Election and dat

Thom Yorke published his election playlist yesterday. (READ IT HERE). It included some Aphex, Massive Attack and PJ Harvey. Which reminded me of the below song, which is up there with my fave tracks of all time. Kinda sums up this hung parliament business...

Brooker On Cam

Charlie Brooker is reliably spot-on in his article about the election here:

On Cameron: "I see an avatar. A simulated man with a simulated face. A humanoid. A replicant. An Auton. A construct."

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

There's An Election On!

I know this is journo geekery but the news that Rebecca Wade and James Murdoch walked into the Independent's office unannounced to rebuke the editor is pretty amazing.

The Guardian's political don Michael White also writes in the same article about the Tory press attacks on Nick Clegg.

READ THE ARTICLE HERE

Tom Bower Vs Desmond

This was a really interesting Libel trial that finished last week and exposed a lot about the way Express/ Star owner Richard Desmond works. Tom Bower is a journalist who has worked for Panorama and written books about Robert Maxwell, Conrad Black and, er, Richard Desmond.

Read Tom Bower's account in this excellent article- written for The Observer.

EXTRACT: On my left, fiercely clasping his wife's hand, sat the permatanned and constantly smiling Desmond. Over the past 30 years, the former advertising salesman's outrageous behaviour while becoming a billionaire has been concealed from public scrutiny by Britain's draconian defamation laws. To prevent the publication of Rough Trader, my unauthorised biography of Desmond which was completed and printed in 2006, Desmond devised a libel complaint gleaned from a passage about himself in my biography of Conrad Black published in 2007.

What a week in politics...

I actually have very little to say about the elections, Labour's implosion or even Alan Sugar. Yes I did vote and I am praying that slimy c--- Nick Griffin doesn't win an MEP seat. I'll let better writers do the rest. Marina Hyde is one of my favourite journos- she writes celeb (see the peerless Lost In Showbiz), sport and political comment for The Guardian. This is my fave piece on the week's events.

AN EXTRACT: Most recently (Hazel) Blears was pictured smirking knowingly while sporting a "Rocking the boat" brooch. What an absolute card she is. Doubtless Hazel will now claim back the cost of the brooch on her expenses, on the basis that it was necessary for her to perform her public duties.