Pleasingly, American writers may not understand that old money wears old shoes!.
This nonsense from the Wall Street Journal is quite amusing though… I assume the writer is American? If he is British – he may have read too many copies of Heat Magazine? 🙂
Cameron Wears Old Shoes for Historic Meeting With Obama
The Big Society: a genuine vision for Britain’s future – or just empty rhetoric?
Independent: Yesterday David Cameron laid out his flagship policy. Andy McSmith reads between the lines
Hat Tip to @Wibblenut who Retweeted this: danbrusca: What’s all this talk of a Pig Society?
Naturally, I could not resist!
AV might not hurt Tories if LibDem meltdown continues
AND a spot of good news!…..
Unilever action lands BNP with up to £170,000 settlement bill
Brand Republic: The British National Party remained tight-lipped this morning over claims that it could face financial difficulties due to an out-of-court settlement reportedly paid to FMCG giant Unilever, after the party featured a jar of Marmite in an online election broadcast.
and finally….
Taser ‘accidentally discharged’ into man’s groin
The Independent reports: Police were investigating today after an officer accidentally discharged a 50,000 volt Taser weapon into a man’s groin. Peter Cox, 49, was seeking legal advice over the incident which started when he was stopped on suspicion of driving a BMW without insurance. He spotted a patrol car following him and pulled over at his friend’s house in Bridgwater, Somerset, where he was doing landscaping work on July 13. The officer pointed the Taser at him for a few seconds before lowering the weapon. At this point, it discharged, narrowly missing the father-of-one’s genitals and hitting his groin and ankle. Unemployed Mr Cox, who suffers from Guillain Barri syndrome, fell to the ground in agony and he was treated by paramedics on the front lawn.
Quite why a police officer pulled a taser out for an uninsured river – even if he was being a bit aggressive (denied) I don’t know. This is (a) because I wasn’t there (b) I am not a policeman and (c) tonight… I am *Baffled of Battersea*.
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In respect of Cameron’s sartorial inelegance one can only repeat: If the shoe fits……….
interesting that the cam reckons the decision to release al megrahi was ‘completely wrong’. no more than that because of course (as you and many commenters here have noted) it’s nothing to do with him. i’m amazed he hasn’t tried to blame labour (or maybe he did and i missed it).
given his grasp of tricky legal concepts like human rights law, the rule of law, european law and errrr just law really, i would think there is a high probability that his view on this bit of law is ‘completely wrong’.
On the subject of Megrahi, it is extremely telling that he survived untouched while in Scottish prisons. I understand that in his latter years he was not segregated in any way, and had no trouble from any of the prisoners.
Like the one about the “pigs” – reminded me of Animal Farm – “”Comrades!” he cried. “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.”
Out of curiosity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain%E2%80%93Barr%C3%A9_syndrome
Like you, I am utterly baffled by the use of a Taser here.