This blog hates many things, as the name suggests. Top of the all-time shit-list though, is the British tabloid “news”paper known as The S*n. This earlier post explains why. Now, as much as I love to hate, there are many things I genuinely love and WordPress is one of them. Absolutely lovely, easy-to-use blogging software [...]
Entries from June 2010
Monday 28 June 2010
‘Mawkish brutality’
Tabloid Watch has an excellent article here about Cumbrian MP, Jamie Reed, and his reaction to the media coverage of the murders committed by Derrick Bird. It is a moving speech, one that deserves to have a wider audience, particularly because he really doesn’t pull any punches in his condemnation of the behaviour of certain [...]
Friday 25 June 2010
Happy Birthday George
ten minutes hate will be marking the occasion with a dram of Jura and one or many of these.
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Building a dream
Diane Abbott called it right. According to Paul Waugh on Twitter: As well they might. But do not be mistaken, although Liberal Democrats with narrow majorities over Labour MPs will be rueing the day they lined up for such a shafting, it is all of us who will be getting fucked. Royally, in fact. While [...]
Friday 18 June 2010
Iceland gets its mojo back
Go on, admit it, you were all set to hate them forever for ruining your holiday and stranding you in Bali… … and then they go and do this. If it weren’t for the price of booze, I suspect most journalists would be on the first plane! In honour of Iceland, today’s musical hit comes [...]
Thursday 17 June 2010
World Cup naysayers
The World Cup is here and isn’t it glorious? The sun shines and I manage to fit in an early morning stroll on the beach before heading home to watch three almost back-to-back football matches EACH DAY. Envy my life! Of course, the commentators are as stupid as ever. Life in South Africa is far [...]
Tuesday 15 June 2010
A warning to children
Children, do not bully the weird kids at school, for they may grow up to be a Treasury secretary and exact a most terrible vengeance on us all. — Picture borrowed from here
Monday 14 June 2010
Why Labour lost
Following a defeat or set back it is natural to contemplate what went wrong, human nature having developed this tactic to avoid repeating mistakes forever. One of my favourite and oft-quoted pieces of wisdom is that one, sometimes attributed to Einstein, about the definition of insanity being expecting a different result from the same action. [...]
Thursday 10 June 2010
Miliblogging*
If it is true, as H. L. Mencken suggests, that ‘no-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public’, perhaps it is equally true that no-one ever lost power in the UK by underestimating the stupidity of our electoral system. The Tories attempt to win an election with a leader who is their [...]
Tuesday 8 June 2010
How much??!
They spent over three hundred grand on the CPS website. Julia spent the square root of feck all on ten minutes hate. Which one do we think looks better? Think I might change tack and start tendering for government IT contracts. At this rate I could undercut all the competition and still have enough to [...]
