we’re thinking of creating our own think tank. There appears to be no barrier to entry, and you can call your self an independent non-governmental think tank, when all you mean is a load of people talking about stuff.

the UK already has loads, and no matter how silly the things the say, they always get into the news. the only really big decision, is what to call ourselves we have a choice of a foundation, policy unit, group, institute or society.

I quite fancy “The Jump Institute”, or the rather more Knight-Riderish, “Jump Foundation”.

over heard on the radio today as i wondered around the house.

7% of atheists believe that Jesus was the son of God.

man who did survey: “yes, we where a bit surprised by this one.”

I did a silly thing and tried to upgrade the site, it’s all a bit broken at the moment (hence the missing categories). abnormal service will resume soon (i hope).

I must have done the BBC’s budget thing wrong.

Next year, the indications are that you will be £259.3 better off.

it’s Alistair Darling’s first budget today, and the press are full of speculation about what he is going to do. I don’t know what it says about me, but I just want to know if he is going to put the s on the end of billion - just like that Gordon brown did/does.

As ever it takes a day to recover, but we had a mini break over the weekend.

We went to sandybrook country park in Derbyshire, which is like a very mini version of centre parks (well it has wooden lodges and a swimming pool).

Daisy went swimming twice, although she is still to traumatized to go into deeper water. It’s going to take a few months for recovery I think.