Tilou-Milou

….err or no, actually, I don’t.

That is the British pledge of allegiance which all immigrants now have to swear before being granted Citizenship. I myself would’ve had to swear it if I’d been over 18 when receiving my British citizenship; my parents have had to swear it,  and did so with good grace and only a small amount of cynicism, which I thought was nice of them. It’s not that as a family, we don’t appreciate all the things this country has done for us - on the contrary, I know for a fact that without all the opportunities Britain has given me, I wouldn’t be anywhere near the future I’m now working towards - but we don’t appreciate being told to swear loyalty to a largely defunct monarchy, which we don’t see as very relevant to the British way of life. And now they’re proposing to making every schoolchild swear it upon graduation.  Read the rest of this entry »

Post by: Tabsybelle 

So I’m presuming we’ve all heard about Tata’s new Nano car, the one that’s just come out in India, which has pretty much been universally denounced for it’s nasty, horrible, carbon-wasting properties. In fact, this is the only article I’ve read so far that points out the advantages of the Tata Nano, and I’m with Ethics Girl on this one because I feel this little car is the best option for the market at which it’s targeted.

Firstly, the issue about pollution. Morris rightly points out that an average Australian’s carbon footprint is 28 tonnes per year, the average Briton’s 11.01, whereas the average Indian citizen releases just 1.34 tonnes of carbon. Fine, you might say, but what of the fact that a sizeable part of India’s population still live in rural communities and don’t often use cars? That urbanisation is still going strong, and that the population, now estimated at over 1 billion, is still growing rapidly? Collectively, yes,  it might result in a larger net carbo Read the rest of this entry »

Post by: Tabsybelle

 One of my issues with life in general (and life in England specifically) is that people, I feel, spend too much time noticing the bad things and not enough appreciating the good. By no means am I saying we live in a Utopia where we can do nothing but watch in awe as life unfolds: my point is just that, you know, looking on the bright side of life is never a bad thing. So I’ll attempt to redress that by starting off the Glad Game.  Join in

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Post by: McAsh

Guardian article.

The article raises important questions, most importantly “should the owner of TV-Links have been arrested?”. My view is simple, and here is the petition I have signed. This isn’t the important question to be asking though. Read the rest of this entry »

Post by: McAsh

Article.

When I first heard about Yuwie I smelt a rat. What they say about users creating the content and users earning money for it is all very good, but that’s not what Yuwie is offering. If it were to not include the referral policy it would be but with it no one is going to concentrate on the content when they can just get other people to join it. And surely quite the contrary to encouraging people to create high quality content to attract pageviews it will just create spam.

What do we all think the result of it will be? Most people will not get rich from it, but I’d imagine a few people might. But will it survive? Will it be allowed to survive? Will it burn out once a large number of people have joined.

And above all: is it immoral to join?

Post by: McAsh 

It’s come up already a few times so I thought I’d blog about it.

My personal view is that there should be an allowance of maybe £1000-£5000 to cover immediate costs from the decease and then the rest should be very highly taxed. 90%+ maybe.

Redistribution of wealth moves us closer to equality one could argue. And as the inheritors have not worked for the wealth, surely it’d be better spent on hospitals, schools and roads.

Initiatives would have to be put in place for persons under the age of say 21,  so that they can afford to stay in education and whatnot.

What do we all think?

Post by: Tabysbelle

And carrying on with our theme of reliable news sources (or okay, departing from them completely), comes a brilliant new tax policy. Pay as much as you want. Yes, before you ask, I do know that Newsbiscuit is fake, but the worrying thing is that it’s just side of “believable story”. Especially the line about Alistair Darling.

Seriously however, it does highlight the need of a regulated tax system -not that anyone’s judging it, I just had a debate Read the rest of this entry »

Post by: Tabsybelle

I wasn’t wanting this to be yet party political rant, seeing as my intention was to make this more of a current affairs blog, but Gordon Brown had to go crash my party with this little decision of his (yes folks, I apologise for it being yet another Guardian article, but it was the only online newspaper I could find with an article on this). Reading this made the inner Tabs throw a hissy fit, because a general election is kinda what this country needs right now (excuse the hyperbole and exxagerration that will undoubtably fill this post. I just feel strongly about this…). Read the rest of this entry »

Post by: McAsh 

Before writing my previous few posts I never imagined that I’d receive any comments, nevermind the enthusiasm we all saw. Thus, I am going to write this post with the aim of allowing some form of debate to develop. I have chosen a topic which is marginly less Left Wing vs Right Wing, on the grounds that I believe even Tories deserve an equal chance. Thus:

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Post by: McAsh

Propaganda Pacman!

Is it just me who can’t believe this one is still being used?

1. We all want increased government spending on Education, Health, Transport etc.

2. This requires additional income to the government.

3. Taxes are the government’s main source of income.

4. We all want tax cuts.

Points 2 and 3 are fact, therefore either Point 1 or 4 is wrong.

Which one could that be?

Urgh - Tories… Anyone with any common sense will see right through that joke of a policy.