Arthur Dent, Stonehenge and Schindler

BONG! Government seeks to extend detention-without-trial to 42 days. Media (including Westmonster) gorge on Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy references.

BONG! Tunnel beneath Stonehenge scrapped. The Gord seeks replacement hiding place.

BONG! In you-couldn't-make-it-up news, Liam Neeson says it was listening to Iain Paisley which inspired him to act. What Martin McGuinness inspired him to do, he didn't say.

BONG! Environment Agency owns up to warning thousands of people about floods "too late." At least they didn't send it in the government internal post.

BONG! 80,000 civil servants at job centres, benefit offices, the Pension Service and the CSA went on strike for two days. Future impact on white middle-class indie rock bands yet to be gauged.

BONG! Did Gordon Brown singlehandedly stop the local government reorganisation in Ipswich? Did he "do a Milliband" on Hazel Blears' prepared statement? And where the hell is "Ipswich" anyway?

Written by Lloyd Shepherd on 6 Dec 2007 8:14 PM. Permalink

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Arthur Dent, Stonehenge and Schindler