Or, more precisely, I’m about to have a diet forced upon me now that Goddards’ Pie House in Greenwich town centre has closed its doors and sold its final portion of stewed eels. No more of my customary weekend lunches of Banks ale and soya pie, with mash, peas and parsely liquor, followed by an …
Commiserations to Cllr Kerron Cross (and especially his cat), who seems to have had a pretty miserable firework season. I’ll declare up front that I do like fireworks very much, so am rather partisan, but I’m not sure though that a ban is the best way to deal with growing firework bother. I often have …
Well, it looks like a reasonable result over the pond, but thought I’d share something from yesterday which caught my eye. This, via the AFLCIO’s blog, is a very scary account culled from US blogs about last minute Republican dirty tricks. Some absolute (evil-) genius stuff here – Why not set up one of those …
And on the subject of webcameron… Have you seen their new web-widget, which is finally live? It’s neat-o in a not tremendously useful way to the user, though it probably does wonders for webdave’s googlejuice, having all those keyword terms linking in from around the web. I thought I’d put it here, but mainly because …
At the NHStogether lobby today, where health professional union members were gathering to give their MPs a co-ordinated earbashing on NHS matters such as deficits, privatisation and consultation on change. Wandering around with his dinky camcorder was none other than toryboy2.0 Sam Roake, trying to get vox pop interviews with health professionals for webcameron. He …
Check it out – I’ve got a sneak preview of the latest service from everyone’s favourite search engine: Okay, only joking, but here’s an interesting piece in the Guardian today about new media behemoth Google’s first forays into politics, sponsoring candidates in the States (so far a Republican who’s in favour of net neutrality – …
Just back from Gdansk, where I was visiting the trade union Solidarnosc. Never been to Poland before, and Gdansk was a very nice place, but I’m knackered, so in lieu of any genuine cultural commentary, here are three things I found half-way funny: The plane we flew in on (once SAS had lost my baggage …
Very happy to see Thabitha Khumalo in the Torygraph this week, pictured looking very well. After the crackdown in Zimbabwe, she was almost insanely brave to fly back home from TUC Congress in Brighton, as the country’s most senior trades unionist outside jail, to help organise bail and medical help for her colleagues. She knew …
After my post on political geekery, I thought it only proper that I should put up my own homage to the WWW – so here is “Camsterdance” (wtf?): Play music – courtesy of Hampton the Hampster at Juno Records Now, who’s for Dave Çagri “I kiss you!” – or would we get a case of …
I’m not (too) ashamed to admit that I’m something of a geek, so there’s pretty much nothing I enjoy more than a good political/webby in-joke. As such, I *love* the nerdtastic “Hate my Tory” – an excellent Hot or Not spoof. Rather disappointingly, there’s not an awful lot of Tory hating going on, and the …