Question Time and This Week

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 If I wanted to hear misinformed and out-of-date views on week-old issues from utter idiots, I'd head down to the local Whetherspoons.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.

The Falklands Conflict was resolved with relatively little loss of life

Weren't more people killed than actually live in the Falklands? From that perspective, it was a bloody huge loss of life!

yes but I wasn't making the comparison from that perspective but rather from the perspective of comparing the situation with that of Iraq.

the falklands war was much easier to justify than iraq, but to be fair i don't think labour have used the iraq war in the same way the tories used the falklands war. for the blindingly obvious reason that the iraq war is very unpopular.

Is there any point in comparing the military occupation of a country of 23 million largely hostile people with the recapture of a few islands with a couple of thousand friendly residents?

anyone see peter stringfellow on "this week" last night?

what a knob. the lower middle classes are getting taxed too much tho.

i thought it was quite cheeky getting him to do a little skit and at the end saying "you're the one for me, Cammy"

i mean wtf was the point? who cares what Stringfellow thinks? fuck off

for the blindingly obvious reason that the iraq war is very unpopular.

and hasn't been 'won' in any meaningful way.

who cares what Stringfellow thinks?

unfortunately, quite a few people. Granted most ppl will recognise that he is a deeply unfashionable, unattractive, somewhat creepy man who has made his fortune in a questionable way, but ppl like him for being entrepreneurial and getting off his backside and doing something and for being a "working class boy made good". he was in constant demand when I was a stoodent to talk at AISEC and Young Entrepreneurs Society meetings for this very reason.

Not because the chairmen of said societies wanted comps for his club?

i think the only reason they got Stringfellow on was to do his HILARIOUS "all this talk about the Tories being up or down in the polls...my girls are up and down poles all the time anyway" intro

fair dos Genie but they didn't do a celebrity plug for Brown or Ming or anyone else on the same show so fuck you BBC

The real shock last night was hearing Kirsty Wark on Newsnight using the phrase "big up" not once but twice in links.

Did Osborne ever go back and answer that black guy's question about what the Tory party stood for, as promised?