The idea that you should have to label the ingredients of a product seems simple enough. But it takes a bureaucrat to insist that you cannot list what isn't in it .

Strange to think of a storm as being something that can tell you how much better things are getting but Cyclone Sidr seems to be exactly one of those storms . 

A new blog devoted solely to examples of how much better things are getting . 

A report from the development front lines. Netsmith rejects the idea that accountancy is interesting (he studied it, he knows) but agrees that it is vitally important .  

Peter Simple invented Rent-a-Mob as satire: how soon the real world catches up with such flights and fancies . 

Things really are changing at the BBC.  Apparently they're going to justify the licence fee by employing the Yazzmonster less often.

And finally , the Tube announcements you'd actually like to hear.