John Gibson: It's a sin chilling out over bins
A Tory councillor led the delegates. As you'd expect. No surprise that the councillors capped their jollies with a long weekend in Majorca on the way home, expenses paid, while they were at it.
You wouldn't catch Edinburgh's garbage gurus doing that. Or perhaps you would.
Bear with me
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Hide AdBilled as TV's "action man", Bear Grylls - a virtual superman - apparently has a book out and if he was half the man at all he'd have asked Harry Hill to pen the foreword.
No chance! No way can I bear Grylls, ever since Harry in his show exposed his heroics.
Indefensible
The nation's supposed to be skint, yet the Coalition is palming a billion to booming India and in the same breath sacking 150 "surplus to requirements" pilots training with the RAF.
The Ministry of Offence is hell-bent on leaving Britain with its pants down.
Afterwords . .
. . . Jeffrey Archer advising: ''If you still want to write that book, get on with it. You've all heard that tired old cliche, there's a book in every one of us, and in some cases only one. Four of the most successful books ever published were written by authors who never wrote again: Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell), To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Invisible Man ( Ralph Ellison) and MASH (Richard Hooker).''