Category: musings
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When I logged onto Facebook a few minutes ago, I was surprised that there didn’t seem to be a group calling for Sir Ian Blair to resign, so I took the liberty of setting one up before I get invited to “Support Chris Clegg/Nick Huhne (delete as appropriate) and his heroic campaign to get rid…
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An interesting article appears out of the blue: Last night the Department of Finance and Personnel reiterated the answer they gave to Mr O’Loan when he asked what consideration the minister (Peter Robinson] was giving to the rating of agricultural land. It said: “Under the current rating system agricultural land is not valued nor rated…
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Seriously. The look. The lyrics. The sound. That dreadful, reedy, off pitch voice. Wendy James’ rather obvious appeal notwithstanding, can anyone name a worse band from the Eighties than Transvision Vamp? It’s even worse than I remembered!
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Odd thing this facebook lark. The other day, a dark horse from my past Peter ‘Conservative Commentary‘ Cuthbertson contacted me on it, requesting me to be listed as a ‘friend’. I obligingly did so, including some basic data about how we know each other (dating history, that sort of thing), only to find he has…
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Full marks to Danny Alexander for making a factual statement which, too often, people like to hide away from in politics these days: “Nationalism is about building up barriers between people, liberalism is about breaking those barriers down.” Apparently, Alex Salmond is now demanding an apology from Danny, and from Jamie Stone for saying the…