RANDOM THOUGHTS

Thanks a lot to whoever brought asked this lot to look after our sick

'They said it would be a game-changer. And in many ways the government has been proved right about Iain Duncan Smith's Universal Jobmatch scheme, his vehicle for turning skivers into strivers. With all those bogus vacancies and technical eccentricities, no one has seen anything quite like it.

Predictably, the awards follow, and thus the initiative this week picked up a little something from the National Online Recruitment awards, the biggest in the recruitment industry. "The wooden Nora for the worst job board and biggest disappointment goes to Universal Jobmatch from the Dept for Work & Pensions," the announcement says. A "mongrel of a recruitment website" that "commits almost every online recruitment crime, and then some," the citation said.

Recognition from those who know and a prize: a carved block of cedar wood. IDS will be so pleased. A shame he couldn't have been there in person.'

Hugh Muir, Guardian

I saw my heroine Mrs Thatcher do it with the milk from our children's mouths

Dundee will have access to the jewels in the V&A crown in the event of independence — despite UK Government warnings of resource sharing problems if Scotland leaves the UK.

An analysis paper on science and research, launched by ministers on Monday, said negotiation would have to take place over Scottish access to assets situated in England, Wales and Northern Ireland if there is a Yes vote next year.

The document names the Victoria and Albert in London as one of the assets in question.

It said: “In the event of a vote for independence, the terms of access to existing UK-operated research institutions by researchers in a newly independent Scottish state could not be guaranteed, and it is unlikely they would be on the same basis as researchers in the continuing UK.

“In some cases future access to infrastructures would be likely to depend on collaborative relationships with academic partners in the continuing UK.”

But a V&A at Dundee spokesman said those relationships had already been established and the Waterfront project would not be hit by independence.

He added: “There would be no impact on the nature of the relationship with our V&A.

“It would go purely from being part of V&A in London strategy to a V&A international strategy. We already work in partnership with institutions throughout the world.”

Oooops....more lies. And how thick are they? Museums all over the world share material. Just because Westminster is bitter, it doesn't mean that more cerebral organisations need to follow in their path. 

Can you trust Westminster on anything at all?

Oh goodie. Move over, Tubby, there are some starving people
here who'd like some of that high class grub, not to mention the drink

My grandmother used to say that before the age of 30 you got
the face you were born with; after 30 you got the face you deserved.

Well, bless him. He deserves it. He's special.

Well, Wullie, I don't think he's JIST a big erse. He's a few other things too.

Well, don't blame me. You voted for them...Oh no, wait, you didn't.
The country next door voted for them! Tch.

And you deserve it, Anas. None more.