As ever, the ‘As if…’ website has the best perspective on Clegg’s time in charge of the country.
Supply leader Nick Clegg fails to keep control as entire nation starts humming
In a series of ‘Town Hall meetings’ Mr Clegg travelled the country pleading with people to ‘settle down’, ‘be quiet’, and to ‘get on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Funny'
It’s your own time that you’re wasting
August 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
The first rule of Fight Club is…
July 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life
…one never mentions Fight Club.
Got to love the idea of Jane Austen’s Fight Club! (hat tip to Stroppybird)
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The wisdom of crowds…
July 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Politics
…of idiots?
While Francis Maude has been busily rounding up government websites for the chop in order to save money, the government has been active in creating new ones to replace them. Best of the bunch, just for the sheer entertainment value, has to be yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk.
If the site is a bit much then somebody has very [...]
(Very) Bad Shepherds
December 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Music
A Christmastime treat for the sister:
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Via Tom Freeman (an all-around-my-hat tip?)
Its the way he tells them
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Life, Work
There was a bit of an end-of-term atmosphere at work today – which is going to make going in tomorrow feel like a real anti-climax. A major contributory factor was our xmas lunch in the canteen restaurant. Queueing up to get in there we noticed a picture of the incident at Prestwick where a Ryanair [...]
Mandelson on top form
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Unfortunately, at the time we met Peter Mandelson I was unaware that he had won the Politician of the Year award yesterday. Reading this report it sounds like he was on good form.
When accepting his award from Boris Johnson he said that he and Boris would be doing everything they can to undermine David Cameron.
Normally [...]
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Griffin highlights
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Here are the highlights from last night’s Question Time, for anybody who missed it. With a smidgen of selective editing…
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Tainted Love
October 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Life, Music
Synth Britannia on BBC Four the other day reminded me just how bloody good some things were in the British synth-pop explosion. Laurel and Hardy are also brilliant, so just how good would it be to combine the two? (hat tip: glinner)
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The perils of targetted advertising
September 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life, Technology
As any fule no, targetted advertising works by looking at keywords on a page and then serving up an advert related to those key words. Unfortunately that means you sometimes get a situation where, for example, an anti-islamic, right-wing fringe group display a prominent ad on their front page for… a muslim dating agency.
(As tweeted [...]
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Topical music
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Music, Politics
A bit of light relief amidst the ongoing furore about expenses…
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