I'm watching the Youth Question Time while I type this. Richard Madeley is trying and failing to look like a cool, hip dude. Instead he looks like a sad lush. Matt Pollard, the 20 year old student on the panel is excellent. Get him on the A List now, Francis!
Before I did the More4 interview I popped into the Spectator party at their offices in Doughty Street. I've never been invited before so it was a bit of an experience. Virtually everyone I met seemed to have seen Newsnight. Had a quick chat with Dianne Abbott who was asking Andrew Rawnsley what she should say about Prescott on the Andrew Neil programme later tonight. She doesn't think he will go. Berated Peter Hitchens for being unable to think of calling the Tories anything else than 'useless'. He berated me for berating him. Bless.
Now, imagine me blushing. Click HERE to see why.
11 comments:
I thought Matt Pollard came across as very NuLabour. He may well be a Tory. So hard to tell.
Matt Pollard is a Tory.
I felt Matt Pollard started every sentence with "I absolutely agree..."
Is he deffo a tory cause he cud easily be a blairite.
I absolutely agree ... with Diane Abbott. Prescott will not go.
Why? The obvious thoughts are: well, not because he's so talented; not because he has done such a superb job in ... err ... um ...; not because he so urbane and witty. That leaves ... because he has something really large on Tony 'n' Cherie.
Jes' guessin' is all ...
Milliband is deffo a rising star.
I didn't see all of, I got there just in time to see Madely discussing North Korea, it is good know that the greatest minds of our time are pondering the situation.
I was a bit disturbed by how many members of the audience thought it would be a good idea for the government to launch compulsory political education classes aimed at school children, in fact it convinced me that the voting age should be raised to 30.
"He may well be a Tory. So hard to tell."
He's from Buckinghamshire. Go figure.
And Iain, if Matt Pollard is the sort who should be on the A-list then I worry for the state of the Conservative party. Surely there are better folk than him....?
Richard Madeley kept me amused. He kept trying to intereupt people like he does when he is with his wife then when he could talk he would give one opinion and then the complete opposite in the same sentence.
One quite funny comment was sent into question time it said re matt pollard "I can see Ant on the panel but where is Dec!?"
Poor Mr Walsingham. I agree with all he says. (He's clearly losing sleep over it, noting the time of his message.) Something dreadful has happened to this country over the last 15 years and I don't think we've yet seen the worst of it.
One example of the way this government has ensured its legacy will be long lasting is the appointment of third-rate people to sit in the lower civil courts at district judge and circuit judge level. At the same time the judiciary has been given far greater powers through the exercise of much wider judge's so-called discretion and a virtual veto on appeals. It would be bad enough if these powers had been given to independent, wise and cultured men, but to give them to the type of person the state has appointed recently results in depressingly frequent injustice. The independence of the judiciary has been maimed, if not destroyed, over the last decade or so and it will take decades to repair the damage, assuming it is reparable.
I watched Question Time last night. It is always good to see the younger generation taking an interest in politics. I was actually a bit sceptical that it would work with all the audience being under 21 but it worked all right. Btw, I'm a teenager with an interest in current affairs and politics who currently reads quite a few political blogs (from all sides).
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