The blog
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Burger me…
This spoof McDonald’s presentation, seemingly showing how the company had, through strategy gaming during manager training, realised its policies were contributing to global warming, had me utterly fooled when I first saw it reported deadpan. I thought to myself ‘crikey, what do we do now if the Golden Arches have suddenly become the good guys’?…
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On Mingness and Cameronality
So Ming scored a direct hit at PMQs today, then. He must have done, because everyone's saying he did.
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Incoming
Time for another look at the search terms that have brought people here. Fewer political ones than in recent months, and a bit of a historical flavour here and there.
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Sod's law
Brilliant.
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Tories shoot themselves in the foot in Bromley
The shiny new Tory Party looks a little less shiny this morning, after its Bromley members last night rejected two high-fliers from David Cameron's A-List as their Parliamentary by-election candidate in favour of a middle-aged white male Freemason from Tower Hamlets who seems to represent everything the Tories are supposed to be moving away from.
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A sound idea
I can’t imagine many people (or even any people) signing up for this, but you can now subscribe to podcasts of this blog using the Talkr button in the right-hand nav column, so long as you don’t mind hearing it in a robotic American monotone that bears no resemblance to my own Home Counties mumbling.
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Sunset last night
Spectacular. I blame global warming. And the government, of course.
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DNA of London
In my household we tend towards the view that Douglas Adams wasn’t, in fact, a novelist but instead a philosopher and a researcher of the infinite who chose to present his theories and conclusions in the form of radio scripts and sci-fi novels.
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Who do you think you are?
There's still time – just – to get over the Passport Office's website and renew your passport before the end of the month. I did mine a couple of days ago.