Monthly Archives: August 2007

One of the late Ron Pickering’s classic commentary moments (often mistakenly accredited to David Coleman) was at the Montreal Olympics when he said of the great Cuban athlete Alberto Juantorena …. “and there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening … Continue reading →

I think I have discovered who really writes the dizzy thinks blog. Take a look at the arch Tory loyalist’s blog header. Well, what do you reckon? Are they by any chance related? I think we should be told. dizzy … Continue reading →

Our Man in Newcastle was unmoved by Diane Windsor’s death, and he thinks the whole thing was not so much a collective hysteria as a media lie. I’m not so sure. I was working in downtown Willenhall at the time … Continue reading →

I’m sure Iain Dale has been very busy compiling his latest guide to political bloggers, and I haven’t done much in the way of scanning blogs in recent weeks… but did I miss the draw for the £100 worth of … Continue reading →

Over at Political Betting things are looking pretty grim for the boy Dave as the Lib Dems who abandoned Labour over the war start to drift back home. …the movement that looks irreversible is the big shift from 2005 Lib … Continue reading →

I’ll get this in while I can. Is there any team that has been in the Premiership during the whole reign of Jose Mourhino at Chelsea and is still undefeated at home against them?

Seamus Milne in the Guardian on Cameron’s lurch to the right to placate the Tory core support has an interesting conclusion. Even more than Blair, Cameron’s reforms have essentially been presentational. As modern politics has increasingly come to focus on … Continue reading →

Mike Smithson at Political Betting notes the support of the Daily Mail and the Telegraph for Cameron’s bleatings about law and order, and wonders if this spells the end of cuddly Dave. But isn’t Cameron simply following in the footsteps … Continue reading →

Someone has sent me details of the wonderful Barnsby Blog for which I am very grateful. George is an 88-year old socialist who used to publish a quarterly George Barnsby Working Class Library and Free Communist Bookshop which is a … Continue reading →

Today “the most inspiring, the greatest and the most courageous leader of our generation” will have a statue unveiled in his honour in Parliament Square. I don’t suppose the wicked witch of Finchley who condemned him as a ‘terrorist’ and … Continue reading →