Just watched Michael White of the Guardian being interviewed by Sky News. He was doing his best to downplay the significance of the police interviewing Tony Blair for the second time. Surely even a Blair apologist can see that this is unprecedented? For all the talk of the Tories and sleaze ten years ago, not one single policeman ever went to Downing Street to question John Major. In fact, it is ludicrous to imagine John Major being involved in anything questionable while he was Prime Minister. Not so Blair.
No telling Michael White, though. There are none so blind as those who will not see.
February 1st, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Recent events don’t fit with these journalists world picture. I think that big changes in the political and media world are in the offing. About time too.
February 1st, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I look forward to seeing our Tony arrested as he leaves office- but I suppose prison overcrowding means he wouldn’t get Gaol time.
Pity.
Wishful thinking, isn’t it?
February 1st, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Sort of thing that sticks to your shoes, that White chap.
February 1st, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Interesting cartoon, that Gapingvoid thing you have.
Never saw you as a sentimentalist, Bel. Read Sara Coleridge’s stuff yet?
February 1st, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Hi Joe, I haven’t yet read the poems. Any idea where I can get them? Perhaps that Telegraph article had a link? I should go back to check.
As to being a sentimentalist, I don’t choose what appears on that cartoon.
I subscribe to the cartoon and the writer changes it at will. So maybe he is the sentimentalist.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:06 am
They could well be online somewhere, I guess. If not, they soon will be I’m sure. I’m amazed what you can find in the world of old texts. I’ve printed off several medieval historians.
We all have to be sentimentalists sometimes, don’t fight it!!
After all, some would say poetry is sentimental….
Between you me. I’m a fan of Spenser’s Faery Queene, which is a touch unusual, I suppose.
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:24 am
Blair sold out to the EU and Bilderbergers in 1993, therefore the globalists whose sleaze is documented. Therefore he is the most corrupt PM in British history.
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Prague Tory has summed things up rather well. Michael White remains a confirmed aopologist for the sins of NuLabour despite a mounting tide of sleaze and ineptitude. Is he chasing a knighthood or something? I personally doubt if there is sufficient evidence to arrest Blair but Lord Levy and Ruth Turner are different matters…Nonetheless, this whole affair has permanently sullied Blair’s reputation and denied him the “legacy” he so craves. We can at least be content with that…
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I hope he gets arrested before the end of his career.
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Istanbul Tory, I think he may actually be chasing something of the sort. He definitely acts like a man who wants something. He comes across to me as almost sycophantic.
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I think James Higham will find most main party leaders across the Western world have been present at meeting of the Bilderburg group. That’s the idea.
It’s not quite as sinister a concept as people think- though I know the conspiracy theorists love it.
It’s simply that the key political and economic leaders of the Western world meet regularly out of the public gaze to discuss the state of things. Surely you’d expect that.
February 2nd, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Actually, Joe, I don’t ‘expect that’.
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I see. So you’d presumably prefer each country developed it’s policies in isolation, never letting anyone else know it’s motives, the business communities of one country jealously guarding their aims from others, world politics becoming a stage of mutual suspicion and tenuous alliances until some powder keg leads everything to explode as in 1914…
World’s too small and too dangerous for that now.
Hell, I say that and I’m against the EU!!!