Author Archives: Jackal

Copenhagen Climate Summit stalls just as Ed Miliband calls for more action..

By Jackal | Published: December 15, 2009
Yesterday morning it was announced that the G77 group of developing countries pulled out of the talks over a disagreement with the existing Kyoto framework that runs to 2012 and a switch to an EU and developed nations proposal of an entirely new agreement. Around the same time Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband had expressed his [...]
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Health and Safety games cost us £250,000

By Jackal | Published: December 1, 2009
Elf-n-safety must be looking to release a bloopers DVD in time for the Christmas rush, as the ‘own goals’ from this department keep on rolling in. In another installment of madness it has been reported that it has taken the jobsworths two years and £250,000 of tax payers money to compile a report that ten-pin bowling [...]
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Mad Cow Disease found at Westminster?

By Jackal | Published: November 26, 2009
Warning, before reading on, I advise you lock yourself into a padded room, as I wont be held responsible for you repeatedly banging your head against a brick wall. As the climate change story quite rightly whisks itself into a fury, more lunacy emerges from the Government ranks. The Department of Health has been tasked with [...]
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Look out – a WRAP on your knuckles for putting out your rubbish!

By Jackal | Published: November 23, 2009
“Waste prevention” is one of the many government buzz words – oh, the irony of it all. In an era of the worst financial climate our country has been in; an era in which the Government’s debt is so bad, that unless addressed radically and quickly, it will have a stranglehold worse than Dennis Nilsen, [...]
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