Poverty in Britain remains horrifying. For example, about 7% of households cannot afford a single hobby or leisure activity and a quarter cannot manage to save £10 a month for rainy days or retirement. Bleak. But the DWP plans to spend just over £130 billion in 2008. Surely some mistake, […]
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“Man cuts up car in clamp protest” – a hilarious reaction to an over-zealous state
A car is bought for restoration as a cheap runaround but it is beyond economical repair. It’s declared SORN, but parked with a small corner off a private drive. The busybodies turn up and clamp it, so the owner chops it in half to make the point brilliantly: how else […]
Read MoreHMRC: you couldn’t make it up
Without apparent irony, HMRC offer both an update on the personal information lost and warn of fraudulent attempts to obtain personal information: This front page has been up for a while.
Read MoreSuffocation for business innovation
There is the potential for a long post here, but for the moment, I’ll stick to “Innovation grants”. A small client worked for weeks, hiring consultants, to obtain an innovation grant for part of one R&D effort. They won a grant, and then spent the duration of the project accounting […]
Read MoreHelping the homeless, the bureaucratic way.
There’s a homeless man I see every day, who sleeps in a subway. He’s pleasant and harmless. He used to be a promising chef apparently. People choose to give him money: he never asks. He keeps himself smart and clean, thanks to a nearby centre that opens in the week, […]
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