Category: Politics

David Cameron: Last Among Equals

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(Back L – R) Sean Fitzpatrick, Gary Player, Nadia Comaneci, Novak Djokovic, Boris Becker, Oscar Pistorius, Steve Regrave, Mark Spitz; (Front L-R) Kelly Holmes, Tanni Grey-Thompson, David Cameron, Edwin Moses and Martina Navratilova gather at 10 Downing St before the 2012 Laureus Awards last night. 

I honestly didn’t believe that the British media could portray David Cameron as any more of a loser than they currently do.

So kudos to whoever set up this shot of Cam, front and centre of a group of athletes whose achievements dwarf the PM’s to such an extent, even he looks embarrassed.

That person must have a wicked sense of humour. Or a Lib-Dem membership card.

Mitt Romney’s Most Fervent Supporter Is: Dead?!

Posted on by Kelly Welles

Image: AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand.

Oh no, don’t panic. I misread her placard in all the excitement of the Colorado caucus. Her name is actually Dede Renzenberger and she’s very much alive, well and doing her bit for Mitt.

Maybe I was thrown by the woman next to her pulling the ‘I Smell Dead People’ pose, too.

Stephen Hester: Happy Hunting!

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Stephen Hester in his other office as Master of the Foxhounds at the Warwickshire hunt. Image via socialistunity.com.

RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester has waived his million pound bonus because he “does not wish to become a pariah“.

According to BBC Radio 5Live, Hester, whose decision to reject the bonus had nothing to do with RBS chairman Philip Hampton waiving his, hates this photograph of himself in a big hat on horseback and is tired of the media using it in their coverage.

Out of respect for Hester, and in homage to Private Eye’s running ‘Andrew Neill in a vest gag‘, I therefore intend to publish it in a variety of irrelevant contexts whenever possible.

You should, too.

Louise Mensch vs. Laurie Penny: Clash Of The Feminist Titans

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I think Louise may have just sneaked this Question Time debate on feminism. Sadly, points must be deducted from Laurie Penny’s scorecard for excessive hair flicking and pouting.

And she didn’t piss off Paxman nearly as much as her blue corner opposition.

Diane Abbott: A ‘Penny’ For My Thoughts

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Image via dailymail.co.uk.

Although I love the 24- hour immersive information culture we now live in, it does have it’s down sides. Just because everybody has the ability to express their feelings in a public forum, whether on a blog, a social networking site or a newspaper, it doesn’t necessarily mean they should. The proliferation of subjective, ill-informed interpretations of news events hasn’t increased the quality of opinion in a capitalist, cream-rises-to-the-top kind of way.

It has merely made it even harder to locate informed, educative information on a subject.

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Margaret & Louise: Don’t Mensch-tion It

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Images: GQ via digitalspy.

‘The Iron Lady’ opens in UK cinemas this weekend, and with all the interest the movie is generating in Mags, it’s a clever PR move for the Tory it-girl-in-waiting to bathe in some reflected glory.

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Christopher Hitchens: A (Literary) God Is Dead

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Controversial author and journalist Christopher Hitchens died yesterday after a long battle with esophageal cancer. During his career, he managed to piss off pretty much everyone with his refusal to allow a commitment to one political ideology to prevent him from speaking out against it, plus, of course, his vehement opposition to organised religion in any form.

In 2008, in preparation for an article in Vanity Fair, Hitchens allowed himself to be subjected to waterboarding.  He sought to learn whether the technique, which was used and defended as a tool of  interrogation by the US government in the War On Terror, could indeed be described as torture. After wards, he said:

…if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

He will be missed.

John Terry & David Cameron: More In Common Than You Might Think

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Images: AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, thisislondon.

What’s going to be playing on David Cameron’s mind this morning? The fact that Nicolas Sarkozy swerved his handshake after Cam vetoed an EU Treaty change? Or that he is now five degrees closer to Chelsea footballer and alleged philanderer John Terry in the public conciousness?

It’s a close run thing.

Supporting Documentation For Emigration Request, Pts 1&2

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I haven’t been around much lately, but with good reason. I have been completing my application for permission to leave this pleasant land* for greener pastures and surprisingly, considering that the government is supposedly desperate to bring down the net migration figure, it’s ridiculously complicated.

Surely a  multiple choice form with pictures of the ‘Desperate Scousewives’ cast in the margins might be more appealing to a demographic we can probably do without?

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