The row over the Scottish Government placing contracts in Asia for the production of Saltires has been illuminating. Makes you realise that the SNP is the only party which can never place contracts of any kind outside the country if there is a native company capable of delivering.
The clarifier here was that it was [...]
Gordon Brown lost no time in conveying his feelings to the BBC on Russell Brand’s and Jonathan Ross’s competitive lapse of taste. Brand resigned. Ross was suspended. Taking a judgmental position, however, on the unimaginably awful life and death of Baby P is a different matter. Due process rules in this case. Brown may be [...]
Look - Jonathan Ross is the senior broadcaster, the iconic boundary-pusher, pretty much a cult hero to those newer to the industry. Russell Brand - and who, including himself, ever thought good judgment was an arrow in his quiver - was performing for an audience of one - Jonathan.
Watch the clip - you cannot [...]
Think of the psychology of the man. Look at the picture. Consider the oddities. An ace pilot on a weekend with a friend in Nevada takes a small plane up for a quick recce to do with his next adventure. He goes missing. Nothing of any kind is found even after prolonged and complex searches [...]
Why can’t we be more intelligent about assessing the impact of resigning ministers? It means something if the good ones go. But why furrow the brow for the chaff?
Current Housing Minister Caroline Flint is said to have had to be persuaded not to resign by the so-called ‘ginger chipmunk’, Hazel Blears. Transport Secretary, Ruth Kelly [...]
The most fabulous political photo for yonks was in Tuesday’s Daily Mail (23rd September) - centre spread, pages 8 - 9. It was an unforgettable moment after David Miliband’s speech to the Labour Party Conference on Monday. Apparently dismissing his own ambitions, he’d conjured an adolescent crush on his leader’s achievements (abroad, not at home!) [...]
Does anybody else think he looks like the Invisible Man fresh out of the bandages?
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 [...]
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 [...]
