On the news yesterday, there was a vox-pop quote from an American lady, referring to the Leader of the Free World and Commander in Chief: "He isn't even an American citizen."

Last week on Have I Got New For You, a Tory politician (such a minor one that she was preapred to appear on Have I Got News For You) said "A.V is such a bad system that only three countries in the world use it. All the rest use first-past-the-post."

I can sort of understand how someone can believe in Six Day Creation or Homeopathy or something. But these Tea Pots and Naysayers don't even understand their own arguments.

I spend a lot of time slagging off journalists and politicians for being evil lying pondscum. Because most of them are. I have really really really never been more annoyed about anything than I am about the  "In AV, the loser can win" poster campaign.


So could I draw everyone's attention to this piece in the New Statesmen, about what we're now pretending was a "war" which broke out at the bottom of my street last week.


It's a piece of sane, balanced, accurate, properly-sourced journalism that reports on what happened, and gives quotes about what people think about what happened.


And you know what the sad thing is: when I read it I was surprised and said "I didn't know anyone was still doing that sort of writing."


http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny

This is England...

spotted in Brizzle yesterday...

several people with musical instruments, singing about how much better things were in the olden days

Girl Guides serving tea and cake...

Real live Morris Dancers!!!!!

and most importantly of all:

no riot

(do you think someone should have told them that it wasn't technically St George's day?)

all pictures taken at the St George's Day event in Fishponds Park organized by "Activate"

Happy Birthday William Shakespeare

this made me happy for a week

And Happy St George's Day

please stand for the national anthem...





...excuse me, i seem to have something in my eye