Month: January 2004

  • Top Up Fees

    The other day I didn’t know for certain which way my MP, Joan Ryan, had voted over these fees. Well now I do. She was a teller for this vote. And why does she have this job? Because she’s a whip. So there’s no danger of my local MP ever going against Tony then is…

  • Another Tin of Whitewash

    Whitewash by Jonathan Freedland from Thursday’s Guardian.

  • Sir Bill

    John Naughton wrote a good piece in The Times examining why exactly we’re giving Bill Gates an honorary knighthood.

  • Hysteria Meter Working

    Cheers Nick. The Hysteria Meter can now be relatively easily changed. Oh, and the Departures box on the left is just using the helpfully rewritten version of the official National Rail Enquiries website to supply me with up to date info on the trains I use. Well it is my website after all.

  • Spam Filtering

    Hooray! My ISP has started filtering my Spam. Starting now, I’ll see how many pieces of Junk Mail get through, and compare with last week – 1300 Sat to 1300 Sun GMT.

  • Another One Bites The Dust

    So Gilligan joins Dyke and Davies on the list. Meanwhile, Campbell aside, everyone in the government hunkers down and stays put. I just have one question. When are they going to paint the front of number 10 with Whitewash?

  • Broadband Airships

    Yeah, right. This is going to happen…

  • Greg Dyke

    Greg Dyke gave a relatively spirited interview on the Today Programme this morning, I managed to time it so that I was going into a tunnel on a train, but of course the website has the full audio. It looks like we’re going to have to wait for his full and measured rebuttal of the…

  • Hello to my Work Colleagues!

    Well, it seems that a larger than expected number of my co-workers are regular readers of this site. So can I just wish them all, a big “Hello”. I know that you have to put up with discovering what it is that I think about various films, books and other artistic merits, but I like…

  • Dyke

    Frankly I’m shocked and disappointed in no small way that Greg Dyke has resigned from the DG of the BBC. It really is a tragic day when he feels he has to do this. I totally support the BBC throughout this “affair” (and I use the term in the loosest possible manner). Frankly, the Hutton…

  • The Book of Illusions

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  • Francis Wheen

    I can’t have been the only person disappointed when Francis Wheen’s column in the Guardian ended a year or so ago. The brief period of Rod Liddle really didn’t make up for it. OK, so his biography of Marx still stares at me guiltily from one of my bookshelves unread, and there’s been his collection…