Demi Cuit

Announcing the deWeyden Biscuit/Cake Complexity Test.

Inspired by the wibbling idiocy of this table relating to VAT on biscuits and cakes I have again been annoyed at the complexity of the British Tax system. Do the boundaries of certain categories of snack items require such a level of definition as to whether a gingerbread man has more chocolate than is necessary to define its eyes? If there are such stupid things in this simple area, what unread paragraphs lie in wait somewhere in the multi-volume manuals that document our owings to the Government? Can such narrow categories really benefit us in any meaningful way?

Anyway, I have decided to use this obviously-contrived category of taxation as a bench mark for my own systems. From now on my mantra will be "What would Mr Kipling do?".

Plenty of lovely and juicy documentary stuff about evolution on the BBC at the moment including a rerun of Mark Steel's lecture on Charles Darwin - though I think Fitzroy's issues were glossed over slightly - but then again The Mark Steel Lectures are more about comedy than documentary. And I have to say if you were looking for bias on the BBC (never - ed.) this is where you might find it more openly than anywhere else.

End stuff:

- Will Young has a Desmond in Politics.

- It should possibly be moitié cuit but I am channeling Miles Kington.