Telegraph on Sarkozy
Only the Queen, with her gift for putting her guests at their ease, managed to look slightly shorter than Mr Sarkozy. Not that it matters one jot to us that he is only 5ft 5in tall. Many great men have been short and for all we know he could be taller than Napoleon.
Miaow.
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News just in
Matthew d'Ancona, political journalist (perhaps Editor?) on the Sunday Telegraph, is backing the Republican candidate in the 2008 Presidential election.
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Shame on the No.6 bus
You've all been on a bus when a bunch of 'hoodies' (or whatever teenagers are called nowadays) get on and start playing music very loudly out of their mobile phones. Well the fightback has started here, with me. On the no.6 bus winding its way through the mean streets of Kensal Rise, I was trying to get my new mobile phone to play a soundclip I had downloaded. I didn't have the Nokia headphones with me, but I thought maybe you could play it through the speaker on the phone you listen to when having a normal phone call.
You can't. And also pressing 'clear' which usually stops any function, doesn't (I suppose for obvious reasons) stop the background player. And then you have to go through about five menu options to find the player to stop it again.
So there I was, on the no.6 bus with teenagers and grannies, and my phone on full volume blasting out through its stereo speakers..."Welcome to today's Daily Telegraph podcast. Britain's best-selling quality newspaper".
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News values
I guess this post has a short shelf-life, but as of 21:53 on Thursday 22nd March 2007, the Daily Telegraph's website has as the paper's
main headline:
Bremner delivers Brown's 'real' speech
i.e. that a not particularly funny TV mimic is doing what is almost certainly a not very funny show.
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Charles Moore?
Surely
this article was written by someone other than Charles Moore, despite his name being on it?
I give as evidence:
Like the character in When Harry Met Sally, North Korea and Iran have looked at the nuclear powers and said: "I'll have what she's having."
When Harry Met Sally is a popular (at the time) film, which was released only 18 years ago in 1989. If this is Charles Moore, then surely it is the most recent cultural reference he has ever made?
Update: NO, IT ISN'T. I hadn't got to the end of the article. It ends with, and this is scarely believeable, a reference to Bridget Jones, who I think was invented in the early 1990s.
Vanguard, Valiant, Vengeance, Victorious. As Bridget Jones might put it, v. v. v. v. important.
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