Tag Archives: Jacqui Smith

Morning(ish. Sorry folks) roundup, Wednesday 6th May 2009

06May09 – 10:23

The Gurkha related ho-down of last week continues apace, with the latest installment of this drama taking place in a special sitting of the Home Affairs Select Committee. Readers will know that I'm on the side of the Gurkhas in this particular kerfuffle, but I challenge the most ardent campaigner to listen to St Joanna of Lumley's evidence (available via Today in Parliament) without coming to the conclusion that, in the end, it's not just MPs who are destined to start believing their own press releases.

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Morning roundup, Tuesday 21st April 2009

21Apr09 – 07:55

Via Don Paskini we learn of the Fabian Society has penned a nine thousand word mission statement as to what the left blogosphere should be all about, and is inviting bloggers to sign up. Tom Harris is unsure, the lovely Rowenna Davis of Labour List isn't going to because she's not really Labour (pick the peanuts out of that), and your correspondent is going to hold fire because it has no subsection on the importance of arse jokes to contemporary political discourse ... and the because the word "progressive" has become so over-used it's making my teeth itch in a way that "pragmatic" used to whilst we marched forth for socialism under the banner of the Tonemeister.

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Morning roundup, Monday 30th March 2009: EXPRESS EDITION

30Mar09 – 10:07

And that's where we start: the reaction of the MSM and the blogosphere over the revelation that Jacqui Smith's husband spent a tenner on porn which was accidentally charged to the taxpayer is as apocolyptic as you might expect. The Sun gets extra Misogyny Points for asking, rhetorically, why the husband of a "Blair babe" would need to watch porn (answer: because they're all mingers innit? Hur hur hur!).

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Morning roundup, Thursday 12th February 2009

12Feb09 – 10:40

Wikigate continues as the Conservative party unleash an army of bag-carriers onto teh internetz in an untimately doomed attempt to prevent their leader looking like a berk. Ah, the twenty-first century. In a few years the phrase "history is written by CCHQ internet weirds" will pass into common parlance;
No police investigation in the "cash-for-amendments" farago. [...]

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Morning roundup, Tuesday 10th February 2009

10Feb09 – 10:54

Ed Balls makes a comment to his local Labour Party about how this recession thing is going to be pretty bad, and before he knows it he's being splashed all over the front of the dailies in the same sentence as the word "gaffe", poor bloke. Still, he should have known better; as my one time office manager exclaimed whilst reading about how an MP's infidelity came to light, "He boasted to his Labour Group about it? Why didn't he just hand over the photos the the News of the Screws himself?"

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A Tale of Two News Stories

09Feb09 – 14:33

Three weeks ago, the Times did a story on the House of Lords and corruption within it. To do this their undercover reporters posed as representatives from a lobbying firm after a change to a few laws. What they exposed was some pretty serious stuff. The general consensus among us folks here at CE Towers [...]

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Morning roundup, Monday 9th February 2009

09Feb09 – 10:54

The row over RBS' munificence with taxpayers' money rumbles on and the approach of the bankers involved appears to be, in the words of Tom Freeman's rather catchy bus slogan, "please give generously or the economy gets it."

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