Insomnia: Jasper Carrott is dead right

I am currently experiencing this
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The picture quality is a bit crap, but the wisdom contained within makes it all worthwhile... Mat is happily snoring next to me. The internet is oddly quiet. I think I shall shut everything down and lie here in the dark pondering some imponderables. Night night, intarwebz.

Orange Book Back on Sale

The Orange Book is a book any political anorak will have heard of, but few will have read. It's been out of print for some years, and thus most people rely on the media's description of it as being right wing, and referring to some Lib Dems disparagingly as "Orange Bookers", as accurate.

But since when have the media ever been accurate?

If you want to find out for yourself what is in this famous tome, the Editor of the book who isn't David Laws is engaging in some shameless profiteering selling it on amazon, at above RRP to reflect the sudden and insistent demand, as any true market-driven Liberal would.

Or, if you are too tight to actually buy it, you could do worse than read Joe "Extra Bold" Otten's chapter by chapter breakdown.

Tee hee hee #DorriesFail

So Nadine Dorries' attempt to unseat Speaker Bercow was not so much a damp squib as a waterlogged firing cap. Hurrah! Bercow is a miles better speaker than Martin was (although he's no Betty, obvs) and I'm glad to see him returned.

The sooner we get a recall law, the sooner the evil harpy who sullies our bright new coalition can be removed.

Janet Street Porter's Views are Invidious, but widely held

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