My responses to two items of recent news:<\/p>\n
1. Clearly\u00a0John Sergeant should be the next Doctor Who<\/a>. Saturday evenings reclaimed \u2013 problem solved.<\/p>\n 2. The\u00a0BNP membership list<\/a>\u00a0… oh dear. One of the weaknesses of the McCain\/Palin ticket was that it could potentially put the world’s most powerful nuclear arsenal into the hands of a woman who couldn’t protect her Yahoo email account. Similar thoughts come to mind here. They didn’t even have the decency to leave it on a bus, like Labour do with their sensitive information.<\/p>\n Without going into detail I’ll admit I have seen a copy (hint: don’t use Google, try p2p). What makes it art isn’t so much the names as the margin notes. “Owns 13th & 14th century suit of armour. Can do jousting at rallies.” “Lives mostly in Spain so opts for overseas membership rate” (yay, clinging to your principles FTW!) And apparently someone was suspended for having “an inappropriate tattoo”. Black Power? Luv U Mum? The mind boggles.<\/p>\n A distressing number \u2013 i.e. any number greater than 0 \u2013 live in Abingdon, including one in Alexander Close, which I had always thought was the heartland of moral middleclass respectability, not to mention a Christian ghetto. (Of the\u00a0right kind of Christian, not like the\u00a0Revd Robert West of the Apostolic Church in Holbeach, Lincolnshire<\/a>.) So, if you live in Alexander Close and your skin is of anything less than snow white perfection, be sure to greet your neighbours with an enormous hug. If you can ham up a fake Jamaican or Indian accent, that would be even better.<\/p>\n The Register<\/a>\u00a0kindly provides a\u00a0link to a nationalist blog<\/a>\u00a0where you can entertain yourself reading the howls of BNP outrage. (And doubtless there are plenty more like it.) The image that comes to mind is of cockroaches scurrying for cover when the light goes on.<\/p>\n Disproving the old adage that my enemy’s enemy is my friend,\u00a0Christian Voice<\/a>\u00a0alsoattacks the BNP<\/a>\u00a0for being, amongst other things, racist, white supremacist, paganist, volkist, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic and … um … evolutionist. All quite clearly agendas with equal space on Satan’s to-do list. The very next sentence on their site reads “Angry, chippy and defensive are words which characterise a website lacking in Christian humanity”; they probably mean the BNP but you can’t be certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My responses to two items of recent news: 1. Clearly\u00a0John Sergeant should be the next Doctor Who. Saturday evenings reclaimed \u2013 problem solved. 2. The\u00a0BNP membership list\u00a0… oh dear. One of the weaknesses of the McCain\/Palin ticket was that it … Continue reading