Archive for February 2010

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The unkindest cut of all

February 25, 2010

Professor John Bridgeman, the former Director-General of the Office of Fair Trading, has laid into supermarkets – particularly Asda and Tesco – for giving a misleading impression that they are cutting prices across the board, when the reality is very different. In a full week just before Christmas, Asda cut nearly the price of almost [...]

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I think, therefore I’m an arse

February 9, 2010

France’s greatest living thinker, Bernard-Henri Lévy is looking about as great a brain as Ricky Gervais’ podcasting tame idiot Karl Pilkington. In his new book On War in Philosophy, he quotes extensively from the lesser-known philosopher Jean-Baptiste Botul. Attacking Immanuel Kant as being a “fake” and “raving mad”, Lévy frequently refers to Botul’s great work [...]

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Fake perfumes may contain urine

February 4, 2010

With money tight, we’re all looking to save money. But those who buy cheap perfume or after-shave at markets, online or when abroad, believing they’re conserving cash, may not realise they are actually putting some deeply unpleasant substances on their skin. Harper’s Bazaar in the United States investigated a range of counterfeit perfumes and found [...]