Monthly Archives: March 2010
Malcolm is a CAMRA member …
That’s got the statutory disclaimer out. Now to business. On the one hand, in the present climate, Malcolm can see the reason (if not the overall merit) of the “sin taxes”: duties on booze and baccy. He can also, just … Continue reading
Filed under Beer, CAMRA, Labour Party, leftist politics., pubs
Incredible, but apparently true
This time last year the average term to maturity of British national borrowing was 14.1 years. As the FT sagely noted: the average maturity of the gilt market is currently 14 years, longer than almost anywhere else in the world … Continue reading
Don’t blame the politicians!
Here we go again: another round of the Great Parliamentary Rip-Off debate. Point your fingers. Chuck your ordure. Wheel out the tumbrils. Demand, oh so shrilly, a Public Enquiry (it keeps the pot boiling). And don’t forget, above all, to … Continue reading
Filed under BBC, democracy, Labour Party, sleaze., Tories.
Farage: fodder for cattle (Oxford English Dictionary)
Going one better than Goebbels … Nigel Farage, and the Sunday Times on the ball. Continue reading
Filed under blogging, Iain Dale, reading, smut peddlers, Sunday Times
Crooks, bloody fools, and Stephen Byers
Steven Byers doesn’t emerge from Chris Mullin’s A View from the Foothills (a recent read of Malcolm’s) with any great credit. Mullin reckoned that Byers “backtracking” with £300 million to buy off Railtrack shareholders: provoked derision on the Tory side … Continue reading
Filed under Labour Party, leftist politics., Private Eye, sleaze., Tories.
Brutish Airways
Brutish Airways: the art of management by bulldozer. Continue reading
Filed under Britain, British Airways, Tories., travel
On thy belly shalt thou go …
At an early stage in his life Malcolm was a choirboy. One season he found himself, on four occasions in four different churches, reading the first lesson in the traditional Nine Lessons and Carols service. He came to relish the … Continue reading
Filed under Boris Johnson, censorship, Conservative family values, crime, Daily Mail, Guardian, human waste, London, Tories.
Tories in Wonderland
Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve … Continue reading
An experiment in truth-telling
Under the thread: This election is a choice between a party leader who is honest about the tough economic choices facing Britain and one who is fundamentally dishonest Posted to ConHome: Malcolm Redfellow said… What happened to the overnight story … Continue reading
Thanks, but no thanks
Malcolm receives yet another invitation to sign up to yet another blog catalogue. As so often, this one seems frequented by collectors of antique typewriters and canine aromatherapists. That’s only the first page. Sorry; an offer Malcolm feels he must … Continue reading
Filed under blogging, human waste
