Monthly Archives: April 2009

Tweet..for a great brace of goals at Norwich and to the rest of the team for an excellent performance. Fingers, toes and everything crossed for Sunday… Tweet This Post Tweet

TweetLynne Featherstone has just tweeted to say the government has been defeated on the Gurkhas vote! Back of the net!! 267 for the Liberal Democrat motion, and 247 against were the scores on the doors. Sky report the news here: … Continue reading →

Tweet3000th postMany, many happy returns to Jeremy Thorpe who is the grand age of 80 today. Here’s a great photo of him in the Sixties with Jimi Hendrix. Tweet This Post Tweet

TweetI am considerably bouyed up this morning. Indeed, one could say that my hoop is well and truly a-cock. I have received a communication from the Guardian Readers’ Editor (which in itself is cause for celebration) saying that she has … Continue reading →

TweetHere’s Jon Stewart’s hilarious and very cutting take on the Air Force One photo-shoot over Ground Zero in New York. With a Homberg-doffment to Media Monkey. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Mistakes on … Continue reading →

TweetWhy on earth would you need some “file photos” of Air Force One anyway? And if you wanted to show the plane flying over New York – why not photo-shop it? Should US government money be used to involve a … Continue reading →

TweetWhy on earth would you need some “file photos” of Air Force One anyway? And if you wanted to show the plane flying over New York – why not photo-shop it? Should US government money be used to involve a … Continue reading →

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TweetA juicy account on that expenses meeting from Brendan Carlin: Angry Gordon Brown shouted a ‘take it or leave it’ ultimatum at David Cameron over MPs’ expenses during an extraordinarily bad-tempered meeting between the party leaders last week.The Prime Minister … Continue reading →

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TweetIn the Guardian centre spread today there’s a photo of Alistair Darling having breakfast “in No 11 Downing Street”. No sign of Gordon there in the kitchen. I thought Monsieur Brown and his family lived in the No. 11 flat…didn’t … Continue reading →

TweetThe Giant’s Causeway in Antrim, Northern Ireland is quite rightly a Mecca for tourists. In fact, the Causeway itself is quite microcosmic. When I recently visited there, I was more awestruck by the Giant’s Organ. Here’s a great picture of … Continue reading →

TweetIt was a surprise to myself, but I have, for a long time, had an ambition to visit Strangford Lough (Northern Ireland) and witness the extraordinary exchange of waters which happen at the “narrows” twice a day. It is apparently … Continue reading →