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Boris International Kicked Into Touch

November 13th, 2008 No Comments

The oddest thing about Kit Malthouse’s personal obsession with a new airport in the Thames Estuary is that there’s no way it can happen.  Labour are (wrongly) committed to a third runway at Heathrow while Tory national policy says nothing about huge new airports the wrong side of London.  It can’t be stressed too often [...]

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I Bet They Don’t Play This Song On The Radio

November 13th, 2008 2 Comments

I bet they don’t print this comment on the Evening Standard’s website, either:
Another classy article from Mr. Gilligan there.  Since he’s using his privileged position to attack me again (but without the good manners to name me or the site he refers to), may I be permitted a reply?  Good.
1) Mr. Gilligan’s famed investigative powers [...]

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I Love The Smell Of Desperation In The Morning…

November 13th, 2008 No Comments

Shorter Andrew Gilligan: “People who write on the internet are sad and have no lives! LOL!“

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Mr Gilligan, I Presume?

November 13th, 2008 7 Comments

Tim Ireland chivvies me into keeping the pressure on Andrew Gilligan and his mysterious ‘partner’, kennite, who so oddly disappeared from the Guardian’s Comment Is Free website after Gilligan was accused of sockpuppeting by Adam Bienkov on the 30th October, an allegation which he followed up here and which Dave Hill reported at length on [...]

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