Category: Current Affairs
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Roy Mayall
A literary review’s blog may seem an odd place to learn about the realities of being a postal worker under Royal Mail’s ‘modernisation’ regime, but the London Review of Books’ blog has some posts by Roy Mayall, a pseudonymous postman. Starting with a diary piece in the Review itself, he has now written two posts…
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Auntie’s impartiality
Whatever position one takes on the BBC’s refusal to show the Disasters Emergency Committee’s appeal for the people of Gaza, their protestations about impartiality ring hollow. I had in the post the other day, I can’t imagine why, a mailing from the local Tories inviting me to an Energy Forum where, doubtless, the speakers would…
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The emblematic significance of the pink tie in Cameron’s Tory party
In the latest London Review of Books there is a long article by Christopher Tayler, Heir to Blair, on the Conservative party under Cameron. In his research he gives the doubly alarming information that he attended a meeting of local Tories at the University of Kent, addressed by Oliver Letwin, alarming firstly because, when I…
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Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
It’s tiresome and school-boy-facetious of me, but I cannot help being amused by the news that the environmentalist Nicolas Hulot might run for the the French presidency next year. Unfortunately for sub-editors everywhere, he appears to be ruling out the possiblity. Technorati Tags: hulot