Category Archives: Media

Lib Dems' pretend friends

Super-geek Northavon MP Steve Webb has come up with a hilarious little jape to entertain the press for August. The man charged with writing the next Lib Dem election manifesto – a document that combines the realism of an In … Continue reading

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This is priceless

Anyone following the Nick Cohen/Johann Hari spat across the internet at present? It started with the intensely irritating Independent columnist Hari writing an ill-judged review of Cohen’s book What’s Left? for the New York based Dissent magazine. Cohen has now … Continue reading

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So farewell then… Richard Stott

Former Mirror, People and Today editor Richard Stott died earlier today. He’s popular in these parts for his love of the scurrilous and thoroughly disreputable Bristolian that was published until a few years ago. Here’s what he said about the … Continue reading

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Bonkers Iranian news item of the week

The Iranian ultra-right state-run newspaper Kayhan – the first choice for theocratic nutjobs – does not approve of Harry Potter it seems or its “American-British publisher which has Zionist collaborators, such as Warner Brothers”. Here’s what they’re saying about the … Continue reading

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How that CONgestion cash cow coming soon really works

Thursday night, during another stroppy and less than impressive full city council meeting, one of the only things the Lib Dems and Labour managed to agree on was voting down Tory leader Bunter Eddy’s motion to have a referendum on … Continue reading

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More MoD balls

The MoD might have 1,000 highly paid experts working in media and communications but can they answer a simple parliamentary question between them? Mr. Carswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many former departmental staff are working … Continue reading

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So farewell then… Dumpster

It’ll probably come as no great surprise to many readers to learn that The Blogger was not a close acquaintance of the man we must now learn to call the ‘Former Former World’s Greatest Living Englishman’, Aussie gossip columnist Nigel … Continue reading

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MoD's PR army

Further proof – as if it’s really needed – that this country’s run by a class of self-perpetuating loonies was provided by the Sunday Telegraph today. The paper reports that the MoD has only just discovered that it has 1,000 … Continue reading

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Pass the sickbag: Writer's Rooms

One of the joys Saturday’s Guardian is undoubtedly its Review section’s ‘Writer’s Rooms’ column, in which a painfully self-conscious metropolitan author describes, in scary detail, their study and working methods. Every week it’s like an extended Pseud’s Corner. This week … Continue reading

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Ashton Court… The final PR shambles

Here’s their website at 2.00pm today. They haven’t even got around to announcing it’s cancelled yet! Should guarantee a good few more disappointed punters at the site than necessary though.

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