If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Meanwhile in Downing Street, Tony Blair adds Andrew Gilligan to his Christmas card list.
Or does he?
The government has got pretty much everything it wants in the wake of the Hutton Enquiry: an apology from the BBC, being cleared of […]

I spent last night on Emilie Ems’ fold-out settee, which made getting up this morning a far more pleasant experience than it might otherwise have been. Time enough to shower, drink a mug of tea, flop around reading a book for 45 minutes and still be in work on time after a detour to Boots […]

What a magical night. It’s 00h54. I’ve had a hellish journey home, but it’s been magical all the same. And for the last 40 minutes I have had a town full of crunchy snow to myself.
The day started pretty well, actually. Despite the half inch of snow the trains were running on time and zizzed […]

There was a day when the politicians would be careful to brand themselves at all times. The Tories would only ever wear blue ties. Labour MPs would always wear red. So what’s going on here, with Tory leader Michael Howard on the left and Tony Blair on the right? Has the BBC been Photoshopping the […]

They kept telling us to get in touch with our bodies. Mine isn’t all that communicative but I heard from it the other day after I said, ‘Body, how’d you like to do the nine o’clock class in vigorous toning?’ Clear as a bell my body said, ‘Listen, bitch… do it and you die.’
Whoever coined […]

From this morning’s Metro:

Plans to almost triple the mileage allowance of MPs who cycle to the Commons from 7p to 20p ran into trouble yesterday. Tory Boris Johnson said he was in favour of encouraging cycling - but not at taxpayers’ expense. Conservative Ann Widdecombe said if 20p a mile was given to cyclists, what […]

Celebrating Australia Day. What a nice idea. Having nothing in the office to celebrate with but some MP3s of Rolf Harris and Men At Work. Not such a nice idea at all.
So anyway, what’s happened since I last checked in? Well, I’ve received some marvellously complimentary spam:

I’ve been to the gym and run far […]

Some of today was very successful. Some of it was very frustrating. Top prize on the frustrating front has to go to the Woolwich Open Plan online application for an offset mortgage which doesn’t make it clear until you get to the very last step that if you submit the form you’ll be charged a […]

Well it’s a good job Mark was at Cirque du Soleil on Tuesday or my week would have been all upside down. Somehow I’d got tonight’s party marked down for last night, and last night’s dinner and drinks marked down for today.
So, with that all sorted out I mooched towards Soho with Mark last night […]

It’s surprising how much fun an evening you can have watching Canadians throw themselves around on strings.
Cirque du Soleil is back in town at the Royal Albert Hall and so naturally when the offer of tickets came up I jumped at it. Seems I’m not the only one as there were two whole boxes of […]