The Mail goes (Photo)shopping

I see the Daily Mail isn’t averse to a bit of Photoshopping.
During the course of scanning the online version I came across this picture on the frontpage:

The story was the usual self-righteous tosh about how two DJs – students at a uni radio station as it turns out – were sacked for certain allegations they [...]

Gordy Brown goes down*

You’ve got to hand it to Gordon Brown…he’s been coming out with some very original and creative statements of late.
Here’s a particularly nice one which he dropped on MPs in the Commons today.
People can be proud that Iraq is a far better place than it was five years ago
Let’s see…five years ago…why…that’s 2003, but [...]

Retrain or retain?

There’s been much talk lately of retraining people so that they can get re-employed after they’ve lost their jobs.
It seems to be Gordon’s latest ‘big idea’ but, to this financial layman, it seems rather futile when you start to ask, ‘Re-employed as what?’
It would be great to wave a proverbial magic wand and create new [...]