The BBC’s Mark Thompson claims that he had ‘no choice’ other than to invite Nick Griffin on to Question Time because of the Corporation’s ‘central principle of political impartiality’ – nicely distancing himself
Continue reading →In Pursuit of Partisan Pantomimes.
The Griffin has Landed.
As ‘G’ Day approaches, the BBC Chief’s of Staff are out strutting their stuff to assure us plebs that the battle will be won, there will be no loss of life amongst the
Continue reading →I’m Piglet, Fly Me!
Ding-Dong!
Good Morning, this is your captain speaking. I would like to welcome you aboard my maiden flight.
I’ve never flown a plane before, I’ve never worked on a
Continue reading →Lest we forget…..
The Algarve summer is over, and rather abruptly so.
On Sunday, I was at the beach, enjoying the final days of warm and dry bliss of this long summer of ’09.
Continue reading →Swiss Roll Ball into Own Goal.
When you don’t have many claims to fame, you need to work hard at protecting the ones you do have.
The history of
Continue reading →++ Exclusive ++ Matthew Parris on ‘Thinking before Bedding’.
‘Journalists think before they write – bloggers write before they think’, runs the popular mantra of those who extol the virtues of professional journalists over bloggers.
The uproar over Jan Moir’s
Continue reading →‘Stalking horse’ threat to Gordon Brown
Tony Lloyd, Tony Lloyd, lend me your grey mare,On your expenses you can put the fat fee,
For I want McCavity out full and fair,
Wi’ Harriet Harman, Jack Straw, and Mandy,
Jacqui Continue reading →
Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading…
Adam Collyer on The Liverpool Pathway. John Ward on-out-of touch MPs. Devil’s Kitchen summing up Libertarianism. Dick Puddlecoat on Continue reading → The Pink Princess
By the time the ‘breaking news’ announcements had given way to
Continue reading →++ Exclusive ++ Carter ‘Rucked’ but not ‘Out’.
This morning every member of the House
Continue reading →Bonfire of the Inanities
Fawkes profiting from Parliament’s collapse? Dubious accounting methods ultimately destroying the integrity of Parliament? Government intervention in the style in which the unemployed were supported? Social unrest regarding the manner in which the
Continue reading →A l’Eau, C’est l’Heure
Dear Blog,
Thank-you for being here, you are such a comfort to me.
There I was, minding my own business, as one does when one has an Important Man Doing A Professional Job Around Your House. Especially
Continue reading →Petards, Hoists and Assorted Hypocrisies.
What delicious irony! Sir Stuart Bell complaining that allegedly ‘retrospective rules’ were introduced by Sir Thomas Legg during his inquiry into the probity
Continue reading →‘Off with her head’ – Muslim march to demand abolition of the Queen
The Islam4UK organisation, which seems to be nothing more than a new front organisation for the banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun of Anjem Choudary fame, has called the brothers to arms.
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Farmer fined for failing to meet ‘psychological needs’ of cow
Ronald Norcliffe, 65, kept the cow and its calf in a barn but had not provided adequate lighting, breaching the Animal Welfare Act.
Huddersfield magistrates heard that Mr Norciffe, who had been a farmer for 30
Continue reading →Government Moves to Regulate Markets.
No, no, no – not that Market, not the Stock Market, they’ve given up all hope of controlling that market.
They have turned their attention to one of the oldest examples
Continue reading →Holy Shit! – Semantics with the Holy See.
The Queen has invited the Pope to ‘tea’ – “more tea Pope”? – next year at Buckingham Palace. According to The Catholic Herald, the Queen has “grown increasingly sympathetic” to the Catholic
Continue reading →Brown’s Yard Sale – Everything Must Go!
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of his success at flogging off the family Gold at a stomach lurching $275 an ounce in 1999, Brown the spiv is out on the corner again this
Continue reading →Never Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story.
For Whom the Bell Tolls.
One Eye on the Bacon Futures.
July 20th 2009 was a good day to bury bad news. All eyes were on The Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill which was having its first reading in parliament and
Continue reading →The Prime Minister’s Health
Dictated by John Ward, the blogger who started the debate concerning the Prime Minister’s health. “I’m very sad to hear the confirmation of what I was told by several senior surgical Continue reading → Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading
Cato on Security Levels. Rantin’Rab on Blogging Porn. Obnoxio on the Downside of the Nobel Prize. The Adam Smith Continue reading → + EXCLUSIVE + Labour drives you mad.
Proof positive of something many of us had suspected for some time by careful observation of the native population, and from our own entirely subjective experience.
Living under a Labour
Continue reading →Cameron’s Three Card Trick.
When ‘Call me Dave’ said that he owed it all to one lady – and the BBC cameras homed in on Samantha Cameron, it was yet more evidence that those with the biggest
Continue reading →IF you can keep your job when all about you,
IF you can keep your job when all about you,Are losing theirs and blaming it on t’economy,
If you can save yourself when your pensions all shot through,
But make allowance for Gordon’s thieving too;
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Circumlocuting Mandelson’s Foreshite.
Archimedes was sitting in the bath when he discovered the relationship of weight to volume.
Newton was out scrumping apples.
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Get it all Down – the Money’s Right!
From next month, a team based at University
Continue reading →Laying off the Layabouts.
Lets hear it for the luvvies….
The Primrose Hill (and a few selected postcodes East and West) mob have been out in force the past few days. It is a curious view of life, politics and economics that
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