Archive for August, 2009

Too little too late from Brown

UK PM Gordon Brown bounced back from his holidays to make his fourth ’surprise’ visit this year to Afghanistan today, promising some vehicles that wouldn’t get blown up by roadside bombs (as the 208th British soldier died from one) and …

Arsene is sent off - but where should he go?

It might not have seemed amusing to Arsenal fans - still musing about how they were losing to Manchester United -but trigger-happy referee Mike Dean sending off Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger in the last moments of today’s game at Old …

Decimation at BBH London

Bartle Bogle Hegarty had rather inherited Abbott Mead Vickers’ place in London as the nice (and successful) agency to work for but its decision to axe ten per cent of its 400 London staff hardly supports this notion.

The company says …

Trouper Ed Stourton holds the fort

Ed Stourton - ‘Posh Ed’ to vulgar hacks like Mr Blatherskite - was rudely sacked by Today the best part of a year ago as a way to find room for Justin Webb, the BBC’s Washington correspondent.

But Ed has been …

Tacky Kenny stars in the Screws

Kenny Logan, once a rather moderate rugby union winger for Wasps and Scotland and later a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, is ‘telling all’ in the News of the World this - and a tacky old tale it is.

Flagged as …

US is hopping mad at Scotland and UK

Relations between the US and the UK have had their ups and downs over the years (the Suez crisis in 1956 for example, when the US quite rightly decided not to back the UK and France’s adventure in Egypt) but …

What to make of the Lockerbie row?

Well there’s no doubt that Libyan Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi should never have been released on any grounds, terminal cancer notwithstanding, if he actually did, single-handledly or otherwise, kill 270 people on Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland back in 1988.

But one …

Something you should know, Mazher

Mazher Mahmood, the News of the World’s famous ‘fake sheikh, or someone purporting to be him, writes to Mr Blatherskite to the effect that he has never spoken to our justly-celebrated correspondent Audrey Zazou (see comments).

Well, stone me, Mr B …

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