Monthly Archives: January 2009
Blitzed
Any one spared the front page of today’s Times escapes this image: Now, we all recognise that the Press has an agenda. It amounts to a demand for a constantly-changing cast of characters, like some continuing soap opera. Personalities are … Continue reading
Unrepresentative government – encore! encore!
Now, Malcolm thinks he has this right, but is open to correction. The SNP first bought the Tories’ 17 votes. It cost £60 million for city-centre regeneration. That’s a smidgeon over £3.5 million a vote. Annabel Goldie seems to have … Continue reading
Filed under Green Party, Scotland, SNP, Tories.
Unrepresentative government (encore)
Labourlist is now getting into its stride. Malcolm caught up with a passing reference to a couple of paragraphs in the Indy‘s profile: But [Cameron] does pledge a better system so that inevitable problems stemming from the dangerous cocktail of … Continue reading
Filed under Tories.
Unrepresentative government
Since the start of the year, Jonathan Isaby has been running a distasteful little campaign at conservativehome: The apparent argument is that Cameron, as hypothetical Prime Minister (be still, my beating heart!) would need to beef up the Lords with … Continue reading
Filed under equality, human waste, sleaze., Tories., Uncategorized
Route canal work
Nice to see that the rear-end of today’s Times (though, worryingly, sandwiched between finance and obituaries) managed to find two whole pages to devote to Britain’s canals, and their success. [As far as Malcolm can see, the piece by Simon … Continue reading
What ish my nation?
What ish my nation? Ish a villain, and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish my nation? Who talks of my nation? That’s Captain Macmorris in Henry V, Act III, scene ii. Malcolm has repeatedly referred to … Continue reading
Filed under Ireland, nationalism, Norfolk, Quotations, Shakespeare, Uncategorized
Feeling Kate Winslet
To his total bewilderment, Malcolm finds he is nominated to the l-o-n-g list of Best Personal Blogs, sponsored by Microsoft Ireland’s Developer and Platform Group. He therefore resolves: to write something Irish in the near future and not to bite … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
That Jeremy Clarkson moment
Down the street from Redfellow hovel Malcolm could see a domestic episode. An elderly citizen was being transferred from a wheelchair into a small Ford car. The driver had to double-park because there was no space by the pavement. This … Continue reading
Filed under Britain, broken society, social class
