The first car race probably happened when the second car was built and the first one had something to race against. It’s just how it is, people will race anything with a motor. Lawnmowers, Bobcats…
Browsing Category Politics
David’s first real test
The last couple of weeks have been by far the biggest for the coalition government in London. The Libyan uprising has not only been David Cameron’s first big foreign policy test, but his reactions to…
The crazies yell louder than the normals…
There has been a lot of talk about the shootings in Tucson last weekend. It’s not the first time the world has been affected by senseless acts like this, and it certainly won’t be the…
Cameron’s big society, still not sure what it is…
I was listening to a BBC podcast today and they had an excerpt from Thatcher’s 1980 Conference speech, the rather influential “this lady is not for turning” speech. Here we are thirty years later and…
Election day – the ads
This is a link to a Richard Adams blog in todays Guardian newspaper. In it he runs down the 10 worst adverts during the current election cycle. It is something of a target rich environment,…
Tony’s Journey
With the questions I have about the man it was inevitable that I was going to get Blair’s memoirs. It does make me feel a little better that my money is going to the British…
What to do with Pakistan?
The people at the top of cricket have a tough choice to make in response to the alleged betting scam rolling around cricket right now. First is hand out life bans to anyone involved and…
Blair Doctrine and the cynical British
His Tonyness announced this week that he had donated the advance and royalties of his memoirs to the Royal British Legion. The money is to help fund a new center to help the rehabilitation of…
Today in London…
Today’s big news is that Gordon Brown is stepping down from leading Labour in the hope it will make it easier for Labour and the Lib Dems continue talking. For Clegg personally it does a…
Exit polls
The initial exit polls have been published just as the polls closed. They show the Torys on somehting well over 300, Labour on 255 and the Lib Dems getting somewhere in the mid-60’s If the…