Tag Archives: Money
April 10, 2012 A Haunted House and Falling off the Danish Bandwagon
So it turns out that the squirrels that scamper around the bounding bunnies to the refrain of robins and mischievous magpies (sorry) are the descendants of the very rodents my great grandmother enjoyed watching before she died. Yep, call it coincidence or providence, but this old hospital I’ve moved into is where my mother’s nan spent her final months. [...]
Tags: Animals, Books, Britain, Death, Denmark, Edinburgh, Money, Music, Scotland, Writing
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February 9, 2012 Magnetic Gandhi
I read an interesting article the other day in which Stewart Lee raises a terrifying argument about Scottish Independence; a point summed up succinctly in the sub heading: The loss of 5.5 million Scots would mean 5.5 million fewer voices to say no to Cameron’s cronies. As you may know, there are more pandas in [...]
Tags: Alcohol, Britain, Drugs, End-times, Food, Money, Multimedia, Politics, Scotland, Writing
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January 23, 2012 Several Hundred Words About Money
In Britain, welfare amounts to over 30% of overall public spending. If we ignore the bail outs – and we should, because £1.2 trillion could have built schools on the moon – then that’s the single largest area of public expenditure; a provision to guarantee a basic standard of living for all those in financial [...]
Tags: Britain, Journalism, Money, Politics
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December 9, 2011 Bullet points for an insipid presentation on library cuts
In a Middlesbrough council meeting on the 5th October of this year, 78 budget reduction proposals were drawn up for 2012/2013.
Tags: Middlesbrough, Money, Politics
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March 14, 2012 The future’s bright – the future’s dinosaurs
Middlesbrough town centre’s future as a shopping destination has received an eleventh-hour reprieve in the form of two exciting initiatives. The projects come at a time when the town’s failure to secure city status in its recent bid has disappointed many locals; the first is a ‘Portas Pilot’ town bid and the second, a proposal to introduce [...]
Tags: Britain, Dinosaurs, Middlesbrough, Money, Politics