I’m oddly happy with the state of the news just now what with Mandelson coming out and scuppering the irrelevance that is the Labour leadership fiasco and that tragic Moat bloke finally doing our idiot police a favour and putting himself out of their heavily-armed misery, and the awesome Booker planting another hobnailed boot in [...]
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Saturday Night Music Special
Posted in humour, music, politics on 11/07/2010 | Leave a Comment »
BBC Still Isn’t Learning
Posted in bbc, licence fee, lyons, mark thompson, politics, salary on 05/07/2010 | 1 Comment »
Whether it’s a typical public sector ingrained sense of entitlement or some quite new and unique phenomenon, the BBC simply isn’t learning. Now that Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, has been publicly contradicted by a putative inferior in the form of the Director General, Mark Thompson, over the publication of salaries, one can [...]
Heath And Brown
Posted in 1970s, EU, heath, history, politics, tories, ziegler on 21/06/2010 | 23 Comments »
At least that copper’s happy I almost missed Charles Moore’s interesting review of a startling new biography about Edward Heath in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph. Had it not been for the fact that I was looking up the latest footy scores (7-0 to Portugal against the North Koreans, eh? See article below) I would never have [...]
"Political Classes": Definition Of
Posted in government, mps, politics on 19/06/2010 | 2 Comments »
Ich bin ein Old Holborns? I use the term “political classes” quite a bit on this blog but I’ve never really bothered to define what the term actually means, at least to me. Well, Charles Moore on the Daily Telegraph used it too in his bit on the death of the Euro today (which, incidentally, [...]
Question Time: So Here We Are Again
Posted in bbc, campbell, Labour, politics on 27/05/2010 | 6 Comments »
Hey guys, unsurprising news: the BBC decide to defy with self-righteous Dimbledonian indignance the reasonable request of the government for a Labour front bencher to be on the QT panel and not, repeat not, the hideous denialist, contaminated, corrosive, bloodstained liar Alistair Campbell. So the BBC, with infantile predictability, nails its colours to the Labour [...]
News Flash: This Coalition Is A Joke
Posted in cameron, clegg, coalition, conservatves, libdems, politics, QT on 20/05/2010 | 5 Comments »
I’m absorbing Question Time reluctantly and all it’s (predictably, these days) generating in me is an intensifying mood of futility, especially after the pathetic Clegg/Cameron long grass double act earlier today. This ‘strong and stable government’ nonsense is a dangerous misunderstanding on the part, particularly, of the Tories of what the general election result really [...]
The Change We Need
Posted in Brown, cameron, clegg, general election, politics on 08/05/2010 | 5 Comments »
While the cuckoo Brown parasitically remains in the Number 10 nest, and the country’s real Prime Minister, David Cameron, gallantly waits and, with refreshing integrity, allows the defeated demagogue a window of opportunity through which he can choose to leave with some semblance of dignity intact, on the near horizon the storm clouds gather. The [...]
Bigotgate: The Game
Posted in general election, humour, politics on 30/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
As Crash Gordon becomes Car Crash Gordon (how weird was that? Watch it here), a new game’s been released to celebrate Wednesday’s Brown-inspired campaign disaster, when he manfully took on a sweet old lady and was battered. Be the gaffe prone jinxed PM, who can cause a car accident from 100 yards just by opening [...]
Strong Element of Truth Makes the "Department of Waste" Spoof Real Satire
Posted in april fool's, humour, politics on 01/04/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Easily the best April Fool’s gag of the day came in this Tory spoof of a typical Labour propaganda ad. (even with the extraneous disclaimer at the end). It’s genuine satire, and it’s its core of truth that makes it so irresistibly watchable (that and Mr Cholmondley-Warner’s reappearance after all these years, as Benedict Brogan [...]
Gordon’s Song
Posted in gordon brown, music, nonsense, politics on 21/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Been digging through my old albums and found one called “Spooky” by Lush. I think it’s from 1991 or around then. I remember I absolutely loved it at the time. Can’t think why listening to it now. Mind you, I’ve always had a pretty varied – if not random – taste in music. And it [...]
