Where’s that Handcart?

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Playing Fast and Luce

Posted by Muntle on May 30, 2026
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Luce

A friend just sent me a review video of the new Ferrari Luce eSUV, mainly to introduce me to the numbingly-boring presenter who was more interested in it being designed by Apple, and spent most of his film wowing about the tactility (yes he actually used that word) of the interior switchgear.

For me, it looks like Ferrari’s equivalent of the Cyber Truck.  It’s too big (unless he was vertically-challenged), too ugly, too blue, too everything Pininfarina would never have even considered for a fraction of a nano-second. Who’s Ferrari’s next exterior design project going to – Jaecoo!?

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Half-Baked?

Posted by cppadmin on May 21, 2026
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half-bakedI was listening to Radio 4 News this morning, and heard an interview with Lucy Rigby MP who is Chief Secretary to the Treasury and, apparently, Rachel from Accounts’ deputy. She had been put on the ministerial merry-go-round to provide information on Rachel’s upcoming half baked announcement on measures to reduce the Public’s burden through the Cost of Living crisis.

These measures include temporary removal of import tariffs on foodstuffs, such as Baked Beans, Biscuits and Chocolate – all things that, according to government advisors, are bad for us, but that any unsolicited do-gooder will tell you are over-consumed by the hoi-polloi most affected by said crisis.

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Minority Matters

Posted by Muntle on June 8, 2020
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I am British born and bred.  I am male. I have a belief.  I respect democracy.  I am law-abiding.  I am heterosexual. I am a pensioner.  I have underlying health issues.  I value all lives.  I am white.  I no longer matter

I was brought up by working class parents who taught me to respect all people regardless of their gender, creed, ethnicity, orientation or political opinions.  They both served in WW2 to give me, and you, our freedom.  I have always practiced what I was taught, and continue to do so.  I passed that teaching to my children, which they have followed and will pass to theirs.  But I no longer matter.  Neither do they. Continue Reading

Lies, Damned Lies & BBC Statistics

Posted by Muntle on May 28, 2019
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BBC Statistics

It is difficult to understand how a media organisation that, over the last few years, has consistently failed to correctly predict major election results can believe it retains any credibility.  Yet that’s what we have from a BBC statistics department that now has to go into full spin mode to cover its embarrassment even during a live results programme.

Such was the case on Sunday when it became immediately obvious that the Brexit Party were absolutely creaming the opposition, as if that hadn’t been widely predicted from the point, just six weeks ago, when Nigel Farage launched it.   But this article is not about the politics of these elections, it’s about whether our national broadcaster is fit for purpose in the field of political analysis.

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