So parliament has voted 432 to 202 to not back the agreement Theresa May had managed to hammer out with the EU; with 118 of her party voting against it ( Read more... )

Have you heard the Meritine ad?  'Nutritional Support for the Over-Fifties ( Read more... )

Apparently a group of 300 prominent economists are calling for new global rules to force companies to report taxable activities country-by-country.  The UK is being urged to 'take a lead' in the push for more tax transparency, including for tax havens.  Note that the UK is responsible for a number of Tax Havens - the Channel Islands, the Caymen ( Read more... )

H and I watched a Panorama* programme last night about the Panamanian** firm Mossak Fonseca - how it operates and with whom.  Talk about liars - the skies should have been dark with herds of flying swine!  Mind you, when the full extent of the leaked information is revealed the skies will again be black with chickens coming home to roost (hence the ( Read more... )

'Mindfulness' has become a bit of a buzz word recently.  Apparently it's the practice of concentrating on what and where one actually is at the moment.  Kind of 'living in the moment'.  So many people spend so much time worrying about the future - be it what they have to do today, what to have for tea (a monthly menu plan is your friend here) or ( Read more... )

Yesterday George Osborne introduced his 'first all Conservative budget in nearly ten years ( Read more... )

The local paper reported that a local man died recently.  He'd been a bright, cheerful lad, an Army cadet, chess player, won a prize with a robot he'd made - then at 14 he'd started smoking cannabis.   By 18 he was showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia.

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