Fopp Closing?

Bugrit.

I liked Fopp; they charged prices I was willing to pay for music, books and movies and always had an interesting selection - much wider than the more well-known chains. Despite the relatively upbeat report in The Times, they may have flogged their last CD: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article2002754.ece

Fopp Closing?

Bugrit.

I liked Fopp; they charged prices I was willing to pay for music, books and movies and always had an interesting selection - much wider than the more well-known chains. Despite the relatively upbeat report in The Times, they may have flogged their last CD: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article2002754.ece

Haymarket car bomb

I see the police have disabled a car bomb, or potential car bomb in the West End of London, on Haymarket. No-one seems quite sure what it was at the moment, nor how big. The question is: what is there in Haymarket that would make someone want to blow the place up? There are a couple of theatres and a McDonald’s as far as I can recall: I see that David Suchet is playing Poirot at the Theatre Royal, and that The Phantom of the Opera is on at Her Majesty’s. I don’t know what’s playing at the Comedy Store.

Admittedly there are night clubs in the area, but I seem to recall that Haymarket is relatively quiet for all its proximity to the debaucheries of the West End.

No-one knows, either, who is behind it, or at least no-one is saying, according to the BBC. Police only know because an eyewitness tipped them off after the car had been driven erratically down the street and crashed into a bin or a bollard, before the driver legged it. Presumably the driver was pissed or out of his head on some narcotic or other. Well, if he was a so-called Islamist that must surely be a path to paradise; get pissed or doped up and fluff your mission.

I tell you, the bastards we get these days are not a patch on the bastards we used to get.

No-one has standards any more.

Haymarket car bomb

I see the police have disabled a car bomb, or potential car bomb in the West End of London, on Haymarket. No-one seems quite sure what it was at the moment, nor how big. The question is: what is there in Haymarket that would make someone want to blow the place up? There are a couple of theatres and a McDonald’s as far as I can recall: I see that David Suchet is playing Poirot at the Theatre Royal, and that The Phantom of the Opera is on at Her Majesty’s. I don’t know what’s playing at the Comedy Store.

Admittedly there are night clubs in the area, but I seem to recall that Haymarket is relatively quiet for all its proximity to the debaucheries of the West End.

No-one knows, either, who is behind it, or at least no-one is saying, according to the BBC. Police only know because an eyewitness tipped them off after the car had been driven erratically down the street and crashed into a bin or a bollard, before the driver legged it. Presumably the driver was pissed or out of his head on some narcotic or other. Well, if he was a so-called Islamist that must surely be a path to paradise; get pissed or doped up and fluff your mission.

I tell you, the bastards we get these days are not a patch on the bastards we used to get.

No-one has standards any more.

Aha!

All this talk about Gordo's first cabinet, the reshuffle and all has taken up page after page of newsprint, hours and hours of broadcast time on TV and radio and doesn't really show much sign of abating, though I doubt it has legs beyond the weekend.

The Times has run fairly lengthy articles on all the new faces picking, much to my annoyance, The Monster and her hubby Ed, for a lengthy profile. The brothers Miliband, David and Ed, get lengthy mentions too. It's a long time since siblings were in government together (if ever they were) and the media is portraying this as some kind of family success.

No one has mentioned the success of their elder brother, Steve, who made the charts in the 1980s with Abracadabra...

What a family.

Aha!

All this talk about Gordo's first cabinet, the reshuffle and all has taken up page after page of newsprint, hours and hours of broadcast time on TV and radio and doesn't really show much sign of abating, though I doubt it has legs beyond the weekend.

The Times has run fairly lengthy articles on all the new faces picking, much to my annoyance, The Monster and her hubby Ed, for a lengthy profile. The brothers Miliband, David and Ed, get lengthy mentions too. It's a long time since siblings were in government together (if ever they were) and the media is portraying this as some kind of family success.

No one has mentioned the success of their elder brother, Steve, who made the charts in the 1980s with Abracadabra...

What a family.