The Policy Blender

Actually it's been really draining. I'm glad I'm not the left-wing voice of the site, cause if I was, I'd have to be this angry with everything all the time! And if I'd known you would be away, then I'd have probably just put a 'gone on holiday' notice up, and kept playing with Lounge Walrus instead.

We could bring back the USSR - it would stop certain folks having run-ins with berifled Uzbeks.

It depends on whether politically correct means correct, politically, or just not racist, homophobic and generally disdainful of anyone in a minority group. I've been very disdainful of majority groups, but I reckon it's still their turn. Plus the whole post is a paraphrasing of Ben's post - he implied we'd be politically correct in his absence, not me.

Welcome back Ben - the site has been a less interesting place for the last two weeks.

thank you sir.

you're too kind

thank you ma'am

you're too kind

Hello there Jen, nice to be back.

I would like to point out that I didn't have time for breakfast again today. I'm starving.

Does being hungry and tanned get me a record dedicated to me by washed-up pretentious former pop stars with a God complex?

On that subject, it's hard to see how Coldplay can put anyone out of their misery. That make poverty history concert was sickening wasn't it - 'oh you're poor are you, you must be very miserable. Here, Coldplay will help'.

It's like curing piles by spending the evening at Barrimore's pool party...

I hereby submit my application to replace Richard Littlejohn at the Sun...

glad for you to share my pain. Though I worry that you may be veering to the left -

Churchill said that the inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

It would be more balanced to say that 'the inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of vices. (Unless he said that the unequal sharing of blessings was the inherent misery of capitalism). But that's more about wordplay than politics.

detached houses and Mondeos? Bastards. Sting them up and give all their stuff to people who live in terraced houses and drive Fiestas! The shameless excess of it all...

I'm with Ben. The day a mondeo is an indication of affluence in this country is the day... no, actually, I'd probably still stay here, for fear of being even poorer somewhere else.

True - globally speaking we've all got a penny or two, by virtue merely of having internet acces, which means we must have computers, phone lines, and, whether we're meant to or not, leisure time to use on them.

And I'm all for the equal sharing of vices - I suspect that there is more than enough vice to go round, and I'm not sure I've got my share of it yet.

ahh, the old glass cock argument... now I follow you...

Naturally, Chris is referring to this masterpiece of wasting work time.

now I understand.