“New Nagging” – a very Cameroon concept [UPDATED LOTS]

Small bit of advice to Andrew Lansley. If you have to insist that you are not “nannying” that is almost certainly what you are doing. Finger wagging doesn’t stop being finger wagging just because you have the fingers of your other hand crossed behind your back. I know I need to read the actual speech… Continue reading “New Nagging” – a very Cameroon concept [UPDATED LOTS]

Jacqui Smith: It’s not my fault, it’s my contractors that are rubbish (whinge, whinge…)

Jacqui Smith’s startling insight into how the details of 84,000 prisoners managed to wind up on a memory stick which promptly went missing: “This was data that was being held in a secure form, but was downloaded onto a memory stick by an external contractor,” she said. “It runs against the rules set down both… Continue reading Jacqui Smith: It’s not my fault, it’s my contractors that are rubbish (whinge, whinge…)

Boris Johnson: taking the piff

What on Earth is happening in City Hall? If you want to know if a ship is seaworthy, look at which way the rats are running. It doesn’t look good. Today’s latest debacle suggests that he is rapidly turning into the liability for David Cameron that some of us predicted he would be: He wrote:… Continue reading Boris Johnson: taking the piff