So yer Djanogly and his legal aid bill and his insurance companies. Something I’d love to know more about is his rather odd statement that his kids had “non-interest bearing non-voting shares” in these companies and that they were “of no value”. This is of course another case of the principle that lawyering a statement…
Read More Moving swiftly onThe Independent on Sunday has another really excellent piece on Liam Fox including a very good network visualisation. See the power of the radial graph paradigm, and understand why I want Lobster to look like that! kc claffy wasn’t wrong.
Read More Adventures in radial graph visualisation – Sindy editionIt’s a truth universally recognised that if you find one security exploit you’ll find another. Something called CivilServiceLive has published a really excellent rundown of Tory and Lib Dem special advisers and – what is the word? – non-adviser advisers, here. I note that super-neocon journo William Shawcross’s kid has been placed with George Osborne,…
Read More to be filed for referenceIn the recent case of Liam Fox and Adam Werritty, there was an issue that the news media spent an enormous amount of time and effort dancing around with innuendo, newspaper code, and carefully lawyered prose. It is a fact that the word “lawyered” is to the word “lawyer” as the word “doctored” is to…
Read More Now that’s what I call lobbyingSo, I managed to get to watch the Grand Final on Saturday night! The first pub we tried had a private function where the TV is, although it also had Timothy Taylor’s Landlord Ale, and the other bar contained a group of Irish union fans who’d been drinking steadily since 6am. We moved on, and…
Read More Leeds. LEEDS. Leeds. (Look, you’re the richest club in the northern union. Get a better song)OK, so “Not All That” Foxy Liam Fox is in trouble. “He is an odd bloke,” said one fellow minister. “He has fingers in so many pies that you kind of think one of them will land him in trouble somewhere along the line.” Another Tory MP said Fox’s tendency to name-drop and brag about…
Read More Liam Fox: Not Fit For PurposeChampiones… Keighley 32, Workington 12. Yeah.
Read More keighley keighley boing boingI have just finished reading The Stones of London: A History in 12 Buildings. Not a gem by any means – far too much broadbrush Tory-ish and not much of an edge – but I did think he had a couple of good points. One was in the chapter on Keeling House and Denys Lasdun,…
Read More Not the kittens!What if the entire political response to the Great Financial Crisis could be summed up as “Punch the incumbent”? Americans threw out George Bush. Obviously this was overdetermined, but still, they did it in the winter of 2008. If you look around the democratic world, what seems to make the most difference is timing –…
Read More Throwing out the bums