Climate Change

First up, the winner of last week’s caption contest. We had some great entries, and it was really tough to pick a winner - in the end, we’ve decided to award joint first prizes to: Lee Kenney for, “Boris, cycling does not reduce your sperm count; ask my housekeeper.” Nigel for, “Here we have a ex-terminator...
Read more »

So there’s a whole lot of to and fro about this: Richard at Cyclelicio.us pointed out that the obvious answer that was missing was "because it’s fun", which seemed to get the Good People Of Copenhagen all vexed - to the point of wanting to get off the metaphorical bus: I got off the...
Read more »

Oh, the lies these people tell. Mind you, you can’t really blame them, can you? Put yourself in their position: You run a multi-billion dollar / euro / pound / yen business, employing thousands. For the last fifty years, governments have pandered to your every need - built infrastructure for your customers to use, gone...
Read more »

I got this in my email yesterday (I’ve added in some pictures here to brighten it up): The price of oil is as low as it has been for a while but the oil companies have simply jacked their prices up and the government will not do anything as they rake in extra VAT for...
Read more »

Actually, I had quite a thing about them - especially the heroin peanut butter ones. The Von Smallhaussen pointed out that they were made by Neslé - a company that some would say has a problem with ethics. So I stopped eating them, and all other Neslé products. And now this from Greenpeace : Lovely.
Read more »

There are some strange bikes out there . . . I’m sure you can come up with a suitably ironic caption for this photo. And if you do, you could win our fabulous prize for this week: A fuel duty-free flight to a warmer world. This is a great prize brought to you by the Tax-Dodging...
Read more »

Over on IPayRoadTax.com , one of the comments raises an interesting philosophical point to justify why drivers of cars have a greater moral right to use the roads than people riding bikes: "How much extra tax do you think you would have to pay if cars didn’t exist?" This got me thinking, so I did some...
Read more »

… or in other words, a snowball’s chance in hell. If we’d held out for a politically acceptable, affordable solution to problems in the past, we’d have probably decided that appeasement of the Third Reich was the way to win votes at home. Actually, it probably was the way to win votes at home, but...
Read more »

The ideological, swivel-eyed, lunatic fringe are just as convinced that "It is a global Marxist mantra that is going to be used to beat people around the head, tax us to the hilt, smash nations and impose a one-world government." A very vocal minority will try to convince you over the next two weeks that...
Read more »

If you’re in the UK (and pay your electromagnetic radiation tax that gives you exclusive rights to the airwaves over mere tax-dodging radio users), you might have seen Bang Goes The Theory on BBC1 last night. The plot of last night’s programme was to try generating the power required for a family home...
Read more »