State persecution?
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in News, Social Discourse on August 20, 2010
It has been a while since my last blog. A good while. I cannot think of any specific reason as even with my busy I have always been able to find a spare five minutes here and there, but hey.
This article in The Guardian however did stick in my craw – yet another wormy diatribe from an ivory tower dweller about our good old friends the Romany people and the rather unfortunate news that the French government has finally started to crack down on their itinerant and criminal behaviour. So Sarko and Co. have finally woken up and realised that something needs to be done – resulting in the usual hysterical bleating from the usual circle of do-gooder scribblers. Read the rest of this entry »
Twit of the Week
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in Everyday, News on July 27, 2010
There are so many twits out there, but Mahmoud Ahmedinejad stands head and shoulders above everyone else this week. With nothing better or more important to talk about, the Iranian leader laid in to poor old Paul the Octopus, claiming that tentacled football sage is a symbol of “decadence and decay” among his “enemies”. Read the rest of this entry »
Work experience journalism
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in News on July 21, 2010
Much has been said about the journalistic profession, and how the quality of both writing and research has plummeted ever since online media started to outflank the printed press. While more scurrilous types could always be found in the murky offices of the red tops, much of what you found in the so-called quality press was for the most part well written and – perhaps more crucially – competently researched. Read the rest of this entry »
That shitty little country again…
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in News, Social Discourse on July 21, 2010
OK, I am in the middle of compiling the latest instalment of Daily Mail Nazi Story of the Week – but change a few words here and there and this might have been a candidate. Wait for it – it’s a stunner. Read the rest of this entry »
What a burqa…
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in Everyday, News, Social Discourse on July 19, 2010
So far, the coalition government has pootled along nice and quietly – unlike the previous administration, the noises have been pretty good. Things have gone slightly off-key however with the ongoing discussion of the Burqa, and in particular the rather odd statement offered by Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman. Using a logic that I still cannot fathom, Spelman defended the Islamic sackcloth by describing it as “empowering” to women. Hmm. Read the rest of this entry »
And so it ends. Ugh.
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in Everyday, News, Sport on July 12, 2010
Much as I expected, the final of the World Cup amounted to more than two hours of turgid crap, with Spain not surprisingly chalking up their favourite scoreline of 1-0. Much was made beforehand about the clash of styles; the BBC must have spent a fair packet on what seemed to be an endless stream of high-production mini-movies that punctuated the tedious pre-match pitter-patter of Messrs Lineker, Hansen, Shearer and Dixon. Everyone seemed to expect a classic, though anyone who had actually watched these two teams throughout the tournament would have known that it was going to be little more than a tedious borefest won by the odd goal in one. Read the rest of this entry »
Und es ist vorbei.
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in Everyday, News, Sport on July 9, 2010
And so, it came to an end – stifled by a scarily impressive Spanish side that pulled yet another trick out of its impressive bag by swinging in a very old-fashioned corner and having their old-fashioned centre-back smash in an old-fashioned header. Well, we all knew better than to question Paul der Kraken-Orakel. Read the rest of this entry »
World Cup Update…
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in News, Sport on July 6, 2010
I have tried my best to keep schtum during the last week, given how much I have been impressed by the young German team’s progress at this World Cup. Since my last blog, they have banged in eight goals en route to their third semi-final in a row and eleventh in all, beating England 4-1 in what was the mother of all media-fuelled weekends and then Argentina 4-0 where everyone bar Alan Hansen finally took note. Read the rest of this entry »
Brainless from beginning to end
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in Everyday, News on July 5, 2010
Sometimes I just despair at the state of this country, and the sort of fauna one might encounter when talking what might otherwise be a regulation walk from A to B. When one reads stories like this one also wonders what might have happened had the people involved been able to retain their common sense, politeness and self-control. Read the rest of this entry »
Daily Mail (World Cup) Story of the Week
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in DM Nazi Story of the Week, News, Sport on June 25, 2010
No Daily Mail Nazi Story of the Week this week – OK, there was a pointless story about Hitler ordering a high-spec Mercedes from his cell at Landsberg) – but their latest World Cup dossier on the German team certainly ranks right up there in the bullshit for the sake of it stakes. Read the rest of this entry »
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