Sunday, May 31, 2015

So Long It's Been Good To Know You (Compleat)

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I: In which everybody eats their hats. II: Note, for the edification of people in the United States and other non cricket playing nati...

So Long, It's Been Good To Know You (7)

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XI: Survivors The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let ...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

So Long It's Been Good To Know You (6)

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X: Mad Men The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. Groucho Marx (and others) The Tories w...
Friday, May 29, 2015

So Long It's Been Good To Known You (5)

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IX: "Values" In an interview on Newsnight, Keir Starmer (who has sensibly decided that he doesn't want to be the one resi...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

So Long It's Been Good To Know You (4)

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VIII: On Pizzas and Penguins Tony Blair has a special relationship with the English language. He wrote a short essay in the Guardia...
Friday, May 22, 2015

One Hundred Years Ago....

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Some time in the last millennium, just after t.c Blair had become Prime Minister, I wrote the following. It is worth re-reading, because abs...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

So long, it's been good to know you... (3)

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III: Is Nick Clegg a shit? . Scenario 1: Five years ago, Nick Clegg decided that the Liberal party should go out in a blaze of...

So Long, It's Been Good To Know You (2)

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II:  Note, for the edification of people in the United States and other non-cricket playing nations. In England, the liberal party is...