Christopher John Myers

  Oh joy – “trespass, prostitution, littering, malicious communications and animal problems” are not anti-social, according to Croydon Council.   And that’s why they took these statistics off the total to claim a 20 per cent fall in anti-social behaviour, when the true figure was a fall of just 10 per cent. The admirable Croydon Advertiser reports the new definition of anti-social in their report on the posters that have ‘shot up all over Croydon declaring a significant drop in antisocial behaviour’. The paper quotes a council spokesperson admitting that the figures in the posters, only referred to “rowdy and inconsiderate behaviour”. Other incidents - including trespass, prostitution, littering, malicious communications, animal problems - were not included, she added, because “most people to do not consider them ASB”. The posters contain no explanation of the council’s calculations. The Safer Croydon Partnership - between the council, police and the fi...

  Staysure – travel insurers specialising in cover for the over 50s – have admitted that at least 100,000 of their customer’s bank cards details have been hacked. But they're trying to keep the breach quiet, telling only customers and some industry bodies and the police. And they're not apologising. In a letter to current and past policy holders they say first spotted the attack on 14 th November this year … but waited a month before contacting customers. Staysure haven’t admitted the security breach to the media and there is no mention on their website. In an undated letter they admit that the attack took place “in the last two weeks of October” this year, but wait until the last line of a full page letter before ‘regretting’ the attack. They claim that the attackers have not accessed card numbers, but MAY have accessed three digit ‘CVV numbers’. Although it seems scarcely credible, they admit that this information might be enough, when combined with inf...

Remember Guy Goma, the taxi driver the BBC famously interviewed on TV as an 'IT Expert'? I reckon he's tried a new career as the Mandela funeral signing 'interpreter'! See the evidenmce, below.  And enjoy the BBC's humiliation by following the YouTube link. Guy Goma   Mandela 'interpreter ' Guy Goma as the BBC's IT Expert:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atfNL0_KAcs&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DatfNL0_KAcs&app=desktop

Mark Twain’s happy band of brothers – gun makers and life insurance companies. Enjoy the peerless Mark Twain’s views on life insurance in   this speech delivered in Hartford, Connecticut at a dinner to one Cornelius Walford, of London. The following is edited … “GENTLEMEN: I am glad, indeed, to assist in welcoming the distinguished guest of this occasion to a city whose fame as an insurance center has extended to all lands, and given us the name of being a quadruple band of brothers working sweetly hand in hand--the Colt's Arms Company making the destruction of our race easy and convenient, our life insurance citizens paying for the victims when they pass away, Mr. Batterson perpetuating their memory with his stately monuments, and our fire-insurance comrades taking care of their hereafter. Certainly there is no nobler field for human effort than the insurance line of business--especially accident insurance. Ever since I have been a director in an accident-insura...