Peter Risdon

From here:
Since 2003 [Prince Andrew] has paid three official visits to [Kazakhstan] in his capacity as Britain’s special representative for international trade and investment, a role which last year saw him run up expenses of £436,000, which were paid by the taxpayer. With his royal status and affable manner, he is an asset to corporations [...]

I expected to disagree with this, by India Knight in today’s Times, when I saw the strap: Our boozing culture is largely an underclass one and it’s time we both acknowledged the problem and stepped in to help.
In fact, she’s right as far as she goes, but it’s a case of argumentus interruptus:
The old working [...]

On the sun.

He just criticised Clint Eastwood during the Cannes film festival:
The Oscar-nominated African-American director, one of the most influential figures in contemporary cinema, said that black soldiers were conspicuous by their absence from Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima. Hundreds took part in the battle for the Japanese island in 1945.
Lee said: “There [...]

… now there are sections of a Radio 4 middle-class “left” (which exists anyway only because it considers the working-classes incapable of doing anything for themselves…)”
Graham, in the comments at Harry’s Place.

This could be an own goal, chaps.

God, telling Stephen Green not to give an interview, by means of… well, a seagull’s movements:

Via

Deciding what programmes you’re allowed to record.

I reported yesterday that Chinese-made arms had reached Zimbabwe, allegedly with the help of a UK registered company, Avient Limited. The original source for this story, the Mozambique online news site Canal de Moçambique, is sticking to its guns with a response today to denials that have been made both by the South African government [...]

These are the faces of children burned in their Primary School because the heaters were unsafe. Iran needs to spend money on its own infrastructure, yet is pledging more financial support for their terrorist puppets Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Iranian bloggers are enraged.