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The Final Curtain.

November 27, 2009

Those of you who know me well, will be aware that I have not been well in recent months.
Thanks to the excellent French medical service, which is second to none, I have undergone a battery of tests in record time, no waiting, no messing, outstanding courtesy and efficiency at every turn. Hopefully they have now [...]

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Google and the Land of the Free.

November 26, 2009

Somewhere between my greasy gang land garagiste era and before sliding into the ice age of the Lord Chancellor’s Office, I ran a small hotel in Suffolk on the outskirts of a vast American air base. I had a sign on the wall – ‘two peoples separated by a common language’ – to remind the [...]

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A Challenge to the Politicians.

November 24, 2009

I don’t doubt that X-Factor is important to a lot of people, 12 million of them on average. I don’t doubt that a lot of those people are potential voters.
I am curious as to how or why the PR strategists at 10 Downing Street manage to connect those two pieces of information into a strategy [...]

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Last remaining incandescent Rosbif writes…

November 22, 2009

Down on the Googlemail funny-forum, one patient won’t be taking any more medication
Earlier this year I had a long and at times irritable email correspondence with Oliver Letwin, the Tory MP for Lyme Regis. My points were that (a) every ISP with whom I worked was lying about selling on [...]

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Saturday Evening Posts Worth Reading.

November 21, 2009

The Anger of a Quiet Man on the farce that is Catherine Ashton’s new appointment.
Raedwald on the need for a European Army.
Letters From a Tory for the only precis of the ‘climate change emails’ that has made sense to me so far.
The Croydonian for the name they cannot say.
Goodnight Spilsby for reminding us that things [...]

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It’s Me Religion, Innit?

November 20, 2009

Young Mohsin Khan was driving along with this collection of 10″ blades held together with chain under his car seat. He was stopped by Police on his way to a West End nightclub.
Several years earlier, 2005 to be precise, young Charlie Booker was found to be in possession of a butter knife with ‘no handle, [...]

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The Danger of Following The Sun.

November 18, 2009

The blogging world is essentially diamagnetic to the iron fist of controlling legislation. We scattered like whirling dervishes to our keyboards to denounce Baroness Buscombe’s suggestion that the PCC might encompass the blogging world in its efforts to do the Government’s thinking and control all dissenting voices.
‘Never!’ we cried, ‘Prise our cold dead hands from [...]

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