it was interesting to read a couple of recent stories; one about two men being escorted from an aeroplane after other passengers overheard them speaking in arabic and another similar story about a family queueing for a ride on the london eye being taken aside and put through extra security checks, again for being overheard [...]

phew! - had to be careful i didnae infringe any copyrights there!
like most households in the UK i wasnae surprised to receive this leaflet earlier in the week, wherein royal mail dress up their latest price increases as some kind of “modernisation” of the mail handling system.
what i did find somewhat more startling tho’ [...]

as the kind of guy who’s never able to resist the temptation to walk past a skip, without having a wee hoke round in it, on the off-chance of finding something that “might come in handy”,   i’ve long been a bit of an ebay addict; the joy of making a few quid by flogging [...]