And niceguy,

I was surprised to hear of the passing of Glubb Pasha. Are the rumors true that it actually was Van Helsing who finally summoned up enough good sense to drive a stake through the old bastard's heart?

C'mon,

Ya know there ain't no such critter.

It's a figment of your infidel imagination.

He's a short, furry, little guy who first drew my attention to what he referred to as a "genocidal" NS piece entitled "Culling the Badgers."

He hasn't been this upset since the folks at Kent turned his uncle Egbert into a #13 shaving brush.

MB:

Apart from their apparent incestuousness British journalists are also masters of the euphemism.

The phrase, 'his usual passionate self', meaning a 'rabid, red-misted, hate-filled, rant in which objectivity has been very much left at home locked up in the cupboard.

Ed Vulliamy is still promoting the myth, which he may even have begun to believe himself, that it was an heroic act of derring-do journalism that enabled him to uncover Serbian misdeeds at Omarska. The reality - he was apparently on one of Karadzic's 'atrocity tours' complete with guide and breaks for tea and biscuits. He still doesn't know why Karadzic was so obliging. Really Ed, and you with a first class Oxbridge education too.

Karadzic was outgunned heavily in the media war before being outgunned by US cruise missiles.

It is unfortunate for Karadzic that not even the Serbs care much for the 'country bumpkin' making him the perfect patsy to trade for Serbian economic prosperity. As a patriot he should however be only too happy to be the one who must be sacrificed for the good of the many, I imagine.

knave, trust me.

The badger swears that since they gave Taki the boot, things have become far more harmonious.

I think you need to be a blue-blood to enter.

And what's the badger's favourite tipple?

What would you expect from a guy who's never picked up a check in his life?

The most expensive cocktail on the menu, of course: the pousse-cafe.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
said the old soak

Martin about your friend Browne
Browne insists that Asylum-seekers are not only scroungers and terrorists but plague carriers, like the rats that brought the Black Death.
Is he a liberal ?

Tthe BNP's then national press officer "Dr Phil Edwards" (aka Stuart Russell) complained:
"When I read Anthony Browne's earlier book 'Do we need Mass Immigration?' (Published by Civitas in 2002) I was struck by how so much of it seemed to be cribbed from my writings, broadcasts and newspaper and radio interviews from around 1997 onwards."
I am missing something Martin and the man who must not be named.

Who was talking about a conspiracy ?.
No such thing. as conspiracies. Just cock ups.
You are just part of a cottage industry that brings in the bucks.

Observer 99
Sounds like a SS division

I am missing something
Yes I no, before you jump in
A brain

"usual knee-jerk position taking and name calling. "
And what is wrong with that. Martin it is meat and potatoes of UK journalism. My god your mate Cohen's articles are nothing but name calling and knee jerk positions.
I did support Blair actions in Sierre leone and Bosnia but Iraq was just based on oil and the need for US to have that resource. He was right with clinton, wrong with Bush

i'm sorry Ben too many posts in one go but I couldn't resist thtis one.
Martin
I am coming around to your conspircay theory
imagine the scene
At dark "Alton' towers.
The four of you hunched over a map of london.
The dark master mind, Anthony "tory boy" Browne.
Dreaming of privatising the NHS and kicking out the immigrants.
"Bring him in"
You as gopher type figure. I know type casting
"Yes master"
This begraddled blonde figure enters the rom.
"So your hislop and you are merton, guffaw, guffaw"
A slimy figure in the background gets up
"No Boris, my name is Nick, we want you to something for us"
Then Sweeney loses the plot.
The this expains the last 9 years.

perhaps i am little harsh on Brighty.
Apart from his obsession with Islam and isreal his heart sometimes in the right place. Also you can't pick your mates

This sounds too good to be true. Perhaps you should get on the phone to Martin Amis to write the novel, although it would end up having a Cameron-esque wiff to it.

Would be a great airport novel.

Niceguy have you read Cohen's post on apocolypse now. I think he has finally lost it.
Losing the plot about a book review.

knave, yes I did... very baffling. Very cryptic.

Perhaps a certain columnist could be the hero, who sees the error of the ways, turns to the good side and tears down the establishment from within.

You better get a copyright on that.

Another suggestion if I may.

Paul Routledge as a hard-drinking hack, who sometimes bends the rules, but always get results. Played by Mel Gibson (Braveheart era Gibson).

And Gove played by one of Livingstone's newts.

Also, Hitchens needs to make an appearance somewhere. Not too sure which side he'd be on though.

Do you know, I have forgotten one character.
Oliver Kamm.
Perfect
Danger Mouse's arch nemesis
Baron Silas Greenback
He looks and sounds like him

Niceguy,
With the chimeric image of mad mel and jade, I will stop the knee jerk name calling.
I feel a little nauseous.

I think that is changing.
Cohen is making statements at the moment about the liberal tory party (economically liberal perhaps), prempting his jump into the void.
Of couse he won't mention organs like migration watch, guido's site, the daily mail or the relationship between the Cameroonies and the odious Charles Murray.

True true. Why is there this shift? I'm in Jordan so try and keep abreast with home news as much as possible, but it seems that Islam has become almost a government policy issue. I have friends who would describe themselves as Socialists, but recently shifted to the Cohen-Kamm-Liddle axis of evil.

There is an obession with the subject.
We are in the worst economic situation on both sides of the pond and yet all the opinion formers want to do is discuss Islam.
The spectator is especially obsessed.
Also like every geneation the old lefties become right wingers.
Is Cohen any different from Paul Johnson. Not much.
Johnson blamed the trades unionist and Cohen blames Islamist left. Just excuses.
In the end it is not the true reason. The truth is financial. You want to pay less tax and send your kids to private school.
Cohen despises Brown and yet recently Brown made the most pro isreali speech in a generation. It doesn't stop Cohen and Bright hating him.
Also there is market for muslim hating. Cohen, Bright, Anthony, Kamm and Gove, like the good captalists have seen a market for their drivel and are making an awful lot of money out of the subject.