It can’t have been good news for Piers Morgan that in the week CNN chose to debut his new show in the US, another Brit, comedian Ricky Gervais tanked horribly and very publically at the Golden Globes. Whatever the faults and foibles of tinsel town, whatever the vulgarities, idiosyncrasies and sheer egotism, Gervais’ descent into […]
Snow Fun For New York Mayor Bloomberg
Jan 10th, 2011 by Mark Seddon.The flat earthers who refuse to believe that there is global warming or that sea levels are rising have had a good couple of months in the Northern hemisphere. They will be cheered to find that increasing numbers of people when polled seem to share their views. This is all largely based on the early […]
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The Left Was Right!
Dec 11th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.Self justification, we are told, is an unhealthy preoccupation. But just for a change – and considering the enormity of the issues that are and have been at stake, I got thinking the other day about just some of them. I also got thinking about how those of us who have argued passionately for them […]
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Tony Blair on Sanitary Products, Religion and the Euro
Dec 7th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.Tony Blair’s journeyings have recently taken him from a well paid gig addressing a conference of sanitary ware and toilet roll manufacturers (he reputedly received a $50,000 fee) in the United States to taking part in a less than godly debate over religion north of the border in Canada with veteran atheist and journalist Christopher Hitchens, […]
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British paranoia over “special relationship”
Dec 6th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.According to the latest Wikileaks, Conservative party politicians lined up before the general election last May to promise that they would run a “pro-American regime” and buy more arms from the US if they came to power this year. The leaked Embassy dispatches also reveal – in what the Guardian says is “in humiliating detail” […]
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Don’t Take Wikileaks At Face Value
Dec 3rd, 2010 by Mark Seddon.There is a very real danger that some analysts, diplomats, commentators and politicians are taking all that is revealed by Wikileaks at face value, without questioning the veracity of some of the information gleaned from third sources and some of the information transmitted back by US diplomats, believing as they did that they were doing […]
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Wanted: A (new) Labour General Secretary
Nov 25th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.Labour’s new leader has been in office barely two months, yet this hasn’t stopped a motley collection of ex Ministers, frustrated David Miliband supporters and it would seem some party officials, from moaning in the ear of one Dan Hodges, who last week launched into print in the New Statesman, giving vent to their – […]
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Does North Korea Mean War?
Nov 25th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.This then is the sequence of events that has deeply alarmed the international community, fearful as it now is that full scale war could break out at anytime across the Korean Peninsula. Yesterday, North Korea and South Korea traded artillery fire across the disputed Northern Limit Line (NLL) in the Yellow Sea to the west […]
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Britain Most Exposed To Irish Debt
Nov 23rd, 2010 by Mark Seddon.Unsurprisingly perhaps there have been more than a few eyebrows raised in British political circles at the decision by an apparently cash strapped UK Government to loan the even more cash strapped Irish Government almost £7 billion. This is despite the fact that Britain is not a member of the Euro zone, and unlike other […]
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Ed Miliband needs to get a grip
Nov 22nd, 2010 by Mark Seddon.“If a week is a long time in politics”, as Harold Wilson once said, two weeks away from politics on paternity leave is clearly an age. Ed Miliband returns this week to Parliament after a fortnight helping to change nappies, only to find that some on his own front bench have been busy doing some […]
