Author Archives: odeboyz

David Cameron’s Cabinet May 2015: Shirkers and Strivers

Posted on June 13, 2015 by odeboyz

David Cameron is an Equal Opportunities employer with a roughly 50:50 split between Shirkers and Strivers. Super Strivers    Greg Clark (Communities: Local Gvnt) Cambridge/LSE            Ph.D Stephen Crabb (Wales)      London Business School                     MBA Justine Greening (Intl Devel)      London Business School         MBA … Continue reading →

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George Osborne: Shirker

Posted on June 12, 2015 by odeboyz

Oxford educated cabinet members (10 out of 23) have developed a philosophy of poverty which George Osborne outlined in his ‘Shirkers and Strivers’ speech*. The claim is that poor people are poor because they lack aspirations and worse, are addicted … Continue reading →

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My Liver and Me

Posted on June 9, 2015 by odeboyz

I give my liver hell But it forgives me once again My life is drinking (Chris)

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Micro-Brewing

Posted on June 9, 2015 by odeboyz

“We were trying to come up with a new beer,” Brett Joyce of the Rogues Ales craft brewery told reporters in Newport Oregon, “using a different type of yeast. We tried to harvest new yeast strains from the hops in … Continue reading →

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Housing

Posted on June 5, 2015 by odeboyz

1972  to 1990 Note: All names  have been changed to save rows and recriminations. I had been married to Angela for eighteen years and thought we had a good life together, but out of the blue one Saturday, a mutual … Continue reading →

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Racked by Indecision

Posted on June 2, 2015 by odeboyz

Along with the rest of our gang, Dave Rosewarne and I had idled away most of our Saturday afternoon in Hilldene* Café opposite the pet shop. I had smoked a joint or two out the back but Dave, the most … Continue reading →

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A Fatal Problem for Induction

Posted on June 2, 2015 by odeboyz

The sun will rise in the east tomorrow. (Chris)  

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A Pyrrhic* Victory: David Cameron, May 2015

Posted on May 29, 2015 by odeboyz

David Cameron’s Conservative party won the British general election on 7th May 2015. This victory ended five years of coalition government with the Liberal Democrats. Cameron has freed himself from the constraints of coalition partnership with the Liberal Democrats but … Continue reading →

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Metropolis: A Wordless Poem

Posted on May 26, 2015 by odeboyz
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The Nobel Peace Prize as Satire

Posted on May 26, 2015 by odeboyz

1973: Henry Kissinger for realising he’d lost the war South East Asia, especially Viet Nam. 2009: Barack Obama for not starting a war in his first nine months in office. (Chris)

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