Month: July 2006
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I’ve been told off for being rude about Mark Oaten too often on this blog. So I will just say that what is Winchester and Westminster’s loss is Z-list celebrity reality TV show’s gain.
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Disappointed by the distinct lack of punnage in Chris Huhne’s press release about Cadbury’s today. Okay, there is “melting away” but that is obvious. It does remind me of a press release I wrote for one of his erstwhile European colleagues a few years ago though: “Yesterday’s news will be a boost for Cadbury’s workers…
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Lib Dem Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland, and a finalist in the New Statesman New Media Awards last night Jo Swinson, has criticised his outspoken attacks on TheyWorkForYou: “Mr Straw has seen fit to attack theyworkforyou.com for using ‘quantitative rather than qualitative’ measures to assess MPs’ performance. Sites like this are in their infancy,…
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I was very saddened to learn that Tom Frame died earlier this month. Tom was a letterer (literally someone who writes the text in comics) for 2000AD and several other UK comics. For me, he was the letterer for Judge Dredd, and like a lot of early-2000AD stalwarts for a whole generation he will be…
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My Jack Straw pledge now has 51 signatories – just over the halfway mark. But with three more days to go, can I urge people to sign up – and get their friends to sign up? Cheers! Oh – and blog it. Ta.