Anachronisms

Just a thought.. The next time Obama refers to BP (the oil company with a 40-40-20 split in UK-US-other shareholders) as “British Petroleum”, perhaps the UK press should return the compliment. Anyone care to hear a statement from the President with British East African (and Sandwich Islander) ancestry? Yeh, daft isn’t it?

Oi! Barrack, leave our Tone alone!

Right, ok, suppose that I - as a geologist - should take some notice of this oil seep in the Gulf of Mexico. So it’s very big and not very friendly to sea life. Its also photogenic in a very “non-” kind of way. From a PR perspective its an environmentalists dream. Played the right way, its [...]

10 for 2010

Well, Iain Dale did one, so have other Tory bloggers. The Guardian had some of its columnists do a nice video on the topic. I thought I’d follow suit and other some speculative and pointless predictions for the year ahead in the political world: 1) The 2010 UK general election will be held in May [...]

Where were they then?

Michael White of the Guardian has recently been writing a very enjoyable mini-series on his “politicians of the decade”. Today especially I have to admire his Tory-troll baiting style in choosing Harriet Harman. Other candidates have included Tony Blair and Alex Samond. We have Mr. Dave Cameron to look forward to tomorrow. What I like [...]

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