Category: Little Rant
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark Much activity, little consequence. A lot appears to have been happening in Westminster since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister. The new leader arrived promising a different sort of government. Policies have been abandoned, spending priorities questioned and relations with Europe cautiously rearranged. A steady trickle of announcements designed to make…
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Just NEET good enough! 981,000 16–24-year-olds were not in education, employment or training (“NEET”) in the UK in the three months from April to June this year according to the latest ONS figures released on 27th August, That is ONE IN EIGHT young people – nearly 1million beginning adult life without employment, education or training. This is not a new…
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SITCOM WITHOUT LAUGH REEL Another week in British politics, another episode of a long-running tragicomedy known as “Government.” The show that nobody asked for, with the scripts that just keep getting worse, and yet, like all truly wretched TV soaps, we just don’t seem to be able to switch off or choose something more enlightening…
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Britain Can’t Make Its Mind Up. Don’t let your indecision/Take you from behind/Trust your inner vision/Don’t let others change your mind. Classic 1981 Summer fluff with exceptionally poor lip-synching from Bucks Fizz riffs on 50 years of UK indecisiveness.