
1) Targeting the suburbs.
I was surprised to see Bozza canvassers lining Hornchurch High Street when I was down there a few weeks ago, but why? Havering is a true-blue Tory area, always has been, and his minions were preaching to the converted. Didn’t get much of that when I went to vote just off Richmond Avenue, once home of T. Blair.
Make it all the way out to zone 6, and you’ll also find that they love their cars. Figures.
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Categories: Boris Johnson
Tagged: London, Mayor, Tory
Seek and ye shall find. Ob-sessed.
Categories: TV

[Derek] Jarman gave Barnbrook his first film camera. He also introduced him to the future Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton, whom Barnbrook has since described as an ex-girlfriend.
But Barnbrook’s time in this liberal artistic milieu will always be remembered for his writing and directorship of the 58-minute film HMS Discovery: A Love Story which archives describe as “Marxist Gay cinema”.
Categories: weird
Tagged: BNP, BNP Ballerina, Derek Jarman, London, Tilda Swinton

Ho ho ho.
(I didn’t write the entry btw, it was like that when I found it!)
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Categories: Wikipedia
Tagged: paper bins, prankster, rewriting history, teh internets
Categories: U.K.
Tagged: Boris Johnson, Charlie Brooker, Darius Guppy, Have I Got News For You, Ken Livingstone, London, London mayor, mop, Petronella Wyatt, politics, The Guardian
Categories: News
Tagged: 30 Rock, Jack McBrayer, Mariah Carey, video, YouTube YouTube

In the end it came down to a single-page letter, written in Hebrew and Arabic and hand-delivered by an Israeli army officer who knocked at the front door. The letter spelt the imminent destruction of the whitewashed three-storey home and small, tree-lined garden that Bassam Suleiman spent so long saving for and then built with his family a decade ago.
It was a final demolition order, with instructions to evacuate the house within three days.
From The Guardian
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Categories: Film
Categories: Ricky Gervais · Stephen Merchant · Xfm
Categories: Berlinale · British Council · Film · Germany · U.K.

This is crying out to be made into a hard-hitting, occasionally lightened by humorous comic moments, documentary. Or a really boring Bond film:
Council uses criminal law to spy on school place applicants
· Couple’s anger over surveillance admission
· Officials accused of playing James Bond
The authority said it had used such “physical surveillance” on six occasions under RIPA, which allows councils to carry out surveillance only if they suspect serious crimes, including terrorism.
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Categories: Dorset · James Bond · Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) · U.K. · school catchment area · schools · surveillance