johnny9fingers: (Default)
2019-07-05 07:26 am

And I see that...

Christoper Booker has died:

www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jul/04/christopher-booker-obituary

The original Private Eye editor. He ended up becoming an irresponsible controversialist, which I suppose isn't a bad thing. After decades of complaining about the EEC/EU in his last published column in the Torygraph he issued a kind of apologia:

Even those few of us who have been trying to explain the unrecognised realities of our situation since long before the referendum could not have predicted quite what a catastrophic mess we would end up with … By ripping us out of the incredibly complex system that had so tightly integrated our economy with the rest of the EU we were putting at risk not just a large part of our currently frictionless export trade with the EU itself which provides an eighth of our national income, we were also risking much of our trade with other countries across the world.”

Actually, some of us, younger and supposedly less wise, predicted exactly this catastrophic mess.

johnny9fingers: (Default)
2010-11-24 10:01 pm
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Damn and blast.

I had just emailed a letter to 'Private Eye' to beg permission to reprint Michael Gillard's 'In The City' (issue 1276) for [livejournal.com profile] talk_politics .

The fucking thing wouldn't send, so I saved the letter to 'Drafts'. Then I opened it (without reading it, stupid boy) and sent it. This means, for some reason or other, that I've sent a scrambled unedited version, and of course I cannot unsend it and repair the damage.

Buggeration. Soddit, I shall send t'other one anyway, as well.