Say your job is to officiate over marriages and civil partnerships, but you are so blindly committed to what it says in the Bible that you refuse marry gay couples. What should you do?

a) Find another job, one that you can do, or
b) Sue for the “right” not to do your job.

This person chose option [...]

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Why would anyone do this?

Office workers who sit at a desk for eight hours a day and spend more than three hours without stretching double their risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT), scientists have warned…
All workers who commonly sit at their computer for most of the day should do the same leg and foot [...]

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One tick in the box! I have achieved one of the eight wishes for 2008. Quite appropriately, no 1.

To get a permanent job.

Achieved just over a week ago. Hurrah!
Now, for the other seven…

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The Commons Standards and Privileges Committee said there was “no intention” of MPs having to go “into any detail” about the work they pay family members to do. Erm, why? We, the poor suffering taxpayer, are paying for them so why should we not know what work they are doing?
Besides, what exactly would the point [...]

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It appears that being a teacher really is no guarantee that you’re not a fucking moron, as demonstrated by the National Union Teachers. They want to ban the Ministry of Defence from giving talks to students on a potential career in the military, because they use “misleading propaganda”.
Apparently they don’t give a true enough picture [...]

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The worst thing about the long Easter bank holiday weekend?
Going back to work on the Tuesday after.
Even though I quite like my job, I still don’t want to go back to work! Four days just isn’t quite long enough…

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The nationalised of Northern Rock is to be shrunk to half its size, with thousands of jobs being axed, due to EU competition rules.
I thought the idea of the nationalisation was to prevent thousands losing their jobs through the inevitable slimming down that any private purchaser would enact?
Why didn’t Brown and Darling think of the [...]

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The minimum wage. It’s all well and good.
But raising it to £5.73 just when economic turmoil is predicted to about to strike is an exercise in sheer stupidity.
The a higher minimum wage will mean that those in work get paid a little bit more. But it doesn’t help those not in work get a job. [...]

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This proposal by Carline Flint, he Housing minister, that unemployed people who live in council or housing association owned property should either get a job or leave their home is absurd. Making them homeless isn’t going to help anyone, and is hardly likely to enable them, to get a job after being evicted.
All people on [...]

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Why do MPs have until April 1 to declare details of family members they employ? Why do they need so long? Why shouldn’t they have to declare them by the end of February? Next Friday? Or even, why not this Friday?
It’s not like MPs either employ that many people or have so many relatives that [...]

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