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Je Ne Comprende Pas Palin
I’m not a big follower of French politics.
I was fully behind Segolene Royal a few years ago, know that Sarkozy has married a leggy model with a dodgy music career and realise that the French cabinet has more hotties than other European nations.
But even I know that Nicholas Sarkozy does not speak English. Beyond ‘allo’ [...]
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I’ll Be Back
Contrary to all appearances, this blog is not dead. Think of it as a hibernating animal, which is revitalising set to come back bigger and better.
(Real story: I have buggered off for six weeks to a land where the internet bandwidth barely lets me check my emails within an hour let alone update a blog.)
But in [...]
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Did anyone really believe that having Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama as president and vice-president (in whatever combination) was a sound proposition?It was inherently flawed for countless reasons; primarily, the two were opponents and had spent the best part of five months highlighting each other’s Achilles heels. Clinton had portrayed her Democrat rival as an [...]
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Clegg: Fourth best in the party
For most leaders to come in second place is a severe blow (think Gordon Brown, always), so how Nick Clegg must be feeling today is anybody’s guess. Lib Dem Voice’s inaugural survey has ranked the party’s leader as the fourth best performing shadow cabinet member.
Clegg trailed deputy leader and shadow chancellor Vince Cable, shadow [...]
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Tory candidate Ian Oakley today defended his terrorisation of his Liberal Democratic rival with a series of silent phones calls and lesbian literature.
Oakley, aged 31 of West Drayton, said that he had embarked on the campaign of hate in order to “change the political landscape of Watford”.
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Bugger Bognor, says Boris.
Bugger Bognor, Boris Johnson has said this week. Bugger the credit crunch too! Bugger bills! Bugger the whole buggering lot!
That was pretty much Johnson’s response to the credit crunch. As people all over the UK examine their finances in a bid to determine whether or not they can afford a trip to sunny shores, Boris [...]
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This was the question I was faced with upon reading that the US reporter who broke the Jesse James-wants-to-rip-Obama’s-nuts-out story had failed to mention that the civil rights activist had referred to the black population as “niggers”.
It emerges the full “off-air” conversation went like this: “See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on [...]
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Controversy has been whipped up in the US, as copies of the New Yorker hit the news stands today carrying an illustration on its front page of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed in Muslim attire.
Defended by the publication as a visual satire on right-wingers’ perception of Obama, the cover, which adorns the Christian politician [...]
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Jacqui Smith has a slightly sideways logic. She told Adam Boulton this morning that she voted against regulating MPs’ expenses last month for the sake of her constituents. They want politicians to be getting on with the job, not fussing over figures, she said.
True, but if MPs’ lavish lifestyles, which are funded by the [...]
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