Monthly Archives: December 2010

Like most people I guess, I’ll raise a glass tonight and wish everyone a happy new year, but it will be with the deepest foreboding of what is to come in 2011. Over the holiday I went out for a … Continue reading →

England players ‘do the sprinkler’ for the Barmy Army after a Yorkie seals the Ashes.

The foolishness of youth that can blight your life… A Cleveland Browns fan’s lament. There is a reason you can’t vote until you’re 18. There’s a reason you can’t drink until you’re 21. There’s is a reason we don’t choose … Continue reading →

When Steve Waugh handed over the captaincy of the Australian cricket team to Ricky Ponting in 2004 he handed over a golden legacy and some magnificent players. But that legacy, and the decline and retirement of those players also meant … Continue reading →

Despite the Liberal Democrat claims that they have acted as a break on the Tories… they have actually brought nothing at all to the table… Lib Dems accused over taking credit. “This story line entails allowing Lib Dems to claim … Continue reading →

I’m not sure whether it is the Telegraph being maliscious or senior Conservatives deliberately trying to scupper their ‘partners’, but this article can hardly be intended to strengthen the coalition. I can think of nothing more likely to bring on … Continue reading →

Netroots Uk… the fightback begins online!

More Daily Telegraph secret recordings today exposing the hypocrisy of their MPs in the coalition. I don’t mean their hypocrisy in propping up the Tories, but their hypocrisy in trying to fob off their constituents as if they were really … Continue reading →

Coriolanus – brush up your Shakespeare… The Plastic Hippo Like a rogue Coriolanus bestriding the world armed with “nuclear weapons”, he joins the patrician ranks to quell the unruly plebeian rioters. However, Coriolanus was dissuaded from destroying Rome and never … Continue reading →

Well…. what a rich seam of gossip old Uncle Vinnie is turning in to. It’s one thing poking a pointy stick in the direction of his Conservative partners, but something else altogether to start slinging bricks in the direction of … Continue reading →