Countering Jeremy Corbyn’s proposal for more public holidays, the Conservative Party plans to offer additional ‘Banker’s Holidays’ for tax avoidance, sub-prime lending and general financial dickishness. The four new days will be in addition to the other 361 calendar dates when the City of London is permitted to transfer funds to Switzerland, [read...]
‘Percent complete’ progress bars, helpfully highlighting how long it will take a colleague to tell you their Christmas anecdote, will be made available in offices today, just in time for the post-New Year return to work. [read...]
A potentially disastrous situation was narrowly averted at the Ellington family’s Christmas Day lunch in Redditch. [read...]
With Christmas barely started, unwanted gifts have already flooded EBay; including EU membership, £1000 leather trousers and a Southern Rail franchise. Worse still, Zuzu Bailey has discovered her father has auctioned off her petals in order to subsidize his addiction to scratch cards and to pay for all his kids’ iPhones. [read...]
‘In hindsight choosing 25th December was a mistake. We thought it would be a great time to have the festival – practically everyone’s off work for Christmas and the schools are closed. But in reality people are far too busy eating too much, [read...]
