I read in the sunday tribune today (can’t be read without subscription alas) that Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, was added to the list of artists exempt from income tax last year.
Apparently, one of the factors in millionaire Welsh moving here last summer was the favourable tax breaks he would enjoy. I bet it was! [...]

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why do so many people stand on a double decker bus when there are seats upstairs?
i’m not talking about people who prefer to stand casually around the wider areas where pushchairs can go. i’m talking about the people who get on and pay and then move about 2 feet down the bus and just stop [...]

if you’re already feeling the onset of sunday night blues, it may be best to just stay under your duvert tomorrow!
dr cliff arnells, cardiff university has come up with a formula that pinpoints Monday, 24 January 2004 as the most depressing day of the year.
as if monday’s weren’t bad enough already. good luck everyone!

a recent shoe shopping expedition to london meant i had to face an arch enemy - the escalator!
with 410 of the monsters lurking in the london underground, it ain’t much fun for me. and when the tube site states that “a surprising number of accidents happen on the escalators”, it doesn’t exactly reassure me!
the sprite [...]