Current Affairs
De-petitioned
The UK government’s new e-petition website has been in the news a lot this week. For one thing, it’s been crashing a lot. I imagine there’s already an e-petition urging e-petitions to invest in better servers. A lot of the e-petitions that have featured in the news are the predictable outpourings of the rabid reactionary [...]
Capello, Cook and Alan Latchley
The mounting speculation over Fabio Capello’s future as England coach reminds me of a character that legendary satirist Peter Cook created shortly before his death. Football manager Alan Latchley was one of three Cook creations that Clive Anderson ‘interviewed’ in a special edition of his early-90s Channel 4 chat show, each a perfectly-formed slice of [...]
Armando Iannucci’s Questions for Mr Tony Blair (Updated)
Updated 30th January 2010: this may seem a bit overdue, but I’ve now added Armando Iannucci’s 9th and 10th questions that were Tweeted after I wrote my original post. In light of how yesterday’s events played out, it now seems as though my additional question for readers was a wee bit optimistic. It was based [...]
What Goes Round
So, Britain’s best-selling red-top is back in the blue camp again. I can’t say I was particularly surprised when The Sun’s 12 year love-in with New Labour came to an end the other week. Maybe it’s because my political conscience first rolled off the production line during the 1980s, but I’ve always struggled to think [...]
Arse Gratia Artis
“Art for art’s sake Money for God’s sake” – 10CC From BBC News: Artist Tracey Emin has said she is thinking of leaving the UK in protest about being overtaxed. In a Sunday Times interview she said she was “very seriously considering leaving Britain,” adding: “I’m simply not willing to pay tax at 50%.” Far [...]
20th July 1969
As this is the 40th anniversary of what remains – in my opinion, at least – our species’ finest achievement, I’d just like to quote something that Apollo 11 astronaut Ed Mitchell said in the wonderful documentary film, In The Shadow of The Moon. I find it particularly moving: The biggest joy was on the [...]
“Does Humour Belong in Politics?”
Can you honestly imagine Lenny Bruce or Bill Hicks submitting to the discipline of the Whips? That was the Right Honourable MP for Ealing North, Stephen Pound, on this evening’s PM programme on Radio 4, once again justifying his status as one of the only contemporary British politicians I’d happily buy a pint for. Following [...]
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