Now there’s a lineup … Clarkson got in trouble this week for a joke about the Public Sector Pensions Strike (which I completely support). The joke as reported was in pretty poor taste and not at all funny, but actually in context it did make me laugh. I don’t think he should be prosecuted for [...]

Garry Trudeau move over …

Two weeks ago I blogged that the News of the World should shut down. Four days later it did. Then Ed Miliband demanded a judicial enquiry, Rebekah Brooks’ resignation and Murdoch’s takeover of BSkyB be stopped. It all happened. Today Roy Greenslade is asking for David Cameron to go. Oh please, let it be so [...]

Gosh ! When I suggested on Monday night that the News of the World should be shut down I never imagined that it would actually happen on Thursday afternoon. It feels like a great victory — I read the best newspaper, and thanks to their tenacity the worst newspaper has been shut down. Thanks also [...]

I do like people who are sincerely left wing, like Russell T Davies in today’s Guardian: We all forgot how clever the Tories are, that’s the start. We’re all falling for how comic they are: the comedy of the coalition; Clegg and Cameron beside the hospital bed. They’re fooling us into thinking they’re funny – [...]

Hey, look at me, I’m Curt Swan. And just for the avoidance of doubt I voted Yes to AV on Thursday, because I don’t believe in cutting off my nose to spite the Lib Dems.

Nick Clegg: We will not privatise NHS uh oh …

Enjoyed this blog post about the reality of Obama’s health reforms. Let us hope that we never have terms and conditions applied to our NHS.

I can’t take credit for this one, thanks martybee on the New Statesman blog … I see Nick Clegg put up a strong argument in favour of AV. I wonder which way he intends to vote ? And just for the record, I will be voting for AV, but I’m still mad as hell at [...]

In general I’m not a great fan of the green movement. Don’t they know that poverty is the enemy and increased production is how to get people out of poverty. Even if that means standard have to fall. And organic produce is just a label to get us to buy dirty carrots. And farmers’ markets [...]