Tories and Northern Ireland

Hoons,Northern Ireland,stupidity 30 January 2010 0 Comments

I notice that, finally, consideration is being given to whether the Conservative Party should be fully invested in Northern Ireland, and what sort of interaction there should be between the party and the (inaccurately described) province.  I’ve written about this before, when I was to a large extent agreeing with Jeff Peel (full disclosure – [...]

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Bitch, pleaz… Bradshaw's homophobia allegation sooo unworthy

Uncategorized 2 July 2009 0 Comments

Labour is getting desperate to portray the Conservatives as inherently nasty, deeply worrying and a danger to the UK. This is dangerously out of step with the general public’s thinking on the parties, and is a throwback to the time before the 1997 General Election.

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Death, taxes and wanting a new iPhone

gadgets,technology 9 June 2009 0 Comments

The launch at the Apple World Wide Developers’ Conference yesterday of the new model iPhone 3GS was a damp squib, a spectacular confirmation that Apple can make a bunch of geeks in an auditorium applaud at will. The new phone will look like the one I’m blogging on right now, it will have a marginally [...]

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