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| London Tube Strike Details The RMT Union have called a strike on all London Underground lines from 19:00 (7pm) on Tuesday 9th June until Thursday 11th June 2009. If the strike goes ahead, Tube services will not return to normal until Friday morning. |
| Come on Tiger, Be a Lion Lewis Hamilton is having a rough time of it in F1 and now reports have emerged from the US that a sports commentator has been quarantined for the worst case of 'Foot-in-Mouth' disease since Glenn Hoddle expounded on his views on reincarnation. |
| Britney, Britney, Britney Britney Spears denied access to sons in latest court hearing! Britney Spears arrived late for the custody hearing, but left without entering the court room. A bad start to 2008 gets worse for the troubled star. |
| I'm No Monster Says Fritzl Rapist father Josef Fritzl claims that th emedia is painting him in a bad light and that he is far from the monster that he is being portrayed as. Wow! |
| Kaka To Stay at Milan Former FIFA World Player of the Year, Kaka has apparently decided to stay at his current club, AC Milan, in so doing, turning down the reported wages on offer of 500,000GBPP per week from the worlds richest football club, Manchester City. |
| Hamilton Suffers Racist Abuse in Spain It was bound to happen when the F1 circuit rolled around to Spain but Lewis Hamilton can hardly have been expecting such a type of abuse from fervent Fernando Alonso supporters when he was in Spain this past weekend (2/2/2008). |
| Recruitment Sector Vs The Premier League Arsene Wenger has had a very good week. His young side beat the reigning Champions League holders, AC Milan in Italy, the San Siro stadium no less. Not only that but Arsenal thoroughly outclassed Milan to the extent that some of the home supporters applauded Arsenal. Does the recruitmet sector spend as much time nurturing recruiting talent as the Premier League? Not by a Hubble telescope-requiring long shot! |
| Fears For Job in the Finance Sector Thousands of workers in the finance industry are fearing the worst as there is growing doom caused by the credit crunch and it's rolling waves and ripples. |
| Office Hygiene..or lack thereof! Foul-mouthed, smelly, untidy and noisy colleagues are forcing half of all workers to consider leaving their job according to a Fish4Jobs survey. |
| Sheep Sex and Recession -What Next Dr Akinola, the Primate of Nigeria and a leader of traditionalists worldwide, said the alleged offences of bestiality in south London showed how "spiritual degradation" was destroying the country's soul. What with an impending recession these are harsh times for the UK. |
| New Family Atrocity in Austria I am still reflex-gagging when I recall the details of the Josef Fritzl case (the lunatic). Twixt these fits of regurgitation I have learned of a new case from Austria that will appal anyone who hears the facts. |
| Murder in New Cross - Senseless, Savage, Sensational More and more details are emerging from the Metropolitan Police of the flat fire in New Cross, South London in which two bodies were discovered by police and firemen. The fire and damage to the building is one thing, the savage murder of two seeming innocents is quite another. |
| I'm a Spin Class Convert Leah Remini was recently voted the sexiest TV wife for her role as Carrie Heffernan in the US sitcom, King of Queens. I remember in the first couple of series when she was very slender and in a few episodes made mention that she was off to a spin class. |
| Take The Test! Road accidents can have horrible, mortal consequences. Being road aware is a skills that comes with practice and years of driving. |
| Aircraft Debris Found in the Atlantic Search teams scouring the Atlantic Ocean for the Air France jet which came down in a storm yesterday have found debris from an aircraft. |
| The Brits...What a Show..or Should That be Spectacle? I am not quite sure what to make of the reports that I have read and seen regarding last night's (21/02/2008) Brits. Are public decorum and decency frowned upon by singing folk these days? |
| Suzanne Shaw and Danny Cipriani -What a Pair I was very interested to see whether Danny Cipriani would fail or flourish on his full debut at fly-half for England. |
| Bolt from a Future Era of Speed Usain Bolt has given me the most precious gift. A time machine back to the heady days when I was a huge athletics fan and track and field heroes such as Michael Johnson, Linford Christie, Jan Zelezny, Sergey Bibka et al were plying their trades to glorious effect around the local anbd Gramd Prix tracks of the European circuit. |
| The Olympics of Shame and Games The in turn hilarious and sobering images of the Beijing Olympics protesters being rugby tackled by the London police and by the Chinese Olympic torch 'Protectors' provided a gargantuan meal for thought. |
| Talent Retention at Man Utd - Fergie Style Talent retention and talent selection are key processes that underpin how any business and organisation will perform. What to do when a star employee has his or her head turned by a competitor? Cristiano-gate is in full swing and the outcome is still in the balance. Can an employer keep an employee who wants away against their contracted terms? If performance of consultants and professionals in recruitment and HR were visible by a league table, would staff poaching be a problem for recruitment agencies and HR consultancies? |
| 80 Million Quid for the Russel Brand of Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo is finally, mercifully on his merry and self-satisfied way to what he sees as his new kingdom. He stands to earn around 100 million quid and is joining a team of galacticos in a league that now boasts the 3 top players in world football -not a bad way to start the new season! |
| Credit Crunch Continues it's Grim Harvest Depending on what you read the Uk Credit Crunch/recession is either nearing the eye of the storm or is already showing signs of recovery. Aside from the sources of news you choose I think an opinion is formed more accurately by your personal experiences. |
| To Be or Not To Be...The Apprentice The new contestants for this year's The Apprentice are supposed to be fluffier and more extravagant than last years' lot. Notice the difference? Not me. |
| The Emancipation of the World from Dubya! Can you believe it? As I am typing this images of Barack Obama and his wife and children waving triumphantly on a stage is on the TV screen. And suddenly it strikes me that he has won. The United States of America has voted for an African American to run the country...the world! |
| Alexandra Kicked out of Big Brother 9 House - A Lesson in How to be Disliked! Big Brother contestant Alexandra de Gale has been removed from the house after making further inflammatory and intimidating comments whilst in conversation yesterday (18th June). Alexandra was one of the two house mates up for possible eviction this Friday -the other being Mario. |
| Bolt Out of the Blue...or Should That be Dagger? Usain Bolt has broken the 100m world record, shaving two hundredths of a second of the record set by his countryman, Asafa Powell last year. The new mark is 9.72 seconds. It is worth remembering that Stanozolol-addled, yellow-eyed Ben Johnson set the -at the time- jaw-dropping mark of 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. |
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