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Monthly Archive for April, 2010

Oh dear Gordon

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy really. Just emphasises the old adage that you should always check the technology before doing anything. What was really funny was that when he went back to apologise he thought he had fixed it and that it had all been a misunderstanding.  Exactly what piece of ‘bigoted woman’ is [...]

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Willie Walsh v. the CAA

The jobsworth who heads up the CAA appeared on TV this morning and claimed credit for ending the volcanic ash fiasco - not only that he claimed that ‘the CAA had led the world’ on this. In fact it turns out that Willie Walsh of BA put a couple of dozen long haul jets in [...]

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So Nick is somebody after all

Well, who would have believed it, our Nick has made the big time. I suppose it is a bit like the X factor with instant audience reaction. Thank goodness we do not get instant voting following the programme yet!
It really does say it all about where we have got ourselves to as a society that [...]

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Clouds of puff

So just how tedious was the first TV debate between our political masters? Certainly the media has itself all worked up into a lather about it, analysing and reanalysing what was said and audience reaction. Personally cannot bear to watch that sort of thing - in fact my listening to current affairs has declined from [...]

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Politics, politics

So Scotland Yard has now bowed to Islamic sensitivities and agreed it is quite OK to throw your shoes at somebody - provided you are a Muslim that is. Apparently it is a ritual protest - bit like hoodies throwing bricks although this has not yet been accepted as a ritual process. Never mind I [...]

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Fire up the Quattro

Loved the exchange of adds between the Labour and Tory parties - Labour using the Gene Hunt analogy to suggest the Tories would drag us back to the 80s, only to be outdone by the the Tories response of David Cameron sitting on the bonnet of the feature Quattro saying ‘Fire up the Quattro, time for [...]

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Gulp, gulp

Well its Happy Easter to all our readers. Urban Eric is back from his travels down under, Penelope is still pining at the gate, Arry the Axe is threatening all kinds of things - so all is right with the world then. In good old blighty it is raining and blowing but that is better [...]

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