Rant of the day

SMUG BUILDER (4) I finished a wall today. There used to be a horrible lean-to shed round the back of the house, which I demolished a coupl...

U.K. HOUSING POLICY (3)  Net migration into the U.K. in 2010 was 252,000. The Government thinks that figure is way too high, both in itse...

MY NEW ROSE BED Here is a picture of the new rose bed I built last year with the help of my mother-in-law; it's now in full bloom. Not...

SINGING IN GERMAN I tend to listen to Schleswig-Holstein pop radio in the car in the morning, it's an easy way of keeping my German co...

CRIMINAL INSANITY Is there a difference between insanity for criminal purposes and insanity, as meant by the man in the street or doctors?...

LANCE ARMSTRONG Was he doped? The question has been around since at least 1999, when he came back from testicular cancer to win the first ...

A LEGAL MONOPOLY If you live in another country for a while, as I have done, then every once in a while something crops up, which is surpr...