An audience speaks

Robert Halfon has an interesting story at Centre Right about Ken Livingstone's campaign:

A friend went to the Criterion Theatre to see a play about Anne Frank's friend, Eva Schloss. Although in no way was this a party political event, Livingstone supporters were there handing out leaflets outside. 

Nothing wrong with that you might say, but then it gets worse. Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron was invited on the stage to answer questions about her Jewish background.  She apparently turned the occasion into a party political broadcast, urging the audience to vote for Ken  - the response was booing and hissing from the audience. Given Ken Livingstone's previous embrace of extreme Islamists and his comparison of a Jewish journalist with a concentration camp guard, it does seem astonishing that the Mayor's team think they can exploit the holocaust for political ends and hijack an important theatre production for party political

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They do make them like that any more

Loyalty is almost non-existent in sport today. The likes of Ryan Giggs and Jamie Carragher, who stick at one club, are anachronisms. On the other hand, they earn fortunes and don't really need to move.

So the response of theswashbuckling Surrey batsman, Alistair Brown, to the IPL's offer of a three year contract is almost unbelievable, Brown - who is capable of some of the most destructive batting imaginable, and whose game is tailor-made for Twenty20 - is coming to the end of his career (he's 38); has only a one year contract with Surrey, his employers for the past twenty years; and is on no more than sixty or seventy thousand a year. And yet he turned the IPL's offer - which would have been way, way more than he is now on, and would have lasted three years - down....

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It's tariffs wot done it

Say what you like about Moonbat, you have to warm to a columnist who can write this with a straight face:

I would like to encourage people to start eating tilapia instead of meat.

Re-reading this article, I see that there is something surreal about it.

Meanwhile, also on planet bonkers...This from Raj Patel at CiF:

For anyone who understands the current food crisis, it is hard to listen to the head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, without gagging.

... Before he replaced Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank, Zoellick was the US trade representative, their man at the World Trade Organisation. While there, he won a reputation as a tough and guileful negotiator, savvy with details and pushy with the neoconservative economic agenda: a technocrat with a knuckleduster.

His mission

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Policy not personality

Thanks to Sky News' quiz, I see that when I vote for Boris next month I won't just be voting to keep Ken out. Of the eleven questions, I was with Boris on 7, and only with Ken on two.

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Good riddance

Every cloud has a silver lining:

Caught in the crunch - 4000 estate agents could be forced to close.

We bought our house in July last year. I sold my flat privately, and it was the most painless, most efficient, smoothest sale or purchase with which I have ever been involved. The estate agent through which we bought the house, however, was a nightmare to deal with, lying to us about the vendor's intentions, not returning critical calls, etc. We are still waiting for some of the documents to arrive from him! It was only when the purchase looked like collapsing because the estate agent told...

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