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MEPs kill EU 'blogger registry' that never was
Calls for Europe to initiate a process clarifying the legal status of
bloggers - a discourse many across Europe had erroneously believed
was in fact EU legislation that would have seen a European 'registry
of bloggers'- died on the floor of the European Parliament on
Thursday- 25/9 (EU Observer 26/9/08)
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Food price inflation +12% (fruit and veg +30%)
Tesco profits for 1/2 year +11.3% (Telegraph 30.9.08)
[Any connection ? -cs]
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Good news corner
Apple crop +10-15% - juicier and sweeter than usual due to wet August
and sun and cold nights in September.
Cider apple crop best for a long time - harvest now starting and
every day of sunshine adds to sweetness = alcohol (Telegraph 30.9.08)
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A well known politician met a friend who is ‘into’ Scheng Fui
concerned with the significance of the arrangements of objects fir
one’s general well-being and was told to keep the WC lid down to
avoid his assets being sucked down the sewers in the prevailing
economic crisis. [sorry! lost the source but I think it was the
Telegraph)
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And what's more, [now] there'll be demands to nationalise lots more.
The new Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon dutifully took the underground
home from Wembley after the England game on Saturday. Per chance, he
bumped into the head of the RMT union, Bob Crow. "Now you're
nationalising the banks", Crow said to him, "how about the railways?"
How about it, ministers? (BBC Nick Robinson 13/10.08)
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Suddenly one place is full of choice items. These from The
Telegraph’s City Diary today! (14.10.08)
Comforting thoughts from the chef
Just to prove how hard things are in the City, Diary hears that
stressed out bankers have taken to tucking into comfort food at the
City Canteen (aka 1 Lombard St) . Chef Herbert Berger has been
dishing out 30pc more bangers and mash, meat pies and soup than this
time last year - though I doubt that that is what they are called on
the menu.
Cometh the hour, cometh the quotes
It had to happen. Come the crisis, come the Churchill quotes. First
to reach for the cigar was the ICAP Chief Executive , Michael
Spencer, who borrowed from Winston’s 1942 speech, to describe the
March 17 takeover of Bear Stearns as the “end of the beginning”.
Since then the phrase has been used dozens of times along with
“blood, toil, tears, and sweat” and all the rest. But, given the
nationalisation of RBS and HBOS and the state of the mortgage market,
shouldn’t we perhaps be rolling out “Never has so much been owed by
so many... ”?
Charity fundraiser’s capital teaser
A snapshot of the goings-on at the charity fund-raiser “Turn the
Tables” , where politicians and other public figures pay money to ask
questions of journalists. Tory MP Alan Duncan dug deep and ended up
putting it to Radio 4’s Today programme presenter, Evan Davis.
“What is the capital of Iceland” was his first teaser.
“Reykjavik” came back the answer.
“Wrong!” Duncan shot back “£3,50”
Very droll.
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
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