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Hold the front page!

November 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Hold the front page! · Life

Credit where credit is due.  Having wound up the Crawley Observer a bit last month when they got caught out by events, it is only fair to comment on the way they included the story about falling masonry on the front page this week. ((Also fair to point out that the Crawley News also managed […]

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More Tory climate change denial

November 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics

Last week there was an interesting post at Next Left about the attitudes of prominent Tory bloggers to climate change.  One of our local newspapers this week has a column to show that it is not just prominent Tories who hold suspect opinions on the topic: even the obscure ones are joining in the chorus.

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I, for one, welcome our new private equity fund overlords

October 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on I, for one, welcome our new private equity fund overlords · Life

I’m feeling a bit sorry for the Crawley Observer.  It hit the streets today with a story on page 19 (right next to the one with the wonderful headline of ‘The squirrel whisperer’) about Gatwick airport.  The headline was “Gatwick sale could take some time yet” and it started by saying: BAA’s owners have scotched […]

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Local paper hilarity

October 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Local paper hilarity · Life, Politics

The Crawley Observer was very popular at work today. One colleague thought that the headline was a classic, deserving of some sort of headline of the year award. Another colleague scanned the story and asked why the traffic police were rescuing people from a toilet…   a fair amount of hilarity ensued bfore we could explain […]

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Unintended consequence of election

June 25th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics

This letter in the local paper after the election results attracted a few replies last week.  I’ll be surprised if there is not more reaction this week.  When it first appeared I read it a couple of times and I am still not 100% sure what point the writers were trying to make.

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Blues in Maude’s flat

May 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Blues in Maude’s flat · Politics

I know I was supposed to have given up using song titles as titles for posts, but really…  that one is just too good to not use.   It is just far too suitable when looking at the news of Francis Maude’s hasty re-arrangement of his finances, as reported on the West Sussex County Times website.

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MP expenses – the local perspective

May 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics

The Horsham local paper had an interesting approach to the whole business of MP expenses last week.   While the May 1st edition was full to bursting with letters criticising local MP, Francis Maude, the May 8th edition carried none and had this slightly strange editorial.

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Two thousand??

March 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life

I am finding this story hard to believe.  I am not saying that I think it is not true – I do not know enough about truck specifications have a qualified opinion – just that it is hard to believe, in the same way that it is hard to believe that something the size of […]

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Oh the irony

February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Politics

In this week’s West Sussex County Times we have Francis Maude start his column by saying: For the last few months not a week has gone by when I haven’t received a letter or e-mail from someone who is struggling because they now find themselves without a job. It does not help that Maude himself […]

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Not obsessed at all

February 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life

We Brits are sometimes accused or even stereotyped as being obsessed with the weather.  Is that fair?  Here are the last 15 items in the West Sussex County Times/Horsham Today RSS feed as of now: Snow set to continue (3 hrs ago) Snow scenes in villages – photos (3 hrs ago) County council gears up […]

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