Great explanations of our time
Her Maj's press secretary speaks:
State Visit to Slovenia and Slovakia
State Visit to Slovenia and Slovakia
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will pay State Visits to: Slovenia, at the invitation of President Dr Danilo Tuerk; and Slovakia, at the invitation of President Ivan Gasparovic, during this Autumn.
Without the detail, a cynic might think that she had been invited somewhere beginning Slov... but could not remember which.
Meanwhile, I am in pain having discovered that whereas the tax rake as a percentage of GDP has risen 2.4 percentage points (35.0-37.4) under the Brown Terror (1996-date) , those lucky Slovaks have seen it fall ten points, from 39.4 to 29.3.
Labels: facetiousness, Tax