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Jobs for the boys

January 01, 2009 14:23

The arms race between HM Revenue & Customs and large corporations is a funny conundrum. On the one hand Gordon Brown and HMRC tighten up tax loopholes to increase their revenue and secure employment of their employees. On the other, large corporations pay huge sums to tax advisors to reduce their...

Call it mid-life crises, call it what you will

December 30, 2008 09:41

Love makes you fat. Corporate Blawg loves his wife, but not his chub, so Corporate Blawg is trying to lose a little of his extra girth before it appears like he's about to give birth. This new momentim was prompted by Corporate Blawg registering with his local GP surgery last week, not because...

NEWSFLASH: Gold on Oldies!

December 18, 2008 20:04

Watch out! There is a new threat to your inheritance. Old people on saga holidays could become the victims of young buxom gold-diggers as of 2008. The Single Equality Bill to be published in June 2007 may end all forms of age discrimination including overseas cruises and coach tours for the...

No work no pay puts pay to play

August 29, 2008 13:53

Jeepers. Corporate Blawg is looking like he's about to enter his 3rd week in a row of 50+ hours in the office. In May 2005: "The European Parliament has voted to scrap Britain's opt-out from the Working Time Directive and to limit workers to a 48-hour week." But it never happened. "Just as some...

Bristol Birds

August 29, 2008 13:53

Bang go the braincells, the liver shivers, and the skin starts to shrivel like a dehydrated prune. Another weekend of intoxication subsides like a cliffside cottage tumbling into the sea. All day Sunday, vodka-in-the-neck returned on me as if a putrid dog was p**sing down my hairy throat. I'd...

Back from holiday...

August 29, 2008 08:41

Corporate Blawg is back and proud because he's brown. Not because it was particularly sunny, but because in-between the rain Corporate Blawg didn't use any sun-cream lotion. This careful planning is a bit like catching a train to a bus stop to speed up your journey, or adding flour to gravy to make...

Blawg Review #116

August 29, 2008 08:39

Always one to cut the mustard, Corporate Blawg has gone against the grain and spiced up the Blawg Review #116 with a shake of poetic sauce. The inspiration for this perspiration was found between a sesame bun on July 4th, that most celebrated day in U.S. culture. Corporate Blawg had failed his...

Sensible is as sensible does

August 29, 2008 02:34

Like a bee collecting nectar, or a KFC carton underfoot, so the natural process of life continues, driven forward by necessity and love of dirty chicken. Likewise the less than wise but immensely likeable Corporate Blawg is propelled through space in a rapidly-aging time machine made of flesh,...

Tasting the waters

August 28, 2008 09:40

Corporate Blawg was in Bath last week, to taste the waters and recover from the LawBlog conference 2007 on the Friday before. And what a great conference that was! Corporate Blawg felt honoured for spending the evening in the great company of Charon QC, Geeklawyer, Ruthie, Pupilblog, Head of Legal,...

Raving in Ravello

August 27, 2008 12:31

With a clap of thunder, and the drum of rain beating against the windows like a steel band under a palm tree in the Bethnal Green monsoon, Corporate Blawg decided that it was time to take his wife on holiday. So Centreparks being booked up for the season, Corporate Blawg is going to the Amalphi...