25April
Oh gawds, yet another bible-basher at number 10, writes Catherine Bennett. At least you know where you are with the Rev. Blair.
Illegally parked, that's where. The Indytab diary reports, An ambitious traffic warden from Westminster borough, which is among the ticketing-trade's most zealous operators, thought he'd try his luck on the PM's illegally parked motorcade, only to be bluntly told to scram by a member of Special Branch. Can we trust a prime minister who commissions criminal acts? It's a slippery slope - a parking offence here, a broken speed limit there, and before you know where you are, you're accepting cash for peerages. Oh.
A sick France is bad for Britain, says Tim Garton-Ash. For most French socialists, to be called Blairist is an insult.
John Tusa blasts the government for its singularly rubbish arts policy. Why is the demand for justification of the arts so often accompanied by the implied slur that those in the arts are engaged in a selfish activity - which they want others to pay for - by representing them as some kind of personal indulgence, constituting a private play-thing?
Why oh why oh why is the government trying to tell companies who to employ? asks the Indytab. Because the Labour party is staffed from top to toe by a bunch of apartheid freaks, people obsessed with the colour of people's skin, with their sexual behaviour, with their imaginary friends. Labour is obsessed with everything except doing a decent job.
Simon Jenkins says There's no such thing as Blairism, for an -ism requires a set of coherent ideas. On each occasion Blair has opted for the prevailing Thatcherite orthodoxy.
Clive Stafford-Smith on his job, representing prisoners at the Guantanamo jail. Part of us would be very happy to see similar treatment meted out to the inhuman monsters who devised this system. Other parts are above simple torture as retribution. See also: Naomi Wolf, on the growing facsism in the rebel North American colonies.
Boris Johnson in Good Idea shock! Let Britain colonise northern France!
One from the file labelled chutzpah: Anti-EU Polish Catholic radio station seeks EU funds.
Bizarre as it sounds, there appear to still be one or two people who need to know about The Mel and Sue Website. It explains what each of the comedy geniuses is doing these days; already this year, the blonder of the two has been on Celeb Star Ac
, Eurovizh: The Great British Loser Hunt
, Des Chiffres et Des Lettres et Desso Connor
, and Jimmy Will Fix It Again
. And that's without checking the website.
Seventeen of the more remarkable claims in popular music history ... Tasmin Little goes busking ... Tori Amos, everyone's second favourite singer from Cornwall, begins publicity for her (counts 'em) eighth studio album
One place in the world that means an awful lot... About 100m inland at Cape Spear, there is (or was, when we were last there) a small map, showing the world in a circle around that spot. Here, we suggest, is the centre of the world, at the extreme eastern end of the North American continent. That way, seven thousand kilometres of almost uninterrupted land; the other way, three and a half thousand kilometres of ocean.
