Redesign
THIS blog is about to get a facelift, courtesy of Will, late of Drink Soaked Trots fame, who knows all about website design and that stuff. While I’m about it, I’ll also be asking him to set up whatever new widgets are available in the ongoing struggle against spam, and sort out glitches with the [...]
Questions for Labour in opposition
SAMUEL Johnson is credited with the dictum that ‘when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully’. So what went wrong in the case of New Labour, which seemingly stands clueless despite the clear proximity of the gallows? The party that has been in government for the [...]
The war criminality of Tony Blair
MARGARET Thatcher ordered the sinking of the Belgrano, at a time when Britain was at war with Argentina, but while the vessel was outside the exclusion zone decreed around the Falkland Islands. Does that put her in the same legal category as Adolf Eichmann? I have lost count of the number of politicians that have [...]
Hewitt, Hoon, and hubris
WHAT Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon have done today strikes me as one of the most obvious putsch bids since the events in Moscow in August 1991. Ms Hewitt’s insistence on the World at One that ‘this is not an attempted coup’ carries about as much weight as a similar denial from Gennady Yanayev. Frankly, [...]
Cameron speech: pure (fridge magnet) poetry
EVER seen those fridge magnet poetry sets? I refer, of course, to the tasteful novelty items widely available in kitsch gift shops nationwide, where they typically sit alongside the double entendre coasters designed to appeal to camp sensibilities and endless racks of ‘world’s greatest dad’ mugs. Well, I’ve just worked out who actually buys them. [...]
Islam4UK: even bigots get free speech
LADY GAGA is going to Hell, according to a fringe Christian denomination in the US. OK, I admit I haven’t listened to very much of the woman’s music, or any music at all recorded much after 1983, come to that. But it’s only rock ‘n’ roll, as the saying goes. Surely she can’t be that [...]
