Geoffrey Howe proposed in 1981 keeping the figure below 3m as jobless levels grew to almost three times that of the Winter of Discontent

Local pensioners are today celebrating the relaunch of the Sotheby Mews Day Centre. Sotheby Mews offers local pensioners a wide range of activities including keep-fit, line dancing, gardening, cake decorating, massage, tai chi, indoor bowls and yoga. It also hosts an extremely popular lunch club which up to 45 older people attend each day. A council-funded bus service collects clients from their h...

After Gove, a minister whose agenda has gone less smoothly — and it showed. Andrew Lansley's speech to Tory conference was part re-re-restatement of the case for reform, part massage for any residual tensions left over from the summer. Here's a five-point summary of the things that stood out to me: i) An appeal to NHS workers. Lansley began not just by paying extended tribute to NH...

The Welsh Government is looking for new massage and complementary therapists to "de-stress" workers, but staff will have to pay themselves.

And there's no question it's going to be a brutal one.Cue the 'Man With No Name' theme music.. Having spent us into a major hole in order to massage and reward his political allies, Barack Hussein Obama is looking right at defense spending in a major effort to dredge up about $100 billion. The strategery will be to sell this as 'deficit reduction' but I think all but ...

David Miliband's address to the Labour conference ended as it began: with a  standing ovation. Sentimentality and sympathy, perhaps – but it was also deserved. This was a speech that his younger sibling will be hard pressed to match tomorrow. Indeed, I doubt even MiliD has matched it himself before now It began, of course, with an attempt to massage out the tensions of the past few...

The Asian Sex Gazette’s back up and posting. Go here for a survey of a recent outbreak of fanny massage in the Philippines. Note: site contains loads of visually smutty adverts.

Future of journalism department. The articles she wrote -- all of which were selected from an algorithmically generated list -- included How to Wear a Sweater Vest" and How to Massage a Dog That Is Emotionally Stressed," even though she...

Hmm, looks like I might have to review my support for such anonymity: Al Gore is in more trouble. The National Enquirer reports in a bombshell story that police have investigated charges from two more female massage therapists who claimed they were abused by Gore. The allegations come on the heels of an ongoing Portland, Ore., police investigation

A bit more on Korean cultural impact in Asia. This time: sex tourism To avoid the crackdown, prostitution has spread to horseback-riding schools, massage parlours and others. An official at a Mongolian horseback-riding school, which is only identified by the...