Eastenders Mockney Nonsense at the Heart of Government

The idea that people convicted of rioting crimes should have to ‘look their victims in the eye’, reminds me of a particularly bad episode of Eastenders, or “London as we remember it”, complete with pork pie hats. Nick Clegg to unveil ‘riot payback scheme’ as No 10 agrees to inquiry When Clegg jumps in the [...]

Monday – It All Kicks Off, the Footy That Is!

But instead of watching Manchester City’s opening game on Monday evening, I’ll be paying my fiver and standing in the rain this afternoon watching a load of overgrown schoolboys just back from their hols kick lumps out of each other and exchange pleasantries. I have missed it. So to celebrate the start of the football [...]

London’s Fashion Riot – The Genius of Theresa May

As speeches go, Theresa May’s response to the third day of rioting in London was one of her greatest yet, full of strident invective against the mindless few and delivered with volume. “Criminality!” and “condemnation!” were two of the words she repeated endlessly. But what can she mean? Surely, rioting is nothing more than “criminality”. [...]

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