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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...

Gordon prepares not to bottle something

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...

Remembering the victims of terrorism

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...