Author Archives: Giolla

Scriptural illiteracy

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I know it’s nit picking, and I don’t disagree with the sentiment behind it, but the current internet fad for memes relating the Christmas story to the refugee crisis is really starting to get on my wick. If you want to make a point about people of a religion not following the spirit of that religion it might just possibly be a good idea to make sure you’ve read the scripture that you’re basing your oh so clever meme on. So this whole, the Christmas story is about refugee’s thing, well it’s nonsense. The manger part of the nativity story … Continue reading →

Tax avoidance the carol

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As yet another firm gets into trouble in social media for obeying the law and only paying the tax they were required to, time to bang the tax avoidance drum again in the form of a little ditty – and just remember tax avoidance is bad. On the first day of the tax year, my accountant sent to me, an ISA that is all tax free… +10

Haters or marketing?

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I know there are more important things going on, but I’ve already done most of the digging on this because it’s the sort of thing I enjoy and I’ve been accused of taking a deliberately contrary position just for the sake of it. the reason for this accusation was because I suggested that the whole Over weight haters incident could have been a hoax for publicity purposes. I wasn’t alone in thinking this and Rosa Mundi has a very good article on some of the reasons why it seems likely it’s a scam. Much of what I’m going to say … Continue reading →