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Newest bizarre blog… Jun 27

…is Liberal Mafia. Somewhat bonkers (without being Bonkers) but in an amusing way.

Obviously as a loyal party employee I don’t endorse any irreverent content there may be about Liberal Democrats.

Science vs Faith Jun 26

Came across this online the other day (either via Facebook or another blog), but now it comes to link back appreciatively, I can’t remember where. Sorry.

Anyway, here’s the link. It’s Science and Faith represented as flowcharts.

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Davies defects Jun 26

As if to help Ming show how close Labour and the Tories are, Quentin Davies MP (who’s always struck me as a proper old Tory) has defected from the Conservatives to Labour. It’s in the BBC news ticker – will link to the story when it appears.

Update: Here it is.

The MP for Grantham and Stamford, made his decision public in a letter to Conservative leader David Cameron.

He wrote that under Mr Cameron the party “appears to me to have ceased collectively to believe in anything, or to stand for anything”.

“It has no bedrock. It exists on shifting sands. A sense of mission has been replaced by a PR agenda.”

Hut 33 Jun 25

Last night, I went to the recording of a new radio sitcom called Hut 33 at the recently refurbished (and very art deco) Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House. Despite having been in the audience for a few TV shows, it was my first time at a radio recording.

The show itself was pretty good, in a fairly run-of-the-mill Radio 4 sitcom kind of way. It’s set in a codebreaking hut in Bletchley Park in 1941 – with hilarious consequences. They recorded two episodes yesterday, the first of which is being broadcast this morning at 11.30am on Radio 4. It’s worth a listen if you fancy a mid-morning chuckle.

It’s got a pretty cast, including:

  • Robert Bathurst, mostly of Cold Feet and My Dad’s the Prime Minister fame although I know him from Joking Apart and recently saw him on stage in Whipping it Up (he is very tall)
  • Tom Goodman-Hill off of the sketch show Spoons and the film Festival
  • Olivia Colman off of pretty much every comedy going at the moment, and in particular Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look/Sound, Green Wing and Confetti
  • Lill Roughley off of Victoria Wood
  • and Fergus Craig of comedy duo Colin & Fergus who I’ve failed to see every year at the Edinburgh Fringe

If you miss today’s broadcast, you can almost certainly Listen Again (or, rather, for the first time) on the BBC Radio 4 website.

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