The recession seems to have become a pantomime this week. At every opportunity the Chancellor tells us: “it’s behind you”, then the Office of National Statistics (ONS) yell: “Oh no it isn’t!” So are we in recession or aren’t we? There’s an easy answer to this – some of us are and some of us [...]
“…to ‘send back’ every one of ‘these people’ would cost a total £6,250,000,000. That’s a ridiculous amount of money! We could have another war somewhere out of that!”
I had a bit of a scare last night. I was at a concert, and realised during the interval that I didn’t have my passport with me (I usually carry it with me everywhere in case I end up in another country), and of course this worried me. It wasn’t the fact that I’d lost [...]
