Curses, foiled again!

Like several other retailers, Viking Direct currently have a 'we'll refund the cost if England win [the soccer World Cup]' offer on something desirable, in this case a TV and speakers, normally about £800 inc VAT.

"Hmm, Viking have a 30 day return policy, so buy this now, stick it somewhere safe, and return it unopened in the extremely unlikely [cough] event of England scraping through the first round, then giving up in the middle of their first game against someone good (again) – I can't lose!"

Alas, item 9 of the terms and conditions ".. is excluded from Viking’s 30 day free trial".

Rats.

When you work in Kensington and Chelsea

You get a lot of 'SELL your property via us!!' stuff through the door. 2% of a million is… rather more than some(?) of them deserve:

Faron Sutaria will endevour to sell your home for the best possible price in the shortest time to the best buyer available, with the lease inconvenience to you.

V for Vendetta (film)

Hmm, yes, this is good.

Never having read it, I've looked up some of the differences between it and the orginal, and I can see why some people don't like them, but as a standalone film, it Works with some fabulous performances.

Having said that, at a couple of points, you do need to not so much suspend disbelief as give it to some piggies with wings to take on a flight.

When you have something highly unlikely in your film, you have a few choices: Continue reading

It could have been Lord Ian

Mike, the person behind politicalbetting.com, is also a 'major gifts fundraiser' and recently posted that Blair was selling peerages too cheaply – apparently it costs £5m+ to get an honourary degree from Oxbridge.

But it's worse than that: if the loans were indeed on commercial terms, then they will have been effectively free – I could have gone along to a bank, borrowed £1m, loaned it to Labour and paid off the bank with the payments…