Grow up

Oliver Kamm being involved in the drafting of a tedious, over-long rant about Noam Chomsky? Surely not… Aaronovitch being involved is also not a surprise. Francis Wheen, however, I thought had more sense. Note to everyone involved – Chomsky is … Continue reading →

They don’t know much as of yet other than it looks like no one was hurt and not to leap to any conclusions. A newspaper received a bomb warning 30 minutes before the blast, plus today was to see the … Continue reading →

Odd. When Richard Pryor’s obituary first appeared on the BBC news site yesterday, it mentioned “$40 million (�23 million, 34 million euros)”. Today the euros have gone. Anyway… *wanders off to watch Brewster’s Millions, Superman III and See No Evil, … Continue reading →

Earlier this week, the US Department of the Treasury’s order to freeze the assets of a variety of Viktor Bout companies was extended to the entire world by the UN Security Council’s sanctions committee. All assets belonging to the persons … Continue reading →

Just hit the inbox. From Jo Brand (remember her?). It begins thusly: “Hello, I’m Jo, a Labour supporter and you may have seen me on telly. Have you noticed the big news this week? David Cameron (Dave to his friends), … Continue reading →

The new blogs roundup is here – and includes a number I’d spotted but then lost/forgotten, which is always nice. Go have a looksee – bound to be some gooduns in there.

Apropos that Sainsbury/Woolworth caving in to pressure from morons thing, a nice example from across the pond of how big companies can (and should) respond to cultural intolerance from fringe pressure groups. Yay for Kraft – their food may taste … Continue reading →

Rejoice! There’s a new Bribery consultation paper: “The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Fiona Mactaggart): I am pleased to announce the publication today of the Government’s consultation paper on reform of the laws of bribery. Although the … Continue reading →

Austin Mitchell’s letter to Ruth Kelly is back again. Can’t tell if there have been any changes, or quite why it was taken down after a day or so, but it’s full of good stuff attacking the Education White Paper … Continue reading →

Note to The Guardian: There is a difference between things one writes in a News of the World column and what one does when shadow foreign secretary. One involves populist attempts to appeal to that kind of lowest common denominator … Continue reading →

What’s the likelihood of Blair following Schr�der’s example once he finally buggers off out of our lives and just heads down the pub? (Oh, and in other German news, apparently they’ve still got an opposition over there after all – … Continue reading →

Still horrendously busy, so read European Democracy’s top-notch critique of the CAP, which explains all the many problems, few benefits, and possible solutions rather better than I could. A really rather good introduction/overview of the single biggest problem facing the … Continue reading →

Good grief, it really is all change now that Cameron’s been named Tory leader. According to the Guardian, there’s now “speculation that William Hague will make a return to frontline politics and a job as foreign secretary”. I wonder what … Continue reading →