March 2009 Archives

Of those of us who still have a job in the UK roughly one in 20 works for the NHS.
New figures show that the total health service workforce has reached an astonishing 1.36 million.

This means that the nation's biggest employer has seen staff numbers rocket by 27 per cent in a decade--that's around 300,000 extra jobs.

The Home Office is rapidly becoming the home of the idiotic idea.

Last week it was the new plan to report crime by text message.

Now it's the register for men linked to domestic abuse.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith claims the scheme would mean that women who are starting a new relationship would be alerted if the new love interest had in the past been associated with violence in the home.

So how will that work exactly?

At last somebody has acted with sense and dignity in the shoddy and shameful soap opera that is the marketing of the death of Jade Goody.

Karin Cox, chairman of the magistrates in Epping, Essex is the woman who had to sit in judgment on the latest act of yobbism featuring Jack Tweed, the man who Ms Goody married in her £700,000 magazine stunt.

His crime this time was a violent attack on a taxi driver for which he will be sentenced on March 26.

Tweed committed the offence while on bail for another vicious assault in which he attacked a teenage boy with a golf club.

He was sentenced to 18 months for that attack and was, shamefully, released in January after serving just four months on condition that he wore an electronic tag and obeyed a strict curfew at his mother's home.

Justice Secretary Jack Straw for some inexplicable reason lifted that curfew in order that the 21 year-old yob could spend a wedding night with his 27 year-old bride.