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I Kip, You Kip

The day after election day and UKIP did reasonably well, gaining 139 seats. Less reported is that Labour gained 291 of them. It’s not surprising, given that Nigel Farage has been all over the BBC for the last few months without really being questioned. UKIP have been whining that the newspapers have started looking more… Continue reading I Kip, You Kip

Why the “Asylum seeker gets £2m house while pensioner starves on £6K a year” meme is total bollocks

There’s one of those “share this photo” memes doing the rounds on Facebook where someone has put a stock photo of someone with wrinkled hands holding some coins next to a Daily Mail story about a family from Somalia, and added some inflammatory text suggesting that all pensioners get £6K a year while asylum seekers… Continue reading Why the “Asylum seeker gets £2m house while pensioner starves on £6K a year” meme is total bollocks

Meh

So I finally get round to setting up a blog on my website (over at http://www.houlden.org for LJers) but then I hardly ever get round to posting anything because when I do try it turns out to be a very long and discursive essay that I never finish. I suppose what I really need to… Continue reading Meh

Funerals

No, not that one. There was an article in the Telegraph last July which said that the number of public health/”pauper’s” funerals had increased substantially because of cuts to the social security budget and the Government Funeral Payment Scheme. The article mentions some study by an insurance company which just happens to sell funeral insurance,… Continue reading Funerals

Beer!

Testing.How long does it take for Twitter card approval to come through?

LJ Posting Test

Posted over at http://www.houlden.org/wp-blog/. *waves* at LJ, if it gets through.