The Minister for Student Fees has given what one of the Guardian’s staff telepaths calls a candid assessment of New New Labour’s chances of winning the next general election. Apparently the non-assertion of a "God-given right to govern" will help: "we need that honesty, that humility", though obviously nothing so extreme as a change in policy. "We must avoid kneejerk responses." This is
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Well, here’s a thing: the Independent Scheme Assurance Panel, a team of experts appointed by the Government to advise it on implementing the ID card scheme, has warned that the system "will be open to fraud by the people running it" - rather like the parliamentary system. The panel, appropriately acronymed ISAP, observes that "Based on the likelihood that the scheme will aggregate a lot of
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Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, who likes to compare those who disagree with him to some friends of Pope Pius XII, has called for "a better dialogue between believers and non-believers based on mutual esteem"; whereupon, as befits so subtle a casuist, he proceeded to insult his opponents’ intelligence: "The interesting question about atheism is what is the theism being denied? Have you ever met
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On Friday 8 May 1998, the Dark Muse having waylaid me the night before, I wrote this:
Groke was going. He said something about venturing into the world to teach the rocks to sing, by finding the children of God and cutting out their tongues. "But I’ll have to do every last one of them," he said.
That led, a bit later, to this, and eventually to this. Several people have paid to read it, and one
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A report commissioned by the Secretary for Caressing Obese Financial Felines has concluded that, as with the health service and the railways, privatisation of the post office has brought blessings upon the heads of those who really matter: "Large companies have benefited from the full liberalisation of the postal market since 2006 with more choice, lower prices and better quality products". Also
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The man who took pot-shots at the police before being killed by them has been named as Mark Saunders, a barrister who had served with the Territorial Army.
He had a private education and was an Oxford graduate. The firearm he used was "lawfully held, and legally in the possession of the person it was issued to", according to the deputy chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
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The Minister for Tiny Human Resources, Beverley Hughes, has been listening and leading with members of the National Association of Head Teachers at their annual conference. The head teachers raised objections to league tables and to the Government’s practice of putting children through exams at the age of seven. "Look, the views and opinions of teachers and headteachers are very important,"
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The Glorious Successor has give his analysis of the causes behind the electoral mauling and has noted that, in the face of rising food and energy costs, he feels our pain. "I feel the hurt they feel," he said, referring to the proles. "We are standing up for people facing difficulties," he said, referring to the banks. A six-figure salary and some waiting company directorships will do that to a
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Well, they went and did it. A floating haystack with a twit for a pendulum is now the mayor of London and the most powerful Conservative in Britain outside the Government after the editor of the Daily Mail. Appropriately, it appears he owes his victory to a doughnut.
The rest of the country seems to have done more or less what the Labour party did some months ago; namely, attempted to remedy the
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