Question Time and This Week

How many weeks has Diane Abbot been wearing that leopard print top? At least three. I wonder if I'm the only one to notice.

Rosie, you don't have to use the word 'slaughter' in every answer. It's not called 'Slaughter Time'.

I thought it was a very poor programme, more or less on a par with 'House Doctor' or 'Beat the Burglar'.

The only thing I enjoyed was the feisty Scots answering Dimbleby back.

There weren't many people in the audience.

Ian, the Declaration of Human Rights pointmaker: I thought he might be Ally C. He looked like One Of Us.

I gave up half way through 'This Week'. Diane Abbot looked very tired. The righthand side of Portillo's hair is quite admirable, but the lefthand side really is a disappointment.

The person I liked most was Don McCullin. I liked the way he keeps his photgraphs in some kind of tissue paper sleeves. He seemed very sad.

I also taped Jean-Luc Godard's 'L'Eloge d'Amour' which means 'The Black Hole of Love'.

he's perhaps not as funny as he once was, yet the crudeness remains (or has increased?)

I liked Any Questions, though that has been almost as bad as Question Time since the Mess O'Potamia. Any Answers - the phone in - can get to fuck, though. If I wanted to hear misinformed and out-of-date views on week-old issues from utter idiots, I'd head down to the local Whetherspoons. And why they can't filter out the people who phone up to 'subtly' promote the BNP, I have no idea.

Otis Ferry is achieving the impossible by being more annoying than Sarpong.

The audience are similarly stupid. "Should any foreigners be allowed to buy any of our football clubs" is the latest gem.

Otis Ferry's contribution = "foxhunting is great, I don't like football, foxhunting is great, Coldplay are great but not as great as foxhunting, I don't watch Big Brother, did I mention foxhunting is great".

June Sarpong's contribution = "I'm from Ghana so make poverty history"

Lembit Opek's contribution = "Andy Kershaw is the cutting edge of cool so there should be more Africans on the bill at Live8"

Tory bint's contribution = "I know lots of stuff about Man Utd, i.e. I know who they beat in the 1999 Champions League final, so I'm ONE OF YOU COMMON PEOPLE AND NOT A HATEFUL TORY BINT AT ALL"

Tony Benn: "what the hell am I doing here, I don't belong here"

Then they got a schoolkid on to play the theme tune on the piano.

Excellent new QT meme "Aha, but you said that about WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION so how do you expect us to believe you now?"

Geoff Hoon's standard response: stupid grin.

dadaismus's first post nails it beautifully

good one tonight thanks to Hislop and no thanks to Roof Kelly

someone explain to me tho why Hislop and other members of the press are as up in arms about Brown's visit to Iraq during Tory Conference week as the Conservatives themselves. irrespective of the actual value of the trip, is it just because Brown went earlier than scheduled and caught them all on the hop?

Arguably bad taste electioneering in place where lots of people are getting killed?

Politicians accusing politicians of playing politics. Isn't that what they're for?

Ming & Hislop were good.

Definitely arguable but I find it very difficult to trust opposition OR press criticism of it.

Andrew Neil has become insufferable (I used to like his style, I'm sure he wasn't hamming it up this much 4 years ago). Can't they get Claudia Winkleman to present This Week?

saw it

george osborne: youngest cunt in parliament

ruth kelly: youngest cunt in the cabinet

or Konnie Huq (xp)

that's the spirit xpost

Obv the party that brought you The Falklands Conflict are ill-placed to complain about war-zone campaigning, and obv the usual suspects in the press are following their own agenda, but I'm not happy that Brown tries to score points by visiting a country he helped to fuck up.

Better than burying head in sand (not that the visit's purpose or outcome are necessarily useful, but it seems just a drop in the ocean). I'm just not bothered that he did it before confirming election, the timing is not the problem really when cynical electioneering is inevitable as it is.

Obv the party that brought you The Falklands Conflict are ill-placed to complain about war-zone campaigning

are they? I am not so sure. The Falklands are British sovreign territory, the people there did not want military rule by the Argentinians, a negotiated settlement was probably not possible seeing as Argentina was ruled by a military junta at the time. The Falklands Conflict was resolved with relatively little loss of life, peace was restored, the invaders retreated and as far as I am aware the residents of the Falklands Islands did not become factional and have not planted a single car bomb or launched a single rocket launcher. In these circumstances I think your allegations of double standards are somewhat misplaced.