Author Archives: Tim Ireland
About Tim Ireland
Tim is the sole author of Bloggerheads.Tessa Jowell can do no wrong
Today we begin what will hopefully be an ongoing series entitled ‘Short and Snappy Tales of Career Death’…. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin… Boom. The End. Did you enjoy that, children? :o)
Remember these words…
“Class A drug users should be forced into residential drug programmes and removed from society until they clean up their act. If they fall back into their old habits when they return to the general community then we should have … Continue reading
Father figures
BBC – Drugs arrest for George Michael 1. Both the Sun and the Mirror have gone with the inspired headline; ‘Careless Spliffer’… clearly this has something to do with the phenomena of Simultaneous Discovery. 2. Tabloid editors never take drugs. … Continue reading
Is this a carrot I see before me?
Independent – Blueprint to give power to the people Guardian – Brown backs votes at 16 in radical shakeup of politics Accountability before promises of reform, please.
Tony Blair’s approach to torture
Observer – Using terror to fight terror: The first English-speaking prisoners to be freed from Guantanamo, they told of abusive interrogation sessions, of worthless false ‘confessions’ and frequent beatings by an ‘immediate reaction force’ of guards. In the days after … Continue reading
The queen of denial can kiss my asp
Tony Blair – I don’t destroy liberties, I protect them: There is a charge, crafted by parts of the right wing and now taken up by parts of the left, that New Labour is authoritarian, in particular, that I am. … Continue reading
Dublin riots – as reported by bloggers
Slugger O’Toole has an excellent round-up of eyewitness accounts, and is bound to follow with some excellent analysis.
This will please you greatly
Brokeback to the future
David Yelland would like a job
David Yelland is an expert on tabloids, and he would like a job back in the tabloids… where he can once again swim as he pleases in that familiar and shallow puddle of yesteryear. Oh, go on… pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease? (Minions of … Continue reading
When will they arrest Steve Coogan, I wonder?
ComingSoon.net – Winterbottom & Coogan Reunite for Murder: Director Michael Winterbottom revealed this week that his company Revolution has optioned Murder in Samarkand, the memoirs of Craig Murray, the former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan. Comedian Steve Coogan is in the … Continue reading
