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July 14, 2005
A rather charming way to spend a lunch-break
The papers have proved unusually interesting today. This is, of course, using the work/politics definition of interesting, not the holiday in Brazil definition. But still...
Something for all you Lib-Dem lovers...
The EU is ill: it needs some British medicine
(not sure how readers of the Grauniad would react to the following (from The Economist), but it belongs to the same piece of thinking:
But Britain's greatest example comes from the labour market, which still bears the mark of long-past Conservative reform. The changes in union law, the privatisations and the curbing of unemployment benefits seemed harsh at the time. The country at first suffered civil strife, unemployment and strikes—the antithesis of the “social Europe� so many continental leaders cling to. Britain's reforms took time, but they endured and created the conditions for the economy's most striking feature: a capacity to sustain high employment without inflation. There's nothing unsocial about that.
Ask a silly question, get a silly answer
Arise Lord Mittal (maybe; please don't sue me)
The announcement of his latest donation, Mr Mittal's first since he gave £125,000 in 2001, was accompanied by a warning letter from his solicitors, reminding the media that, though he did not sue over "false and defamatory allegations" over his motive in 2001, he would do so if the claims were repeated now.
Fortunately, Boris's reaction to the play has been remarkably good humoured. He would have preferred us not to have written it, obviously, but now that it's going ahead he's decided to treat it as a bit of a lark. And there's been no attempt to sack us - at least, not yet. If only Blunkett would take a leaf out of Boris's book. When it comes to tolerating dissent, it's ironic that a Tory MP should be so much more liberal than a former Labour home secretary.
More career politicians to be rounded up and disposed of in the revolution.
Good thing as stupid policy fails to meet objective. Now can we reverse it?
And Pietersen plays! (and my old team-mate Chris Tremlett is twelfth man)
Posted by pauldavies on July 14, 2005
