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Hagbard Celine and the MPs’ Expenses Scandal

By Tom Lennon ⋅ May 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

As an antidote to the relentless cavalcade of hubris, hypocrisy and moral indignation stoked up by the cataclysmic faeces-to-fan proximity problem that’s known locally as the MPs’ Expenses Scandal, here’s a little something from the satirist, guerrilla ontologist and former editor of Playboy, Robert Anton Wilson. Its the Third Law of Wilson’s fictional gentleman anarchist [...]

Bocca Grande Normalis

By Tom Lennon ⋅ May 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I know that this will involve me stepping out of my made-to-measure comfort zone of pop culture, obscure literary references and knob gags, but I have to confess that this whole MPs’ Expenses Scandal malarkey has left me feeling somewhat bemused. Yes, that’s right, bemused. Not angry, not apoplectic with rage, not even baying for [...]

More PKD on the Radio…

By Tom Lennon ⋅ April 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

To elaborate on that previous post (which, truth be told, I knocked out in a bit of a rush): The Today programme’s Jim Naughtie was talking to David Davis (ex-shadow home secretary) and Derek Barnett (vice president of the Police Superintendents’ Association of England & Wales) about calls for a debate about how police should [...]

Philip K. David Davis

By Tom Lennon ⋅ April 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Former shadow home secretary David Davis was just on Radio 4′s Today programme. He was discussing the role of police crowd control following the G20 demonstrations. He said that policing in this country is in danger of becoming increasingly ‘pre-crime‘ based. David Davis a PKD fan? Who’d a thought it…

BBPM?

By Tom Lennon ⋅ January 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

From The Hollywood Reporter: TORONTO — “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek is set to moonlight on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. as host of the reality competition series “Canada’s Next Prime Minister.” Canadian-born Trebek, who got his start at the pubcaster, will share the stage March 18 with three former prime ministers as they field pitches from [...]

The Inauguration

By Tom Lennon ⋅ January 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I have a confession to make. It’s not an easy thing to admit to. In these rheumy-eyed, cynical times it can be considered dreadfully unfashionable, politically naïve and more than a tad suspicious. In certain circles it is regarded as an early indicator of the onset of water on the brain. However, at the risk [...]

Woolies RIP

By Tom Lennon ⋅ January 3, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I’ve never been one to anthropomorphise business entities, so I don’t tend to get too upset when a major High Street retailer goes out of business. Sure, I’ll always sympathise with the regular people who end up losing their jobs on account of other peoples’ errors of judgment and catastrophic SNAFUs, but I don’t feel [...]

Sachsgate

By Tom Lennon ⋅ October 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

This morning I paid a visit to the corner shop to get some milk, bread and Marlboro Lights. As usual, I made a beeline for the fish ‘n’ chip paper rack and scanned the headlines. The one on the Daily Mail jumped out at me: THE DAY OF RECKONING Holy shit, I thought, it must [...]

Did Morgan Spurlock find Osama bin Laden?

By Tom Lennon ⋅ December 5, 2007 ⋅ One comment

From MSNBC News: Rumors are flying that filmmaker Morgan Spurlock of “Super Size Me” fame may have done what the United States government has failed to do for the last six years — find Osama bin Laden. The speculation first began at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, where Spurlock showed a select group [...]