Brown revealed

My friend Robert Halfon has an excellent post on Gordon Brown's 'shallow salesman' sneer:

Far from wounding Mr Cameron, Mr Brown instead insults hundreds of thousands of people across the country – if not millions - who earn their living by being precisely that –  Salesmen.  By implication, he also criticises not just the Salesmen but also their families and close friends.  After all, if being a Salesman is 'dishonest', then being associated with a 'Salesman' is dishonest also. So the many many people who sell cars, windows, heating systems, health products etc. etc. are according to the Prime Minister, either 'shallow', 'slick', 'used' or 'dishonest'.   

...The truth is that most salesmen work very long hours, often work on low basic or commission only and have to travel far distances in order to make a living. Many years ago I worked in telesales, and I was struck how

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SNO8 FAT

Further to my earlier picture, my wife snapped this yesterday.

Again, any ideas whose car this should be?

(And before anyone else says it: no, it's not mine!)

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Raw Jew-bashing on the BBC

I might post regularly on anti-Israel bias on the BBC, but it's a rare thing to hear full on, open, unambiguous antisemitism. No bothering with referring to 'Zionists' as code for Jews; no challenge to the views; and no attempt to seem anything other than full of hate.

Rare it might be, but as this transcript from Adloyada shows, it was there yesterday on Radio Four's Political Animal:

I'm quite interested in the Middle East, I'm actually studying that Israeli Army martial arts. 
And I know sixteen ways to kick a Palestinian woman in the back. 
It's a difficult situation to understand. I've got an analogy which explains the whole thing quite well: 
If you imagine that Palestine is a cake. Well, that cake is being punched to pieces by a very angry Jew.

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Not an anti-gay bone

Iain Dale puts Ben Bradshaw in his place:

As you all know by now, yesterday I entered into a civil partnership. We invited a number of friends and family to attend, one of whom was David Davis. It would have been totally understandable if David had pulled out as he has rather a lot of things on his mind at the moment. But not a bit of it. He rang me at mid-day to say he was on his way but he was worried he would be late and didn't want to arrive in the middle of ceremony and upstage it.

David also played a part in the proceedings, and I have been told by several people that he was seen to 'well up' a bit during the ceremony. Having spent the last few days broadcasting to the nation that David "doesn't do emotion" one can

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Friends of Zim

I'll say no more than that this is a site - and, obviously, a cause - which matters.

UPDATE: A commenter has asked if this is bona fide. I am assured it is.

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