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Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister

November 24, 2009

“Get me a rope before Mandelson wipes us all out”

-      Jeremy Clarkson

Times Online 8th November 2009

I’ve given the matter a great deal of thought all week, and I’m afraid I’ve decided that it’s no good putting Peter Mandelson in a prison. I’m afraid he will have to be tied to the front of a van and driven round the country until he isn’t alive any more. Read more…

The Town Time Forgot

November 10, 2009

if-ruled-the-worldNo one likes change. Why fix something that hasn’t been broken?

This seems to be the theme of Lancaster.

It was a wet and cold Monday as I arrived in this pretty Lancashire town, to perform at the Grand. It only holds 400 people but it’s on the way south. I played Carlisle the night before, a leisure centre that doubles as a luxury theatre! Read more…

The November gigs

if-ruled-the-worldYou couldn’t make this up.

I flew from Dubai British airways!  This is the second time I’ve done it lately.  The reason I did was that someone else paid and I had no choice.  However, I take back a lot of the things I said about them.

Well, some of the things.  As I sit in my hotel room writing this, BA have announced two hundred and fifty million pound losses in six months.  I know they must be pulling their hair out at BA mission control.  They want to get rid of a load of their cabin staff apparently.  Well, judging by the look of most of them, just wait a couple of years and most of them would have died of old age! Read more…

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