Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…

• Jacqui Smith: I’d never run a thing before the Home Office – Dear Jacqui, maybe you should have mentioned this *before* you took the job? Just saying. Lots of love, Just xxx
• Model schoolgirl and family ‘terrified’ as MPs fail to halt deportation to Nigeria where her father was murdered | Mail Online – When the bastards like the Daily Mail are highlighting the abuse of refugees you know something has gone badly wrong with our asylum system…
• Ministers renege on Dungavel child pledge – Another dispatch from the frontline of New Labour's fairness agenda
• Beau Bo D’Or » MPs’ Expenses Revisited – BBDO redoes the ending of his masterpiece, 'Financial Gain Plotting'.
• London mayor Boris Johnson dismisses £250,000 second salary as ‘chicken feed’ – Boris feels your pain.
• Energy white paper is set to shake up green industry – Memo to Ed Miliband: The West Wing is not real, dickhead.
• Blood & Treasure: call the cops – Making Afghanistan safe… for paedophile rapists
• Inject some sense into immunisation – Labourlist joins the counter-Enlightenment and goes anti-science.
• BBC NEWS | Ex-Pentagon chief McNamara dies – I own the documentary about him – 'Fog of War' – on DVD. Had it for years. It's still in the cellophane. There's a metaphor in there somewhere. Probably.
• Clubland bouncers given power to issue on-spot fines – What could possibly go wrong?
• Phone hacking allegations are irresponsible, says Wade – Irresponsible? Ooh, get her! She works for Rupert Murdoch, for pity's sake. I bet she thinks morality is Sherlock Holmes' arch enemy.
• Between the Hammer and the Anvil: In Which The Author Drinks Seven Beers Then Makes Strategic Proposals For Concluding The War In Afghanistan – 'Anybody else notice how the word Vietnam stopped cropping up in the press since President Obama got elected?'
• Surprise guest at the G8 – What the hell is Gordon Brown doing meeting with Mickey Rourke?
• Empire: Movie News – David Tennant Joins St Trinians II – Wow, that's the way to follow being Doctor Who. Way to go, David.
• BBC NEWS | Politics | Blair’s black eye at awards event – It wasn't me. Alas.

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