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Shale: Another Nail in Osborne's Coffin 26 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
Balcombe Blame Rests Here Or rather, the coffin of his reputation as a strategist. Oh yes, it's been dead awhile, stone dead. But by my reckoning, his screw-up on shale is almost up there with the ...
Back in Action... 23 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
Well, nearly. Due a a rather unfortunate failure on the renewal of our cityunslicker.com domain, just as I went on holiday no less, there has been a break in service. However, we are back and with the...
Summer Break (Unintentional) 8 Aug 2013 | 04:41 pm
OK folks - sorry for the break in transmission. One of those bad interwebby things has befallen us, and if you've found this you will know we have been bounced back to being cityunslicker.blogspot.co...
Too many shops 7 Aug 2013 | 10:06 am
Retail units into homes. That's the latest cry. The Week has got in before the minister with its SELL THEM ALL! message. They say the government has given up on the high street. It won't even look at ...
Admiral Sandy Woodward: Blood and Admiralty 6 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm
We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest, To the s...
Dr Who: You Really Gotta Laugh 5 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
Scene: October 2012, one of the weekly BBC meetings where all those executives on £250,000 p.a. gather to spend our money ... Chair: Now, item 6 - the next Dr Who. Rosalind, I think Diversity Plann...
Peak Oil, EROEI and the Muffled Drum 3 Aug 2013 | 12:42 pm
An interesting thing happened last month. The Oil Drum, a well-regarded website + blog, announced it was ceasing operations and archiving itself for posterity. Well, everything has its day - we can ...
Hioliday 2013! 2 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
Now it is the summer and finally raining, its my turn to depart to even warmer climbs for a couple of weeks and act out my baywatch fantasies by playing lifeguard for de kidz. Mrs Unslicker has schem...
Kicking Off the Silly Season with David Howell 1 Aug 2013 | 11:36 am
David Howell was an ineffectual energy secretary in Margaret Thatcher's first cabinet, and was given the bum's rush shortly after. He doesn't improve with age, does he ? As a long-time energy player...
Tweetgate! 31 Jul 2013 | 02:26 pm
Surely the only sensible thing to do now in the face of feminist outrage is to close twitter forever? You may think it over-reacting... but...here are some very good reasons to close twitter: 1 - Fe...
