tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post596458373090101304..comments2023-11-29T13:13:23.022+00:00Comments on newgate news: It's an ill wind...Macheathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-19307731666684431812013-03-15T17:22:04.692+00:002013-03-15T17:22:04.692+00:00Stunned disbelief.Stunned disbelief.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-50966581778524159512013-03-13T17:06:15.276+00:002013-03-13T17:06:15.276+00:00Alas, poor Yorick?Alas, poor Yorick?Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-34797775774580412152013-03-13T12:32:28.722+00:002013-03-13T12:32:28.722+00:00There aren't many people I actively detest but...There aren't many people I actively detest but Aitken might be one of them.<br /><br />I clearly remember a picture of him, taken as he was being "asked to accompany the officer" on account of his perjury or whatever it was.<br /><br />Even through the newspaper photograph, his facial expression so clearly said "These sorts of things only happen to little people, not to the likes of me" that I have, to be blunt, hated his guts ever since.<br /><br />A plague on him and all like him.Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-50114560207540212592013-03-12T22:53:24.450+00:002013-03-12T22:53:24.450+00:00A good - if slightly queasy - analogy, AKH.
Someh...A good - if slightly queasy - analogy, AKH.<br /><br />Somehow, the startlingly callous Telegraph headline reminded me of the bit in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' where Slartibartfast says of the destruction of the Earth, "It was quite a shocking cock-up. The mice were furious."<br /><br />Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565737623121795004.post-38379387541819889562013-03-12T19:31:45.780+00:002013-03-12T19:31:45.780+00:00Yet I'm sure nobody but Jonathan Aitken cares ...Yet I'm sure nobody but Jonathan Aitken cares what Jonathan Aitken thinks about anything. <br /><br />It's the journalistic equivalent of filler for Tesco beefburgers - surely there's a more reputable source.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.com