When Oasis sang, She’s electric they probably didn’t think they’d see me gliding around town in the eerie silence that an electric car provides! The Nissan LEAF is a fabulous bit of kit that runs entirely on electricity. The timing couldn’t really be better given the tanker drivers proposed strike and the 1970′s Oil Crisis style run on the pumps. It’s like the Government and Unite trade union members working for Wincanton, DHL, BP, Hoyer, J W Suckling, Norbert Dentressangle and Turners have conspired together to show me how flexible an electric car can actually be. So what is the Big Turn On about then? A bunch of us bloggers are going to be driving around in Nissan LEAF’s, seeing for ourselves how practical it actually is to use an electric car. … Read entire article »

“Her win was a verdict on the Government’s failing economic plan.” Oh dear. That kind of soundbite comment is easy to make on the telly or in a press release but the wonders of social media and the right to reply immediately sort of make you look stupid when what you say is, well, stupid. Out of the 30 replies to the post, these are some of the more amusing:-  28 of the last 37 years the constituency … Read entire article »

We all know the famous saying, “opinions are like arseholes*, everyone has one” and it’s completely fair play in our post modern relativistic world. A person’s opinion can be stupid, reprehensible or thoughtless but the one thing it can never be is wrong. By default an opinion must be right, as it is how that individual feels on a subject. The opinion doesn’t have to be based in actual fact or knowledge, or even serious but as Jeremy Clarkson recently found out, if people don’t like your opinion, they’ll let you know (via the BBC). Facts though shouldn’t be subject to the same level of subjectivity as opinion. Yes, science is based on observation and a lot of scientific theory can be seen as “our best understanding of the empirical data … Read entire article »

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There is nothing more interesting than listening to people on the train talk (loudly) about the sort of thing that should be discussed in a private meeting room at their offices. Take Moustache man on the right, between Euston and Coventry and was a veritable wealth of information of shopping centre management and the training of staff therein. Loudly did he use … Read entire article »