Blog awards, eh? What a gaggle of crap that is. It’s not just the staid and ossified elite who are always in these things (haven’t we had enough chances to vote for BoingBoing or Andrew “Overrated” Sullivan?), it’s the volume of egregious turdmerchants who still get in. 17,000 votes for Hot Air? I’m expecting Vint…
Read More blog awards, still direReduced blog; I’ve been working on a version of FixMyStreet for Symbian S60 devices. If you want snark, how about this? I always thought that the BMW not-minis were telling in themselves. Objects are an ideology made manifest. The original Mini was a minimal car, one designed to be even cheaper than the ones sold…
Read More no-one ever gets the truth from plastic manOK, the last post wasn’t totally serious. But is it too much to say that John Redwood is back? He’s been given a committee to chair, which sounds like a kick to touch, but we live in committee times. The Government is handling the economic crisis through a combination of outside committee-ists and a civil…
Read More the time has come to shoot you downThe perfect Tory would be: As competent as George Osborne As Eurosceptic as Kenneth Clarke As relevant as Norman Tebbit As normal as John Redwood As experienced as David Cameron As intellectually brilliant as Francis Maude As close to export industries as Stuart Wheeler As credible with the City as George Osborne As committed to…
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