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 [...]
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 [...]
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As someone who has already complained about Dunoon’s “interesting” attitude to large capital projects on this website, to read the headline today on forargyll.com regarding “competition” for funding for regeneration in Argyll between our five major towns is deeply distressing. No-one seems to be taking the council to task on this, especially those [...]
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!) [...]
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 [...]
Watching the Russian Ambassador to the UN deny the Russian army presence in Georgia was an extraordinary display of brass neck. Terrifyingly his plausibility wasn’t dented by the assembled press corps. The only reason I ‘know’ he was lying, was a subsequent report from the BBC which I have no reason to doubt was accurate. [...]
British badminton mixed-doubles pair, Nathan Robertson and Gail Ems, were down 17-12 in the third game of a key match. They are to retire after this games. An over-heated commentator describing their situation as ‘retire or get to the semi-final’ said: ‘It’s stark. It’s brutal. It’s reality.’
And a BBC commentator, wanting to talk up [...]
As a teenager when I heard the Sex Pistols on old analogue radio for the first time, I knew, with many of my contemporaries, that I was hearing history in the making, even out in nowhere-near-anything-north of England. That day burned bright in every teenager’s consciousness – radio had allowed us to activate in a [...]
