http://www.blueidea.co.uk A Conservative-supporting thinking blog. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:45:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ken Livingstone has called Kate Hoey "a sort of semi-detached member" of the Labour Party after she has announced that she will work as an advisor to Boris Johnson on sport and the 2012 Olympics should he be elected on Thursday.Oh, the irony of Ken - the man who originally ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/04/oh-the-irony.html Gordon Brown is urged to "get back to basics" with his policies if Labour is not to lose the next general election.So what would these bsics be? Tax and waste spend? Or the Blairite basics of spin, spin and even more spin (on top of the current spin)?Also, remember how ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/04/1388.html Climate change is one of those things that no-one* really understands. So much is written about it, on whether or not the ice caps are melting, whether the earth is heating up by a degree each year, whether their is a "scientific consensus" on it or not. And it all ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/04/i-dont-care-about-climate-change.html Earlier this week, I read about possible connotations from the new Office of Government Commerce logo via Law Actually. Turn it 90 degrees, and the OGC's statement that: ... [it] is not inappropriate to an organisation that's looking to have a firm grip ... takes on an entirely different meaning. Of course, I ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/04/logos.html You couldn't make it up:David Cameron had a brief encounter with Prime Minister Gordon Brown as both men boarded the same train.The Tory leader was posing for photographs while waiting for his train to leave London's Paddington station.As he did so, Mr Brown and his staff walked past the window, ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/04/brief-encounter.html Responses of the the main political parties to buy-one-get-one-free deals and the waste they produce:Labour: It's wrong!Conservatives: Labour are going about it wrong. Vote for us and we'll do it better!Lib Dems: If they don't do it, we'd force them do it!Characterisations and parodies they are, of course. But all ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/04/bogof-deals.html http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/04/real-life-vs-the-internet.html It is impressive is that Google have created a St George's Day logo, as today [well, yesterday by the time this post is published] is St George's Day.He is the Patron Saint of England and, as has been pointed out, many other countries, professions, organisations and disease sufferers as well. ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/04/st-georges-day.html This was in yesterday's Times:The Attorney-General’s office has ruled out any legislation that would give equal rights of succession to the throne to daughters of a monarch. Nor will it repeal the law that bans the heir to the throne from marrying a Roman Catholic.And this in the Telegraph two ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/04/why-not-reform-the-succession.html One tick in the box! I have achieved one of the eight wishes for 2008. Quite appropriately, no 1.To get a permanent job.Achieved just over a week ago. Hurrah!Now, for the other seven... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/04/1379.html