Day: January 8, 2006

  • Via Nick Cohen’s article in the Observer today (the revelatory caption isn’t in the online edition), I learn that Zac Goldsmith’s wife is called Schadenfreude. Posh people and their wacky names, eh? UPDATE: How come Zac doesn’t seem to have a Wikipedia entry? Or am I missing something?

  • According to Alex Salmond: “Julius Caesar was better treated by Brutus than Charles Kennedy by his colleagues.” Alex Salmond is an expert in this sort of thing, so should know. John Swinney anyone?

  • It’s very frustrating to be busy at a time when major events you have a personal state in are going on elsewhere. I only heard about Charles’ resignation yesterday by text message and even then it wasn’t clear at first that he’d even resigned. I haven’t had a chance to read all the various blog…