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All The Best

Published by Frank Key on Tuesday, 18 August, 2009 in Current Affairs. 7 Comments

Over at Comment Is Free, two impeccably bourgeois graduates of the grammar and public school systems and of Oxford University debate whether the total collapse of civilisation would be, on the whole, you know, a good thing. A commenter called “questionnaire” gets to the nub of its amusement value:

I love the way George [Monbiot] and Paul [Kingsnorth] are putting ‘best wishes’ and ‘all the best’ at the end of each doom scenario.

And Just What Did You Expect To Find In The Aquarium?

Published by Frank Key on Thursday, 22 May, 2008 in Current Affairs. 2 Comments

Yesterday’s Guardian reported on the trip to London made by alleged bomb plotter Waheed Ali in December 2004. He claimed that on the second day he and others visited the London Eye and the London Aquarium. Of the latter, he said: “I’d give it one out of ten. It was just fish swimming around.”

Oblique Hoodies

Published by Frank Key on Monday, 31 December, 2007 in Current Affairs. 0 Comments

The appointment of Brian Eno (aged 59) as the Liberal Democrats’ adviser to help new leader Nick Clegg (aged 40) keep in touch with Britain’s youth has caused much hilarity in blogland. I particularly liked this post which reminds us of some of Brian’s more enticing plans and projects. Yet I fear people are too quick to ridicule what is obviously a piece of visionary brilliance. Just imagine the transformation in the packs of brainless hoodies and gun-toting pre-pubescent inner city “gangstas” if, instead of being issued with Asbos, they are given a stiff dose of Oblique Strategies, innit?