27 February 2010

Quote of the day

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Lucy tells it like it was : OMG! Right, so this bloke wrote this book saying that the prime minister like totally dissed his mate Alistair w...

Lazy thinking

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The Guardian reports : An iceberg the size of Luxembourg that contains enough fresh water to supply a third of the world's population f...
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26 February 2010

Scunnered

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Dateline 2012, SNP headquarters It was all Salmond's fault of course. Instead of introducing the referendum bill in January 2010 as ori...

Looking for the mot juste

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Is this a successful simile in relation to our esteemed First Minister? ...bring it on, roared Eck, who was in his element now, soaring lik...

Techie stuff

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I grow tired of this. The Independent reports : Virgin Media yesterday outlined plans to bring superfast broadband speeds of 100Mb to 12.6 ...
25 February 2010

First thoughts

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Look, I know it's tedious but do try to concentrate. And I accept that there is little chance that it will ever happen. But there is one...
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The non-denial denial

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At question time yesterday, in answer to Cameron's probing on "the forces from hell", and continuing the line he has taken sin...

Those were the days

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Captain Morgan or Bacardi? A false dichotomy. Whenever I have been in the Caribbean (which has been regrettably seldom in recent years), I...

You couldn't make it up

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A nationalised bank (RBS) makes a loss of about £3,600,000,000 . Nevertheless, it proposes to pay 22,000 of its staff bonuses totalling £1,3...
24 February 2010

Music of the week

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Happy birthday Denis

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Denis Law is 70 today. Don't that make you feel old?
23 February 2010

Footballing neologisms

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This season's fashion: " to work the goalkeeper" - to force the goalkeeper to make a save. (You didn't know that to work ...

Oh Eric - what have you done?

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Why would you do it? How could you do it? Turn down £2.3 million , I mean. There go the extra Lamborghini and the villa in the Bahamas. A...
22 February 2010

The raging paranoid?

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So the Prime Minister may sometimes be grumpy. He gets upset. He shouts and swears at the prima donnas of the No 10 staff. He throws pape...
21 February 2010

Gone to valhalla in the sky

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So farewell Al Haig , the cold war warrior's champion. Maybe you were not quite as frightening as you were painted - Dr Strangelove you...
20 February 2010

Sloganising

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" A future fair for all " A touch of alliteration - perhaps a bit hackneyed but probably excusable in this context. But should th...
19 February 2010

Winter Games

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I have always regarded the pastime of sliding down icy hills - whether on sticks or tea trays - as suitable only for children under the age...

Same old Tories (part 2)

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Does anyone really believe that Davey Cameron watches darts on the telly while pulling on a can of guinness? Thought not ...

Same old Tories

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Cameron may have tried to convey the message that the Tories were human beings but he is constantly being let down by his backbenchers. The...
18 February 2010

Quote of the day

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Locked together, the stately minuet continues; the US can't stop borrowing and China can't stop lending. As Heather Stewart in The ...