Warmish, wettish and a whimsy of mist at the Castle this
morn, the foreign flu is still around a smidge-I have this urge to make a
silent film and I have just returned from Tesco on the stale bread, gruel and his Maj’s food
run.
I
see that while Blighty sinks into the west along with its economy U-Turn
Cam is to hold a summit on racism in something called football in an attempt to
ensure that the sport is not dragged back to the "bad old days" by
recent race controversies, Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, said on Sunday.
The event will take place this month and, although details
have not been finalised, it is expected to include player representatives and
senior figures from bodies including the Football Association and the Premier
League.
Simple answer-if one overpaid ballet dancer is found “guilty”
of calling another overpaid ballet dancer a naughty name-sack the Pillock and
ban him from kicking the leather bag full of air forever...
The number of wealthy foreign nationals granted investor
visas to stay in the UK has risen six-fold since they were introduced three
years ago. In 2011, 320 visas were issued to individuals with £1m in capital,
according to the commercial law firm McGrigors.
The biggest growth is among applicants from Russia and
former Soviet states, who account for a third of investment visas, which are
seen as a fast track to UK citizenship. Yuri Botiuk, a partner at McGrigors,
said that Russian investors continued to see Britain as a place of stability in
which to invest their cash.
Fifteen per cent of investment visas are now allocated to
Chinese citizens who make up the second main national group.
Be a Blightyite-if you are rich....
Want some patients to be kept alive solely so they can
become organ donors as part of an urgent medical and ethical revolution to ease
Britain’s chronic shortage of organs, doctors’ leaders say today.
A new BMA report also suggests hearts could be taken from
newborn babies for the first time and body parts could be used from high -risk
donors.
The BMA wants a debate about the use of an ethically
contentious practice called “elective ventilation”, in which patients diagnosed
as dead – such as those who have suffered a massive stroke – are kept alive
purely to enable organ retrieval.
Nice to see that the NHS is “patient led”...
Italy's crackdown on
tax cheats has many well-heeled drivers spurning their hot wheels for more
prosaic cars to avoid unwelcome attention.
"Since December
about 30 people have come to return their cars as they fear intense tax
raids," a luxury car dealer said in Milan.
Domenico Minervini
from the financial police in the central Emilia-Romagna region, added:
"The tax office has begun to spread fear.
"Many citizens
are bringing back their prestigious motors evoking the financial crisis but in
reality they are scared and want to hone down their taxpayer profile as their
declared revenues have been very low until now."
Buying a Fiat-that’ll teach em....
A large cargo truck carrying laundry detergent worth millions blew
out a tyre in Qijiang county of Chongqing, drove through the centre divider,
and stopped on the other side of the road, the cargo on the truck scattered all
over the ground. After the villagers near the highway found out, one after
another they rushed onto the highway to loot the scattered goods.
Seen the price of washing powder lately?
The Islamic Women's Welfare Association wants new migrants to
get taxpayer subsidies to visit overseas relatives, and Australia should
consider how to "facilitate the purchase of homes for new migrants".
In a submission to a federal multicultural inquiry, the association has urged the Government to give tax deductions to newly arrived migrants so they can visit relatives in their homelands.
"Migrants face a lot of sacrifices such as having to travel long distances to visit relatives, spending on communication costs, missing out on some events occurring in native countries etc," the submission said.
"This loss should be compensated by the Government in one way or the other to retain migrants in their country of adoption."
In a submission to a federal multicultural inquiry, the association has urged the Government to give tax deductions to newly arrived migrants so they can visit relatives in their homelands.
"Migrants face a lot of sacrifices such as having to travel long distances to visit relatives, spending on communication costs, missing out on some events occurring in native countries etc," the submission said.
"This loss should be compensated by the Government in one way or the other to retain migrants in their country of adoption."
If you don’t like where you live fuck orf home-is that
racist?
Food
artists Bompas & Parr are launching a food explosion service for
weddings where for a fee a trained explosives technician will lay charges
within your wedding cake ready for you to detonate.
A spokesperson for the firm said: "Traditional wedding cakes are a triumph of spectacle over taste. Bompas & Parr’s food explosion service pushes this ethos to its ultimate conclusion.
"The ritual of cutting the cake is significantly enhanced through the explosion, the sense of occasion heightened by the blast and your guests are spared eating flavourless fruitcake."
The service starts from £800 and includes a risk assessment and an explosive technician liaising with your cake provider to tell them how their creation will be destroyed.
A spokesperson for the firm said: "Traditional wedding cakes are a triumph of spectacle over taste. Bompas & Parr’s food explosion service pushes this ethos to its ultimate conclusion.
"The ritual of cutting the cake is significantly enhanced through the explosion, the sense of occasion heightened by the blast and your guests are spared eating flavourless fruitcake."
The service starts from £800 and includes a risk assessment and an explosive technician liaising with your cake provider to tell them how their creation will be destroyed.
That’ll go down a bomb...
That’s it; I’m orf to substitute some
metal
And today’s thought:
Angus
