Saturday, 28 July 2012

Seen Elsewhere


US Unveils New Iran Nuke Bunker Buster | Russia Today
Olympian Women’s Equality, Arabs and Beach Volleyball | Rod Liddle
Heydon Pranks Vince | Scrapbook
Twitter Witch Hunt Own Goal | Kernel
MoD Pays £2.5m For Pilgrims While Troops Are Cut | Mail
Anti-Semitism, Islamism and Islam | Douglas Murray
Twitter Joke Trial Conviction Overturned | Guardian
Will Boris Go For Gold? | Iain Martin
Just One Minute For Israel’s Murdered Athletes | Robin Shepherd
We Need Adam Smith | Jeremy Warner
Osborne and Cameron In This Together | Bruce Anderson


FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012

Debt Bomb: Deficits and Dancing Girls [VIDEO]

Keynesian economics stripped bare…

Hunt Drops Clanger (Disco Remix)

Guido’s got that Friday feeling…


Today’s Media Round Up

Don’t forget to catch up on today’s media news, asScrapbook‘s Prezza conspiracy theories unravelled and Guido revealed the bitch fight of the the week.

Only over on Media Guido


Obama Campaign Seizes On #RomneyShambles

Matthew Sinclair Is New TPA Boss

Matthew Elliott has stood down as Chief Executive of the perennially sound Taxpayers’ Alliance after eight years at the helm. He will be replaced by current TPA Director Matthew Sinclair.

A worthy successor…

Property Speculator Lord Oakeshott Says Build More Homes

The ever irritating, yet strangely compelling, Matthew Oakeshott has spent the week trying to big-up his mate Vince Cable and a change in economic direction. Guido was particularly interested by one policy in his all-solving Plan A+:

That’s why I’ve been saying we need a bold plan A+, making banks lend, especially RBS, the bank we own but disgracefully don’t control, and a firm government commitment to create 500,000 new jobs in construction by doing whatever it takes to build 100,000 more homes a year.

Does this have anything to do with the fact that the good Lord has a small fortune relying on home construction as a property speculator? The petulant peer is the “joint investment manager” at OLIM Investments’ Value Income Trust and the chairman of OLIM Property, investment firms which make their money from – you guessed it – building homes. Very Tim Yeo

Breaking Video: Jeremy Hunt Hits Woman With Bell End

Video: Boris Rallies Hyde Park

Oratory, flags, flames and the crowds screaming a politician’s name? Only Boris could get away with that:

Can you imagine how dull that would have been if Ken had won?

There Is No 99%

When the Occupy movement took over St Paul’s they claimed to represent the 99%. Their message was forced down our throats in the name of the silent majority. In their first electoral test, the movement has taken a massive kicking. Rioting hippy Bryn Phillips managed to get just 23 votes in the Farrigndon by-election for the City of London corperation last night. Or 13.5%…

Spinning nonsense until the end, Bryn can’t even distinguish between turnout and the electorate. It’s over…