Got them Short Round Blues.

As I sit, eating peanuts and watching Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom, cursing the evil imagination which came up with Short Round, the wise-cracking little arsehole, I feel it's time for another entry. I don't especially have much to say or anything particularly pressing on my mind, so I don't think it'll be very long. But hey! Good things come in disappointingly inadequate packages. Incidentally, I bloody love Indiana Jones films, they're the genius of Spielberg in full flow. But Temple of Doom is often pretty lame and frequently a wee bit racist. Chilled monkey brains, anyone?

This last week I've been applying for jobs and signing on, increasing the burden on our shitty state. I used to feel nervous and guilty about claiming jobseekers allowance, worried that one of the friendly staff would stand up and  expose my soft, middle class underbelly to the baying scroungers who prowl the Cavendish Court Job Centre. But that was a stupid, exaggerated assumption and one that I've grown out of. Everyone there just wants some help, and Britain's wellfare state is a universally wonderful thing, no matter what the right-wing press say. The guarantee of financial assistance to the unemployed gives people a sense of respect and, more importantly, stops people having to resort to crime for money. The Coalition's cuts policy is going create hundreds of thousands of more unemployed in the next couple of years, who will have to go somewhere. A lot of them will go to Cavendish Court.

This policy, parroted in the Mail, will also make it easier for companies to sack employees - introducing a mandatory fee to bring a case to an employment tribunal, as well as doubling the length of time a person needs to be employed there if they wish to do so. With each new policy this government further injures its own people, under the bullshit auspice of cutting red tape.

On Friday I'm off to Doncaster to work for their newspaper for a day. I have no idea what I'll be doing yet, but I'm really excited about it, if a little worried I'm going to balls it up. I'll let you know how it goes.