9:33am
Months ago, I agreed to take part in a Question Panel tonight. I gave no particular thought to what else might be scheduled for the same night.
I wish I could pretend all snootily that I have no interest in the result of the Champions' League Final, and couldn't care less that I'll be missing it. Man U v Chelsea - ugh!
Truth is, I'd love to have been able to see it. Everyone I know (except Mrs P!) appears to be excited about it and doing something fun to watch it.
The same thing happened in 1999 when I had said I'd go to a dinner in Whitehall without realising what else would be happening that night. I recorded the game and thought I'd find a way of getting home without hearing the result. What an idiot. No sooner had I stepped out of the building than I saw delirious Man U fans in the fountain at Trafalgar Square.
So I won't try to escape the news tonight. I'll just hope that Man U win. (And - aren't football fans horrid?! - just to rub it in, wouldn't it be lovely if Chelsea lose on penalties, the most heart breaking way of losing as exists?)
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9:25am
Well,quite.
(Mind you, even with its limitations, the Tories' schools policy is, of itself, sufficient reason to vote Conservative at the next election.)
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8:45am
It's an unworthy thought, but the news about Edward Kennedy reminded me of Evelyn Waugh's diary entry on hearing that surgeons had removed a benign tumour from Randolph Churchill:
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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9:14am
Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson has this post on his blog:
Strong leadership, wise decision, savvy PR. I’m admire this guy.
Come off it. I thought. Even Gordon Brown's plotter-in-chief couldn't try to spin his hero's past week as demonstrating strength, wisdom and savviness.
Nah. He's talking about Willie Walsh (mind you, even making that case is surely a stretch too far).
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8:42am
There's a fascinating comment thread after this post by Iain Dale, fascinating because it shows how widespread anti-Americanism now is. The post is about an incident on a tube:
Ugh – just had the worst experience on the tube – some dumb liberal heard me speaking with a friend and deliberately started talking in a loud voice about the American Gov’t staging 9/11. I asked her to take her offensive views out of my earshot. Of course the whole carriage started making anti-american remarks and then some Asian girl challenged me to a fight – said I didn’t know anything about the sufferings of her people. It escalated and she spat in my face at Charing Cross. The staff called police – they were really nice and said that since her DNA was all over me they would gladly
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