[Two men, quite burly, dark suits and ties, sunglasses, black gloves watching a front door. One of them keeps looking nervously in a ring binder] MCCANN: You sure this is it? GOLDBERG: How many towns called Haltemprice do you think there are around these parts? MCCANN: And this is definitely the house? GOLDBERG: Not many families called Davis in these parts. Wales mostly. MCCANN: I suppose. And you sure I’m right for this? GOLDBERG. You know what I said when…
..and now the election you have all been waiting for!!! This is the voting for the PB Posters of the Year. Please select one in each category. Voting will continue throughout the weekend until 0400 on Monday morning. This is by first past the post and you can follow how the election is developing by clicking on view results. The nominees in each category are listed in REVERSE ALPHABETICAL ORDER. Make sure that you have clicked on the drop down…
For the second year running StJohn has produced a crossword for our Christmas day entertainment. Thanks to StJohn for his creativity and best of luck to all who try to do it. Clues Across 1. Institution created by punter and followed by St.John. (11) 7. Army right for a sailor? (3) 9. Stationery used for sheet music? (9) 10.Foot’s problem didn’t start the organisation of workers. (5) 11.Speaker has one in The Green Man- a short one! (7) 12.Mother covered…
CONSERVATIVES 39% (+2) LABOUR 34% (-2) LIB DEMS 16% (+2) Has the move to Labour run out of steam? What is surely the final opinion poll of 2008, from ComRes for tomorrow’s Independent, will bring some relief for the Tories who are up two points to 39% with Labour down a point to 35% two points to 34%. The Lib Dems are also up. For the last two ComRes polls both had the Tories on 37% just one point ahead…
Who have been the posters of the year? In March 2009 PB will celebrating it’s fifth birthday at special events that we hope to arrange in London and possibly in the north of England as well. If the site stays as busy as it has been then by the due date, March 23rd 2009, the number of comments that have been posted here could have topped the one million mark. As part of the celebration we want to honour those…
Has Labour missed the optimal moment for an election? The front page of the Independent is dominated by a single story – a comment by a “cabinet minister”, who is not named, about prospects for jobs in the new year. Many of the big redundancies, the report goes, have been held over with companies having held back until after the holiday period. The public sector, according to the paper, is going to be hard hit as well “contradicting saloon-bar wisdom.”…
Is this a Christmas present to Cameron? This is how the Mail Online is featuring the Bob Quick story and Benedict Brogan does not pull his punches. The question now is whether this will resurrect interest in the Damian Green case which had subsided following the commons debate a fortnight ago. And if that happens will there be a political impact? The real problem all along for both ministers and the police is that in the absence of any possible…
Karamanlis may well hold on, but is this the shape of things to come? The protests in Greece following the death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos have now been going on for a fortnight, with violence continuing last night and the total cost now hundreds of millions of euros. A general strike called in the first week of protests had a somewhat disappointing turnout in demonstrations from the unions’ viewpoint, and what might have been a tipping point for the survival of…