Jonathan Calder has nominated me as a thogger – i.e. a blogger who makes him think. This is all very flattering, but leaves me in a bit of a quandary – I now have to come up with five more names, ideally missing out the ones that have already been mentioned. And Jonathan has already… Continue reading Thoggeration!
Tag: memes
A long ramble about Cherie Blair and mythology
A few months ago I wrote about how the media, once they’ve decided on a narrative, use every single minor incident they can to reaffirm this while downplaying every major event that contradicts it. In that case I was talking about Ming Campbell and the fact that the media had settled on narrative focussed on… Continue reading A long ramble about Cherie Blair and mythology
Earliest Political Memory Meme
Iain Dale has started a meme which has the virtue of being a lot less annoying than most of the others that periodically do the rounds on the blogosphere. My earliest political memory (born: 1974) was Thatcher going to 10 Downing Street after the 1979 General Election. However, my brain has cross-referenced it with the… Continue reading Earliest Political Memory Meme