Taxpayers’ money gets spent in increasingly unusual ways these days. Just a few months ago, we were told that we’re buying some rubbish bits of banks and yesterday I awoke to the somewhat hilarious news that health officials in Dundee have decided that they are going to bribe people in order to get them to stop smoking.
Apparently, cigarette smokers [...]

Well, we’re all on a get-fit-quick regime at the moment. Everyone’s talking about their summer holidays, whether it’s time away with families or friends, home or abroad, we all want to look good and feel good. We’re on a Nationwide exercise binge that is inspiring the most unlikely of followers, even my 82 year-old Grandmother is taking swimming lessons!
The [...]

Lets face it, the smoking ban has worked wonders. Not least for our poor party clothes which, until the ban, were banished to the washing machine after just a few hours’ use.
Even going around to the houses of smokers that I know is now not a barrage of nasal abuse and passive smoking. The electronic cigarettes from [...]

We have recently been hit hard with the headlines reporting on the terrible state of the country’s financial situation and then, just this past week or so, we have been told, despite all of those kind-hearted MPs offering to pay back some of that stolen money from our kitty, that the NHS is still suffering.
After [...]