2006

We will catch up with and outstrip America – Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev.

David “Stupid Network” Isenberg reflects on the common phenomenon that the only worthwhile thinking at a conference occurs during lunch. Very true. I’d go to a conference made up of a continuous lunch. Rather like this bunch of nutters, some of whose events I attended in Vienna.

Now there’s a phrase from the 90s. Remember Michael Howard’s Criminal Justice Act? Road protests? Setting Sun? Well, if you do you probably, like me, can’t imagine how it came to this. It seems you are these days more likely to be the target of biometric surveillance if you are in a nightclub than anywhere…

Just received the following anonymous advice regarding Mrs. David Mills and her unfeasibly frequent mortgages. Hambros is a past tense merchant bank of course; it bit one over the Co-Op takeover scandal and got taken over by Societe Generale of France. “SG Hambro” is now SocGen’s UK private banking brand, and it would not be…

CCTV pictures of the assault on Kenya’s Standard newspaper are here. Update, I’ve been concerned about the status of Internet connectivity to/from Kenya, being aware that although it’s one of the few African countries to have its own IX, all links to the outside world are by VSAT. However, looking up the back numbers of…

Ah, time for the marching songs.. Sunnis said to be moving men and arms to Baghdad to “defend the mosques”. Mobilisation time. The New-Old Iraqi Army is coming. And – refugees are leaving, people are collecting, sleeping on their mosque floors. Going to the mattresses, you might say. I don’t want to gloat, but…

Right, despite the Heaving Strangler‘s cluelessness, I bring you a brief timeline of Mr and Mrs David Mills’s mortgages. 1979. House in Kentish Town bought in cash. 15th July, 1987. Kentish Town house mortgaged with Mortgage Fund Corporation Ltd. 18th March, 1991. Remortgage with Coutts & Co. 1993. Warwickshire house bought in cash. 17th May,…

..some real policemen as fake unidentified gunmen. Goons in masks, brandishing AKs, invaded the printing plant of the Kenya Standard last night and set fire to several thousand copies of the paper, before carrying off several employees. The paper believes they were policemen for the simple reason that they took the detainees/abductees to the central…

Well, aren’t David Mills’s explanations for that £350,000 getting creative? First up, he said the letter in which he fessed up to it was “purely hypothetical”. Fine. So there was no money. Now, he says that the £350,000 came from his mate, the Neapolitan shipowner. (Shipping in Naples. Not likely to be any trace of…

A right-wing, American evangelical minister. Busted. In Uganda. In a hotel room full of guns and Congolese citizens. An excellent blog with the details. Send lawyers, guns and money – the shit has hit the fan. Be interesting to see what develops.