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Sledging….
I love West Indies Cricket. I even loved it back in the seventies and eighties when they were obliterating English batsmen with a barrage of bouncers, a piratical team led by Clive Lloyd who looked like a head teacher but had a core of steel. So the last few years of underachievement have been painful […]
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Cheeky sod….
I’m speechless. How does David Cameron have the temerity to caution against being too pessimistic about the prospects for economic recovery? He managed to get his fingertips on power by painting an apocalyptic vision of the enormous black hole into which the British economy was disappearing as a result, apparently, of the Labour government’s mismanagement. He […]
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Feeding frenzy
I haven’t had this much fun since Maggie Thatcher cried when she left No10 Downing Street for the last time. The news is usually a litany of despair, more pain for the poor, fatter wage packets for the obscenely wealthy, famine, disease and war. Of course the horsemen of the apocalypse are still with us, […]
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Bad company
The vicissitudes of being the party in power are now all too apparent to the Liberal Democrats. Thrashed at the polls and soundly beaten in the AV referendum, the party that once gloried in the phony war of local politics now finds the tables turned in dramatic fashion. Historically, they have been the beneficiaries of the […]