Archive for December, 2008
Happy Christmas
May God grant you a joyful and happy Christmas. Blogging has been light over this season and will remain so until the New Year, but you keep up with day to day events through Twitter.
Archbishop of Canterbury and the morals of the credit crunch
Image by chrisjohnbeckett via Flickr I was struck yesterday morning to what the Archbishop of Canterbury had to say about the Government borrowing to get out of their hole. He likened them to an addict returning to the drug – having over borrowed you decide to borrow more to get out of the borrowing problem. [...]
Brown saving the Universe
Priceless from William Hague at PMQ’s. “If this is Gordon Brown saving the world then God help us when he moves on to the Universe”
The future of Royal Mail
Image via Wikipedia Something needs to be done about the future of Royal Mail. This is not about the future of Post Offices, although the need for Royal Mail to make savings cannot be separated from the costs of running the offices. As the report that Lord Mandy has received states the RM has very [...]
Good news for Yeovil
Image via Wikipedia The workers of AgustaWestland in Yeovil received a double set of good news today. Firstly the Government confirmed that is going to order 64 of the 70 Future Lynx helicopters that they signed the contract for some years ago. However, the disappointment about the reduced number is offset by a new contract [...]
Press release: Good news on Future Lynx
Kevin Davis welcomes good news for Yeovil and Westlands Kevin Davis, the Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Yeovil has today welcomed the Government commitment to order 64 of the 70 contracted new Future Lynx helicopters. “This is good news for Yeovil in a worrying time for the economy. As our own Shadow Defence Team have argued [...]
The Germans think Brown is bonkers
Image by Eifachfilm Vacirca via Flickr So much for Gordon Brown’s claim that his spending and borrowing spree is supported by every country in the world for it now appears that the Germans agree with David Cameron that this scheme is financial suicide. See this from mark Mardell at the BBC. The commission wants all [...]
‘The end is nigh’ says Lib Dem peer
It appears that Calamity Clegg is going to have an uncomfortable New Year. Having seen his party plummet in the polls he is now having the likelihood of electoral annihilation confirmed by his own Peers – although the Peer in question is now a former Lib Dem per. Blow for Clegg as Lib Dems lose [...]
Advent thoughts
We are now in the midst of Advent. Advent marks the start of the Church’s year and is the precursor to Christmas as we wait. Advent is also a low period, a period of reflection and the church marks this in the same way it marks the 40 days of Lent. So what is there [...]
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