Derek Draper

Fairy Tales and Spin-Meisters.

April 3, 2010

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Once upon a time, we relied on the story teller for both news and education; we called him a troubadour. He travelled from market place to market place, alternately educating, advising, and passing on gossip. Around the beginning of the 19th C, the role of story teller changed [...]

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Life on the open blog…….

April 20, 2009

Blogging is the quintessential egalitarian occupation. It is free, open to all, and the anonymity allows for the perfect meritocracy. It should come naturally for Nu-Labourites with their espousal of the creed of a classless society. Yet it doesn’t. Labourlist was not ‘Derek the Pyjamahideen’ in his bedroom, it was state – and union – sponsored astro-turfing. Senior [...]

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Scientific proof that Dolly is a tit.

April 17, 2009

No good, I can’t resist it………. “Dolly was created by reproductive cloning technology. Dolly’s success is truly remarkable because it proved that the genetic material from a specialized adult cell, such as an udder cell programmed to express only those genes needed by udder cells, could be reprogrammed to generate an entire new organism. Before [...]

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McBride, McCann, McSpin and McSmear

April 16, 2009

There has long been speculation regarding the high level of support the McCanns received from within the government when their daughter Madeleine disappeared. It has been defended as ‘normal government support’ for a family in distress – but was it government support or Labour Party support? The recent revelations of a high level ‘dirty tricks campaign’ [...]

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The McBride who Bolted from the Altar of Spin.

April 12, 2009

We listened respectfully to the vows as dispensed by Harriet Harman. “In future, under a Gordon Brown regime, we need to have no spin, no briefing, no secrets and respect for parliament,” We believed, we had faith. No spin? No briefing? No secrets? The very charms with which she had wooed her way into the [...]

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Derek whines on Channel 4

April 11, 2009
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Red Tops to expose Red Rag sailing under the Red Flag.

April 11, 2009

Someone not unconnected to the Red tops said to me very recently – ‘political blogging is a waste of time, you’ll vanish without trace.’ Two of the biggest political blogging sites have been ‘off air’ tonight because of the overwhelming interest in them. Why? Tonight has seen the resignation of the Prime Minister’s hand picked personal [...]

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