A few months ago I wrote about how the media, once they’ve decided on a narrative, use every single minor incident they can to reaffirm this while downplaying every major event that contradicts it. In that case I was talking about Ming Campbell and the fact that the media had settled on narrative focussed on… Continue reading A long ramble about Cherie Blair and mythology
Category: musings
Outside the Gates of Hell
For reasons I won’t go into now, I find myself at Labour Party conference. To be precise, I’m currently sitting in the Starbucks outside the Midland Hotel in Manchester. Simply everyone is here, darlings. Dave Miliband and his band of sycophants have just left. Geoff Hoon is sitting behind me and a man has just… Continue reading Outside the Gates of Hell
Leah does Catherine Tate
To paraphrase: Am I bovvered? Do I look bovvered? Robin and Leah must be kicking themselves that they can’t read what Iain Dale has written about them in his new book.