2006 Review of Matt T Blog year - Jan to June
Truth be told, not a vintage year. Here's the first half.January 2006
Nothing, sorry.
February 2006
2nd: Alcohol aides night drivers, declares a 1950s textbook.
5th: Dan's favourite singer, Mick Hucknall, discusses politics.
12th: I transform Tony Blair using a new face-transforming website.
March 2006
8th: I attack an Alice Thompson column as the 'most self pitying' I have ever read.
18th: And then Gerard Baker comes along and beats her.
29th: I take issue with Oliver Kamm's positive obituary for Casper Weinberger, and argue that Iran-Contra negates everything else.
April 2006
12th: "As if I were a black trying to purchase food in a Mississippi diner in 1955" - yes it can only be Carol Gould trying to buy a drink in a London pub.
18th: The Euston Manifesto arrives! I create a handy cut out and keep guide to which project each British Decent has signed up to, and criticise the manifesto on two grounds - first the whinge about a lack of media coverage given many of them are senior people in the media, and second, their criticism of other people for spending more time attacking the domestic left and not enough time helping Iraqis, given this seems exactly what they do. Looking back I think this latter criticism is really why I could never give it a chance - I am still shocked by Nick Cohen, Stephen Pollard and Peter Tatchell's reaction to being asked to 'unite against terror' and I think it says a lot about them (though Tatchell did apologise subsequently for his).
30th: Pollard goes one better, declaring in his Maida Vale Manifesto, which still has less than 10 signatories, that "The mainstream Left has demonstrated clearly which side of the battle to preserve Western civilisation and freedom it is on. The Left, in any recognisable form, is now the enemy". I ask whether he is calling for the arrest of leading left-wing figures.
May 2006
9th: YouGOV pay me my £50!
17th: In Rome, and I tell the hotel receptionist "Excuse me the phone in our room doesn't work". She replies,"This is Italy. Many things don't work."
30th: I prove President Bush is not as unpopular as the polls suggest.
June 2006
12th: I show that the Serie A is not the goal desert commentators think it is.
Labels: Bloggy, Decent Left, England, Iraq, Review of Year, Web
posted by Matthew @ 12/23/2006 09:30:00 PM
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