Uh oh

This does not bode well for the near future (i.e. after May 2010)

This is a model whose success is based on being the cheapest, and some would say being very misleading about what services you do provide. And with as much evidence as the article provides as justification for this model I would also suggest that it will also repeat what many others have found with no frills airlines it actually cost more when you take in consideration the additioanl costs incurred as you have been flown millions of miles away from where you thought you wee going. It works well for a business man with no luguage but disproportionatelyhits those with children. The more I think about it the worse this idea sounds. And that's before we get to the protection of the historic environment

In brighton

A week end in Brighton - and alex's first view of the sea

's'truth

I think I see where the next stage inthe perpetua reform of school everyyear is going

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=22121#comments

Testing

In helsinki

Oh Dear

Peter Wilby in the new statesman gives us this hostage to fortune

 Don’t just think of the government; ask yourself what kind of people you want on the majority benches of the House of Commons. Surely it is better to have MPs whose instincts are to favour public services, the poor (both here and abroad) and a broadly liberal approach to social issues, no matter how often ministers fall short of the ideal. At least you will have MPs who understand and sometimes listen to your concerns.

Yes I do think of how shamefully  labour backbenches  have completely shafted their core vote in the name of power when I contemplate who to vote for. Or indeed not vote for and why I want this government of sponging sycophantic illiberal poseurs gone, ground to dust, the ground salted and expunged from the universe of light even if we have to put up with a short-lived chinless neo-thatcherite revival, without North sea oil and 150 years of capital to make it appear as if the theory works.

Falling out of the habit

Well almost into a blogging frame of mind. Mad rush trying to Get A's passport sorted to get out to F at very short notice. I may blog about the expereince, but perhaps like the rat of sumatra the world is not yet ready...

Fun programme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jxfqn

but the academic involved has a very slanted and indeed wrong idea about te nature of the commercial sector!