Archive for the ‘In The News’ Category

UK Teachers At It Again

A few years ago there was a teacher strike at Karl’s school and I made a few comments on it, inadvertently being quoted on the local newspaper front page. I thought I’d blogged about it but I can’t find the entry so it was probably lost in one of my many DB breakages.
Anyway, the teachers [...]

Telford is Full of Chavs

According to the website of my local newspaper, the mayor of Telford & Wrekin has reacted to comments published online and “has come out fighting against the website for publishing the rebuke.” Come out fighting? Since when is whinging in the local newspaper “fighting”?
I think Councillor Hosken needs to get real. I’ve lived in Telford [...]

Simpsons Ditched for Baywatch

I may be slightly biased as a big fan of The Simpsons, but I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read this story on the BBC today:
The Simpsons has been dropped from morning TV in Venezuela after being deemed unsuitable for children - and has been replaced by Baywatch.
Simpsons ditched by Venezuelan TV
Now don’t get [...]

Passwords at Tesco Not The Issue

It seems almost ironic that just the other day I was ranting about Tesco’s seemingly mediocre approach to password security, and today we hear that Tesco online store ‘is infiltrated by insider card fraudster’.
Customers shopping at Britain’s biggest Internet store — Tesco Direct — are feared to have had their card details stolen by a [...]

Women So Vain; Too Fat

I was reading some story on the BBC website earlier about how 8 out of 10 women don’t exercise enough. Apparently this is because they’re all obsessed with being thin and looking beautiful. Er, does anyone see the failure in this logic? Surely by keeping a regular exercise pattern a woman is more likely to [...]