Why oh why?

10:17am

Meanwhile, the Times has an interview with Gillian Anderson about her decision to reprise her role in the new X Files film. She explains, as the Times2 headline puts it:

Why I went back to my X

Let me hazard a guess. 

The money.

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Asking the tough questions

10:02am

Lord Hattersley asks a difficult question in the Guardian:

And why do senior ministers give broadcast interviews that can be interpreted as criticisms of Brown?

Blimey, that's a tough one. Maybe, perhaps, possibly...because they know he's unelectable and unless he goes the game's up.

As Hattersely writes himself:

The cabinet should remember that if Labour loses in 2010, most of them will never be heard of again...

Er, yes. That's the point. They don't want to lose. It's the opposite of a non sequitur.

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Who cares?

5:16pm

It seems it's not just Mr B who is going round the world stirring up apathy. A friend reports on this sight at Dublin airport: 

I spotted Sarko's Republique Francaise aircraft parked on the ground below Pier D, replete with red carpet. I must have just missed his grand departure a little after 5pm but there wasn't a sight nor sound of any stewards, let alone dignitaries to send him off.

All I could make out was two Dublin airport workers sitting in the van beside the aircraft - one was munching on a bacon sarnie, the second seemed to be enjoying 40 winks. Guess it summed up his trip in a nutshell really!

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Balls up

2:06pm

I'm watching Ed Balls' statement on ETS. The sheer gall of the man! He has just lectured David Laws, the (impressive) LibDem spokesman about the need to keep quiet about contractual commercial matters.

Ed Ball's pre-political career amounted to three years as an economic leader writer at the FT before going to work for Gordon Brown.

David Laws was Vice President of JP Morgan from 1987-92 and then Managing Director, Head of US Dollar and Sterling Treasuries, at Barclays de Zoete Wedd, before going to the LibDems.

One of those men has had first hand experience of commerce. He is not Ed Balls.

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So very true

11:18am

It seems that everything I've written about alternative medicine (in other words medicine that doesn't work) is true:

Captured Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was practising alternative medicine and living in Serbia's capital, Belgrade.

Everything you need to know about alternative medicine is captured in that one sentence.

UPDATE: Oh dear. It's a joke. Clearly not a very good one, judging from the reaction of the first commenter.

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