Thought Crunching

If "researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts", is mother-of-seven Karen Matthews one of the most beautiful women in the world!?!

Thought Crunching

Will a daily attendance allowance for MPs encourage them to reduce their 82 day summer holiday this year!?!

Thought Crunching

Government urged to pay allowance to scrap cars over nine years old and assumed to be the biggest polluters.

Last year, the Government increased vehicle excise duty on cars less than nine years old to reduce pollution whilst ignoring older cars!

Thought crunching

Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi banned from the UK for threats to murder Jews.

Dutch MP Geert Wilders banned from the UK for saying that some Muslims threaten to murder Jews.

Pumping the market?

If oil speculators were to blame for record oil prices last summer, should they now be thanked as "Oil prices have fallen 74% from their peaks in July"!?!

Palestine

Why do so many left-wingers want a monocultural Palestine but a multicultural Britain!?!

Thought Crunching

Is a recession / depression good for the environment!?!

Come on down!

How reliable are house price indices when sales volumes are the lowest in thirty years!?!

Vaccinations

How effective are they!?! Are they worth the risk!?!

Millennium Bug 2?

Are fears of total economic collapse following the rejection of a $700bn bail-out package spread by the same people who feared the millennium bug!?!

Bugs Bunny!

Rabbit contaminated water supply

Taking Liberties!

Is Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti suppressing free speech when she threatens to sue a cabinet minister she accuses of trying to smear her!?!

Carbon Allowance

Would a personal carbon allowance include cremation!?!

Fuel Poverty measures?

Is someone earning £30,000 per annum yet pays £4,000 per annum on gas, electricity and petrol living in fuel poverty!?!



"More than 10% of household income goes on energy bills."

Credit crunched?

What happens in just a couple of months when the Federal Reserve can no longer reduce interest rates as they are already 0%!?!

Manifesto commitments

Lords back down on glorification
Charles Clarke warned peers that Labour had made a manifesto commitment to outlaw the glorification of terrorist attacks and intended "to honour it".

MPs reject EU treaty referendum.
The three main UK political parties promised a public vote on the EU Constitution in their 2005 general election manifestos.

Thought for the day

With so many allowances available to MPs that they appear to cover most conceivable day-to-day living expenses, what do they spend their salaries on!?!

Greens welcome gas price hikes?

Should green consumers welcome recent increases in energy costs as they automatically increase the rewards for saving the planet by using less energy!?!

Dreaming Arches of Oxford?

Cookery classes to be compulsory
"The move is part of the strategy to tackle obesity, as experts believe 1m children will be obese in a decade."

McDonald's 'A-level' is launched
"Fast-food giant McDonald's has become one of the first firms to offer its own nationally recognised qualifications."

Thought for the day

Should Police Officers be expected to serve as Prison Officers for ten years rather than retire after just thirty years of service!?!

Their experience would be relevant, they would save the taxpayer a fortune in pensions and would reduce the risk of striking prison officers!