Today’s ‘shock’ announcement of a Tory MP defecting to UKIP has been a bit of fun for all the non-Tories, but not entirely a shock in some respects. OK, so it wasn’t expected or even hinted at, but once you saw the headline, the identity of the MP in question was far from a shock. […]
Entries from August 28th, 2014
The circus comes to Clacton
August 28th, 2014 · Comments Off on The circus comes to Clacton · Politics
Not such grand designs
August 17th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Life
On the way home from having lunch in town on Friday we popped into B&Q for a new toilet seat and came out with more than we expected because they were getting rid of some firesat ridiculous prices. I think it was old stock of a discontinued product line. When we got home I decided […]
Overthinking the Hunger Games
August 13th, 2014 · Comments Off on Overthinking the Hunger Games · Life
Over the weekend I finally got round to watching the two Hunger Games films. I should have enjoyed them more, and if only I had remembered to do what I was told to at school I probably would have done. All the way through the films I kept wondering how on Earth actors of the […]
Tags: Films
My favourite Robin Williams line
August 12th, 2014 · Comments Off on My favourite Robin Williams line · Life, Politics
One reason why I like comedy is the way that a comedian can often manage to sum up a whole social issue in a one-liner that makes its point better than a politician could in an entire speech, and still make you laugh When politicians try humour it is cringeworthy at best, but when comedians […]
Tags: Funny
Will the last minister to leave the Foreign Office please turn out the lights
August 12th, 2014 · 1 Comment · Politics
I have never really taken to Baroness Warsi, but at least she resigned on a matter of principle, unlike Mark Simmonds. I don’t think that being unable to scrape by on many times the average wage really counts as a principle. When I see him complaining that MPs’ expenses can’t pay for him to rent […]
Re-writing history
August 9th, 2014 · 2 Comments · Life
I have been building up quite a collection of Robert Rankin books on my Kindle. He keeps doing special offers on his birthday or a christmas where one or two are free and others are at reduced price for a short while and I snap them up. This is not just me being tight, I […]
Tags: Books
Catching up
August 9th, 2014 · Comments Off on Catching up · Music
During this week I have been using Spotify to catch up on some of those things I missed out on the first time around. Sometimes it gets a bit embarrassing to realise just how many popular and important albums I have never even heard or properly listened to. Only slighly embarrassing though, because I know […]
Tags: Spotify
Laffer spotting
August 4th, 2014 · Comments Off on Laffer spotting · Politics
I had a real surprise the other day. I was watching Sky News and they had an interview with Arthur Laffer, the bloke who has that curve named after him. For some reason I had always just assumed that the Laffer curve, and by implication Laffer himsef, were a lot less recent than that. I […]