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Archive for 2004

All Day Breakfast Dec 05

I’m currently on a train, eating an all day breakfast ciabatta – so called, of course, after the journey time from London to Edinburgh when there are Sunday engineering works.

Guess who’s coming to campus Dec 03

I read on Ceefax this morning that a certain eminent politician was giving a speech in Edinburgh today. I got to work to find the campus swarming with police and realised it was here.

He turned up, flanked by Jack McConnell MSP, Alistair Darling MP, Napier’s Principal Joan Stringer and secret service men with curly ear pieces. He kept moving as I (and the largest group of camera phone users I’ve ever seen) snapped away and is therefore a little blurry…
Tony Blair
Tony Blair and Joan Stringer
Tony Blair, followed by Jack McConnell and Alistair Darling

Dalton Scrap Dec 03

On the way to work, I pass a company called Dalton Scrap. Each morning, their gates are wide open revealing the unfortunate way their name has been painted:

Tony Blair’s raspberry ripple from the walnut whip Dec 02

An email from Julian Todd at Public Whip directs me to a fantastic new applet:

“We’re proud to report that we have made an animated ministerial history of Tony Blair’s government.

http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/minwhirl.php

Press the reshuffle button and watch them fly around the screen!

Now that they have information about the holders of ministerial office, they have also added this to voting records so that you can see which MPs particpating in a division were part of the payroll vote.