Fear and loathing on Walsworth Common
July 20th, 2008
Of all the undignified ways to shuffle off this mortal coil, getting sucked into bottomless mud while clearing litter in your local park has got to rank right up there.
"And then he said..."
Two-fingered typing and cheap photography, since November 2002
It all sounds a bit familiar…
July 18th, 2008
The longer this government lasts, the more its rhetoric sounds like the bad old days of the Thatcher years - and the easier it gets to spot its mistakes coming.
Stiff upper lips 1, Americans 0
June 12th, 2008
How perfectly splendid - it appears that an RAF fighter pilot on secondment to an American squadron has been able to wave the Queen’s Regulations in the face of US officers who were trying to get him to shave off his handlebar moustache.
David Davis resigning as an MP? Blimey!
June 12th, 2008
News just breaking that the Tory shadow Home Secretary David Davis is resigning - not just from the shadow cabinet but from the House of Commons.
A year ago today…
February 4th, 2008
Quite the most bizarre day of my life, when I got up at four in the morning, drove to a frost-covered wood, and dug up a prize worth £100,000.
Give me 12 inches (and make me a wig)
December 21st, 2007
The fear of going bald does strange things to a man - just ask Mark Oaten. Thing is, there’s no turning back from it.
A Christmas rant
December 18th, 2007
And straight in at number one in the ‘brain-numbingly stupid decisions of 2007′ chart is BBC Radio 1, for censoring one of the only decent Christmas songs ever written to avoid offence to listeners.
Huhne overtakes Clegg - sort of
December 6th, 2007
Look - it’s close, OK? Too close for the difference to be meaningful. And it may not actually be good news for Huhne anyway. But there has been a small but measurable swing to him from Clegg in the attention they’re both receiving among bloggers.
Your metaphor leaves me cold, Mr Pritchard
December 5th, 2007
“Taking Christ out of Christmas is like serving the Christmas turkey without the stuffing,” says Tory MP Mark Pritchard. As both a pagan and a vegetarian, I’ll have to take his word for it…
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Mr Smug, Mr Smarm and my naked ballot paper
December 5th, 2007
With time running out in the Lib Dem leadership election, I’ve finally thought of something that might make me vote – even though the one thing I’ve been certain of all along is that I don’t want either candidate in charge of my party.
