tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91502277044712499142026-02-09T00:20:34.178-08:00Book reviews, authors I likeBooks and authors I've enjoyed and would like to review and share with other readers. Plus a few rants on related subjects.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-60265625546876942742023-11-26T04:56:00.000-08:002023-11-26T04:56:30.252-08:00"The Covid Inquiry gets worse by the day – can no one take responsibility for anything?"
The Telegraph's Allison Pearson has rightly gained a reputation for deep understanding, keen insight, balance and fairness [Sarky bugger - Ed]. Poisonous Ally here gives her thoughts on the malign scientific advisors who are apparently throwing her beloved Boris under a bus (never a good metaphor for a Brexit-ravaged country to hear).
I see they’ve had a fresh delivery of buses Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-61584887873722026042023-02-04T18:35:00.001-08:002023-02-04T18:36:37.068-08:00"Get back home woman and start hustling."For those who doubted that Liz Truss would have the unmitigated gall to consider another stab at this government lark, you were wrong, as a wonderfully Trussian apologia in the Sunday Telegraph shows.
Liz says, to paraphrase, that she was told to "Get back home woman and start hustling" when the fatberg Boris Johnson finally clogged the sewer of public greed. Who told her that is a matter forPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-67824390062632885602023-01-08T02:29:00.002-08:002023-01-08T02:29:19.419-08:00Brexit is being surrendered to the declinist Europhile establishment, says Jacob Rees-MoggMost of us, have long recognised that Jacob Rees-Mogg's Christianity doesn't include that stricture against bearing false witness but he truly outdoes himself with his latest Telgraph column. There are liars, damned liars and then there's Moggy on steroids with a column that would have even the likes of Richard Tice saying "hang on a minute, old chap."
Jaw-droppingly grim, read and weep.
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-60048599589083883832022-09-29T16:34:00.005-07:002022-09-29T16:39:23.852-07:00Liz Truss has offered sound economics, but terrible communication, says David FrostIn which Lord Frost builds a strawman, rogers it soundly and then buys the deluxe model, the one with real hair, and gives it a good seeing-to.
Frostworld is a horrible place but I read the article and so must you. Ho ho. Text below.
I write this week in a state of high anxiety, deep concern and, yes, even anger.
I am angry at the feeding frenzy that has once again surrounded our Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-20487158902049638852022-08-17T15:26:00.001-07:002022-08-17T15:29:01.183-07:00Jacob Rees-Mogg lies and gaslights (Telegraph)Jacob Rees-Mogg has penned some splendid guff in the Telegraph, telling us he's saving billions of quid by cutting out waste, fraud and people. It's detail-free lies and gaslighting but I suppose it keeps him out of mischief and it lets him put the elegantly shod boot into Rishi Sunak.
Text of srticle follows for those who haven't yet cracked the DT's miserable attempt at a paywall.
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-50084297171839335072022-07-23T05:36:00.002-07:002022-07-23T06:46:17.469-07:00Liz Truss: I'm the insurgent candidate in the Tory leadership raceTelegraph interview with Liz Truss, in which self-styled "straight-talking Yorkshirewoman" and Minford groupie Liz parrots her clichés and reviews everything where she dare not give detail.
It is thin pickings - "I'm right on everything but you don't know what that is" - and the tone is both disturbing and cloying. Read on to be unenlightened.
Unlike Rishi Sunak, the moment Liz Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-56342460261960115662022-07-05T15:02:00.000-07:002022-07-05T15:02:59.578-07:00It is time for Boris Johnson to go says David FrostDavid Frost, the man who negotiated the worst deal he could and then complained endlessly about it, has turned on St Boris. In a Telegraph article of complete guff, he explains why.
Bilge, pure bilge.
No-one is more downhearted than me at the events of the last few days. Over the years, I have worked as closely as anyone with Boris Johnson. I know, therefore, that he is a remarkable Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-8325893888305990592022-03-17T03:08:00.002-07:002022-03-17T03:08:52.917-07:00Telegraph Libelled Laura Murray: A Grudging ApologyThe Telegraph has been forced to apologise and pay damages to Laura Murray for one of its concocted antisemitism smears. Ian Austin also guilty.
The apology has been hidden in the Telegraph's Corrections and Clarifications section, behind a paywall, so here it is for the honest reader.
In an article "Rachel Riley deserves every bit of compensation for the hard-Left abuse she’s endured" (Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-77664502864268009212022-03-11T17:03:00.002-08:002022-03-11T17:03:17.018-08:00The Ukraine crisis has humiliated the EU says Camilla Tominey"Bitter Remainers refuse to accept it, but Brexit Britain deserves credit for standing up to Russia"
Yes, folks, Camilla has dusted off her strawmen and ridden into battle against the European furrins and the remoaners who sully our sceptred rouble land.
The usual risble bile but here's the article anyway (as a service to the 99.9% of the population who won't subscribe to the Telegraph).
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-34609851818298876552022-01-30T16:56:00.003-08:002022-01-30T16:57:18.183-08:00The Work Meeting at Cana Michael Gove tells Andrew Neil that 'Christian forgiveness' is needed over partygate. I turn to my Bible to look for a relevant text.
On the third day there was a team bonding meeting at Cana in Galilee, and the wife of Boris was there. 2 Boris also was invited to the non-party with his crew. 3 When the wine ran out, the wife of Boris said to him, we have no wine." 4 And Boris said to her, Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-35270515042470281892022-01-09T07:23:00.001-08:002022-01-09T07:24:33.543-08:00"I will trigger Article 16 if the EU does not cooperate" says Liz TrussLiz Truss talks tough in today's Telegraph in a mild Truss Political Broadcast. Usual guff and dogwhistles, designed to show her leadership credentials and moisten the tweeded loins of Sid and Doris Smythe-Bonkers.
Amongst the highlights, Ms Truss stirringly claims "As a sovereign nation, we cannot be in a situation where we have to notify the EU to provide vital support to businesses" but also Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-72899220150721910142021-06-16T01:49:00.005-07:002021-06-16T02:02:42.718-07:00Post-Brexit Britain should light a bonfire of EU red tape to fuel economic growth, say MPsIain Duncan Smith. Theresa Villiers. George Freeman. Three failed politicians with the intellect and principles of a bucket of cow dung. Ideal to lead a "task force" on regulatory reform, I hear you say.
It probably won't surprise you that these numpties want to slash red tape, that old standby of governments bereft of ideas. Governments that haven't learned that regulations save lives. Or Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-84616654429398706312021-06-10T01:54:00.002-07:002021-06-10T01:54:36.608-07:00The imperial EU is blind to the folly of its unequal Northern Ireland Brexit treatySuperb guff from Allister Heath, a man who seems determined to do for the Sunday Telegraph what he did for The Business.
"The [Northern Ireland] protocol isn't a just law. It was imposed on the UK by Brussels at the moment of our greatest weakness," Allister tells us, and likens it to treaties forced on the Qing dynasty. By, er, Britain, mainly.
Read on for the full text of Allister's Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-58962727865994966022021-05-11T17:08:00.001-07:002021-05-11T17:08:11.078-07:00Ask to see my ID card and I'll eat it: Boris Johnson 2004There is more joy in Tory heaven over disenfranchising two million poor people than there is over prosecuting one vote fraudster.
And who wrote, in typically tired and emotional prose in 2004, that id cards were an abomination? Why, the MP for Henley, a certain Boris Johnson. Jolly amusing. Text below.
You know what you need on these dark winter mornings, when you get into your freezing car, Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-64561764740869951952021-04-29T10:49:00.002-07:002021-04-29T10:49:45.433-07:00Mr Duncan Smith is incompetent and must goIn 2003, a thrusting young libertarian intellectual, or "incel prat" as we now know them, a certain Dominic Cummings, threw a cliché grenade or two into the jumble of what then passed for modern Conservatism.
Here he writes in the Telegraph, setting out his stall to lead to a land of libertarian milk and privatised honey. He got the power, for a while, and we got shafted.
The thoughts of Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-5773943251481586402021-04-25T01:12:00.003-07:002021-04-25T01:12:47.827-07:00Johnson v Cummings, seconds out, round twoThe Times, the organ of Murdoch's Saruman and Gove's Wormtongue, attempts an even-handed view of the Johnson/Cummings battle. They don't quite succeed as they describe Boris Johnson's struggles - the man who would be king but is merely cut out to be a slightly posher Rod Liddle.
Times article follows: read on for a tale of spies and inaccurately-hurled mud pies.
Guerrilla warfare: Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-52611858002496540452021-03-21T03:43:00.007-07:002021-03-21T03:48:11.193-07:00Government poised to take over running of Liverpool, says DT Telegraph has an article, a sighting shot from the Tories one suspects, that the government is about to send the commissars into Liverpool to take control of the council. Many coulds and mights - it'll be interesting to see just what Max Caller's investigation has to say.
Here's the article (not much to say, really). And please, no snide comments on Robert Jenrick taking a decision on Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-80699412269191894122021-03-13T02:59:00.002-08:002021-03-13T03:05:18.825-08:00Lord Frost is absolutely right to be getting tough with the bullying EU, says IDSSome good stuff from Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph (really). A couple of facts, some exaggeration, some lies of omission and a massive strawman or two - mixed so skilfully that one doubts it was serial liar and thicko IDS who wrote it.
He essentially says that Lord Frost can't trust vengeful Europeans and should kick them in the goolies at the start of every negotiating session. One wonders Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-89353177372529002032021-02-22T09:00:00.002-08:002021-02-22T09:01:19.358-08:00A trade deal with India is the great Brexit prize that could determine the West’s fate: Dan Hannan"The UK-India relationship is special - not only economically and geopolitically, but also sentimentally," says Dan Hannan in his latest comedy column for the Telegraph.
He goes on to call Liz Truss "the unstoppable Yorkshirewoman" so you can tell he was shroomed to the eyballs when penning his latest drivel.
For those who can't get past the DT paywal, here's the full article. Read and weep.
Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-56673489713835003002021-01-13T14:14:00.003-08:002021-01-13T14:19:24.583-08:00Country people are sick of the woke BBC, says Ian BothamFor those who thought that Telegraph standards were slipping, you were wrong. They're plummeting, and Baron Botham of Ravensworth in the County of North Yorkshire is doing his best to kick them while they're down.
The noble Beefy, a huntin', shootin', fishin' man (sidebar: why does Priti Patel drop her gs?) manages to cram 90% of Telegraph dogwhistles into one short column.
I, like many, havePaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-71467002125823407362021-01-09T15:45:00.000-08:002021-01-09T15:45:17.965-08:00Don’t hit families with tax hike, says Sir Keir StarmerSir Keir Starmer has been giving Telegraph readers the benefit of his thoughts on families (spoiler: he's in favour).
It's pretty thin stuff but I suppose he's playing a waiting game. Text below for those who don't subscribe to the Telegraph.
Sir Keir Starmer has declared Labour will become "the party of the family", as he calls on the Government to scrap an inflation bustingPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-6310626242085507842020-12-13T17:47:00.003-08:002020-12-14T16:08:33.193-08:00No-deal unleashes a raft of economic opportunities, Tom HarwoodMore Telegraph guff, this time from Tom Harwood. He excoriates Ireland for its low tax rate for the Amazons of this world then says the UK can attract such businesses by, er, cutting our corporate tax rate to below Ireland's. The rest is Vote Leave bulls**t and ignorant tosh.
Read on for the full text of Harwood's strange little article.
As the 'future relationship' act of the Brexit saga Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-1237458412797464382020-12-12T01:03:00.003-08:002020-12-12T01:05:50.192-08:00Ben Wallace on Michael GoveJuly 2016 and Ben "Loose Lips" Wallace gives us his thoughts on Michael Gove, rather amusingly.
Ben, a fighting man who didn't get many medals, was and is a Boris groupie and still quivers with righteous anger when Gove's name (or that of his good lady wife) is mentioned. Read on for the Telegraph article Wallace produced all those many years ago.
There is a convention among campaignPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-73295343117383364232020-12-10T09:03:00.002-08:002020-12-10T09:07:45.525-08:00Boris must stop weaving a web of deception and deliver a clean Brexit"Boris must stop weaving a web of deception and deliver a clean Brexit," says Ben Habib in the Telegraph, and "Now is the time for the PM to break free of his past false promises."
Strong stuff, one thinks. Read on as Ben produces the sort of guff that passes for informed opinion in the once-respected Telegraph, before they fired all their proper journalists.
It is not quite going to planPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9150227704471249914.post-62035920997651361902020-11-18T02:20:00.002-08:002020-11-18T02:21:47.905-08:00A Doctor Writes (it's Toby Young)"Day by day, the coronavirus edges ever closer to extinction. Time to get back to normal"
Yes folks, Toby Young, noted medic and epidemioligist, mathemetician of distinctiveness, has just tweeted another idiocy, made in a Daily Mail article (so I haven't read it).
The 0.1% is a repetition of a dubious claim made in a Telegraph article of 25th June 2020 where nork-loving Tobez told usPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028492436386571276noreply@blogger.com0