Bugging the buggers.
It’s good to know that in an uncertain world, there are some things you really can still rely on. No matter who you are, where you are, some bugger is monitoring you. Yes, a thousand bugs at day are...
View ArticleThe Wendy Commission is now the Gordon Commission
So the Wendy Commission is to become the Gordon Commission. It should come as no surprise that the PM has been trying to fix the suppposedly independent constitutional commission even before it has...
View ArticleConstitutional Commission is dead in the water
In the week following the May 3rd Holyrood election, this paper issued a challenge and a warning. We called on the political leaders of Scotland to look beyond their own narrow party interests and see...
View ArticleUnited King- non-dom
They may not pay taxes here, but the non-doms seem to think they run the country. Last week, the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, was forced to make a humiliating capitulation to the non-domiciled...
View ArticleTriumph of the pill – the Beijing Olympics
Steven Spielberg, withdrew his “artistic services” from the Chinese last week because he didn’t want to become ‘the Reni Liefenstahl of the Beijing Olympics’. Leifenstahl, director of “Triumph of the...
View ArticleBrown u-turn on tax powers for Holyrood. Maybe
Curious, in this week of confusion and acrimony in Labour ranks over the status of this commission-that-never-was, that it is Gordon Brown who is speaking about the constitutional “review” and not...
View ArticleToday Kosovo; tomorrow Berwick!
UN peacekeeping forces were moving into position last night as the inhabitants of Berwick declared their independence from England. Secessionists are insisting that opinion polls confirmed that the...
View ArticleThe Electoral Commission washes whiter
Prison overcrowding? Too many offenders to know what to do with? Criminals clogging up the courts? Fear not, for help is at hand. Just call in the Electoral Commission – the people who make crime...
View ArticleNorthern Rock – the bank that likes to say NO
It’s the bank that likes to say ‘No’. Newly nationalised Northern Rock has adopted a highly original marketing strategy . The bank of you and me has written to mortgage customers saying: ‘We are unable...
View ArticleSpeaker Martin’s had his day.
Many years ago, when I was a hack in the Westminster Lobby, a newly-elected woman MP came up to tell me of her surprise when, on her first day in parliament, she was taken aside by Michael Martin and...
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