The Chilcot Inquiry Into The Iraq War, In Pictures
THE official inquiry into the war in Iraq kicks off with the war in Iraq still on.
Elements of the new US administration of President George Bush were already discussing “regime change” in Iraq two years before the invasion of 2003, the official inquiry into the war was told today
Regime. Changed. Sounds like good planning. Of course, we’ve already had the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly and the Butler inquiry into the use of intelligence in the run-up to the conflict. This time it’s Sir John Chilcot’s Chilcot Inquiry. Everyone gets a turn at inquiring. It’s what Tony Blair meant when he championed life-long learning:
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Posted: 25th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
In Pictures: Herman Van Rompuy’s Pet Dalek Introduces President Iain Duncan Smith
BEFORE our gallery of interesting EU President, Herman Van Rompuy aka Iain Duncan Smith, we bring good news that the EU’s new foreign minister, Cathy Ashton, does like the X Factor and has a full-size Dalek in the corner of her sitting room. It was a present from her former journalist husband Peter.
Now here’s Mr Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian Prime Minister and now your EU President. His name is an anagram of Unproven May Harm and Our Mare Van Nymph. His pictures:
Posted: 21st, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Barack Obama Uses Ghost Writers For His Twitter Account
BARACK Obama has a huge Twitter following. He is the President of the United States on Twitter. Barack Obama is your pal. It turns out that Barack doesn’t write his own Twitters. Another Barack Obama does that.
Rumours are that he doesn’t write his own speeches and might read the words off a machine. But let’s stick to the web.
There is a Barack Obama for every social networking site. FaceBook Obama is married, Bebo Obama likes cats, Tumblr Obama hates Obama, MySpace Obama knows all the words to Who Let The Dogs Out and Reddit Obama has a vegetable shaped like a penis.
The president told a youth audience in Shanghai on Sunday that he has never used Twitter…
“I have never used Twitter, but I’m an advocate of technology and not restricting Internet access,” Obama said during the town hall. “My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone.”
So if that’s not Obama, you’re talking to who is it? Hang up, kids. Hang up now. It could be anyone.
Posted: 19th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
In Pictures: Queen Riots At State Opening Of Parliament
THE State opening of Paliament is wonderful time, when the Queen does what she is told, the Prime Minister is made to stand still like a naughty schoolboy and then every one heads off for a cracking lunch.
Old Mr Anorak, our patron, was, as ever he is on such occassions, close enough to Her Majesty to recall fond memories of Liz’s youth. All that remains of that affair is a trace of forbidden love in Prince Andrew’s golf grip, which can be inherited.
The pictures:
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Top Ten Pictures Of Barack Obama In China
BARACK Obama has been in China on a crash course in communism. What tips the great redistributor he will bring back to the US can only be imagined.
For now all we have are pictures. One day all US citizens will have the same pictures.
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
David Cameron Exploits Dead Soldiers Day For Gordon Brown’s Daily Mirror
THAT sick, disrespectful (check spelling) Tory toff tosspot David Cameron has outraged Daily Mirror readers by “exploiting Armistice Day for ‘photo shoot’”.
He took his personal snapper into the Garden of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey yesterday to pose for carefully-choreographed photographs.
In the paper, there’s old soldier Frankyln Hood to say that Cameron used “sacred ground like cheap film set”.
Posted: 13th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Barack Obama Is Made From Bits Of The Berlin Wall
THE history of the Berlin Wall - and you can see all the pictures of the rise and fall of the wall here - has one more chapter: The Obama. Here is The One putting the fall fo The Berlin Wall into perspective:
“Few would have foreseen … that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it.”
Spotter: IHTM; Image: The Caucus
Posted: 13th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
2000-2010 In Pictures: The Decade In Politics
IT’S the end of an era. We look back at 200o-2010 - the decade in politics. In pictures:
It Says It All
Posted: 12th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Sun Joins Gordon Brown In Disrespecting Jacqui Janes By Calling Her Jacqui Jones
GORDON Brown “outraged Jacqui Janes by mis-spelling her and her dead son’s names in a note of condolence”. The Sun cares enough to call her - are you ready? - Jacqui Jones. So says the Sun.
In it, heartbroken Jacqui - whose boy Jamie, 20, was killed by a bomb in Afghanistan - tells the Prime Minister: “Mr Brown, listen to me… I know every injury that my child sustained that day. I know that my son could have survived. But my son bled to death.”
Jacqui Janes picks up the phone to Gordon Brown. The Sun, which is no longer supporting Gordon Browns and Labour, coaks an ear:
Posted: 11th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
MORE news on Hampshire LibDem councillor Adrian Hicks – who spotted an alien dancing in Winchester - has posted the 27-minute speech on the Internet calling for Majestic, shadowy scientists, military officers and politicians to be exposed.
Majesty aims to with making contact with extra terrestrials following a UFO crash in 1947. Sadly, he presents no proof. But Mr Hicks does have use of a video camera –had he only have had one on that fateful night.
Incidentally, Hicks looks and sounds remarkably like Tory wannabe Iain Dale. Which might or might not be relevant. Are they related?
Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Asda Puts Labour Government On Sale
OH dear: Chancellor Alistair Darling during a Glasgow North East by-election campaign visit to an ASDA store in Glasgow. No returns:
Posted: 9th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown Says Jedward Are Part Of ‘Axis Of Evil’
HAVING achieved the impossible and made Simon Cowell’s Botox-face form an expression, John And Edward Grimes, aka Jedward, have attracted the attention of Gordon Brown.
Gordon loves the X Factor, with all its voting and populism. But what doe she think of it so far? The Star tells us:
“I HATE JEDWARD TOO.”
Hate is a strong word. For instance if you said, “I don’t think Gordon Brown is very good”, would that mean you hated him?
Speaking on Manchester radio station Key 103 Brown sided with judge Simon Cowell - who recently slammed the twins - saying: “I don’t think they’re very good”.
He later added:
“There are some really good people on X Factor. It’s really good. And I know it’s competing with Strictly Come Dancing.”
Posted: 6th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Sarah Palin’s White House Victory Speech, In Full
SARAH Palin was once a heartbeat away from being the President of the USA. OK, she was heartbeat and a few states away from being President. Now we know what she would have said had she won: “You betcha!”
Now Sarah Palin is a celebrity and in the book Sarah from Alaska, authors Scott Conroy of CBS News and Shushannah Walshe, formerly of Fox News, dish the dirt:
That Victory speech:
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Westminster Village Lobby Hacks Are The Idiots Idiots
RICHARD North looks at how the cosy politcal lobby in the Westminster village keeps the idiots in power:
THE point about political correspondents from national newspapers is that they are part of the bubble inhabited by politicians. They have no more idea what is going on in the real world than do the politicians they serve.
Thus do we have Benedict Brogan in The Daily Telegraph op-ed telling us that, yesterday, Mr Cameron “took a difficult but necessary step to restore our trust not in politics but politicians, by promising no more than he can deliver.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 5th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Boris Mayor Chooses Oiks Over Scum In Nick Of Time
SUSPICIONS are that London mayor Boris Johnson would have rescued a woman under attack from an armed group of young girls has he been able to think of what to shout at them sooner.
Boris’s initial reaction was to yell “FU**ING ADA”, followed by “C****S!” But to do so would be unbecoming to his stranding as a likeable toff.
As Boris thinks, Franny Armstrong is surrounded in Camden, north London. A girl pushes her. Another girl has an iron bar. Others have hoods.
Posted: 4th, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Zombies For The Campaign For Change Wake Up Westminster
ZOMBIES for Campaign for Change – they want the first-past-the-pots voting system abolished mass in Westminster.
Willie Sullivan, a spokesman for the campaign, says:
“Instead of men and women with independent minds and souls, we see mindless ghouls shambling through the voting lobbies. We see elections in hundreds of safe seats throughout the land, where even a corpse could win a job for life”.
We say, it’s amazing how many zombies look like lobby hacks. The pictures:
Posted: 31st, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Revealed: What Nick Griffin Wrote On Question Time
WHEN Nick Griffin appeared on BBC TV’s Question Time he spent a considerable effort in putting pen to paper. So often did Nick write that many viewers supposed that he had been brought along to take the minutes.
Mr Griffin may have been unaware that his words can be recorded on video and audio, believing that unless something is written down it cannot be real. Thankfully, Mr Griffin was not forced to tattoo the evidence on his arm and was afforded a piece of paper.
Those jotting have now come into our possession. These are they:
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Posted: 29th, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Obama Connects With His Inner George Bush On Golf Cart One
BARACK Obama is not black or white, he’s just a typical US President, eating fast food snacks, checking out girl’s arses, loving his two daughters and hitting golf balls as the world burns.
Anorak told you that you’d miss George Bush when he was gone. But he’s not gone – his spirit lives in Obama. On Golf Cart One, Obama rides out his greens credentials:
BARACK Obama has just completed the 24th round of golf he has played since he became President of the United States. In just nine months in office, he has undertaken as many rounds of thrashing and cursing as his predecessor managed in two years and nine months. And George W Bush fancied himself on the fairway.
Bush, of course was an idiot to the media at large. Even when Bush gave up golf, the press saw it as a sign of his idiocy:
In an interview with the Politico website, the president said he took the decision because of the war. “I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
Posted: 28th, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Gordon Brown Battles Depression Says No.10 Website
GORDON Brown “battles depression,” says No. 10 website.
Speaking on the 80th anniversary of the Wall Street Crash, Gordon Brown said the battle to stop the current downturn becoming a second great depression is being won.
But he hopes to feel much better soon…
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Posted: 27th, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
BNP Runs ‘British Heritage’ Office In Burnley
WHAT odds that the Lancashire Telegraph’s scoop - “Revealed: The BNP’s ’secret’ Burnley base” - is written by Tom Moseley?
An “e” can go a long way in Burnley, and while Oswald Mosley curses the one that got away, Tom tells us:
The British National Party has been quietly running an office in Burnley town centre for up to nine years, the Lancashire Telegraph can reveal.
It’s the word “quietly” that adds a noble element to this story. While the Tories were banging their drum, the Labour party was blowing a kazoo, the LibDems were debating who gets to hold the tambourine and the Miss Great Britain Party was throating the slide trombone, the BNP were quietly getting on with the business of hate. How’s that for true British values. You Austrians might like your marching and uniforms, but the BNP never grumble, rain or shine.
Posted: 26th, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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