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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Life on Mars Hill
Paul Burgin, who writes the left-leaning Mars Hill Blog has featured me in his latest Twenty Questions to Fellow Bloggers series HERE.
Iain, What's wrong with Cambridge? I prefer it to Oxford, cos there are no grotty bits. It never rains (well hardly ever) and we have the beautiful backs - surely one of the classic views in England.
Stopped reading the telegraph a while back. Talk about taking something that was not broken and loosening the screws until the wheels fell off. Got fed up with Simon Heffer's constant rants about David Cameron, its bordering on the obsessional!
i don't wish to speak out of turn, but Tunbridge Wells was the most disappointing place I have ever been to. even the chinese elvis restaurant was shut
Roger Moore had his good moments, For Your Eyes Only being a prime example! The clifftop scene was something I would expect more from Dalton's Bond, plus the nods to On Her Majesty's Secret Service at the very begining were also good. It depends also, I think, how you see Bond and how seriously you take him!
Agree that The Sunday Times is a good newspaper. Always has been, even under Brillo Bonce. Interesting that it's pro Cameron and very anti-Blair, as is the daily Times, largely. So much for Blair brown-nosing Murdoch. Agree too, that The Telegraph has gone downhill and I,too,stopped buying it several weeks ago for the afore-mentioned reasons. Are you getting the message Telegraph!
Perhaps its because I'm a newbie but I never realised that there were political figures ready to admit that they like Cliff Richard. How 'uncool', how refreshing.
Iain,
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with Cambridge? I prefer it to Oxford, cos there are no grotty bits. It never rains (well hardly ever) and we have the beautiful backs - surely one of the classic views in England.
Iain, you have weird taste in football, but to prefer Roger Moore to Sean Connery is much worse.
ReplyDeleteBut then again you choice in Bond film, For Your Eyes Only, really does take the micky.
Is Simon Heffer likely to become editor of the Telegraph, Iain? It would lose so many readers if that happened! Surely it can't happen?
ReplyDeleteNo grotty bits?! The Abbey estate is pretty awful. But you're right, most of it is sick-inducingly "nice".
ReplyDeleteStopped reading the telegraph a while back. Talk about taking something that was not broken and loosening the screws until the wheels fell off. Got fed up with Simon Heffer's constant rants about David Cameron, its bordering on the obsessional!
ReplyDeleteWhy are things so quiet on the Prescott front Iain?
ReplyDeleteSpotted him leaving 26 Whitehall at 9.30am this morning.
Instead of Two Jags he now has the use of one green Jaguar and a silver Range Rover that I am told was once used by Geoff Hoon.
i don't wish to speak out of turn, but Tunbridge Wells was the most disappointing place I have ever been to.
ReplyDeleteeven the chinese elvis restaurant was shut
Roger Moore had his good moments, For Your Eyes Only being a prime example! The clifftop scene was something I would expect more from Dalton's Bond, plus the nods to On Her Majesty's Secret Service at the very begining were also good.
ReplyDeleteIt depends also, I think, how you see Bond and how seriously you take him!
Roger Moore is the main man, I'm glad that somebody else thinks so too. The Spy who loved me is probably his best.
ReplyDeleteAgree that The Sunday Times is a good newspaper. Always has been, even under Brillo Bonce. Interesting that it's pro Cameron and very anti-Blair, as is the daily Times, largely. So much for Blair brown-nosing Murdoch.
ReplyDeleteAgree too, that The Telegraph has gone downhill and I,too,stopped buying it several weeks ago for the afore-mentioned reasons.
Are you getting the message Telegraph!
The SteffiGraf has its failings, but it is the only even half-way serious English daily a person of taste and discernment could think of buying.
ReplyDeletePerhaps its because I'm a newbie but I never realised that there were political figures ready to admit that they like Cliff Richard. How 'uncool', how refreshing.
ReplyDeleteHave you stopped blogging? Nothing for almost a week so I have withdrawal symptoms.
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