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I read on Ceefax this morning that a certain eminent politician was giving a speech in Edinburgh today. I got to work to find the campus swarming with police and realised it was here.
He turned up, flanked by Jack McConnell MSP, Alistair Darling MP, Napier’s Principal Joan Stringer and secret service men with curly ear pieces. He kept moving as I (and the largest group of camera phone users I’ve ever seen) snapped away and is therefore a little blurry…
An email from Julian Todd at Public Whip directs me to a fantastic new applet:
“We’re proud to report that we have made an animated ministerial history of Tony Blair’s government.
Press the reshuffle button and watch them fly around the screen!
Now that they have information about the holders of ministerial office, they have also added this to voting records so that you can see which MPs particpating in a division were part of the payroll vote.
Further to my previous post, one of last week’s Corrections & Clarifications columns in The Guardian had to clarify, following some concern from readers, that the duplication of clues was, indeed, intentional. The readers in question must be kicking themselves.
I did complete today’s crossword by Quantum, although I resorted to an online dictionary for help. This taught me that an acer is a type of tree and a racer is a type of snake. Favourite clue was “The fault’s in the office, not the Church (8,5)” while the most elegant was “Mixed, as in molecules (13).”
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the paper Alexis Petridis’r review of the new Band Aid single includes a biting summing up of Dido: her “vocal style … recalls a woman distractedly singing to herself as she tries to remember where she parked her car.”
Oh, and Jonathan Calder highlights why Polly Toynbee’s nanny state is undesirable.
I’m here at a party in central London watching CNN’s coverage on a massive screen. Slight nerves about the result but the atmosphere is great. If I heard correctly, in the poll taken here Bush only managed 5%! Still waiting for results from Florida and Ohio, which I guess will tell us the final result.
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