Yank in London

For the longest time I've had this uneasy sensation that I had seen Paul "Galt the Younger" Ryan somewhere bef...

The Philly Daily News wins a Pulitzer. This probably will mean nothing when they get auctioned off later this month because journalism doesn...

...because in Denmark unionised workers only strike over the most important of issues; access to beer !

Let's start out there to the right, shall we? The Daily Mail harrumphs its way through an article suggesting that almost all the jobs c...

The Daily Mail calls out Labour for declaring class war on Posh Boy. (Special bonus Richard Littlejohn edition: the Shadow Home Secretary ...

As predicted el Gordo may a quick trip round the palace this morning and has called a general election for four weeks time. Let the sliming...

Unless he surprises us the Prime Minister will set the date of the general election tomorrow and, against the odds, it seems it be a dog fig...

Today is Cesar Chavez Day . (Don't tell the Teabaggers!)

We've got an election coming, very soon, and it looks like it is going to be very interesting . I can hardly wait! Much better than el...

Friday is the 50th birthday of Doc Martens boots . Go ahead. Treat yourself - buy some new cherry reds!

It seems that global warming has resolved a long standing territorial dispute between Bangladesh and India . Perhaps this was Captain Codpie...

Environmentalist and futurist James Lovelock thinks that humanity is too stupid to do anything to prevent climate change in the coming deca...

I met my lovely friend Priya for a drink this evening (elle est ma faux-belle-fille). She has very curly hair that was recently cut very sho...

I just didn't realise that being a scumbag would be quite so lucrative for poor old Tony. This goes past champagne socialism to pure-Pe...

It seems that over the past 1000 years or so the portion sizes in illustrations of the Last Supper have grown larger . Jesus remains skinny,...

It is logically inconsistent to claim to be pro-life and to simultaneously make death threats . But then logical thought has never been a we...

As a (not quite) moderate (enough) drinker and a smoker once again I'm fucked . This is the second major whack we've had this year. ...

...I find it unfortunate that Debenhams is now offering a divorce registry service . I mean where were they when I needed them all those yea...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre . Remember .

...because I think that this means that things have gotten weird enough for anyone, even him.

Perhaps I have lived away from America too long. Perhaps I have forgotten that the country was always this way. Perhaps so but I think not. ...

....Marie Stopes who opened Britain's first family planning clinic 89 years ago today .

...and it would seem that the (once) great state of Texas has a solution to that little dilemma; "fix" the kid's textbooks . O...

Officials in Cumbria are extremely worried about the lack of daffodils in the Lake District and the potential impact on tourism. (Who the h...

A nice write up in the NYRB about the Dulwich Picture Gallery . Well worth a visit if you're ever south of the river; not that tourists ...

The annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling had been cancelled for this year due to health and safety fears. Possibly due to the saturated ...

America's finest Big Fat Idiot has promised to flee the country if health care reform is passed. As the official Yank in London (of and...

Am I the only one enjoying the spectacle of the Tories trying to 'splain away the disgraceful situation surrounding Lord Ashcroft's ...

Down wherever it is that Tom Delay is from they seem to think that people are unemployed because they like it . Or at least they do in the b...

The British House of Lords has passed an amendment that will outlaw caste based discrimination in the workplace . Isn't the House of Lo...