Good news for Blairites
The Independent reports that
Oliver Letwin has promised that David Cameron would complete Tony Blair’s unfinished legacy by pushing through reforms that Gordon Brown had thwarted while Chancellor…
Mr Letwin mischievously praised two of Mr Blair’s prominent allies – James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, and Lord Adonis, the Schools minister – and said the Tories [...]
For Sarah Palin…
OK, I know I’m probably behind the times with this, but it just occurred to me and made me smile…
Whitewashing the police
In my previous post I highlighted the damning contradiction in the account of the police’s actions given by the coroner in his opening statement to the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. Now I don’t claim that Nick Cohen (or anyone else for that matter) reads Mutantblog but he certainly has no [...]
It’s time they were held to account
Reading accounts of the start of the inquest into the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes I was struck by two remarks the coroner, Sir Michael Wright, made in his opening statement -
“Both officers said that they were convinced that Mr de Menezes was a suicide bomber, that he was about to detonate a bomb [...]
Farewell to the “House that Ruth built”
It was a historic occasion last night as Yankee Stadium, one of the world’s iconic sporting venues, hosted its last game. I visited it once, back in 1996 and saw the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles (coincidentally last night’s opponents) to clinch a play-off place on the way to their 23rd World Series win. It [...]
Shiver me timbers…
It’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day
He’s doomed!
The Labour Party’s efforts to compete with Newcastle United FC for the title of most comically inept once-loved British institution continue to go from strength to strength. Unheard of ex- and minor members of the government calling for Brown to quit, attempts to trigger a de facto vote of confidence, ministers equivocating when asked whether [...]
We’re all doomed!
Exciting times as scientists at CERN prepare to switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on Wednesday. Over the course of the next months and years some of the really big questions in science could be answered; will they prove the existence of the Higgs boson, the “god particle”? Will they discover the nature of [...]