Liberal Burblings

Archive for August, 2007

Photo 1 was of Cordelia Gummer who, aged four, was fed a burger (above) by her dad during the CJD scare. She is now 21 years old.

Photo 2 was of Carole Hersee who was photographed when she was eight by her father, a designer, to feature in the BBC 2 testcard, which he designed. She is now 48 years old:

Photo 1

Photo 2

A bit of a quiz. Answers in two hours.

Photos 1 and 2 above are of two women whose dads thrust them into public limelight when they small girls.

Clue: The saparate images of these women as girls are extremely well known.

Don’t forget that today is your last chance to nominate blogs and blog postings for the LibDem Blog of year awards.

The details and a link to where to send nominations are here.

I have nominate half a dozen blogs for the various awards.

I will spare the blushes of those I have nominated except to say that I nominated "Daddy Alex" for "Best posting" for:

David Cameron on Today: How I Long For Yesterday

Whoops. With everything going wrong for David Cameron in recent weeks, this morning he dropped three different messes of his own making all over the Today Programme. Reaching for another Tory core vote issue to shore up his fragile position, he chose the wrong one: what idiot prattles about school discipline whilst his own party are rioting? Then he fell flat on his pitiful by-election failures, describing the Conservatives without qualification as the third party. Finally, unable to answer multiple Tory attacks on him, he chose to attack each of them in turn, sounding like just another feuding, useless Tory.

…A great post by a great blogger. I just wish he would hurry up and finish that mug of tea.

It really is madness that there are perfectly good vaccines for typhoid and measles but we are seeing increases in UK incidences of both those diseases.

It is timely that the UK Vaccines industry group have issued a series of documents called “Valuing Vaccines”, linked to a publicity campaign involving Tony “Baldrick” Robinson.

My son died aged sixteen months old in 1993 of a type of Meningitis called pneumococall meningitis. At the time, a vaccine for that disease was not even dreamt of. Fortunately, as of last October, such a vaccine is available on the NHS. That was thirteen years too late for my son.

So I have extra reason to be very concerned that available vaccines are not being taken up, leading to an increase in disease.

Photo above: Edward Jenner, who discovered the smallpox vaccine

David Cameron is still unable to get the support of his party for anything other than traditional core Tory policies.

Despite his best husky-hugging efforts, only 34% of Tory members would be “happy to pay green taxes if other taxes fall by the same amount”.

That is according to the latest Conservative members’ survey by Conservative Home.