Posted at 6:24pm on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 by Andy
I’ve tried to steer clear of this one. I don’t live in London, so why do I care?
I care because he is the physical manifestation of the angry suburbs. I care because he is the physical manifestation of a massive rise in voter turnout.
And that means that he is also the physical manifestation of the death of the New Labour project. We knew Tony didn’t want to hand over power. Now we know why.
On a lighter note, apparently he’s also the physical manifestation of the storm botnet.
Posted at 10:32pm on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 by Andy
I have a thought that’s been bugging me over the last few days… Is the 10p rate of tax being abolished or doubled? Seems to me that the BBC et al are being rather generous with their semantics.
Posted at 4:15pm on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 by Andy
Posted at 10:34am on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 by Andy
Posted at 11:04pm on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 by Andy
‘We have decided that the government can make their position clear, but that it is not for us to intervene directly in this matter’
This makes me very angry. I was genuinely pleased that the Gordon Brown government seemed to be willing to step in when Blair wasn’t. I can’t understand why they simply don’t act. A single statement saves a ludicrous amount of trouble.
Posted at 12:55pm on Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 by Andy
I reckon the incessant rain is getting to everyone.
Posted at 12:22pm on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 by Andy
This could be really entertaining… Contrast the following stories:
Mr Brown, your relationship with America is about to be tested.
Posted at 1:31pm on Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 by Andy
Until only yesterday I would have said that the Olympics were the last real example of displaced warfare. Lots of metaphorical and literal flexing of muscles in a thinly disguised version of kicking sand in the 7 stone weakling’s face.
However, yesterday we decided that it would be a good idea to start pointing missiles at each other again so the Olympics briefly returned to sideshow status and we get to have a nice diplomatic standoff, rather than all this sporting subtlety.
That said, the Olympics do still bring out the worst in countries – even towards their own citizens:
2 million displaced in the last 20 years by the Olympics
Posted at 2:29pm on Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 by Andy
I am very slow. I had heard them take the piss out of our Dave’s webcameron project on the radio, but I hadn’t actually bothered to look. Oh. Dear. Lord. Apparently he’s in beta. b3ta more like. And he has a youtube channel. What a twat. I mean really, who sold him that load of old toot? (And it’s ASP.NET so he’s likely paying through the nose for it as well).
Posted at 5:22pm on Wednesday, March 7th, 2007 by Andy
Adam Laurie has helped the Daily Mail crack a UK passport. They’re doomed. Doomed I tell you.