Archive for March, 2010

  • Blog comment

    Blog comment

    I posted this today on Letters from a Tory regarding Labour’s five pledges: The problem with this post-card looking thing (and you know this is going to get stuffed through your letterbox, don’t you? Just look at the aspect ratio!) is that the 5 problems...

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  • Random Brit Conquers Space, stuns NASA

    Random Brit Conquers Space, stuns NASA

    Now this makes me proud to be British(ish): http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100325/tod-brit-conquers-space-with-helium-ball-870a197.html Although I do expect he’ll be prosecuted for some ‘elf’n'safety violation which naturally will make me less proud…

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  • What I want from a government.

    What I want from a government.

    All I want is a government that will leave me alone. A government that won’t seek to legislate or ‘nudge’ me about what I can or can’t put into my body, be it fat, salt, alcohol, cannabis or, frankly, cyanide. A government that will understand...

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  • Partisan-Electionitis

    Partisan-Electionitis

    This is one of my facebook comments about a chap who is a party member…. Spot on J**. D**** is increasingly succumbing to a disease known as partisan-electionitis. In this troubling condition, the sufferer starts by declaring an allegiance to a party but then swiftly...

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  • Sigh

    Sigh

    http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2010/03/16/quote-of-the-day-547/#comment-18484 “Plane ticket to England – £70.  Accommodation - £56. Abortion in a public clinic – £0.  Relief after a procedure carried out in decent conditions – priceless.” - the Mastercard-mimicking advert from a feminist organisation in Poland, who have been accused of promoting ‘abortion tourism’ by...

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  • F’ing brilliant

    F’ing brilliant

    I want this font so badly. I’d love to write to HMRC with it enclosing a cheque… http://www.fubiz.net/2010/02/26/effing-typeface/

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  • Global Warming

    Global Warming

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8542358.stm Wow. I’m so glad that we threw out all our incandescent lightbulbs because of global warming. If only I could see the end of my fingers in order to write a letter of gratitude to our great green saviour Milliband and his sacred Church of the...

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  • iDave

    iDave

    After his atrociously banal speech at last Sunday’s Tory spring conference in wet and windswept Brighton, there’s been an interesting thread over on Letters from a Tory: http://www.lettersfromatory.com/2010/03/01/does-cameron-want-all-eyes-on-browns-chilcot-appearance/ My comments are reposted below: Dave’s conference performance was cringe inducing. Did nobody else have a Neil...

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