We are officially now in the grip of a new panic. Quite how justified all this screaming and shouting about swine influenza is remains to be seen, but there is certainly a lot of secondary nonsense starting to form. My favourite thus far is the Israel government’s insistence that it should be renamed “Mexican flu”… Continue reading One pig flu over the cuckoo’s nest
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Why Ed Davey is wrong about the Lisbon Treaty
Once again, I am indebted to Millennium Dome for organising another bloggers’ interview with a senior Lib Dem politician. This time we got to interview Ed Davey, at quite a topical time as it turns out. Ed arrived about 40 minutes late, unavoidably so because Parliament had over-run due to a series of divisions as… Continue reading Why Ed Davey is wrong about the Lisbon Treaty
New Kosher Koke with added Kosher!
I read this article about Kosher Coke a few weeks ago, found it vaguely amusing, and forgot all about it. Then yesterday I was in Waitrose and noticed that in their passover section they had Israeli Coke. This is odd because, as the Guardian article says, UK Coke uses real sugar and not the dastardly… Continue reading New Kosher Koke with added Kosher!