Propaganda, PBR and Cokehead…my parrot.

Hat tip to Tom Harris MP and the Wrinkled Weasel for drawing attention to a rather bizarre Christmas card being sent out by Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond.  (The pic on the left) A most unfortunate icon? You don’t mess about with ‘Lambo’. Lieutenant-General Sir Graham Lamb, a man who does not mince words as [...]

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Iraq Inquiry: Panel asks questions with the precision of a Rich Tea biscuit dunked in a cup of tea.

I don’t normally enjoy daytime television, but yesterday’s episode of the BBC’s new ‘Panto Season’ drama  ‘The Iraq Inquiry‘, after a shaky start where urbane beknighted mandarins were paraded en masse, gave way to the appearance of the ‘villain’… or at least one of them – Sir John Scarlett, ‘M’ or ex-Director of SIS / [...]

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Shaking things up…a bit of politics… just a bit.

David Cameron has good days and bad days. Having complained about Gordon Brown’s attempts to fight the 2010 election on class war grounds, Tofftastic has now been compared to Quisling, the Norwegian collaborator who helped the nazis take over Norway during WWII and put him in charge. Shane Greer, who picked this wonderful nonsense up [...]

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Cab driver source of all intelligence on WMD in Iraq war – Shock horror!

The BBC reported, solemnly, this afternoon that  “Ex-spy chief Sir John Scarlett has told the Iraq war inquiry there was “no conscious intention” to manipulate information about Iraq’s weapons. He denied being under pressure to “firm up” the September 2002 dossier which contained the claim Iraq could use WMD within 45 minutes of Saddam’s order.” [...]

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A bit of Tuesday Tat….

Following on from my ‘Fuckerflies’ series, as Christmas approaches and no-one can be bothered to answer their phones or are ‘ in a meeting’ (and it can only get worse as the Christmas party season gets under way), I am occupying part of my time each day by painting.  Charonaletto has many spray cans and [...]

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Blawg Review #241: Colin Samuels of Infamy of Praise

Colin Samuels is a good friend and occasional co-blogger.  Colin has also won four of the last four annual Blawg Review awards and he may well be on course to win again with his latest Blawg Review #241 themed on President Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech following Pearl Harbour. Blawg Review #241 is erudite, beautifully [...]

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Tax and taxing times ahead…

David Cameron states that Lord Ashcroft’s tax affairs are nothing to do with him and are a matter for Lord Ashcroft and HM Revenue and Customs. The Independent notes: “The Tory leader insisted that Lord Ashcroft’s tax affairs are a private matter. But a different rule is now applied by Mr Cameron to Conservative MPs [...]

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Postcard from Blenheim Palace: Operation De-Toff

Dear Reader, I write to you this week, not from behind the barricades waving a red flag,  but from outside Blenheim Palace -  the ancestral home of the Dukes of Marlborough and birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. David Cameron has decided that he must de-toff the Tories (suggesting that new prospective candidates like Nunziata Rees-Mogg [...]

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Charon on GUYNews commenting on MP expenses

I have been reading Guido Fawkes’ blog for quite a few years now – the commenters providing as much entertainment, often, as the posts themselves.  Now Guido has started his own NEWS station with Emily NoMates and Tory Bear reporting. This week GUYNews introduces a new weather girl and Judge Charon QC ‘The most expert [...]

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Rive Gauche: Homo Plodiens and Homo Jobsworthsiens edition

I tend to go along with those who subscribe to the ‘cock up’ theory of life rather than those who go for the ‘conspiracy theory’ when it comes to many aspects of Police and Officialdom f**kpiggery – simply because the British Isles is home to Homo Jobsworthiens, a bipedal human with a unique ability to [...]

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A surreal and enjoyable day…

I don’t take much time off and my last holiday was just over five years ago, so I don’t feel any angst at all at having done absolutely no real work today.  I went up to London this morning to film a short piece for Guido Fawkes’ GUYNews.  I met ‘Emily Nomates’ who appears in [...]

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Putin the Boot In….

I am pleased to report that Geeklawyer and I have a cunning plan to WIN the IMHO category for the ABA Journal Top 100 Blogs. I don’t, as it happens, mind if I win or lose – I am delighted to be a nominee.  BUT… we lost America all those years ago because of King [...]

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F**kArt – a ‘Homage’ to BritArt by Charonaletto

While I can paint, after a fashion, I was told many years ago, by my Warden (They called the Headmaster a Warden) at the detention centre in Scotland where I was consigned on the Perthshire Archipelago,   that there was no money in art. He was wrong about that.  Damien Hirst has been taking the piss [...]

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The Billion Dollar Bonus

The Billion Dollar Bonus By Tonto Papadopoulos Exactly what has all this financial “talent” from The City done in 2009 to deserve such vast rewards? First there’s another question of elephantine proportions sitting on our chests, and it’s not if City and Wall Street bonuses are merited or not, it’s why did they spiral so [...]

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Two important principles of law

The High Court handed down an important judgment yesterday and a further reminder to the government that it must act within the law. The Guardian reports: Two men suspected of terrorism-related activities won a landmark high court battle today when judges ruled a person could not be denied bail solely on the basis of secret [...]

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