I read in the news this morning that "Thousands of newly qualified nurses and other health professionals will be without jobs by the time they graduate this year", that "more than 80% of nurses qualifying this summer have yet to find a job" and according to the Department of Health this is all because "as a consequence of measures taken to reduce ( Read more... )

Ha! Despite the heinous reputation Liverpool has for crime, it's officially vindicated in the Urban Crime Rankings. Ask most people what they think of the city, and they'll tell you it's full of thugs in shellsuits who go around beating people up and nicking the wheels of their cars.

On a per person basis, the odds of being murdered in Liverpool ( Read more... )

How much do you hate spam? If it's anywhere near as much as I do, then you'd be forgiven for thinking of Blue Security as heroes. "Who are they?" I hear you cry. You haven't heard of them? Sadly, neither had I. And now it's a little too late ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting philosophical dilemma, and one that people are searching for an answer to. Of course we aren't living in ancient Greece anymore, so the "philosophers" all tend to have alternative motives for their championed causes ( Read more... )

Yesterday saw about a third of UK local council seats up for election. For those of you unfamiliar with the UK electoral system, we have 2 kinds of elections: local elections and general elections ( Read more... )

Ever pay for a track from iTunes? I can happily say that I've never contributed to the pockets of the evil ones in that particular way, and I've just heard of something which makes happy about it ( Read more... )

I'm hoping that by now anybody reading this bog already knows a little about Microsoft's current anti-trust case, and their squirming attempts to get out of it. Some of their latest arguments are just downright rediculous, and I find myself resisting the urge to shout "well... D'uh!" at the computer when I read them ( Read more... )

Hmm. I don't feel very happy about the news 30 hooded protesters armed with knives and sticks have been "protesting" in Cologne. I can understand that some people would get upset about Pascha (largest brothel in Europe) putting their country's flag on a large banner advert. (link)

But I have to say waving knives around is not a suitable form of ( Read more... )

Another joyous day for UK politics, as we discover the last Labour campaign spent £275 per day on Cherie Blair's hairstyling. And they accuse the royal family of unnecessary expenses! Labour justified it by saying "don't forget, we won the election". To my mind, when a political party bases winning an election on the hairstyling of its leader's ( Read more... )

Microsoft have failed another of their attempts to "circumvent and undermine the law of the European Community". Hussah. I must confess I don't usually have a lot of faith in the US courts, but I was happy to hear that a judge quashed the firm's demands that rival Novell hand over documents it presented to the European Commission for use in an anti ( Read more... )