August 2007
Monthly Archive
A response
Posted on Aug 22 2007 | Tagged as: Iraq employees campaign
From my MP, Helen Goodman:
Thank you for your recent e-mail concerning the asylum status of Iraqi citizens who have worked for the British Army in Southern Iraq.
I acknowledge the importance of the issue and have therefore forwarded your letter to Liam Byrne MP, Minister of State for Borders and Immigration at the Home Office.
I have […]
McClueless
Posted on Aug 19 2007 | Tagged as: The Stupid, Sport
Football Focus yesterday unwittingly provided further evidence that England boss Steve McClaren at best talks all kinds of nonsense and at worst just hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing.
In their interview, Ray Stubbs inevitably got round to the question of David Beckham, asking: “Will the MLS keep him sharp enough to play in Euro […]
Bush explained
Posted on Aug 14 2007 | Tagged as: Politics
My diplomate Jon, writing on Karl Rove’s departure from the White House, suggests that his getting George Bush into office took a stroke of genius:
Getting Bush a job at McDonalds would have been an achievement, but in getting his man into the White House Rove has conjured a trick that must have David Blaine salivating. […]
Of wins and woe
Posted on Aug 12 2007 | Tagged as: Sport
The Match of the Day theme tune heralded a new football season last night — finally. I’ve been waiting to hear that music signal the end of a long, boring, football-less1 summer for months. That and the theme from Local Hero, played at Spennymoor Town FC.
Football in the dizzy heights of the Arngrove Northern League […]
How utterly original
Posted on Aug 11 2007 | Tagged as: The Stupid
One Martin Kelly, commenting on Tim’s post linking to my previous one:
“Christopher, the prick to whom you have linked here, looks as if he’s about 12.”
(The other day I found a photo of me when I actually was 12, and I looked like a six-year-old girl.)
Neil?
Posted on Aug 11 2007 | Tagged as: The Stupid, Media, Iraq employees campaign
I’ve been trying my utmost not to swear on this blog — at least not regularly. But it’s taking every iota of restraint not to resort to likening Neil Clark to a moist part of the female anatomy.
This vicious piece he’s written for Comment Is Free can be summed up as: “We should let Iraqis […]
Cripes
Posted on Aug 09 2007 | Tagged as: The Stupid, Iraq employees campaign
Dan Hardie picked up and brought to many people’s attention the plight of Iraqi interpreters working with the British Army who we apparently leaving to be killed once Her Maj’s forces withdraw, and started the “We Can’t Turn Them Away” campaign. (See also: the report in the Times here; Justin of Chicken Yoghurt’s collation of […]
Wouldn’t dream of it…
Posted on Aug 05 2007 | Tagged as: Politics, The Stupid, Media
Blazed across the front of this week’s New Statesman: “Jacqui Smith: Don’t call me a liberal.”
Ok. Don’t call me Sebastian.
(The full interview makes for depressing reading.)
Lewis’s Wager
Posted on Aug 02 2007 | Tagged as: Religion, Literature
Yesterday I found myself scribbling about the discrepancy between what those of a religious bent actually believe and what is written in their “holy” books, using CS Lewis as a fairly lighthearted example. (You’ll read it in good time, I’m sure.)
He’s a good choice, between the all-too-obvious Christian supposition in the Chronicles of Narnia and […]