– The list of 10 Mistakes Writers don’t see is very good. I’m probably guilty of most of these on this blog at the very least.
– I won’t be publishing my pitifully low score on this quiz, but it’s worth doing anyway.
– Finally, the design/content mixer is very good. Except I tried to mix www.pastemagazine.org/rob.php with www.pastemagazine.org/matt.php and it made my head explode.
It’s not what you say…
This article in today’s Independent made me smile. According to (Tory chairman) Liam “Dr” Fox–presumably having a break from judging Pop Idol (I know)–the Conservatives won’t be bothering with any of that liberal positive discrimination nonsense: “[he insisted] his party would select candidates on merit alone and not because of their colour or sex.”
Dr Fox said: “For a meritocratic party to be effective it must be minority-blind. For us it does not matter where an individual comes from, who his parents were, or the colour of his skin.”
…as long as he is male, though, presumably?
Hounslow Plane crash?
I’m intrigued by a sudden spike in traffic to the site from people Google-ing for hounslow plane crash, and air crash hounslow. Has somebody dropped a 747 onto the Treaty centre since I’ve been away, because I’m sure I would have heard about that, or is it just because the BBC recently repeated their shabby disaster documentary The Day Britain Stopped? (something I wrote about here)