Archive for May, 2009

Brown must be enjoying all this

It’s amazing what a difference the holidays make, particularly if you’re Gordon Brown and you don’t have to turn up to make a fool of yourself at Prime Minister’s Questions.

He’s had a week off and it’s all bad news for …

Can Bing sing for Microsoft?

Heaven knows how much it’s cost Microsoft to come up with the name Bing for its revamped search engine but Google it ain’t.

Then again Google apparently signifies a very large number, a fact unknown to most of its very large …

Toff Tory Cash is latest bad boy

Staffordshire Tory MP Bill Cash, one of the Eurosceptic MPs who made last Tory premier John Major’s life a misery, has been caught out paying his daughter Laetitia £15,000 from public funds in rent for accomodation he didn’t actually use.

To …

Extra prep for errant MPs says Clegg

Well the whole lot of them actually as Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has suggested that MPs be denied their (extensive) summer holidays until they set about reforming matters to his liking.

This includes abolishing the House of Lords and introducing …

BGT turns into Boyle freak show

As Britain’s Got Talent always would of course, with Scottish singer Susan Boyle accused of ranting and raving at fellow guests at a hotel in Wembley and getting even more annoyed when judge Piers Morgan, who she allegedly fancies, voted …

Hangovers all round after Rome

Booze may have been banned in Rome during last night’s Champion’s League final between Barcelona and Manchester United but there’ll still be some sore heads coming back from the match, not least among the British soccertariat who were convinced that …

We’ll fight on the beaches says Nic

Nicolas Sarkozy (president of France): So what did the British do for us anyway?

Serge Poniatowski (Blatherskite’s chief celebrity interviewer): Invaded Normandy on D-Day with ze Americans and Canadians

Nic: Well a few of them did I admit, but what did that …

Russian girls planning world coup?

Those pesky Russians have already tried to take over the world using money and energy supplies but this particular plot came unstuck as energy prices fell and the Russians in question bought useless things (in terms of world domination) like …

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