While You Were Sleeping
Trouble up t'Home Office
- Poor Jacqui Smith's getting a bit of a drubbing in the papers this morning over the latest immigration scandal to hit the Home Office. The Telegraph takes her to task for failing to station pitchfork-wielding mobs on the white cliffs of Dover, the Independent takes a broad look at recent Ministerial woe, Daniel Finkelstein thinks it's time to start panicking, and Ann Treneman in the Times covers the cover-up of the mighty Jacqui bazongas. Edifying.
- Bird-flu a-go-go as it emerges that turkeys will do anything to get out of their Christmas commitments.
- Alex Salmond predicts
the end of the worldScottish Independence for 1993, no wait, uh - 2011. No, no, we mean 2017. That's the one. - Lib Dem Euro MP reads too much science fiction.
- Guido wants to know who the Browns have for dinner. Hmm. Slow roasted former Blairites perhaps? Oh, you mean as guests.
- Miliband the Younger breaks his recent - almost Trappist - vow of silence to say something about how the Iraq war was written in the stars or similar.
- American yoof declares war on Hillary Clinton. The weapon? Can you guess? Cannyoo? Yup it's ... Facebook!
- Dave Osler is confused as to the point of citizens' juries.
- The Ministry of Truth examines Cameron's rape speech.
- Francis Elliot has a look at the three candidates for the London mayoralty. Sigh. Can't they all lose?
- And the Guardian reports that Lord Ashcroft is to be questioned about his tax status.
