Have some Christmas links...

Portsmouth Uni uncover the true meaning of being human...and A Cool Game that has probably been on every blog ever...

And finally The Department for Culture, Media and Sport wants to levy fees of up to £50,000 to cover the cost of health and safety inspections. So let's not much about : The Government would charge £1 per punter to the promoter to check if the mass public event takes place and is safe? Bullshit. They've got professionals for that type of thing. I used to know a guy whow orked for the Governements HSE : he'd pre-book and cherry pick whatever concerts and sporting events he liked, visit them, then turn up at curry houses for meals, check chip shops. It was easy. You don't need a team of crack professionals to do those checks. It would take, at most, five people, even at say Robbie Williams at Knebworth, to do the necessary checks (we're talking checking an event for risks, not public order here, a fairly standard checklist of stuff to be ticked off, especially as most of the concerts happen in the same old venues : Wembley Arena, Tadworth Dog & Duck, etc...), and that's being generous. It's a license - and pure exploitation of the promoters - to cream off profits, and it'll end up costing us, the public, even more money.

And what the hell do our taxes pay for anyway?

- posted by Mark @ 6:55 pm