Taking out the head of the Libyan Armed Forces is a legitimate strategy. The collateral damage may not be. # New blog posting, Changes to the website – http://tinyurl.com/425954t # Seriously, Catholics. Read through the doctrine on beatification and tell me it wasn't drawn up by a crackhead. # Donald Trump still hasn't provided a [...]
Whilst all media try to portray themselves as neutral, dispassionate and disinterested observers in news stories, sometimes the language they use shows up laziness or bias in reporting. One story catching my eye this afternoon is the wonderful propaganda piece in the BBC website: US confirms first Predator strike in Libya It contains the quote: [...]
There is nothing either particularly logical or elegant about the embodiment of the basic economic problem in the Guns versus Butter conundrum, but there’s probably a well established way to pay someone through taxpayer cash to paint a picture of it or commit poetry to paper on the subject. That has to end; when we’re [...]
Blogpost: Surprising HTC Desire review by an iPhone fanboi: http://tinyurl.com/2d2a9l9 # Assured and good performance from new NUS president Aaron Porter on BBC News Channel. # I hope @newyorkhotel follows me back soon so I can DM! # Endless knob. #changelovetoknobsongs # My knob is waiting. #changelovetoknobsongs #
If you ever wanted to crystalise the state of the election race, you couldn’t do much better than these two entirely adjacent posts on the BBC’s constantly updating election news ticker. This cut and pasted exactly as it is on the BBC website. 0854: David Cameron is campaigning in north London. The Conservatives will “clean [...]
The BBC is reporting as a certainty that our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is going to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament and call an election. Finally. After thirteen years of decay and vandalism of our constitution and the principles of our nation, the bottler in chief, who legendarily lost close to £7bn of our [...]
Very little to say here. M&C Saatchi Saatchi & Saatchi*, Labour’s poster people, have run a competition for any cretin with MS Paint to have a go at saving Gordon Brown from the apparently inevitable embarrassing and potentially intensely satisfying fate of being an unelected Prime Minister fucked out on his ear. They chose a [...]
The announcement of proposed cuts to BBC services has been overwhelmingly welcomed by commercial broadcasters and judged as too timid by many conservatives. Yet the proposed changes and the timing represent serious challenges for the Conservatives as a party, and we should be immensely wary of too wholehearted an appetite for the cuts. Unless we [...]
September 11, 2001. Was in a BBC studio, talking about the new university year. Got a text message from a friend, who knew it was a rum do, but whose text seemed to suggest an accident. Simultaneously, a researcher from the newsroom interrupted the interview. In the newsroom to see the footage of the second [...]
