Yet another post about the weekend’s television viewing, which is really an acknowledgement that I did a lot of it this weekend – a consequence of having the worst type of cold (defined as one that gets steadily worse but only gets really bad on Saturday and Sunday, leaving you well enough to go to […]
Entries from February 6th, 2006
The IT Crowd
February 6th, 2006 · Comments Off on The IT Crowd · Life
Chez Skuds the jury is still out on The IT Crowd. Its yet another case of having to readjust expectations or perspective I think. Despite the title and the publicity, The IT Crowd is not really about the IT industry any more than Black Books is about bookselling or Father Ted is about religion: the […]
Chris Who?
February 6th, 2006 · Comments Off on Chris Who? · Politics
Last week on Question Time, the camera panned round the panel and alighted on Chris Huhne sitting at the end. Before they said who he was, my immediate reaction was to wonder why Crawley Tory councillor Bob Lanzer was on Question Time. These pictures don’t really do the comparison justice. Who-he looked much greyer on […]
Tags: Lib Dems
What is Cameron playing at?
February 6th, 2006 · Comments Off on What is Cameron playing at? · Politics
Cameron’s speech today about constitutional matters is quite confusing. (It was more dramatically headlined in The Guardian as “Queen’s powers should be removed, says Cameron”) Isn’t it supposed to be the job of the Labour party to push for constitutional reform which eliminates (or eradicates) non-accountable power from the monarchy? The Guardian article also mentions […]
Tags: Tories
Gangs of New York
February 6th, 2006 · Comments Off on Gangs of New York · Technology
Last night I decided to watch Gangs of New York on Channel 4, since I had never got round to seeing it before, but it was a really big mistake on two counts. The reason it was a mistake was that its a long film and it started late, so it meant not going to […]
