Former Pogues frontman and raging alcoholic Shane MacGowan was back in the news this week with the re-issue of ‘best Christmas song ever’ Fairytale of New York (with the late Kirsty McColl) was censored by BBC Radio One, removing the words faggot and slut.
Hello Darling! This weeks card is the beleaguered Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alastair Darling, who this week was twice forced to apologise to Parliament, firstly for the Northern Rock fiasco, then the news that two computer discs containing the entire contents of the 25 million names on the Child Benefits database, representing every school-age child [...]
Week 44, and this week Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Ian Blair faced calls to resign following the Met being found guilty of breaking Health and Safety laws (?) when anti-terrorist officers shot dead Charles de Menezes in 2005 at Stockwell Green tube station, believing him (wrongly) to be a suicide bomber.
Getting in a day early for a change (as I’m off on my hols tomorrow), here’s Bush-baiting Russiam Premier Vladimir Putin, who this week announced that Russian nukes were again being targeted at European targets in response to the USA’s anti-missle system. Sounds like there’ll be a chilly, Cold War-esque atmosphere at this week’s G8.
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