From the monthly archives:

January 2009

From closet to cabinet and back to closet again…..

January 31, 2009

No longer centre stage, the man who should more properly be blamed for the present bout of fiscal diarrhoea in the UK banking system, skulked on the outer perimeter of the Davos conference this week, uncharacteristically silent.
The last time he was at Davos in 2008 he said,
“Being prime minister of Britain means having to [...]

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Pedagogue or Paedophile?

January 30, 2009

A long, long, time ago, just after World War 11, six licenses were granted to war veterans that allowed them to take commercial photographs in Trafalgar Square thus overriding the obscure by-law that had long prevented this means of earning an honest crust.
In 1961, Nicky Connors was just such a photographer. With [...]

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‘Unspeak’ – the Journalist’s lexicon and ‘Abduction’.

January 30, 2009

Steven Poole coined the phrase ‘Unspeak’ as a fitting title for his book describing the process by which certain key words can lay claim to the high moral ground in a contentious matter without having to justify the argument.
‘Unspeak’ should not be confused with George Orwell’s ‘newspeak’ or ‘doublespeak’ which effectively reversed [...]

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A ‘Clarri-fied’ parallel universe.

January 29, 2009

Mr Clarence Mitchell said: ‘People will be able to see that every penny of the money they so generously donated has been spent properly in the hunt to find Madeleine.’

I would suggest, Mr Mitchell, that the publication by Companies House last night of the accounts for the private company (limited by [...]

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Scary Monsters……

January 28, 2009

Just when we thought it couldn’t happen here – whoops! Meet Dan, thanks to the charity Action for Children. They’ve created a cunning advert in which a boy with Asperger’s Syndrome is depicted as having been eaten by that scary monster, autism. Just like in the good old US of A.
Yes, folks it was the [...]

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State Terrorism

January 28, 2009

Commenting on the Police searches of the offices of Law Firm Vasco Vieira de Almeida looking for papers relating to the so-called ‘Freeport’ Case, the head of the Portuguese Bar, Marinho Pinto, said
“This is a practice usual to terrorist states. (…) If this is done in this way, in Portugal, this is state [...]

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The silence of the lame…….

January 28, 2009

Lame we most definitely were, hobbled by the devastating trail that a monstrous storm carved through South West France. Allegedly. We had seen and felt for ourselves that the storm was real enough, roaring through the town like a train that [...]

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