January 18, 2010
MPs GIVEN STAGGERINGLY SIMPLISTIC GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING STATISTICS
According to exam results, Britons get cleverer with each passing year. That may not be true, however, of our politicians. For, at our expense, a guide has just been produced for them called Statistical Literacy: How To Understand And Calculate Percentages.
It poses staggeringly advanced questions like: “What is [...]
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January 13, 2010
IS GOOGLE CENSORING ITSELF WHEN IT COMES TO ISLAM?On January 5th, thenextweb.com noticed some odd behaviour with Google when you type in search suggestions for various religions. Type in “Christianity is”, for instance, and Google autofills with a few ideas for things it thinks you might be hunting for. “Christianity is a lie”, for instance, [...]
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January 5, 2010
Zebu Organization of the YearWhat else could it be but the House of Commons, the high reputation of which has been brought low by the Expenses’ Scandal? It’s as if our 646 MPs lined up their feet and took aim at them with shotguns. What is most disgraceful is not the claims that have been [...]
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December 23, 2009
Sir John Baker, ex-chairman of the Senior Salaries Review Body, revealed on BBC Radio this lunchtime that The Fees Office had been forbidden to co-operate with an investigation into expenses.
In an extraordinarily revealing interview on Radio 4’s The World At One, Sir John Baker shed light into a hitherto dark corner of the MPs’ expenses [...]
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December 10, 2009
The details of MPs’ expenses for the past financial year – totalling some £10 million – have just been released. The way they are put online does not make it easy to unearth the most noteworth claims quickly but already it is clear that some MPs are determined to plunder the public purse to their [...]
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