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I’m Also Proud of the BBC

Arkenor — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:30:53 +0000

As most of you know, I’ve been doing work for the BBC for a decade or so, but I’ve been a staunch supporter and fan of the Corporation since long before I ever had any connection to it, and I get quite nervous – and more than a little angry – when the knives come out for the BBC, as they very much have been of late. It’s particularly annoying since the Beeb, as a public service broadcaster which [...]

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Cleggeron!!!

Arkenor — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:18:57 +0000

There is a new entity in charge of the UK’s Ship of Government. Enter Cleggeron the Unexpected!!! After a tumultuous struggle with arch-nemesis Gordzilla, Cleggeron has emerged as the King of Monster Island, ah, I mean Westminster.

Cleggeron! Coming soon to a Parliament near you.

Will good Clegg head manage to stop the middle boss head from taking the evil Murdoch head’s advice? A lot could happen over the course of the next parliament. It’s not like we’re talking [...]

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In which I am distracted by democracy

Arkenor — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:56:32 +0000

I will get around to continuing my Mortal Online exploration. I’ve still not hit the play button, so as to see it with fresh eyes.

I’ve been distracted by the small matter of the UK General Election. Voting is today, and I shall be spending tonight glued to Mr David Dimbleby and his gang on the BBC, as the results come in. In preparation I have a bag full of comfort food, as I doubt it is going to be [...]

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Gordon Brown and the Bully Hotline

Arkenor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:36:43 +0000

I’ve experienced both school and workplace bullying, and I have no time for people who behave in such a way. I’ve even called a supportline or two in the past. So don’t take what follows as in any way diminishing the anguish that bullying can cause.

I have two points to make on the current scandal, which involves Christine Pratt, the head of the National Bullying Helpline, going public with claims that staff at Number 10 had called her support [...]

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MEP Daniel Hannan is not the only Tory politician who wants to destroy the NHS. Meet MP Peter Bone.

Arkenor — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:59:28 +0000

Daniel Hannan was of course the first chap to get me riled up about this, but now I’ve been looking about, in spite of David Cameron’s protestations, turns out there are a whole lot of Conservatives who have it in for the NHS.

We have a centralised health service that is run by the Government from Whitehall. A health service that is managed and directed by a few from their ivory towers in Whitehall. A health service that would not [...]

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MEP Daniel Hannan lies about the UK on US Television for money.

Arkenor — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:42:45 +0000

While socialised medicine is considered with great mistrust in the US, here in the UK, no political party would dare to suggest that the dear old NHS should be replaced. Unless, of course, they didn’t think anyone from Britain would notice.

In this clip, UK Conservative, MEP Daniel Hannan, holds court with the crown prince of right-wing crazy, Glenn Beck.

You would not think it to listen to Hannan and his FOX friends, but we do actually also have [...]

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Anti-poverty company ends poverty. For its CEO.

Arkenor — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:50:40 +0000

As a pinko socialist commie I don’t think anyone is worth this much, but it is especially irritating in a government owned company.

The “extraordinary” £1m-a-year salary for the head of a government-owned company set up to combat developing world poverty has been attacked by MPs.

The salary of CDC Group chief executive Richard Laing rose from £383,000 in 2003 to £970,000 in 2007, the Commons Public Accounts committee found.

But the Department for International Development, its 100% shareholder, was [...]

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David Abrahams and his Manchurian plot to destroy New Labour.

Arkenor — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:36:10 +0000

The David Abrahams illegal donation scandal ( and I do not apologise for calling it that. Proxy donating IS illegal, as anyone but a small child or a Labour fundraiser would know.) seems to have quietened down a little for now, as various investigations begin into it. The Prime Minister’s own enquiry is likely to be a whitewash, but the Metropolitan Police enquiry is somewhat more hopeful.

Harriet Harman has managed, somehow, to keep her job. Hereafter known as the [...]

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A wee little Broon Cartoon.

Arkenor — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:22:19 +0000

My biggest effort at a webcomic ever! I should probably have tried to do it in something a bit better than Windows Paint.

I also completely failed at fitting it into the amount of width I have here, so you’ll have to give it a click to see it. You might also have to click magnify on it, if your browser unhelpfully resizes it so you can’t read the text. I’ll make sure I get it to fit in here [...]

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Janet Dunn remembers Abrahams’ “gift”.

Arkenor — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:26:08 +0000

Janet Dunn, who yesterday claimed to know nothing about having been used as an intermediary for one of David Abrahams’ Labour Party donations, has had a flash of insight, and now remembers the event. I suppose she doesn’t consider it “disgusting” any more, either.

I know I’m always forgetting about having £25,000 put into my bank account, and then passing it along. You can’t be expected to recall such minor financial details. Luckily, she kept records, and checked her bank [...]

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David Abrahams – Serial liar

Arkenor — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:42:59 +0000

David Abrahams, alias David Martin was unknown to me at the beginning of this week, and yet it appears that he has been a busy little bee indeed. At least where deception is concerned. A bee of lies.

It turns out that when David Abrahams was trying to become Labour MP for Richmond in 1992, he made a point of introducing the selection committee to his wife and son.

A divorcee, Anthea Bailey, told a local newspaper she and her [...]

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David Abrahams admits to knowingly breaking the law.

Arkenor — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:50:57 +0000

Labour general secretary Peter Watt has resigned following the revelation that a property developer made donations to the party via two colleagues. David Abrahams, who gave more than £400,000 through associates, said Mr Watt’s resignation was “sad”.

Mr Watt told a meeting of officers of Labour’s National Executive Committee he had known about the arrangement.

Under the law, those making donations on behalf of others must give details of who is providing the money.

Mr Abrahams and [...]

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