While I am delighted that personal fave Ivor the Engine is doing so well, I have to admit to being surprised. When you hear obituaries about Oliver Postgate, they typically focus on Bagpuss and The Clangers. I love all three enormously, but Ivor has a sublime, nostalgic and - dare I say it?
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QuaequamBlog on 19th Dec 2008 (via theliberati.net)
There's love that declares itself quietly, love that speaks poetically, love that is longing, yearning, desperate, heartbroken. But this, here, is love soaring, triumphant, shouted to the rooftops; it's love that won't be denied. Does she love you? You better...
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NormanGeras on 28th Mar 2009 (via normblog.typepad.com)
Justice Michael Kirby, about to retire from the High Court of Australia, emphasizes his most important discovery - love.Love for one another. Love for our community. Love for others everywhere in the world.Well, it's a way of talking. In some...
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NormanGeras on 18th Dec 2008 (via normblog.typepad.com)
Let me count the ways... I love the excitement she brings to the base. I love how her rallies outdraw Barack Obama. And, for that matter, Joe Biden in his hometown. I love how she handles hecklers: "Bless your heart,...
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CentreRight on 19th Oct 2008 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
To know, know, know him, is to love, love, love him ... I do love that song. And it often pops into my mind when I'm swimming; Zen-like rhythmic splashing is a mental magnet for songs with a hypnotic beat...
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CentreRight on 4th Jul 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Are you serious? How do I love Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways… I love the excitement she brings to the base. I love how her rallies outdraw Barack Obama. And, for that matter, Joe Biden in his hometown. I love how she handles hecklers: “Bless your heart, sir, my son’s in Iraq fighting for your right
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QuaequamBlog on 19th Oct 2008 (via theliberati.net)
Those interested in polls and number-crunching will love the PoliticsHome.com Electoral Index, unveiled today - unless they are Labour supporters, I suppose. The survey of 35,000 people in 238 marginal seats forecasts what could be called a "Reverse '97", with eight members of the Cabinet losing their seats, and the Tories picking up a majority of 146. The poll makes particularly good reading...
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JArthurMacNumpty on 21st Sep 2008 (via macnumpty.blogspot.com)
It's that time of the year again. Iain Dale is compiling his 2008/9 Guide to Political Blogging and is once again asking for your help in putting together his annual popularity poll.This blog was placed 10th in the 2006 poll and 18th last year. I would love to do as well again, but seriously don't expect to, as I have had considerably less time to spend on blogging over the past 12 months or so an...
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PaulLinford on 23rd Jul 2008 (via paullinford.blogspot.com)
Well, it's not heartbreak exactly, and if it's love, it's love on the way out. But it belongs to this series and how. It's one of the true accents of love - the regret, the resignation, the what could have...
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NormanGeras on 13th Apr 2009 (via normblog.typepad.com)
For those who love opinion polls, the Sky website has just launched a fun toy. Its poll tracker allows you to inspect all polls since 1983 and construct graphs for any period in between then and now. I created the...
A new BBC poll demonstrates why politicians love to promise to cut waste and inefficiency but fear promises to cut anything else. It asked people what portion of their taxes are used in ways that do not serve the "interests and values of British people". The answer was 46p in the pound. (since that's the average of 1,000 people's responses some thought the figure much higher). The poll c...
