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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.