Jackie Ashley describes David Miliband as “spritely”.
Hmm. ‘In the manner of a sprite’?
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About me
- Tom Freeman
- 1977 vintage, British, lacking in class. Tendencies towards cynicism and naivety. Intermittently GSOH. Fan of beer, cats, comedy, cake, politics, philosophy, sunshine and stuff. Bit of a lefty. I'm @SnoozeInBrief on Twitter.
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- Political capital markets go into freefall
- It’s not the end of the world
- Washington boffins calculate new sub-prime number
- Northerners can’t run banks
- Obama vs McCain: liveblogging the debate
- You saying I’m boring?
- Who will answer the 3am call?
- Cameron: “wanting things to get worse”
- McCain takes another gamble
- My left hand
- I wish to register my stupidity in the stupidest p...
- Flocculation and other linguistic adornments
- Not a Heseltine but a Portillo moment
- Obama meets Bartlet: when life interrogates art
- And he’s also quite impish
- Representative democracy – and that means you do e...
- The upside-down rainbow, and other science news
- Economy saved as government injects narrative, val...
- Mangled rhetoric
- The global credit crunch explained in words of one...
- A shower in a teacup
- For a wild guess at what the state pension is wort...
- The bottom line
- CBT and psychoanalytic snobbery
- Journey through the centre of the Earth
- Missing the point on faith schools
- Personal development review (2)
- Vote for me as Blogger Laureate!
- Not just the public sector that has IT problems…
- The divine tragedy
- O for a zero
- Personal development review
- Figureheads and adminstrators
- Majoring in soundbites
- Say what you mean
- Shoddy VP candidate vetting
- Where was I when…?
- Talking down to the voters
- Running mates
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