Monthly Archives: May 2008
Special blanch
The BBC website has a quite extraordinary take on London’s Vietnam demonstrations of 1968, which it now attaches to its preview of the programme on bluenose (though now, more positively, redesignated as “filthbuster“) Mary Whitehouse. He’ll get to that in … Continue reading
Filed under BBC, leftist politics., security, Times, Uncategorized
A word to the wise
Malcolm (whose mind has been on matters other than serious bloggery this last week) did not believe the picture in today’s Times. Unfortunately, the on-line version omits the critical photograph: Crook & Blight are, indeed, estate agents, auctioneers, valuers and … Continue reading
Filed under Times
Burnishing the blue lamp
Very definitely worth a look: Heather Brooke, of “Your Right to Know” (who was the star of the MP’s expenses disclosure), has now turned her attention to PR spending by the different police authorities. This has resulted in two articles … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Old Possum reads the polls.
If there ever was proof positive that most political opinion polls are arrant twaddle, it surely is here: That’s ICM’s telephone poll of 1,004 people from Crewe on 7th-8th May. Ask two similar questions of the same panel, and get … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
The death of local politics?
Malcolm starts with an aside: The Internet is close to death by self-strangulation. Those that live by the Net will soon be throttled by it, like Secutor enmeshed by Retarius. There was an example last evening when Malcolm tried to … Continue reading
Filed under blogging, leftist politics.
“… a Conservative party that just talks.”
Here, as a public service, Malcolm reproduces the exchange between David Cameron and the Prime Minister at Prime Minister’s Questions (yes — “questions”) on Wednesday. ___________________________________________________________________________ Malcolm has tried: to identify any facts (in blue) and real identifiable, grammatical questions … Continue reading
Filed under David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tories.
Oh, er, missus …
It started with the BBC website. There a headline promised: Great tits cope well with warming Malcolm Redfellow’s World Service reported the story internationally. It had already been duly noted and appreciated in Denver, Colorado. Malcolm then discovered Nich Starling, … Continue reading
Filed under Norfolk
Two rites make many wrongs
Sir Edward Carson came to regret his treacherous plotting over Home Rule. He was a deserving recipient of the old curse: Be careful what you wish for. You might get it. He was a “southern Unionist”, born in Dublin’s Harcourt … Continue reading
Filed under civil rights, Ireland, Northern Ireland, prejudice, Trinity College Dublin
The belles of the Woodstock Road
Malcolm does worry about those young Tories. Far too many of them obsess about Polly Toynbee. OK, she’s bright; she’s well-preserved; she’s presents herself very well. She’s got all her faculties, nurtured by Holland Park and St Anne’s, still intact. … Continue reading
Filed under Tories.
