BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Upstate New York buried in snow
As usual, Britain collapses into chaos because a few flakes of snow have fallen. I think we don’t bother having any contingency plans so that we can have heart warming “spirit of the blitz” stories on the evening news. The British legion club mentioned here is offering stranded drivers hot drinks.
Good job we haven’t got any really bad weather, eh?
According to the Clustr map, someone is clicking on Topsyturvydom all over the place, except Africa. Truly, the dark continent…
Humans blamed for climate change
Who knew, eh? There was me, blaming the monkeys…
This is worrying. I can only imagine that it’s an example of the government’s joined-up thinking: Tessa Jowell reckons all those BBC types will make loadsamoney when they swap their bijou London residences for grim northern terraces, and as a result will have lots to spend at the shiny new casino…
Have a look at this-
‘Table-sized flat’ for £170,000
So, after you’ve visited the trendy bars and “leisure facilities”, you wouldn’t be inviting anyone back for a coffee, would you?
Don’t you know your left from your right? | Review | The Observer
This is an extract from Nick Cohen’s new book, and is an exemplary demolition of the bizarre position some leftists have got themselves into: anti-war, but apologists for random suicide bombings. The tortuous logic adopted by such people is pernicious, and led to my resignation from the UCU, whose representatives still haven’t told me why it’s OK for them to chant “We’re all Hizbollah now”…
…like me, in this report:
Spice Healer
The New Yorker
reviews a history of vegetarianism. Lots to get your teeth into…
The novel by Elizabeth Gaskell used the North-South divide as its central conceit. Here’s a modern take on the phenomenon, now exacerbated by the metropolitan bias of the media. Somehow, you feel those BBC types wouldn’t be quite so discombobulated if their putative move was to, say, Brighton rather than Salford…
Well, this did give me a warm glow, speaking as a vegetarian of 42 years’ standing…