It begins with one whose ambition gets ahead of him or herself. Like the proverbial drip, drip, drip of the tiniest hole in the dyke, Labour front bench cabinet ministers sat silently for the first few moments of Gordon Brown’s holiday and then one-by-one began to stick toes or more in to test the waters [...]

The BBC reported a Missouri, USA car dealership offered a promotion where if one buys a car or truck, they can get either $250 in petrol vouchers or a free handgun. UK laws forbidding gun ownership aside for the moment, if they were to change, could this be a marketing opportunity for businesses in the [...]

Yes Virginia, there is quality television and the BBC (referred here in the UK as the Beeb) via worldwide broadcasts of Dr. Who, Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear, the dignified BBC News and countless documentaries, proved last week there is a global appetite for it by posting a £118 ($234) million pound profit for the past [...]

. . . began the comment from a graduate of Oxford University. I gave him the chance to correct his post. Today’s feed from The Telegraph though held little surprise… “more than half of 200 respondents to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters expressed concern about the lack of graduate’s writing skills, while [...]

Having lived in Malibu where credit watching is an art form and smatterings of applause break out when groups of two or more gather to recognise/wait for a friend’s name to scroll by, I was pleased to see the BBC listen to its viewer complaints for squeezing and speeding up movie end credits into a [...]

1. BJ’s Warehouse CEO’s compensation included $762,000 in private jet flights
The Boston Globe 
The nearly $11 million in total compensation that the top executive at BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. was awarded in 2007 included more than $762,000 for private jet flights, according to an analysis of a regulatory filing by the nation’s third-biggest discount warehouse club.