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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2014-09-28 07:19 pm

Seven Unconnected Paragraphs

1. I like this season of Dr Who. In fact I don't think there's been a single episode I've hated (and that's unusual.)  The advent of Peter Capaldi has energized everybody.

2. Hilary Mantell gives a very good interview. She's provocactive, witty and silky. Last night she was talking to James Runcie- who is a personal friend. They were lovely together.

3. Darren and Sean were here most of yesterday (while we were out) and seem to have fixed the heating system. I've no idea what they did. I guess I'll find out when the bill arrives.

4. I know I won't get to see Maxine Peake playing Hamlet in Manchester so I'm hoping they're going to film the production.

5. This morning's Telegraph carried the headline Tory Crisis. Both casualties- the sex-texter and the UKIP recruit are remarkably challenged in the chin department. Where do they fnd these people? Who thinks they're fit for anything?

6. "A fraudulently elected gathering of lawyers, financiers and adventurers"- H.G. Wells describing the House of Commons in 1924.

7. There's music and there's great music and then there's Beethoven. Yes I know that doesn't really stand up, but I was listening to Von Karajan conducting the 5th this morning and that's how it grabbed me.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2014-09-28 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
The defector's that twerp Reckless (both by name and nature) from Rochester.

No great loss!

I wonder if our man Chishti will follow? He's already jumped ship once.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2014-09-28 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
His name is a gift to the satirist.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2014-09-28 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't it just?

What possessed the good people of Rochester in voting him in last time is more than I know!

[identity profile] ingenious76.livejournal.com 2014-09-28 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
What an absolute twat! Sending naked photos of yourself via text is dodgy as hell anyway - but if you're an MP????

Idiot. Resigning was the decent thing to do.

[identity profile] ingenious76.livejournal.com 2014-09-28 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
What's disturbing is I spend my life telling kids not to send people things online as they could be ANYBODY. When an MP falls for it, why are we surprised that kids ignore adults?

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2014-09-28 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It's possible he found the risk a turn-on. Politicians are often risk takers.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2014-09-29 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
Using images without permission of an innocent (female) byestander to foment your lies happens to be within the province of criminal law however, so he could well go down for this!

[identity profile] davesmusictank.livejournal.com 2014-09-28 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Reckless, sounds quite apt doesn't it!

Love Beethoven BTW.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2014-09-28 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Beethoven is amazing.