GrumpyOldTwat (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rik Mayall reprises his role as Alan B'stard MP in one of my all time favourite pieces of video mockery. Knowing Rik, as I do, just makes the whole fucking thing (pun intended) even funnier. If you have never seen this before you're in for a treat. A classic piece by Alison Jackson .
Organized Rage (Free subscription) | yesterday
First published here.
Events dear boy, events (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cherie Blair, having once said “"Well, that's a lie" when she heard Brown tell the Labour conference it been a privilege to work for Tony Blair, has buried the hatchet. She is promising to campaign for Our Dear Leader should he survive to fight the election: It’s too early to say what I will be doing, but I will make myself available and really look forward to it. Not only should...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Although Cherie Blair declined to say how she felt about her husband missing out on the EU presidency, she professed herself happy with her lot in life when I chatted to her over a glass of champagne.
My World Earth (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Judgment: Peter Mandelson Party venue: The Rothschild family's French chateau-style Waddesdon Manor Keen shot: Saif Gaddafi, Host: Nat Rothschild and Guest: Cherie Blair Lord Mandelson has infuriated families of the Lockerbie bombing victims by attending a shooting party with Colonel Gaddafi's son. The Business Secretary and Saif Gaddafi were guests of billionaire financier Lord Rothschild and his...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | yesterday
Britain exploded this week with revelations that a top Labour minister and Cherie Blair went pheasant shooting with the Libyan dictator's son. Venetia Thompson on the latest fallout from the al-Megrahi scandal. As President Obama pardoned a turkey...
The Plashing Vole (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
How's this as a marker of how the party of the people has become merely part of the international élite, leaving behind all conscience? Mandelson parties with Gadaffi's son Peter Mandelson, Gadaffi's son and Cherie Blair all went on a shooting trip hosted by Lord Rothschild. Mandy and Blair didn't heft any guns themselves, just consorted with this aristo riff-raff. Rothschild's a Tory bastard,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
He talked of being "intensely relaxed" about the filthy rich, and no one could say that Lord Mandelson doesn't like their company. After twice facing criticism for consorting with billionaires in Corfu, it emerged tonight that the business secretary joined Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son at a country house shooting party. Mandelson and Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi were guests at Lord Rothschild's...
Benedict Brogan (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The Tories have just put out a statement on the back of a curious item in tomorrow’s Spectator. My Telegraph colleague Charles Moore, in his Notes column, reports that Lord Mandelson was recently a guest of Lord Rothschild’s for a shoot, along with Cherie Blair and Saif Gaddafi, son of the Libyan ruler, whom you [...]
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
For more than a decade she was the height of fashion, designing clothes for Kate Winslet, Cherie Blair and Princess Diana
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
100 books that defined the noughties Zadie, Nigella, Steig and, of course, the boy wizard. The decade has seen publishing phenomenons like no other, but which books, for better or worse, have summed up the noughties? by Brian MacArthur Published: The Telegraph, 13 Nov 2009 Never in the history of bookselling has there been such a phenomenon as Harry Potter; JK Rowling’s series sold in tens of...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
THREE of Britain’s most eminent women – Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Cherie Blair QC and Baroness Symons – are backing the bid to return the last Battle of the Atlantic warship, HMS Whimbrel, to her former Liverpool home.
Tabloid Watch (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
A few weeks ago, Carole Malone was proved to be a liar when her own paper retracted her ridiculous claim that immigrants get 'free cars'. This came soon after the paper had to pay damages to Cherie Blair for false claims Malone had made about her. She lies about immigration quite often - pushing all the myths about council housing, health queue jumping and benefit scrounging , without producing shred...
foot talk (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Tamara Mellon has launched a “cheap chic” designer collaboration with high-street fashion chain H&M . The collection includes Jimmy Choo shoes . The Malaysian shoe designer sold his stake in the Jimmy Choo label in 2001. The rumours were he and his former business partner Tamara Mellon parted not on the best of terms. Now Jimmy Choo , the designer focuses his attention on creating...
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Marvellous development. Tremendous day. Truly historic, momentous and extraordinarily generous. As Pope Benedict XVI issued his ‘Apostolic Constitution’ setting out the terms by which disaffected Anglicans are invited to cross the Tiber and join his church, in a spirit of ecclesial benevolence and with all the generosity of ecumenical reciprocity, the Archbishop of Canterbury has invited...
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