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Boris Rides The Surf Of Enthusiasm

August 27th, 2008 5 Comments

From The Metro:

“Fresh from the Olympic ‘hand-over’ in Beijing, London Mayor Boris Johnson on Tuesday pledged massive funding to produce a new generation of champions.
He said he wanted to ring-fence tens of millions of London Development Agency cash to inspire youngsters in the capital to take up a sport.
He said: ‘You can have [...]

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Boris: Broken Society Claims Are Piffle

August 19th, 2008 6 Comments

Without wishing to distract you from the hawt news of today, and Tom’s careers advice notwithstanding, Boris’s latest Telegraph column is rather interesting:
“If you believe the British press, the youth of today is aimless, feckless and hopeless, addicted to their PlayStations, lacking in respect and lacking in the emotional discipline needed to cope with a [...]

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Final Steve Bell instalment

July 3rd, 2008 No Comments

For completeness’ sake, the last part of this week’s If… strip from the Guardian.
By the way, I’m posting this after the Ray Lewis stuff broke but tricking the blog into putting it earlier, so don’t think you’ve gone mad and not noticed this post being here before this evening: it wasn’t.

© Steve Bell 2008
While that’s [...]

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