Or alternately the lesson is just don't treat your employees like shit in the first place.

A recent article based on an Office for National Statistics report stated that most Britons still oppose gay marriage. While the ONS report did show that only a minority of Britons are in support of gay marriage, the more detailed statistics from the EU poll on which it was based suggest that the percentages for and against are about the same – 46% and 45% respectively – with a further 9% who ‘don’t know’. We are happy to clarify the position.

Err if "only a minority" is 46% then what would you describe 45% as?

The FIFA president is facing renewed demands for his resignation after dismissing on-pitch racism with an astonishing response.

So, Mr Evra and Mr Ferdinand, I know you feel insulted. But perhaps in this case you could just put up with it and get on with the game.

White people in working class districts feel they are the last in line when it comes to handouts and need more sympathy from the state, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

The what? Yes, the Rowntree Foundation, a social research organisation launched on the back of the Quaker chocolate fortune, left-leaning.

You couldn't say that last part until a couple of years back, they would claim to be an entirely neutral charity and and sue you. But since their chief executive signed up as an adviser to Gordon Brown in Downing Street the left orientation has become harder to deny.

We could listen to Rowntree's advice to hand out state money with more 'transparency' and subsidise street festivals. But it might do more good just to tell the disaffected white poor: get a job.

Article doesn't contain enough of the facts.

- RROD, UK, 30/11/2011 23:24

Rowntrees do have some form in that area...

I may have given the impression that I thought the public sector workers' day of action was a bad idea. I may have suggested that that the strike would be unpopular.

I may have been mistaken. It was a lovely day.

It was fun to drive past my local university and watch the lecturers trying to picket it. Poor loves, they've spent whole careers trying to prove that sea levels are rising or to make microchips walk dogs, and they've never had the chance to go on a real strike before.

What's so ridiculous about a business launching a charity with its profits?

Doesn't the right want more philanthropy?