How about some music? The aim of this feature is to make D^2’s thursday music links look silly, and the only rule is that everything has to be performed by someone other than the original. Call it an agonising reappraisal. Here’s the Clash with Janie Jones, doing “(Get Up I Feel Like Being A) Sex…
Read More I’ll show you thursday music link…(on Sunday)It seems horribly fitting that, with the Tories back in, Wigan have started winning the league again. I mean, not that there’s anything wrong with them. It’s just the effect of the years when they won literally everything, year in, year out. And Maurice Lindsay, of course. If we have to have Wigan though, I…
Read More baaack…Am I right in thinking this is a form of “superempowerment”, of the NATO forces on the border, the Taliban, and the Pakistani Frontier Corps on the other side? Pakistani authorities say that the checkpoint guards tried to alert the US helicopters that they had strayed into Pakistani territory by firing in the air, but…
Read More the frontier(Inspiration here.) A numerical variable was today reported to have either increased or decreased or remained constant. Depending on which one, this may represent a record value for this variable, a dramatic rise or fall since whichever point in time is required to show a dramatic rise or fall, or nothing whatsoever. In a development…
Read More This is an article about a statisticSorry about this, but yet more journobashing follows. And I warn you that the actual information in this story is media-bollocks, but it may be interesting all the same. Zoe Williams interviews Rachel “Boris Johnson’s Sister” Johnson, editor of the Lady. Rachel Johnson has been editing the Lady for almost a year. In that time,…
Read More a glimpse of the press in action: Johnson family editionHas anyone else found that the Guardian‘s coverage of the Labour conference made them want to throw up? Here’s Patrick “Unseasonably Mild” Wintour: But his efforts to show he can lead a united, re-energised party committed to redefining the centre ground of politics look likely to be hampered by the expected decision of his defeated…
Read More a glimpse of the press in action: Ed Miliband edition