Theatre

This evening after work Furtle and I are off to the Leicester Square Theatre in... er... Leicester Square to see Stop Messing About: A Kenneth Williams Extravaganza.

I saw the review about a month ago in The Times and since the reviewer waxed lyrical over the production and particularly the performance by Robin Sebastian as the late Kenneth Williams, well. Anyway, credit crunch be damned, the old credit card took the brunt of the attack and we're off to the theatre!


Robin Sebastian as Kenneth Williams

Theatre

This evening after work Furtle and I are off to the Leicester Square Theatre in... er... Leicester Square to see Stop Messing About: A Kenneth Williams Extravaganza.

I saw the review about a month ago in The Times and since the reviewer waxed lyrical over the production and particularly the performance by Robin Sebastian as the late Kenneth Williams, well. Anyway, credit crunch be damned, the old credit card took the brunt of the attack and we're off to the theatre!


Robin Sebastian as Kenneth Williams

Thought for the day

"Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind." (Emerson)

Thought for the day

"Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a small mind." (Emerson)

Politics

I see the Speaker of the House of Commons has decided to jump before he is pushed.

I have to say that I feel a little sorry for the chap. I realise that he is in charge of the system of payment and scrutiny of MPs’ expenses and such, but he didn’t design the system. While the Speaker’s Office could and should have done more to keep an eye on MPs’ expenses, the charges levelled against him by the House of Commons seems to boil down to ”You are to blame for our lack of morals and personal honour because you didn’t make it sufficiently difficult for us to cheat the system”.

I don’t see that he’s any more to blame than those who claimed irregular expenses. If he’s to go, they should go too.

Politics

I see the Speaker of the House of Commons has decided to jump before he is pushed.

I have to say that I feel a little sorry for the chap. I realise that he is in charge of the system of payment and scrutiny of MPs’ expenses and such, but he didn’t design the system. While the Speaker’s Office could and should have done more to keep an eye on MPs’ expenses, the charges levelled against him by the House of Commons seems to boil down to ”You are to blame for our lack of morals and personal honour because you didn’t make it sufficiently difficult for us to cheat the system”.

I don’t see that he’s any more to blame than those who claimed irregular expenses. If he’s to go, they should go too.

Crisis? What crisis?

According to a poll on Sky News, if there were an election called today, only around 12% would vote for Labour…

Only 11.5% would vote for Gordon Brown's embattled party - an incredible 8.2% less than the anti-EU UK Independence Party, which got nearly a fifth of the vote.

The Conservatives fared around the same as they did in a weekend poll for the Mail on Sunday - with 31%.

The British National Party were at 9.5%, the Lib Dems 8.5%, and the Green Party 7.6%.

Can we say crisis now, children? I think we can.

Crisis? What crisis?

According to a poll on Sky News, if there were an election called today, only around 12% would vote for Labour…

Only 11.5% would vote for Gordon Brown's embattled party - an incredible 8.2% less than the anti-EU UK Independence Party, which got nearly a fifth of the vote.

The Conservatives fared around the same as they did in a weekend poll for the Mail on Sunday - with 31%.

The British National Party were at 9.5%, the Lib Dems 8.5%, and the Green Party 7.6%.

Can we say crisis now, children? I think we can.