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R
January 31, 2006 6:08 AM
Amusing to note, though, that the last two weeks on QT the Tories have sent Tebbit and Redwood, both on their absolute best behaviour....
Ian
January 31, 2006 6:45 AM
Really? (My QT-watching is sporadic, and often depends on whether it's a big news event, or if Boris is on ;)) I suppose that you have to put on a united front for those things. I did like this though:
"New Modern Compassionate Green Globally Aware Party"
Does Mr. Tebbit actually think in Daily Mail slogans?
R
January 31, 2006 2:56 PM
My stepfather suggested that it was actually the BBC that requests specific people, and that they were getting the Tories' least reconstructed old warhorses onto QT in the hope they'd do their Cornerstone fulmination thing and so undermine Cameron. While I wouldn't for a second put such a thing past the BBC if they could do it, I don't think they can just command people onto QT: I think they actually have to volunteer. But yes: Tebbit was cracking jokes - and getting laughs. Not once did he sound like, you know, Tebbit. Redwood was overshadowed on the pantomime villain front by some guy from Migration Watch, who was unfortunate enough to be trying to make his (only moderately unreasonable) case in the presence of Galloway's apprentice in demagoguery....
Yeah, no Boris for a while. Hopefully as a shadow he'll pop up a little more often. Toby Young's always good value too.
Ian
January 31, 2006 3:44 PM
Where is Boris? Is he developing his secret plan for university education?
R
February 1, 2006 5:33 AM
Hee. I watched Celestial Navigation just last night. "A secwe' pwan to figh' infwation??"
Boris is becoming a broadcaster, of course, with a book on Ancient Rome and a couple of programmes to match. I saw the first one, which was quite amusing.
Ian
February 1, 2006 5:38 AM
I didn't see it, but didn't the BBC go out of its way to say that it was filmed before he became part of the Shadow Cabinet?
R
February 2, 2006 7:07 AM
I didn't see all of it either. There's no reason they would though: I think he quit the Speccie not so much because he couldn't handle the extra work (he's always had like three jobs) but because editing a political magazine would conflict with his front bench job when, for example, they wanted to criticise the Tories. A programme about ancient Rome, no matter what unfavourable parallels he drew with the EU, doesn't have quite the same conflict.
Interesting article I read yesterday, given our Tebbit discussion:
Amusing to note, though, that the last two weeks on QT the Tories have sent Tebbit and Redwood, both on their absolute best behaviour....
Really? (My QT-watching is sporadic, and often depends on whether it's a big news event, or if Boris is on ;)) I suppose that you have to put on a united front for those things. I did like this though:
"New Modern Compassionate Green Globally Aware Party"
Does Mr. Tebbit actually think in Daily Mail slogans?
My stepfather suggested that it was actually the BBC that requests specific people, and that they were getting the Tories' least reconstructed old warhorses onto QT in the hope they'd do their Cornerstone fulmination thing and so undermine Cameron. While I wouldn't for a second put such a thing past the BBC if they could do it, I don't think they can just command people onto QT: I think they actually have to volunteer. But yes: Tebbit was cracking jokes - and getting laughs. Not once did he sound like, you know, Tebbit. Redwood was overshadowed on the pantomime villain front by some guy from Migration Watch, who was unfortunate enough to be trying to make his (only moderately unreasonable) case in the presence of Galloway's apprentice in demagoguery....
Yeah, no Boris for a while. Hopefully as a shadow he'll pop up a little more often. Toby Young's always good value too.
Where is Boris? Is he developing his secret plan for university education?
Hee. I watched Celestial Navigation just last night. "A secwe' pwan to figh' infwation??"
Boris is becoming a broadcaster, of course, with a book on Ancient Rome and a couple of programmes to match. I saw the first one, which was quite amusing.
I didn't see it, but didn't the BBC go out of its way to say that it was filmed before he became part of the Shadow Cabinet?
I didn't see all of it either. There's no reason they would though: I think he quit the Speccie not so much because he couldn't handle the extra work (he's always had like three jobs) but because editing a political magazine would conflict with his front bench job when, for example, they wanted to criticise the Tories. A programme about ancient Rome, no matter what unfavourable parallels he drew with the EU, doesn't have quite the same conflict.
Interesting article I read yesterday, given our Tebbit discussion:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/02/01/do0103.xml