7April
Sneaking it out under the cover of a four-day holiday: the government's assumptions for its identity register boondoggle. These figures are not just unrealistic, they seem to come from a completely separate universe.
Amnesty International on the way everything that we stand for is being traduced by an unelected cabal.
Kil Il-Jong Ate My Rabbit (see also)
Thanks for the ride... Lauren Laverne has left the Xfm breakfast show after barely 18 months in the role. It's a shame, particularly as we only learned a week after her last show, on 28 March. Ms. Laverne is leaving the station to spend more time with her television career.
Johann Hari on the death of the electric car.
Julian Lloyd-Webber is uncompromising on Hattogate: Barrington-Coupe should be forced to face the music his wife lacked the talent to make.
We read that The [FARCE] doesn't have class. True, but not in the sense the writer intends it to be. Where the Europeans have social class, the society over the Atlantic prefers to judge on the ostentatious flaunting of wealth. For instance, the concept of tipping for a job done is positively objectionable to many Europeans. Whatever happened to, oh, paying the staff an honest wage to begin with, rather than assuming that customers will top up a pitiful pay with a handful of 80-cent notes? It all serves to re-inforce a cultural norm that the only thing that matters in life is money, and that the acquisition of money is the be-all and end-all of life.
Why Easter moves about so much - according to First Post, it's all the fault of the orthodoxy.
