‘New Labour’ Archives
2032
The Labour-Liberal Coalition is just about managing to cope with the constant rioting but at least immigration has been halted. No-one wants to move here anymore. Head Minister Yvette wishes that she hadn’t defeated David Miliband because her [...]
Quaint Liberals?
Quaintness pervades British Society - from our cute little village tea rooms, the genetically coded-in inferiority complex of the working classes, Barristers' wigs to the way we run our Parliament and economy. We wear 21st century clothes which [...]
50 Predictions for 2012
An economy used to depend on the interactions between consumers, commerce, politics and investors. Nowadays, we have to add banks (which used to be no more than a service industry) as an additional entity. Keynesian economics are all well and good [...]
Toynbee or not Toynbee?
The daily circulation of the Sun newspaper is just over 3 million, closely followed by the Daily Mail at 2.14 million with the once-great Daily Mirror at a struggling 1.2million. At the other end of the scale ( below the Daily Star and the Daily [...]
Michael Foot
Michael Foot made very few mistakes. The Press Association reports that Michael Foot, the bookish intellectual and anti-nuclear campaigner who led Britain's Labour Party to a disastrous defeat in 1983, died this morning. He was 96. Foot died [...]
Words from the No 10 Massive
"Brown reading his own speech" Gordon Brown's solutions to the joint problems of bank bonuses and the economy are somewhere in the future - and always will be. In the latest statement from No 10 Downing Street, he says that Ministers are [...]
Octavius – over to you.
Badger Brown There are people who will vote for a politician because he has a pretty face, looks honest or has a good voice. What fires an important section of the electorate is not logic but emotion. Perception, prejudice and superficiality are [...]
The Brown-Darling Conjecture
There are still six Millennium Prize Problems which remain unsolved. The proof of the Poincaré Conjecture was completed by Grigori Perelman in 2003 and its review completed in 2006. That means that there is room for another insoluble [...]
Another handout
Darling's unique approach to the banking industry. Alistair Darling is going to announce that the government will spend £30 billion on "buying bank shares". One presumes that it is now called "buying shares" because the government does not [...]
Joint-up Government
Two executives at the Royal Bank of Scotland have been suspended after alleged corruption at its overseas mortgage operation. The bankers were allegedly asking foreign estate agents for payments worth tens of thousands of pounds in return for [...]
Cherie Antoinette.
"Let them eat a lorra lorra cake, chuck." Tony Blair has not yet broken cover and declared an interest in becoming President of Europe. The post will be created once the Czechs have ratified the Treaty of Lisbon. Gordon Brown has made a decision [...]
CWU – An Assisted Suicide.
The modern face of Royal Mail So the Royal Mail strike is on. It has been booked to continue for only two days but the fallout will last for the next few weeks. The Royal Mail system will not suddenly right itself after two days of [...]
Spelthorne? Moorlands?
David Witshire MP David Wiltshire, Conservative Member of Parliament for Spelthorne will be sitting outside the headmaster's study this morning. (more...)
A real Legg-up
"I'm as innocent as the next man." The MPs expenses fiasco rumbles on and Parliament's reputation is still heading South. Much was made of the previous Speaker's lack of management skill and consequently he was removed from office. So where [...]
Westminster Back to School
"Tell you what - I'll throw-in The Dartford Crossing and Northern Rock" It appears That the Government is about to hold a boot sale. One would like to say that they were selling-off the family silver but unfortunately, that's already gone. [...]
Dave’s Speech
Standing ovation? Inevitable. Interestingly enough, the autocues were not visible. Dave walked on clutching a pile of notes - which was probably a disappointment to those who expected another off-the-cuff session. He told us in true "Honest [...]
Conservative Party Conference week.
Boris Johnson once again has showed his leadership credentials by being approachable, witty and engaging. He does make the rest of them look a little bit pedestrian. In spite of his shambolic image, you can sense a rod of steel [...]
Friday October 2nd 2009
Ethiopia has suddenly become the focus for all anthropologists. An ancient skeleton was found in 1992 and it has taken 17 years for the research team to rebuild it. Why all the excitement? The skeleton belongs to an in-between species of humanoid [...]
Thursday October 1st 2009
A survey has just been published of the world's top Broadband Countries - taking into account speed etc. The United Kingdom is languishing in 25th place. The top country? South Korea. Is this another indicator of the rise of the East and the [...]
Friday September 25th 2009
Friday September 25th 2009 The mole who leaked the MPs’ expenses information to the Daily Telegraph has revealed what motivated him to do so - apart that is, from the £110,000 fee that he was paid. It now appears that his primary [...]
Thursday September 24th 2009
The Government has criticised the Football Association for not reforming itself. It has also asked the F.A to spend more time and resources on ethnics and women as well as telling them that they should provide better leadership. Perhaps when the F.A [...]
Wednesday September 23rd 2009
Apparently, there is a small but statistically significant rise in patient deaths when junior doctors start work in August. Perhaps the same survey should be done with slightly different parameters: Before pubs open and after closing time. A [...]
Tuesday September 22nd 2009
Did you see Darth Mandelson being questioned on the subject of bankers’ bonuses last night? As Business Secretary, he has the power to stop the bankers in their tracks. But he cannot and he would not answer any bonus-related questions. [...]
Monday September 21st 2009
It now appears that Womens World 800m champion Caster Semenya was tested ages ago and there has been concern over her sex for months. The issue did not suddenly materialise at the last Word Championships. The whole thing has been handed so badly [...]
Monday September 7th 2009-Friday September 18th 2009
Friday September 18th 2009 There has been some concern that Romell Broom may have suffered mental anguish when two Ohio State officials failed to find a vein in order to deliver a fatal injection. According to Broom’s lawyer, Broom had [...]