We are officially now in the grip of a new panic. Quite how justified all this screaming and shouting about swine influenza is remains to be seen, but there is certainly a lot of secondary nonsense starting to form. My favourite thus far is the Israel government’s insistence that it should be renamed “Mexican flu”… Continue reading One pig flu over the cuckoo’s nest
Month: April 2009
Balls, dirty tricks and candidate selection
The revelations in the Sunday Times this weekend about Ed Balls being the secret puppetmaster behind “smeargate” seem a little thin to me, but they do remind me of an incident a few years ago. Long time readers may recall my ill-fated campaign to get Ed Balls a sex change operation so that he could… Continue reading Balls, dirty tricks and candidate selection
Why Clegg needs to kick the donor habit
Despite the Observer’s best efforts, it is hard to see what the Lib Dems have actually done wrong here. Indeed, given how high minded the “serious” press are being about smears at the moment, it is surprising to see an article so riddled with innuendo. So let’s clear a few points up. Firstly, there is… Continue reading Why Clegg needs to kick the donor habit