There has been a great deal of suspicion in the blogosphere regarding the political integrity of Total Politics, the new venture run by several former 18 Doughty Street operatives, and Politics Home, the hideous spawn of Stephan Shakespeare (the original financial progenitor of 18DS - yes, it’s all a bit incestuous). Both titles have […]
Northern Rock proved that “irresponsible” lending is dangerous game for banks to play. If a bank has too many debtors who are over-extended, then it leaves itself wide open to punishment if suddenly the economic climate cools. In America, where mortgages are traded between banks and investors like coffee beans, bad debts have created a […]
John Band has an interesting post here.
He claims that, despite the almost-constant media doom-mongering, the sky is not falling in on the UK’s economy. He makes a few valid points about like-for-like sales against the actual takings on the high street: -
It’s partly due to misleading reporting, of course. Hands up who read this morning’s […]
I had a quick look at much-hyped Politics Home site, the brainchild of Stephan Shakespeare and Tim Montgomerie.
You’ll remember Shakespeare and Montgomerie from failed internet TV channel 18DoughtyStreet.
The “concept” of the site, apparently, is to become the ‘Bloomberg for Politics’. And I suppose the two sites do look similar (indeed one could argue that […]
Further to my post yesterday, Mr Eugenides has posted an “all bases covered” rant on the pro-Tibet protests.
Here’s the money-quote: -
Generally speaking, and with some exceptions, I am not in favour of sporting boycotts, at least not in isolation. It seems particularly harsh, for one thing, to pick on sportsmen and expect them to salve […]
Those Parisians have extinguished the Olympic flame.
Twice.
Apparently is was so that the torch could escape protesters and be hidden on a bus. Things are getting nasty, as we saw in London, where the pocket-sized Konnie Huq was mugged by pro-Tibet protesters.
No doubt these campaigners will watch themselves on the news tonight. On their Chinese-made […]
I’ve never liked Harriet Harman.
She’s a thoroughly reptilian politician, and I was taken-aback when she was elected deputy leader. I once saw her on QT and couldn’t believe how partisan and plain nasty she could be.
Gavin Whenman has just twittered this about her performance on Prime Minister Question’s at lunchtime: -
Absolutely tasteless: Harman has […]
Four hundred and thirty.
That’s the number of flights that have been cancelled since the Terminal 5 debacle began. That’s 430 planes worth of really pissed-off travellers.
The sheer scale of this colossal fuck up is astonishing. Bags are now being flown to Milan to be sorted. We’re so shit, we’ve started outsourcing our gaffs […]
And so the grand opening of Heathrow’s much-lauded Terminal 5 has been a disaster.
Is anyone surprised?
Irish-born Willie “the buck stops with me” Walsh, has long strutted the media as one of Britain’s Champions of Industry. And yet we saw yesterday that no matter how much we crow, our businesses are simply not terribly well run.
I […]
Rational Geekery: The Guardian gets seriously online
The Guardian, understanding the limitations of dead-tree media, is diversifying beyond even its successful online news and comment portal model. The Guardian sees itself as a “platform” that will work alongside start-ups, offering support and sharing its resources. It’s unclear whether the new business will provide funding for projects […]
Oh dear. Someone’s trying to be clever again.
Now far be it from me to suggest that this article is the biggest load of fucking idiocy Dizzy has ever posted (I know, that would be quite a stretch), but I do think it may be in with a shot.
Poor old Dizzy has decided to attack that […]
This post from Flying Rodent comes with my SuperStarSealOfApproval™.
It’s particularly worrying that so many on the left fell over themselves to grant continents of intellectual charity to the Republicans, trusting them with the lives of 25 million people when they wouldn’t trust the Tories to run a free bar. The Republicans’ ideological lunacy makes the […]
Cassilis produces an always interesting review of the bunkum forced through the sphincter of political thinktanks. This week’s review covers those nicely dressed warmongers at the Henry Jackson Society.
HJS revisit that tired old theme of ‘radical Islam want a global caliphate / you can’t negotiate with that / boost the voice of the moderates’ - […]
The Talented Mr Eugenides is pushing a campaign to ban Alistair “impose above-inflation rises on beer” Darling from drinking houses across the land.
Sounds like a plan. Just a half for me, though, I’m driving.
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[Canadian blowhard] Mark Steyn would like to thank the British servicemen fighting in Afghanistan.
Fuck you too. Ass-munch.
