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In a surprise move the government announced a series of offsetting policies. Michael Gove moved to close down Oxford, Cambridge and Durham Universities but offset these losses by opening a large number of nurseries for children. Education charities said ‘It could work, you know’. Sports Minister, Helen Grant, announced that no-one over the age of…

Owen Paterson is paid for being the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. On Saturday morning I was listening to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme and one of the items was about Paterson’s remarks to The Times about biodiversity offsetting.  It seemed that Paterson had used woodland as an example…

Do you have a smart phone? Mine is smarter than I am! Do you have a wonderful array of apps (applications)? I can check the live football scores, check the runners or results of the racing, look at a map of where I am, convert $$ to ££, have a bet, look at Facebook, Twitter,…

We are only a couple of days into 2014 but it is going quite well so far. I have spent time with friends and relatives, made a profit on betting, had some walks, eaten well and drunk well too – if only I had won the Really Nasty Horse Racing Game in the first few…