A week ago yesterday I awoke to find I had a large black ‘floater’ in my right eye. It was like a daddy-long-legs at a window. As I moved my eye, it leapt around — sometimes in the opposite direction. It was disturbing… But I wear contact lenses and I thought maybe I had a slight eye infection.
The illegal invasion and war in Iraq has cost every person in Britain (all sixty million of us) £88 each.
‘The figures were released as MPs protested about the plight of Britain’s NHS hospitals’: The Independent.

On 18 January, six trees blew over in the park near where I live. Some of them blocked one of the main paths into the park.
The unemployed are a favourite target for government ministers and tabloid headline-writers. But, strangely, unscrupulous business-owners rarely get a mention.