… and the pounds will look after themselves. At least that’s what your mother probably told you. Now research shows why most of us aren’t getting rich – because we just don’t seem to care about them and lose them! According to Gregory Wood of California State University, Channel Islands, two out of three US [...]
What can we offer you to renew your contract? Free language lessons? 5 weeks holiday? How about a free boob job? A report in the New York Times described how nurses in the Czech Republic were offered such perks. One nurse in the private sector who opted for the cosmetic surgery had breast enhancement and [...]
If you want to know which country to live in to enjoy life more go to the OECD better life index. They have identified 11 key factors such as health, education, earnings, and sense of community. You can decide how important these are to you. After I’d scored my choices and pushed the buttons it [...]
Charities often say they get more contributions from working class ie poorer sections of the community than the middle or upper classes. (OK, there are exceptions like Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.) And now that seems to apply to the UK as well. We’re in the s**t economically yet we strive to take the lead on [...]
Celebrity Cheryl Cole, one-time WAG, sometime member of a manufactured girl group convicted of actual bodily harm in 2003 whose footballer husband cheated on her and who reinvented herself as the sympathetic member of a reality talent show panel who does dodgy hair adverts, has been sacked from the American version of the show. Some [...]
The news that Ergo, a division of Munich Re the world’s biggest insurance company for other insurance companies, took over a company that organised an orgy in 2007 to reward its most successful sales people may have shocked many people. But you have to be impressed by the teutonic efficiency of it all. The event was [...]
The government’s recent clampdown on sickness benefits, piloted in Burnley and Aberdeen, provided few real surprises. In total about 75% of people on sickness benefits were found fit for work. In fact 37% of would-be claimants withdrew their claim once they knew they would be tested which says something. Now the Guardian has reported (29 [...]
Football fans have got used to the cheating and wheeler dealing that goes on, particularly in the Premier League where the stakes are high. The owners know we love our football and will put up with pretty much anything as long as we can follow our teams. A prime example was West Ham’s breach of the [...]
And no I’m not talking about the special forces. A flatulent dentist was recently struck off the UK Dentists’ Register to protect the public. The charges against him included breaking wind and belching in front of patients but there were also some serious clinical deficits as well. The General Dental Council said they had taken [...]
