It has been handbags at dawn in the pursuit of the ‘gay vote’. In the pink corner are the acolytes of Gordon Brown ( Ben Bradshaw and Chris Bryant), and in the pink corner are the aides-de-camp of David Cameron ( Iain Dale , Alan Duncan ). The fact that both corners are pink is simply to make then indistinguishable in their expression of ‘Gay Pride’ – they are united by...
I am indebted to Behind Blue Eyes for being a thorough gent and passing on this nugget of DPRK-related goodness . Ushers is a defunct brewers based in Trowbridge, and the DPRK bought the brewery lock, stock etc and rebuilt in Pyongyang, where it is now brewing a rather lager-y looking concoction called Taedong River Beer. Further digging has unearthed this from the KCNA: "The beers including black...
I headlined too soon. Yet another French survey , this time on trust in sundry personalities, with a remarkable array of questions. Who would you trust to babysit your children? Top of the list is a Belgian singer called Lio, who is a judge on what I am going to call ' French Idol ', at 20%, followed by actress Carole Bouquet, star of ' For Your Eyes Only ' and ' Cet obscur objet du désir' ....
Just when you thought that the old ideological Conservatives had been sacrificed on the altar of Cameronism and electability, the shadow international development secretary pops his head above the parapet with another barking mad scheme . Andrew Mitchell is proposing to inject free-market thinking into development policy by giving aid vouchers will be given to millions of people in the poorest parts...
We have gone from Blair's Babes to Brown's Ball-Breakers. In today's Mail on Sunday , we learn that Tory health spokesman Andrew Lansley has walked into a dirty tricks trap set by one Sally Gainsbury - but which seems to have been the brainchild of Alastair Campbell and Gainsbury' s boyfriend, Alex Hilton (pictured left soon after he woke up). In the last month, Hilton has launched a Labour supporting...
Gordon Brown has come under fresh pressure over the public finances after John Hutton the former defence secretary said that voters expect "honesty" about the need for cuts in Government spending.
The press is alive with the discussion of too much spending and too much borrowing by the public sector. There seems to be several sources of the noise. The PM wants to highlight the issue to stress the contrast between government [...]
What can I say that adds to this article ? We are one of the worst places in the world for bringing up children . We are the most watched people in the world, with surveillance cameras everywhere. We have approaching the largest budget deficit in the world. We are the most indebted people on the planet. We are one of the unhappiest nations, our education standards are descending at ski-slope speed...
Vince Cable MP, Liberal Democrats Treasury spokesman Sunday Live, Sky News Speaking on Sky News this morning, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman Vince Cable said that an absolute pay freeze across the public sector would not be sensible because of contractual obligations, but he called for an end to bonuses in the public sector: “We have said there should be an absolute [...]
Alex Hilton and David Prescott's new PR firm Game Changer has certainly got some attention this weekend. Perhaps they are going for the all-publicity-is-good-publicity route, or perhaps their tactics have been called out very early on. Will this really be a game changer for Labour online or will it just be more of the same old New Labour spin and dark arts? Today's Mail makes for a very different read...
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It seems that the controversial academies programme has now come to Wirral. The Government won’t, or can’t fund the new academies, so it seems that we have to rely on ’sponsors’, in other words private individuals/companies who do have the cash! But surely, as part of that, the Labour Lib Dem administration that controls Wirral must be careful who they [...]
Mr Obama is planting little ACORNS all over his private woodland which is inhabited by some frightening creatures . Oh, wait... it is not his private woodland, is it? It is the United States of America, the land of Jefferson, Franklin and Washington. Weep, America, weep, for what you have done to your heritage (shortly to be made illegal) by electing this fraud to your country's highest office. And...
Normally Boris’s timing leaves a certain amount to be desired, but in picking summer 2009 to try and boost cycling he appears to have leapt unerringly onto a moving occasionally-open-doored imaginary neo-Routemaster. Take this from the Independent: Bike shops are struggling to meet demand, which has tripled in the past 12 months despite massive price hikes. [...]
British Parliamentarians of all parties in the House of Commons in Westminster have backed an early day motion on Autism and the Carer's Allowance. EDM 1551 was tabled by Lee Scott MP who has been campaigning tirelessly in the House of Commons on autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Autism campaigners in the United Kingdom have been urging the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Government to increase the...
Political assassination is always an interesting thing to watch. I remembered seeing it happen to Thatcher and its effects made long lasting and deep, near fatal wounds on the conservative party. They never recovered even after Major won a general election after Thatcher's departure and it is only now, 18 years after her departure that they are beginning to look like a united party again. The...