Crossposted at Slugger O'Toole...


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Crossposted at Slugger O'Toole...


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If that e-mail snooping thing goes through in its current form there won't be a Liberal Democrats any more. The party's base has mostly held together through the coalition but a lot of it will just walk away after this ( Read more... )

Finally, a coalition policy I agree with.

This comment from the Guardian comments thread says all I want and need to say about airport security, something I increasingly loathe.

There used to be an old joke ( Read more... )

No, I didn't make this one up.

"A woman has appeared in court accused of marrying another woman in a lesbian civil partnership ceremony while still being married to a man."

I wonder will this make it into the Shropshire Star.

Sir Ian Richardson has died at the age of 72. Richardson, perhaps best known for his spellbinding role as evil Chief Whip turned Prime Minister Francis Urquhardt in the House of Cards trilogy was, as far as anyone knew, in good health and about to start recording for a new series of Midsomer Murders. He was a wonderful actor and extremely dishy ( Read more... )

Morrissey to do Eurovision? Say it ain't so! Someone should tell the Grauniad it's January 9th, not April 1st.

We went to visit a friend in the Barbican after church this morning, which is about 5 miles from Bayswater ( Read more... )

So Blair has set a 12-month time limit on remaining Labour Party leader although, as Guido Fawkes notes, not necessarily as Prime Minister. Guido calls this the Aznar option, it's worth pointing out it was also the less-than-successful Gerhard Schröder option too ( Read more... )