Harriet Jean Evans takes a look at the social commentary of the past, and explains why she believes it just doesn't matter.
Our anonymous blogger reflects on her attempts to have a student Christmas... and how she came to the conclusion that home-made is always best.
Gillian Love urges you to vote 'No' to the motion to replace Women's Committee with a 'Gender Equality Committee'.
Newt Gingrich is a xenophobic moron
Gingrich has made an ad attacking fellow Republican leadership candidate Mitt Romney. For what, you might ask? For being a homophobic, misogynist fool? No. For speaking French. He might as well have surrendered to Nazis the lilly-livered Europhile!
Best coverage: Guardian Online: ' Gingrich's brief time as frontrunner (remember that? Newt sure does) was ended by a brutal flood of attack ads by a Romney-allied Super Pac in Iowa. Now, Newt is angry and out for revenge. If Newt was a Hollywood movie – and it is perfectly possible that Newt believes he is – then his trailer's tagline would be: "This time it's personal." '
We Scots never like you English, anyway...
It looks like Scots will be able to vote for independence and FREEDOM! in 2014. If England allow us to. Face it, as soon as we got our own parliament we were going to get ideas way above our station.
But seriously, you can take our lives...actually, we're not that bothered. We beat you, William Wallace thrashed your army. Deal. We're over it.
(Note: that paragraph contained a film reference. Anyone who can a) name the film and b) explain where on EARTH Gibson's accent came from wins a cookie.)
Best coverage: On a Liverpool FC forum, of all places. 'ArchieUK' said: 'As an Englishman, we should have a vote as to wheather [sic] WE want them in the United Kingdom.Bunch of hating moaners. And as for that Alex Salmond, he's not to too far from being Adolf Hitler reincarnated!'
...And Northeners still don't like Thatcher
The Iron Lady, a biopic of the controversial PM has only been out a week or so, but has done rather well. Except in the North. Only 8% of viewers so far have been from Yorkshire, the Tyne Tees and the Borders regions combined. I wonder why.
Best coverage: The Shields Gazette. Local worker Sheila Reay's insight: "I'll wait until it comes out on DVD."
All heroes have feet of clay
Remember those giant pandas that got flown in to Edinburgh zoo to breed? Well, despite one of them making it into the BBC's 'faces of the year', the other is shirking his duties. He's ill, apparently. We've all heard that one before.
Best coverage: The Daily Mail, with some in-depth reporting on the panda's journey from China: "Staff from the FedEx Express said the pandas' in-flight meals included bamboo, apples, carrots, mineral water - and a special panda cake."
Finally, Michelle Bachmann was never going to make it
I am deriving a great deal of amusement (and despair) from the Republican race at the moment. Let's take a moment, though, to mourn the loss of Michelle Bachmann from the running with some of her Best Bits...
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