£350 shambles

How good are the F.O. at arranging emergency flights to bring nervous Brits home from Oman? Grab cash off the passengers, put them through a 4-hour check-in shambles then let them board the plane; which hangs around for 90 minutes.
    Then the pilot realizes that he’s reached his duty hours limit and he has to take a break by law.
    No one from our consulate in Oman around. The passengers are unloaded and moved to a hotel. All in all, a journey home that takes around 24 hours.

Explanation needed

“A 53-year-old father of three has been charged with multiple offences” means what? That there will be more of the same when the three have grown up?

Worldwide scourge

It’s not just in the Middle East that Islamist terrorists are at it. The Nigerian government is having to cope with a spate of kidnappings of women and children by Islamists in the north-west of the country.

Royal disapproval

There’s an interesting idea – sending the Prince of Wales to intimidate the Iranians. With Prince Hairy as back-up?

Another official tsar

The government is planning to create an ‘anti-Moslem hostility’ tsar as part of its social cohesion manoeuvres.
    Quite how being anti-Moslem and promoting hostility against them will yield cohesion has not been disclosed. Or which essential services will be cancelled to provide the £80 million per year which the scam will cost.

Cheap and not helpful

People buying cheap hearing aids on the interweb are being warned by audiologists that they’re not doing themselves a favour. The gadgets are just sound amplifiers rather than an aid tuned to the customer’s lost frequencies, and may do damage.
    The NHS offers hearing aids for free (after taxpayers have stumped up) but there is the normal mighty backlog for an appointment.

Intrusion not allowed

The Fantasist of the Exchequer is complaining that some petrol retailers are swindling their customers.
    That, she insists, is the exclusive province of the government and will not be tolerated.