Election Notebook: Terrific Conservative broadcast
Just a line or two: the Conservative Party political broadcast tonight is what they should have been doing weeks ago. It showed David Cameron at his best, slicing through the horrors of the Labour...
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David Cameron being appointed Prime Minister by the Queen Hail to the Chief.
View ArticleParish Pump: Changes at Syntagma
Now that the British General Election is out of the way, we can catch our collective breath and get back to what passes for normality. That means changes here at Syntagma Towers. Saturday Ramble will...
View ArticlePoppycock Watch: Acid bath at work on GB
Have you ever watched an object gradually disintegrate in a glass jar of acid? Many of us will have in our school’s chemistry lab. The power of the acid to dissolve the object — which might be a stone,...
View ArticleWikiLeaks and the Royal Family
The latest WikiLeaks revelations involve a member of the Royal Family — according to the Guardian, one of the few chosen newspapers to break this story in detail. Update: Royal Anecdotes’ story that...
View ArticleSaturday Ramble: Ed the Shred?; A gentleman’s suicide
What is it with Ed Miliband? His “cost of living crisis” must be the most ineffective campaign ever waged against a sitting government. In what way do ministers affect living costs or set wages and...
View ArticleStop Press: Devon and Cornwall Online for sale
Anyone loving or living in, the West Country of England might like the following rare opportunity of claiming a stake in online Devon and Cornwall. Owing to a major change of direction, I am putting...
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