h’angus to wed!![…]

Javier Bardem was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Before Night Falls, another of those films that slipped by me in the cinema. Why did it slip by? Well it was a film about a writer, and they tend to be pretty unengaging. Writers, on the whole,[…]

as a (actually serious) follow-through to this post, here is what Baer says abt Galloway’s win, concluding “As [James] Forsythe [in the New Republic] goes on to explain, a Galloway win could spark a backlash against Muslims as: ‘It […]

this was mentioned in passing by pundits last night*: someone in a Welsh constituency polled just a single vote – apparently the lowest prior to this being a surprisingly roomy 13
(ie this hopeful not only persuaded no one on policy, but their […]

McCarthy – Get A Knife Between Your Teeth
Listening to political records this week made me think about this curio, one of McCarthy’s last singles and not included on their best-of compilation. It’s actually my favourite record by th[…]

Tory “runners and riders” post-Howard: is this the best they can do? Answer: yes. Ghastly mixed feelings for the left-leaner – Tory leaders getting more and more ridiculous as the gene pool shrinks, but electoral pass the parcel mea[…]

To slip into the football argot so curiously beloved of Blair this campaign, “I’d have taken that result before the game”. Labour majority bad for Blair, usable for Brown. Tories make a few gains in (mostly) seats you’d expect[…]