And by ‘Government’ I mean Westminster. At least up here we’ve actually got a government.
Alastair Darling is said to be furious because Gordon is determined - against strong opposition from the Treasury and the Bank of England - to spend an unbelievable amount of money to try and boost his personal approval ratings by launching [...]
“Manchester is the city of rain,” Nemanja Vidic said, “… its main attraction is considered to be the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities …”
And he’s been roundly criticised, hounded and, eventually, told to recant his words as being misquoted. Pity, it is not often that I’ve laughed [...]
Did you listen to her? Nuff said. Looked OK - if, unsurprisingly, overly grateful. But that voice. It screeched, it grated, it was irredeemably sharp and shrill. Intolerable. Unelectable. Then there’s the small matter of experience. Running Alaska for a couple of years is hardly a sufficient basis in understanding and experience for running the [...]
Yesterday’s Independent published a ‘Podium’ article by Hillary Clinton headed: ‘If you supported me, then support Barack Obama’.
In it she says:
‘We need leaders once again who can help us show ourselves and the world that with our ingenuity, creativity and innovative spirit, there are no limits to what is possible in America.
‘Now this will not [...]
Teeth getting knocked out. Chins being split. Eyes lost. Fractured ankles being played on. Brains being dulled. Or were they dull already? I’m not sure. As an Englishman who played hockey and rugby I can’t believe the level of personal danger posed by playing shinty. Its unbelievable to me that safety kit is not used [...]
So far not a voice in favour of this one. Everyone’s - reasonably - been focusing on the inevitable resistance from the celtic fringe nations, anxious both to maintin their traditional separate footballing identity and their own places in the World Cup. Nobody’s looked at the practicalities - and they knock it on the head. [...]
It’s early texting, isn’t it? Otherwise we’d have been te’cks’ting.
The funniest thing in the fantastically thoroughly stage-managed finale at the Beiing Olympics came as the platform party left the central podium, after handing over the Olympic flag for London 2012 to Boris Johnson, Mayor of London. Symmetry ruled. The party left in pairs. The shaggy humourist stuck both hands in his pockets. This [...]
Hang on. Isn’t the heart of private enterprise supposed to be the old saw ’speculate to accumulate’? And isn’t investment the key to speculation? Not for our feather-bedded UK Government contractors. BAE Systems, due to delver HMS Astute to Faslane in Argyll by the end of this month, has been awarded a fifteen year contract [...]
Did you hear the interview Jacques Rogge of the IOC gave the BBC? He said: ‘a good organiser is a hjmbe organiser. A good organiser is an organiser who listens. The nightmare is an organiser who says “I’ll do it my way” ‘. He seemed concerned about the UK’s lowering of expectations for the 2012 [...]
