Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies, by Andy Beckett. Faber and Faber, 448 pp.
About a quarter of the way into Guardian journalist Andy Beckett’s impressive account of Britain in the 1970s, self-satisfied Labour Party politician Denis Healey, who served as Harold Wilson’s chancellor of the exchequer, observes that he knew “bugger [...]
One is an unpleasant demagogue contemptuous of the masses and who always wear black. The other is the former leader of the British Union of Fascists!!
I am reading all about the disarray in the British government and the big spanking that Gordon Brown is getting from the idiot British electorate and also from his party [...]
Endearing Ingenue, Country Pumpkin, or Simple Puppet of His Evil Taskmasters?
According to the newspapers here in Las Canarias, the people of London, England, have voted in for their new mayor a complete idiot who is very smart, the man named Boris Johnson, grandson of Samuel Boswell, who founded The Spectator magazine.
This was not entirely unespected [...]
