You may or may not know this, but the UK is well known for it's rather one-sided libel law. So much so, London is known at the libel capital of the world and regularly sees "libel tourists" - foreigners who travel to the UK just to take advantage of the one-sided libel law to quash any publication they feel is …
This is unbelievable and a sign of just how stupid some of the regulations and over-protective measures councils and the UK government as forcing onto it's citizens...
Watford Borough Council has taken the lead as probably the stupidest council in the world by banning parents from supervising their own kids in public playgrounds, "because they have not undergone criminal record checks.".…
Following on from news of UK government plans to change the primary school curriculum from the traditional subjects (maths, science, biology etc) to six broad areas of learning which includes things like learning about Twitter and using Wikipedia (is this really a good idea?), comes this great article about the inarticulate kids we're likely to get from this proposal.
It was only yesterday I was commenting on how winter has arrived already. Well, I can confirm it most definitely has. It snowed last night. It's certainly not the thickest snow I've seen in the UK, but certainly think it's the first time it's snowed in October since I've lived in the UK.
The government has outlined it's new rules for migrant workers coming to the UK from outside the EU and has drawn up a list of "shortage occupations". What amazes me is we have a shortage of "ship and hovercraft officers". Erm, I think we may have a problem Houston - the last time I saw a hovercraft in the UK …
• Government rejects elephants for pets e-petition - Killjoys!!! I was quite keen on being able to have a little bit of Africa in my back garden (when I get one. A garden that is). • Man's death unnoticed for a year - Wow!! A whole year before anyone missed him. …
Ok, not really. I exaggerated just a teeny weeny bit, but it's in keeping with everyone else fretting about bird flu that is slowly being discovered in countries across Europe. I also wasn't 100% accurate with the title either, but more on that later.
The BBC is reporting that tests are underway on a parrot that died in quarantine in the…
You may or may not know this, but the UK is well known for it's rather one-sided libel law. So much so, London is known at the libel capital of the world and regularly sees "libel tourists" - foreigners who travel to the UK just to take advantage of the one-sided libel law to quash any publication they feel is …
