I am puzzled by a reference in Jackart’s fine piece on credentialism to the qualifications of a pilot:
Colin Macrae, a world champion rally driver famed for courage in a rally car and an experienced helicopter pilot crashed in high winds near his house, killing his son, and two family friends. He owned the aircraft and [...]
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Credentialism and helicopters
Posted in goings-on, tagged helicopter on 13 February, 2009 | 5 Comments »
‘All traffic wardens must hang’
Posted in goings-on, tagged crime, parking meters, recession on 17 January, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Independent’s top story is about how there is more crime because of the recession.
This was mentioned by the home secretary some time ago, and shortly before that was the subject of one of the documents that Damian Green was arrested for receiving.
I’d have thought it was obvious, really; even more obvious, perhaps, than the [...]
Who is Le Roux?
Posted in goings-on, tagged Le Roux on 29 December, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Should anybody have missed it I would call their attention to the plight of LPUK member Henry North London, who is a doctor and is apparently being persecuted by the General Medical Council, which has gone so far as to call into question his mental health, on the grounds that he wrote
an email or two [...]
Animal Farm
Posted in goings-on, tagged horse semen on 7 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since today seems to be markedly equine, what on earth is this about? The Independent:
Police are investigating allegations that horse sperm was imported into Britain disguised as human semen for IVF treatment. They are looking at claims that a senior manager in the UK’s largest NHS trust diverted NHS funds to buy the horse sperm [...]
A horse, a horse! [W.Shakespeare, Esq., Gent.]
Posted in goings-on, tagged pantomime horse on 7 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Telegraph gets it wrong:
Pantomime horses banned because of health and safety
The article goes on to contradict the headline, explaining that it is in fact real horses (Shetland ponies) which have been banned from pulling a carriage in a production of ‘Cinderella’.
As a libertarian I really don’t hold with banning anything unless it’s absolutely essential, [...]
BNP leak: two arrests
Posted in goings-on, tagged BNP, leak on 5 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It says on The Register that
Welsh police have arrested two Nottinghamshire people over last month’s leak of the BNP membership list to the internet.
Given the unseemly glee with which Exhibit A has been exploited, one cannot help but wonder whether the defendants might try some kind of public interest defence. Just for the record, I [...]
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Posted in goings-on, tagged advertising, sex, WI on 25 November, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Heard on the BBC this morning and dismissed as an hallucination brought about by chronic sleep deprivation, but now confirmed by the Telegraph:
Members of the Women’s Institute (WI) are being asked by the Government to help weed out adverts selling sex in newspapers.
Apparently the WI will read all the local papers and complain to editors [...]
Avoid driving, and operating power machinery
Posted in goings-on, tagged benefits on 25 November, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Telegraph reports on proposed alterations to the system of incapacity benefit:
Fewer people could be signed off work under plans for new “fit” notes, in a move to tell employers what jobs sick staff can still perform.
This is all very well, but my own experience suggests unforeseen consequences.
Usually I would leave work at knocking-off time [...]
The most expensive machine in the hospital
Posted in goings-on, tagged jobsworths, nhs on 24 November, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Ambush Predator finds it odd that petty jobsworths at a hospital are trying to stop people from fundraising by selling cakes, and so forth, despite protestations from the Food Standards Agency that they, who are being blamed for the measure, do not impose any such regulation.
I wonder whether this is more or less silly [...]
Navy repels boarders
Posted in goings-on, tagged Silver Avenger on 14 November, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It says in The Independent that 16 men, between 17 and 55, have been arrested for a violent attack on a Mr. Schofield, a veteran of the Murmansk convoys who is 89, and his wife, who is 87.
I trust that the unfortunate Mr. and Mrs. Schofield receive the best possible medical assistance and that they [...]
