As has become traditional with this Government - and contrary to the Commons Conventions and Courtesies - neither Brown nor Balls notified me of
Tuesday, 30th June 2009
The Schools Secretary forgets where he is
5:12pm
A delusion appears to have gripped the Schools Secretary Ed Balls that Britain is East Germany and he is head of the Stasi. First there was his bullying this morning of my fellow Spectator blogger Fraser Nelson, who was astounded to find Balls on the phone instructing him to take down his earlier postaccusing Balls of lying about government debt -- and using yet another lie to claim it was not a lie. Now there’s this on ConservativeHome from Greg Hands, Tory MP for Hammersmith and Fulham, within whose constituency Balls and Gordon Brown descended upon a school today as part of the launch of the education White Paper. Hands relates:
...Out of sight, Iran remains on the brink
10:00am
The way in which Iran has disappeared from media view is, although predictable, still dismaying. With the exception of small flurries of interest over the seizure and release of British embassy staff and the tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats, the people’s revolution has pretty well dropped out of sight. This is for two main reasons, one shocking and the other just, well, dispiriting. The shocking one is that the ‘progressive’ western intelligentsia, who don’t stop hollering and stamping their feet and marching and petitioning and boycotting over the perceived crimes by America or Israel (‘torture’, settlements’, ‘rendition’, ‘checkpoints’, ‘warmongering’ ‘repression’) are mute over the brutal crackdown that has been going on in Iran these past three weeks, and totally indifferent to the desperate struggle for freedom that is being waged. Dispiriting because the western media think the story is over, the...
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
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