Monday, June 04, 2007

It Shouldn't Happen to a Guardian Journalist

This appeared on the Guardian website this evening. I hate to think what David Hencke said to his enthusistic sub-editor... especially if it appears in the paper tomorrow...

Hilary Benn, the international development secretary, promised to scrap trade
union red tape through new laws. She also promised a regular dialogue to replace
the current one-off Warwick agreement on change.

David Hencke, Westminster correspondent
Monday June 4, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're blogging about a spelling mistake in the Guardian at 11.30pm

Go to bed man!

Iain Dale said...

Only because one of my readers pointed it out! But you are right. I shall have an early night!

Simon Harley said...

"Mrs Hilary Benn, nee Bennite, was unavailable for comment at this late hour."

Anonymous said...

Guardian journalists, like journalists and bloggers in general, are crap at everything in life but they have one consolation - morality. Especially egalitarian morality, because after all, they want us all to be nice to each other because if they were ever seriously confronted it would be revealed to all how shamefully limited they really are.

Newmania said...

Oh Dear oh Dear I once did something similiar with Evelyn Waugh and a rather pompous little speech for a "Topic" . I was about sixteen !
Nowadays I could have said I was refferring to his some time wife also called Evelyn

( I know more than anyone about everything now...of course)

The Remittance Man said...

Amusing as the Graun's typos often are, perhaps what we should be highlighting is the rest of the sentence: "also promised a regular dialogue to replace
the current one-off Warwick agreement on change."


Is Hilary reverting to the family stereotype and getting all pally with the Brothers, just like Daddy did back in the sixties and seventies? We all know where that led the country.

Beer and sarnies at No 10 anyone?

Anonymous said...

I think he has a fixation about Hilary Wainwright

Paul Linford said...

Fascinating Blair Fact No 94

His is the only Cabinet in history to contain two people of different sexes called Hilary.

Newmania said...

What about this in the Spectator this morning

“Mr. Cameron is fond of saying that he has no Alistair Campbell figure in Conservative headquarters because he will run his government fundamentally differently . he won the Tory leadership contest without kow-towing to Fleet Street , he argues , and he can win the next election without having to do so . Nonetheless his search for as high flying media figure continues . Those approached so far have politely refused – a pattern which in itself tells you something about M. Cameron’s current share price and the reluctance of senior journalists to stake their careers on his electoral success “

I can`t work this out ,the edition is 2.6.07 ,…isn`t this completely wrong and out of date ? I don't know when exactly the news about Andy Coulson came out but I have a feeling this was a couple of days before publication. Love all the clever speculations as well….

Anonymous said...

The things they will do to get Hazel Blears' second preferences!

Sir-C4' said...

Who cares! Hilary is a girl's name anyway.

Anonymous said...

Hilary is a boy's name which the ignorant have taken to giving to girls. The Hilary Term at Oxford is named after St Hilary of Poitiers - a fourth century male saint.

Anonymous said...

Why doesn't he change his name to Bill to avoid confusion? Bill Benn has got a certain proletarian ring about it, with a submlinal hint of Flowerpot Men for those who remember.

Anonymous said...

FROM SEA SHANTY IRISH:

Asking from US, is Hilary a UK version of "A Boy Named Sue"?

Which immortal ballad (by Shel Silverstein, made famous by Johnny Cash) includes the lines:

"Some gal would giggle and I'd get red/Some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head/I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue"

Also:

"I grew up quick and I grew up mean/My fists got hard and my wits grew keen/I'd roam from town to town to hide my shame"

IF Hilary is a "Boy Named Sue" kind of a name, then would seen that Tony Benn did the Labour Party and the British Nation a service, by steeling his sone early to the cruel challenges & vissitudes of public life.

Second question: Are Benn Family dynamics as robust as in the song?

"I hit him hard right between the eyes/And he went down, but to my surprise/He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear/But I busted a chair right across his teeth/And we crashed through the wall and into the street/Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer"