September 19th, 2002

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I'm constantly surprised at how little I write about my politics here. As anyone who's sat with me through a news broadcast will know I've got an opinion on damn near everything. Well, perhaps that's not quite true but I do have what I suppose you might call strong fundamental opinions which give me a colour on almost anything that comes up. One of which is that if you listen carefully enough no statistic used in a news broadcast actually makes sense or supports the position it was intended to support. For example, a couple of days ago when reporting on Blunketts new plans to save police time the BBC helpfully told us that it would save "10.9 years of police time" (or some similar amount). All very well and good you think. That sounds like a lot. But it means nothing because they haven't told us over what period. Or over how many people. 10.9 years per year per force would be fantastic. 10.9 years per century per policeman might be quite good. 10.9 years per millennia over all forces would be hardly worth doing.

All of which has rather distracted me from what I meant to say which was that either last night or this morning there was a Bush spokesman on the World Tonight/Today programme complaining that Saddam had only offered to let the weapons inspectors back in because he was trying to avoid a war. To which one has to say "Yes of course he is. And if you had any shred of decency, so would you be"
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It's so frustrating being just on the edge of things being really easy moneywise. By the end of the year I'll have a couple of hundred pounds a month more than I do now which will just make the difference between me having to be careful and not. The particular problem seems to be that because I know that I'm not very good at being careful now. I see things like the cello and I just think oh well, I'll go for it now and squeak through the rest of the month. Which I'm now having to do. Gah, I don't know.
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While looking at my statement on the egg website I noticed this underneath the totals and just before the info about your next months estimated interest...

SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE? IT PROBABLY IS. IF YOU'RE GOING ON HOLIDAY DON'T BE LURED INTO JOINING A BOGUS TIME SHARE OR HOLIDAY CLUB. TACTICS INCLUDE GIVING OUT WINNING SCRATCHCARDS FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE THE DTI WEBSITE WWW.DTI.GOV.UK/CACP/CA/PDF/TIMESHARE.PDF

How oddly public spirited of them! Still, I fully endorse the first two sentences.

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Emptied of expectation. Relax.

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