Wombat Diet

It will be an interesting week politically in these islands. The Labour government looks set to lose a vote on Wednesday on detaining terrorist suspects for up to 42 days.
On Thursday the Irish, alone, about 1% of the EU’s population, will vote in a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Traditionally, the Irish have been more pro [...]

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According to The Times the greatest hoaxer ever was Horace de Vere Cole. Its own summary of his career makes only a discreet allusion to something shocking he did in public with a cow’s udder but you can read the gory details in the Dictionary of National Biography (link above). Compared to Horace the rest [...]

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There’s a very funny post on Guido Fawke’s blog about Sean Connery’s shocks.
Actually, there are several laughs. Mishter Bond shplashing Mish Craig, Harman the umbrella thief and more. I can’t remember when British politics was last so entertaining. I saw a fine cartoon yesterday of a Labour Advent calendar, with a new crisis for each [...]

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Gordon Brown is in a hell of a mess says the Torygraph. They would say that wouldn’t they, but it turns out the rest of press thinks so too. Unsurprisingly, The Guardian and The Times and The Independent all have stories about the “donationsgate” scandal that will, it seems, soon be a criminal matter. Talk [...]

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Steve Bell’s cartoon in The Guardian is the best thing I’ve seen yet about the lost discs fiasco, dubbed the Winter of Disc Content by BBC Radio 4’s Today program this morning, namely the government’s losing data about half the adult population and a large number of dependents.
More discs have gone missing. All this comes [...]

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