April 2010

What A Carve Up! review: ‘a point where greed and madness can no longer be told apart’

I don’t know which induces nausea in me the most: whether it’s Tony Blair’s Joker Jack grin as he trousers £20 million thus far for services rendered, or Stephen Byers’ ‘gorblimey, I’m only a cabbie, mate, at five grand a shot’ routine. Who makes me reach fastest for the sick bag? Could it be Geoff […]

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Katia eruption “10 times easier to pronounce than Eyjafjallajokull”

A bigger eruption from the easier-to-pronounce Katia volcano promises to bring relief to media announcers world-wide. The chaos of the past week, where TV and radio announcers struggled to say, “Eyjafjallajokull”, reduced some to tears, although they insisted it was the microscopic shards of airborne glass ripping up their corneas and not professional shame that

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The Political Elite’s God-Given Right To Rip You Off: Orwell Prize debate

OK, hangover gone. For a great account of the Orwell Prize debate, ‘Have the political classes been fatally weakened?’, at Thursday’s shortlist event, see Laurie at Penny Red. It was a truly flesh-crawling example of how skewed and corrupt is the mentality of these people who are running and ruining our lives. I will just

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