Month: May 2006

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Those jury service people sure are nice

I got summoned for jury service recently. It couldn’t have come at a busier time so I asked for it to be postponed to January. I was expecting all sorts of bureaucratic resistance, autocratic refusal (“you’ll come when we tell you to come!”) and so on.

Instead, I got a nice little letter yesterday, accepting my request for postponement and giving me a date in January to turn up. Now how good is that? So I’d like to thank those nice jury service people for being so helpful and obliging. God bless you all.

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McDonald’s: the positive side

McDonald’s gets a whole heap of bad press, doesn’t it? There’s the world famous McLibel trial, news that its food contains ‘transfat’ or something and the big dispute about McJobs. Then there were those awful ‘Sex and the City’ ads, and their desperate attempts to convince us that their salads and sandwiches are healthy alternatives, despite being crammed to the top with battered chicken. I could go on, but we all have a range of McDonald’s stories locked in our memories that make us shudder already: you don’t need me to remind you of them.

So it’s good to see a positive article on McDonald’s for once. In this case, one of Spiked’s good writers explains why everyone’s ‘favourite’ fast food chain is absolutely perfect for autistic kids. It’s actually quite heart-warming.