Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Pies and Prejudice
"Margaret Thatcher tried her best to bleed Britain's libraries to death" p44 - [prophetic of how Cameron's Big Society tried to destroy them]
"Thirty years ago, as Nick Cohen records in Cruel Britannica, one third of journalists were based outside London. Now ninety per cent of reporters work in the capital."
Ebury press, 2007
"Thirty years ago, as Nick Cohen records in Cruel Britannica, one third of journalists were based outside London. Now ninety per cent of reporters work in the capital."
Ebury press, 2007
Monday, May 02, 2011
Heather v Morrisey
Heather, the wife, is provoked by Dermot O'Leary opening his show with "William, It Was Really Nothing" by the Smiths:
"The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down".
"Well, why don't you move then," she shouts at the radio. Obviously a follower of Norman Tebbit
"The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down".
"Well, why don't you move then," she shouts at the radio. Obviously a follower of Norman Tebbit
