Guido is Not as Daring or Clever as Me - Steve Richards
Jacqui Smith’s Responsibility for this Outrage - David Davis
How It All Went Wrong for Derek and Kate - Marina Hyde
“Sorry” is Gordon’s Hardest Word - Simon Carr
Lobby Cowardice Let McBride Poison - Times
Downing Street in ‘Meltdown’ - PR Week
Guido : My Notebook - Spectator
Smears: A Pattern of Behaviour - Comment Central
Guido - The Movie - Newsnight
Physician, Heal Thyself - Dizzy
Is Anyone Capable of Cleansing Labour - Herald
Draper Does a Runner with Computer - Mirror
A Load of Balls - CoffeeHouse
Draper, Labour’s Serial rogue: “I Attract Trouble” - Guardian
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2009
I’m Miserable Now" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 68, 119); ">Watson : I’m Miserable Now
Tom Watson, the Minister for Mudslinging, is blogging again.
On reflection, this week wasn’t the most relaxing of family breaks to Cornwall. And for those that revel in these things, I can say with some certainty, that at times, it was the most miserable I have ever been.
Still, I did read another book. Perhaps I might add Echoes of an Autobiography by Naguib Mahfouz
to the list of 25 others, that have interested more book readers than I anticipated last week. (Is it only a week since I published the list? Seems like an epoch.)
The book gave moments of fragmentary pleasure during a dreadful week. As Mahfouz wrote “there whispered in my ear a voice at dawn: ‘Congraulations to you - the time for making your farewells has been decreed.’ Deeply affected I closed my eyes and saw my funeral moving along, with myself at its head carrying a large glass filled with the nectar of life”
Yes Tom, the time for making your farewells has been decreed. Large glasses have been raised by Blairites…
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