What’s a few trillion between friends anyway?
by Stephen Tall on April 30, 2006
The Indy on Sunday today reports that when, last November, the Home Office’s accounts were audited although the books balanced, when the auditors added up the figures they totalled £26 trillion. This, the report notes dryly, is “almost 2,000 times (…)
If I’d been John Prescott’s mistress…
by Stephen Tall on April 29, 2006
… I’d be keeping pretty damn quiet about it. But, once again, the question has to be asked: what is it about the British nudge-nudge obsession with sex? We have a home secretary presiding over a chaotic government department incapable (…)
Most impressive new Lib Dem MP – poll update
by Stephen Tall on April 29, 2006
A week into voting, and the poll over at m’other gaff – to discover the most impressive Lib Dem MP of the 2005 intake – shows Lynne Featherstone in a commanding lead, on 30%, well ahead of her nearest challengers, (…)
When chameleons attack!
by Stephen Tall on April 29, 2006
I try not to do cheap politics, but, hey, there’s an election on, and this story from Sky News is irresistible: Conservative leader David Cameron asked for Sky News footage to be withdrawn from screen after a disagreement with one (…)
Cruising for votes
by Stephen Tall on April 29, 2006
Sometimes, y’know, canvassing can be fun:Young lady: So how old are you, then?Me: 29.YL: Well, you’re a sexy, young-looking 29.I mean, that’s good, isn’t it? (Shallow, moi?) Send to Kindle
What’s so good about being independent anyway?
by Stephen Tall on April 27, 2006
There was a silly article by Alice Miles in yesterday’s Times, but I got a bit distracted by Labour’s implosions. The title gives the gist of her argument: National parties are a waste of time. Let’s hear it for the (…)
When less is more
by Stephen Tall on April 27, 2006
From this week’s Economist leader on Labour’s ‘Black April’: Mr Blair and his team have sought to do too much, often too fast, without thinking through the implications of the reforms they advocate. Their apparently uncontrollable urge to meddle in (…)
Mr Blair’s Black Wednesday
by Stephen Tall on April 26, 2006
When do governments reach a tipping point? That moment when it all simultaneously implodes, slumps, disintegrates, splinters and collapses. Today’s news could scarcely be any worse for Tony Blair: Charles Clarke is in serious trouble because of the foreign prisoners’ (…)
There’s no such thing as a free Luntz
by Stephen Tall on April 26, 2006
The execrable Frank Luntz’s meretricious contributions to BBC’s Newsnight has prompted a flurry of comment… Liberal Review has been investigating Mr Luntz’s checkered/chequered past, as well as observing the similarities between Mr Luntz’s advice to US Republicans and the public (…)
Gigging with Dave ‘n’ Chris
by Stephen Tall on April 24, 2006
Explaining why he bought a Lexus ‘hybrid’, a less environmentally sound car than the Toyota Prius ‘hybrid’: Mr Cameron argued that the official hybrid might not be big enough. “My problem is that often when I go on tour, I (…)
