Part of the lonely life of the long-distance blogger is the furious battle waged behind the scenes to stop idiotic spam overwhelming the website’s comment area. In my case the website uses the Intense Debate comments facility. I receive an e-mail notification that a new comment has been posted, whereupon […]
My recent piece about the feebleness of Peter Mandelson’s speechwriters looked ahead to the coming international tour of David Cameron to see if his people would do a better job. NB folks, what follows is not about policy as such. It’s about speechwriting and diplomatic technique, and the way messages are […]
Or if the BBC website front page as of 0947 this morning is anything to go by, is he bowing to us? Plus how many other bowlers have managed to take 800 wickets on any given day in their fine Test careers, let alone their final day? Sigh: Muralitharan reaches […]
The Observer gives us a savage critique of the looming disaster facing civilisation as we know it thanks to the massacres being proposed for the UK’s public sector by the new coalition government. More! It’s written by a senior civil servant. Anonymously. How senior, pray? Can’t be that senior or […]
The latest BBRU is pinkly hosted by Trixy. It’s notable for a link to a profoundly depressing link to a piece noting the OK contents of the free condom device at the British Embassy in Hanoi. Have these people no taste?
Will the EU exist in its current form in a million years’ time? No! In 100,000 years’ time? No! In 1000 years’ time? No, but there may be traces of its current form. In 100 years’ time? Maybe, but much changed. In a mere 10 years’ time? Probably, but perhaps […]
Back from my European wanderings, just in time to see the worst England football performance of all time. Really. The worst since the day when a bolt of lightning zapped the primordial ooze and somehow brought forth DNA. Here’s my question. Why, when the forwards are getting no service from an […]
It comes round again. The bewildering inability of an England football team to field a midfield group of players able to tackle hard and/or trap and control and pass the ball with high accuracy/speed almost every time. This time with added goal-keeping cluelessness. The effect is ingeniously to organise the […]
Craig Murray rumbles in Tashkent: There is much consternation at the apparent decline of Gulnara Karimova’s multi-billion dollar company, Zeromax – which owns Uzbekistan’s most valuable economic assets … Gulnara is of course the daughter and favoured successor of dictator "President" Islam Karimov. And we all recall what an appalling piece of […]
A fine expression of amazement and wonder at one of the highlights of this majestic Tottenham season:
