what? Yep, there was no poppy logo on Google UK this morning. Nor on the Google USA site, Google Canada, Google Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France or Belgium where the poppy is used to commemorate fallen soldiers on the 11th of November. In France and Belgium it’s a public holiday, such is the importance they put on Armistice Day.
Nutt was sacked by the British Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, after publicly saying that LSD was less harmful than alcohol, cannabis was less harmful than nicotine and that the British government’s decision to upgrade cannabis to a Class B drug was politically motivated, not scientifically.
I was only 12 when it happened and I didn’t really understand what was happening but the constant news coverage and sight of people dismantling the wall by hand as soldiers stood by and watched them meant that I didn’t need to understand the rise and fall of communism, the partition of Germany and the cold war. I understood that history was being made and that a lot of people were suddenly very happy and bewildered.
the forecourt shop and got into her car and then pulled alongside the car in front of me that was parked up at a pump. I assumed she was waiting for someone else to come out of the shop but she then pulled into the pump in front which had just been vacated by a motorbike!
The chief exec of BA says that revenue was down 13.7% in the last 6 months and next year it is likely to be £1bn less than last year. On top of this, they are facing more strikes from staff unhappy at attempts to cut costs and introduce efficiencies that might stop BA going bankrupt. It’s like British Leyland all over again.
