December 4, 2009
The past few months haven’t been too good for President Sarkozy of France on the credibility front. There were several reports of the lengths he goes to to conceal his true height and then the rumpus over his Facebook page (see our earlier post) which showed him hacking down the Berlin Wall, even though it [...]
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December 3, 2009
If you’re going to try to get recalcitrant viewers to pay their licence fee, you can browbeat them and threaten to take them to court, even if they have no TV and have no intention of ever having a TV. That is the heavy-handed method adopted by the BBC. Or you can go the way [...]
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November 4, 2009
The book came out on November 3rd, so there was no time for blogging, even though we’ve got some great Zebu stories in the pipeline. As well as a succession of interviews, we’ve been signing stock in many of London’s bookshops, a process we hope to finish on Wednesday. After that, for a while at [...]
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November 2, 2009
We’ve blogged already about this government’s previous form on ignoring scientific advice, and there’s plenty more in Complete and Utter Zebu. But we thought we really ought to Zeboo Home Secretary Alan Johnson.
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October 23, 2009
No wonder the BNP has made such headway if our leading politicians can’t muster a better counter-argument than they did on last night’s Question Time. Were they told to call Griffin “Nick” all the time? It just made it all seem uncomfortably chummy, making him one of the gang, which is surely exactly what he [...]
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October 22, 2009
If you were a politician widely ridiculed for some outrageous examples of “misspeaking” or – as it’s called in the real world – lying, wouldn’t you try to stick to the truth in future? Not U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She’s been at it again. Visiting Northern Ireland last week, she gave a speech [...]
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October 17, 2009
After Steve produced a wonderful “author” video with the Zebu promoting our book, he got a taste for it. Why stop there? We should “Zeboo” some of the politicians who had been caught out conning the public. Anyway, Hillary Clinton’s the Zebu’s first target. It seems to work quite well and we can’t wait till [...]
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