Friday, 27 January 2012


Classy Timing for Guardian Attack

A confused co-conspirator whispers to Guido that the Guardian have been working on the story they ran this morning about Michael Gove giving public funds to a group they don’t like for at least two weeks. The latest installment of their campaign against the education secretary claims that he personally made the decision to give taxpayers’ money to the Community Security Trust despite being, along with fifty others, an advisor to their board. A fair point perhaps, but given that the CST “advise the Jewish community on matters of security and antisemitism”, why did they wait until Holocaust Memorial Day to run the story? Odd, at best…

UPDATE: A source to Gove gets in touch to say said: “It is unbelievable to attack any politician for funding the protection of Jewish children. It is even more extraordinary and frankly offensive to do it on Holocaust Memorial Day.”

UPDATE II: The CST aren’t happy either. They note that the Guardian did not even bother to contact them before running the story and have let ripon their own blog.


Picking up the Penny

Guido won’t bother with the fashion round up this time, but devout nicotine addict Laurie Penny popped up on our television again this lunchtime, complete with a fake cigarette. Jackie Ashley had dropped out at the last minute n the Daily Politics, so our favourite flame-haired firebrand was called up at the last minute. In the course of the interview she offered her services as chairman of RBS, declaring that she could do Hester’s job without the paycheck. Guido is sceptical…


Tory MEP Fury at Youth Wing’s German Sell Out


RBS Bonus Day Banter


Clegg’s Progressive £10,000 Threshold Hike Benefits Low Income Earners Most


Diane Abbott Slept Through Meeting of Group She Quit



More of Guardian Gove Gaffe | Harry’s Place
Right Rounds on Newt | Politico
How Sorry is Austria Today? | Simone Dinah Hartmann
Clegg is Right to Sound the Alarm | Fraser Nelson
Apple Hell | Mail
Flashback: Ali G Interviews Newt | YouTube
Synchronised Wimmin | Anna Raccoon
Ken and Taxes | Harry Phibbs
“Radical” Dave Bashes the Germans | Faisal Islam
How to Solve the Scottish Debt Question | Mark Wallace
NHS is on the Critical List | Ruth Porter
Huhne Should Have Quit Months Ago | Peter Oborne
Judge Attacks Hain | NewsLetter
A Poultry Effort | Boris Backer
Rated by the Canterbury Communist | Guardian
Warsi’s Rules| Cranmer
Scotland Deserves Freedom | Harry Cole



Ed Miliband on the important issue facing the world…

“David Cameron’s example of responsible capitalism was the chocolate orange. He’s failed to sort it out, why?”


I don’t need no doctor says:

Ken Livingstone is just an older version of Ed Miliband.