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Hmm. Just a quick post today I think, as I'm busy, have something wrong with my eye, and don't have a great deal to say.
Went out with Alan, Joff, Steph and Katy, the presence of Work in Progress now being quite evident but seemingly not doing much to slow the latter down. Had raspberry syllabub and two glasses of wine, which probably doesn't count as a balanced diet, but I'm skint and had pasta at home.
A rather interesting Private Eye this week, particularly the list of sponsors for the coming Labour Party conference (Nestlé sponsoring the foreign policy forum would make even a soft-right liberal like me raise an eyebrow, indeed blanch at the very thought, I would think it would be anathema to happy-clappy touchy-feely social democrats who are still trying to pretend to the hard left that they are too, at heart...).
And Ritu may be interested by the story of the British Indians for New Labour conference (I may have the title wrong) which Mandy organised. Apparently no one seems prepared to answer the simple question "so, are the Hindujas paying for this do as they have every previous year then?" You may or may not remember that the vexed story of the Hindujas and Mandy's enthusiastic support for their attempts to obtain British passports while he was a cabinet minister and they were already under investigation for fraud in India was one of the little stories that used to follow him around...
Then, of course, Mandy addressed the conference and appears to have praised Vajpayee (sp?) who also addressed them by videolink, as a wise statesman. The near simultaneous order from India for £1bn worth of Hawk jets was presumably not discussed at the time: that would be vulgar.