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Month: December 2007

  • Clegg and Huhne on Today: the verdict

    I’ve just been listening to Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne’s head-to-head on the Today Programme. For a Cleggite, it made for pretty uncomfortable listening. While I think Clegg was significantly better than Huhne at the hustings last week, the broadcast media is the real battleground in the struggle to win the hearts and minds of…

  • Tooth Review: 1565 (Obligatory Spoiler Warning)

    Two weeks to Prog 2008, and things are coming to a close (I’ve been saying that for a while now, haven’t I?) Cover: The mysterious Karel Toten from The Red Seas, as rendered by Steve Yeowell. A dramatic enough image, and Steve Yeowell is on good form at the moment. Quote of the Week: “Slaughterhouse!…

  • Miranda Grell: stop fighting, start saving your soul

    Shortly after I posted my own comment on Miranda Grell’s failed appeal, she posted her own: Following yesterday’s decision at Snaresbrook Crown Court to uphold my conviction for two offences against the Representation of the People Act 1983, I have, this morning, resigned from both the Labour party and my job working for the Deputy…

  • Cristina Odone: drop the martyr act

    If you haven’t heard that St. Martins-in-the-Fields stopped Cristina Odone from using their pulpit to rant about how religious people are persecuted last week, you simply haven’t been paying attention. She was banging on about it on the Today programme and now has a column in the Observer saying the same thing: When a Christian…

  • Miranda Grell: just desserts

    Despite the occasional slippage, I’ve resisted the temptation to blog much about Miranda Grell’s fall from grace. She is entitled to defend her reputation and mount an appeal, but now that appeal has failed, I thought I’d make a few points myself. Though it appalls me to realise this fact, I’ve been around the block…