About a week ago Morag was meandering along, minding her own business – well pretty much – when she was reminded once again that there are forces out there just waiting to get you. The past week has been spent in a bit of a daze of snivelling, crying, coughing, clutching of sore ribs and [...]
Entries from January 2007
January 21, 2007
The Cripple, The Bleach Cream and The Fat Girl
A Tory activist, John Hawkesworth, has been called on the carpet for an email he has sent describing the local Labour Party chair as ‘the cripple’ and ‘a reptile’. He has been told that his comments were ‘obviously offensive’. He has been ‘rebuked’ and he has ‘accepted that it is inappropriate’. Well that’s that sorted [...]
January 17, 2007
The Big Brother Beastlies versus The Bollywood Beauty
One hundred years ago – or so it seems – I sat down to watch Episode One of a new series that was about to begin on Channel 4 called Big Brother. The idea was that it would be social experiment to observe what would happen if you put a group of strangers together in [...]
January 15, 2007
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES – Blair and The Butler
There are those who believe that we must make it our daily duty to yank the choke-chain on any Blair Behaviour we find objectionable. Blair must pay! He must grovel, apologize, prostrate himself and if you listen to some – castrate himself. Morag doesn’t go in for that sort of carryon being more about moving [...]
January 12, 2007
LIVE HONESTLY, EAT SLOWLY and LIE………….
The comedienne Lucille Ball once said the secret of staying young was to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age. I am all for living honestly, already eat annoyingly slowly and have now developed a strategy of counting backwards and avoidance of answering ‘how old are you anyway?’ which covers the lying. [...]
January 7, 2007
Gordon, Gordon Go Away……
Despite the name Morag isn’t actually Scottish; but while she does have a penchant for most things from North of the Border, she just cannot seem to come to terms with Gordon Brown. The idea of years and years of this man at the helm is making emigrating and getting a job driving a Lord [...]
January 5, 2007
FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN TODAY’S UK -Where has it gone and why?
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
Tiberius (42 BC – 37 AD)
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom [...]
January 2, 2007
THE BIRDFEEDER, A BRACELET and THE BIBLE
“Alright, alright I’m coming!”……Morag shuffles to the door removing 2 meters of gold tinsel and her pearl tiara. Tripping over her new hot water bottle, Tom-Tom, handbound leather journal with her name on the front for her sketches and what must seriously be the most enormous and expensive leopard print handbag ever made she begrudgingly [...]
