Having watched the opening "Live Show" of this year's X Factor, the most striking thing for the first 115 minutes was the stunning quality of all the acts except for the absolutely useless Irish twins. Then someone else suddenly appeared to be less deserving of a place on next weeks show. That person was Dannii Minogue. Having seen the excellent final act Danyl, Dannii questioned, "if rumours in the papers were true" why Danyl had changed the lyrics of a song so that it made reference to being in love with a woman rather than a man. Now I have ...
And looking into the crystal ball I do not own, surely the 2009 winner...
I was a little dismayed that this was the top story on both Politics Home and the BBC when I flicked to both their web pages. The fact that it was says little for the journalistic quality of either; this kind of thing is expected of the likes of Guido Fawkes and it would equally ...
I love the site http://glumcouncillors.tumblr.com/ - mostly because I guiltily recognise all of the painful situations. It was, therefore, almost inevitable (yet no less mortifying) that I be featured eventually. In my defence, writing about potholes seems to maintain an audience of over 2,500 visits each month and that in addition to "remorselessly cataloguing in exhaustive detail every minor ailment" I do get a lot of them fixed. Nonetheless, well done glumcouncillors, I have been caught and will try to be more cheerful in future.
I went along to John Leech MP's annual dinner last night, where Charles Kennedy was the guest. Charles mentioned in his speech the 1983 general election results (an election he knows well given it was when he was first elected!), and the fact that the SDP-Liberal alliance came tantalisingly close to overtaking Labour. He was ...
And now for something a little different; as you know I am not exactly non-partisan on this blog but every so often there comes a time/event/issue/cause which should transcend politics and party politics. So it is with this; so, please forget I am a Liberal Democrat for a second and just read with a neutral ...
It's quite a vision. Some classic stuff and a fascinating insight into the mundane side of royal life from Prince Philip on the anniversary of the Design Council. I put him in the same category of Boris Johnson. The nation would be a duller place without him. The Duke of Edinburgh has attacked the complexity of television sets and remote controls, giving a rare glimpse of life inside the Windsor household. Prince Philip said the quality of design had in some areas declined, and he picked televisions as an example. Harking back to an age when televisions were simple, he ...
10am this morning I was with Cllr Peter Craig on Oakfield Rd in Whickham to do a street surgery. About 40 people came along. The issue that was attracting attention was the planning application for the shop on the road to extend its opening hours. This is one of those situations where the legitimate concerns of residents have to be balanced with the legitimate right of someone to carry on their
Welcome to the first part of a new weekly series on political blogging which we'll be running here on The Voice between now and Christmas. It's designed primarily to be an introduction for anyone thinking of starting a political blog, but packed full of enough information to be useful for existing bloggers too. If the series is a success, we will turn it into a pdf e-book afterwards, putting all the advice together in one convenient document. There will be a chance to revise the posts before collating them, so you're even more welcome than usual to post comments to ...
Ben Goldacre has a thorough demolition job of the Express's recent scare story about the cervical cancer vaccine. The Express didn't just get one fact wrong; the Express got every key statement on its front page wrong. PS If you are looking for reliable information, the official NHS page about the cervical cancer jab is a good place to start.
I have now watched my Oh, Mr Porter! DVD from LoveFilm. The first thing to say is that I must have watched the film on television as a child, because I had a little shock of recognition when I heard the line "With his ear 'ole painted green". Not the funniest line in the film, but it probably appealed to me then. It's an enjoyable film and it has not aged too badly. Hay's comic persona of a baffled, venal authority figure is more acceptable tastes than the lovable gumps played by George Formby or Norman Wisdom. The plot was ...
First the Government proposes to scrap the British Forces Post Office (BFPO), by September 2010 the Government will have closed the BFPO post centres at 10 British bases in Europe, including Portugal, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Gibraltar and parts of Germany. This will mean that service families will have to pay full postage to contact their loved ones and services that require UK addresses - especially banks - will not be available to personnel based near the closed offices. In a time of war the withdrawal of these postal services encourages the belief that Government is more interested in small cash ...
A few people have come here in the past few days after searching for information about Internet Eyes, so as a public service, here's a link to what SpyBlog have to say about the idea. As you can probably guess, they don't have good things to say and some of their investigations reveals that it ...
The link is to the treasury release on his speech.So same way that we made the Bank of England independent of government we made our competition authorities independent of government and created one of the most open competition regimes in the world. And although not quite as public a symbol as the Bank of England independence - but unique in terms of labour's history none the less - we have cut
At the end of the thread to my last offering there was an invitation from Mark Wright to comment on whether I still thought our conference was a disaster. Yes, I do Mark; I know it was; day by day I grow more and more certain. My case was never based on poll performance (especially during the conference season) and Sunday's new ComRes poll with its CON 40% (+2), LAB 28% (+5), LDEM 19% (-4) figures should remind us why. No, for me the evaluation was always to do with lost opportunities. May I try to explain my reasoning? Back ...
I was sad to hear yesterday that Barry Letts, erstwhile producer of 70s Doctor Who, has died at the age of 84. I met him once, at a convention in 1994, when he appeared on stage with Terence Dicks, the other half of their regular double act. He seemed a lovely man and was a great ambassador for the show. R.I.P., Barry – this song's for you. I'm sorry it's out of focus but I recorded it as live. You can also watch it on YouTube and read the lyrics online here. You'll notice I forgot to mention Sarah Jane ...
The Welsh Children's Commissioner, Keith Towler has warned that anti-bullying policies in Welsh schools have proved "inconsistent and ineffective". Mr. Towler told the Western Mail that some schools had tackled bullying with active, effective policies, but others had left the situation to deteriorate. Since 2003 all schools in Wales have been required by law to have anti-bullying policies. But whether these are visible and used remains another matter and bullying still exists in every school, he warned. He has made a number of recommendations to a Welsh Government review including improved initial teacher training on recognising and dealing with all ...
Within the context of the discussion about Retirement Ages I had some people come to me today concerned about being forced to retire at 65. I wonder if there is a need for a more urgent look at the rules that allow companies to force people to retire at 65 without giving any reason. This does hit willing and competent workers quite hard and I am not sure how the company benefits.
I have started writing for the leading cricket blog The Corridor. I shall be covering England's tour of South Africa in satirical style. My first effort, part 1 of my pen portraits of the England touring party, was posted earlier this afternoon: James Anderson (Lancashire) Plucked from his Burnley primary school to join an England tour of Australia some years ago, Anderson has never quite known who he is. Is he a shock bowler or more a purveyor of swing? Would he be better off training as an electrician? This tour should provide answers to these questions. Peter Tinniswood's books ...
You lot certainly have a good sense of humour. Yesterday morning I 'tweeted' that I was frantically tidying up the house 'because Nick Clegg was coming in the evening to be my Guest of Honour at my annual Backers' Dinner. What to do with the dog......?' And your suggestions were: - slow-roast it - don't have a dog's dinner - sit him next to Nick of course! - Speak to him nicely. The dog of course..... - Dog-sitting available - 1 1/2 hours gas mark 5, pop a few onions and potatoes around and serve with gravy Thanks for that. ...
In his recent pamphlet, 'The Liberal Moment', Nick Clegg set out his view of liberalism. While the Liberal Democrat party conference gave the voters some mixed messages, Clegg's speech developed this liberal narrative. Angela Harbutt, on Liberal Vision, points out that Clegg has yet to fully develop his story. Annoying for her, and others, it is David Cameron who is making the liberal pitch to the electorate while the Lib Dems battle with competing urges: the desire for liberty and the poverty that still shackles the individual. Clegg's proposition is that liberalism is all about doing what is appropriate based ...
The Taxpayers' Alliance, scourge of politicians and public authorities everywhere, an organisation that knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing, has found itself the centre of controversy today with the revelation that one of its directors does not pay British tax. The Guardian has learned that Alexander Heath, a director of the increasingly influential free market, rightwing lobby group, lives in a farmhouse in the Loire and has not paid British tax for years. The admission, made by Matthew Elliott, the TPA's chief executive and founder, is potentially embarrassing for the Conservative party, which has close links ...
One of the pleasures of blog stats is seeing all the different countries your readers come from. I still use Statcounter, incidentally, though I probably should change to Google Analytics. This afternoon I was visited by someone from Aruba. Aruba? Wikipedia provides enlightenment: Aruba ... is a 33-kilometre (21 mi)-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, 27 kilometres (17 mi) north of the Paraguaná Peninsula, Falcón State, Venezuela. Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, it forms a group referred to as the ABC islands of the Leeward Antilles, the southern island chain of the Lesser Antilles. An ...
The Guardian reports that George Osborne's already precarious hold on economic credibility has slipped still further following an enormous gaff by him and his staff. The shadow chancellor's claim that he would save £13bn by raising the state pension age has been challenged by the respected thinktank that provided the basis for his figures. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said the shadow chancellor's proposed saving, outlined at the Conservative party conference this week, would take five years longer than estimated and fall £3bn short. NIESR said Osborne's team had made a mistake in their calculations, misreading ...
The poll is just for fun but answer honestly: Who do you think is more well known? Karl Marx or Alfred Hitchcock? Answer here: http://twtpoll.com/r/1i97tg Thanks:D
It's only the Saturday after Conservative conference week, but the wheels are already falling off the party's economic policies. Today we learn that the organisation whose figures the Tories used to calculate some of the savings in public spending they identified this week is now saying that the Tories have got it wrong. The full report is HERE. The party has apparently overestimated by £3bn the amount of money that can be saved by upping the state retirement age from 65 to 66. Whoops. And writing in the press today, a former member of the Bank of England committee that ...
So the news over the last couple of days has been full of the non-story that one of our top brass military types, General Sir Richard Dannett, is a Tory. Also, the pope shits in the woods and bears are catholic. Is it bad that the only visceral reaction I have to this is that I can't get Dammit Janet from Rocky Horror out of my head? Is anyone REALLY surprised that someone at the top of the military has right wing leanings? Seriously, it scares me that this is even considered news. Other news that I have meant to ...
This past Thursday, 8th October residents of the Castlehaven / Clarence Way area were presented with sketches and ideas for new developments in Hawley Wharf, an area of Camden Market which was damaged by fire last year. The meeting was absolutely packed out and got quite heated at times. It took the form of a presentation ...
Election day has be and gone and the result of the Grange Hill Election on the 8th October 2009 was as follows : Conservative 454 Liberal D - 411 Majority 43. turnout only 17.2 % This was a a much closer result than we expected which made it all the more frustrating for us. This seat was clearly winnable if we had put more work into this area. I originally stood on the basis that I would not have any real chance of getting elected and the best we could hope for was to increase the vote which we certainly ...
We've been to war in Afganistan before. Gladstone oppossed both major engagements which took place in his political lifetime and in the process produced one of his most memorable quotations: '.... Remember that ... the sanctity of human life in the hill villages of Afghanistan among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God as can be your own. Remember that ... mutual love is not limited by the shores of this island, is not limited by the boundaries of Christian civilisation, that it passes over the whole surface of the earth and embraces the meanest ...
I have been looking more in detail at the Object website, which campaigns against the objectification of women, and I have decided to do a series of blogs relating to their reports that aim to expose Lad Mags/Newspapers for what they really are. The first report I wish to talk about is the Daily Sport ...
Are Conservatives serious when they bang on about the high marginal tax rate of people at the bottom end of the income scale and its symbolism as a failure of the "big state", as David Cameron referred to on Thursday and William Hague repeated on Any Questions? I ask this because this "tax rate" – which ...
[IMG: bury-yat-photo-with-new-tshirt] Young people in Bury have made a mark on volunteering by becoming regional winners in the unite category of the vinspired National Awards 2009. This award celebrates great examples of volunteers engaged in team activity. As regional winners they have been invited to attend an awards ceremony at indig02 in London on November 26. vinvolved Bury's Youth Action Team proved to be a winning formula due to their team work, commitment and contribution as youth volunteer ambassadors in Bury. Read the rest of this entry.
COULD YOU VOLUNTEER TO BECOME AN APPROPRIATE ADULT ? [IMG: volunteering] When a young person, aged between 10 and 17, is arrested an 'Appropriate Adult' must be present throughout the process at the Police Station. In the majority of cases this will be the young person's parent or guardian but on occasion the parent or guardian may be unable or unwilling to attend the police station. In these situations the police would contact a Volunteer Appropriate Adult. Read the rest of this entry.
Back in July, I updated www.dundeewestend.com (see http://tinyurl.com/cleghorn or click on the headline above) - and the Community Spirit residents' group - of changes to the bin collection arrangements in parts of the Cleghorn Street area. This initially consisted of a move away from traditional small bins in some parts of Pitfour Street, City Road, Rosebery Street and Benvie Road and their replacement by wheelie bins - and it was intended to introduce communal 'eurobin' style containers thereafter at other properties in the area, where a wheelie bin collection was not practical. I am now advised that, with effect from ...
Southport is a town here lots of pensioners live. It always has been. So we are always interested in the impact on the retired of new policies. I was particularly pleased to see Vince Cable's policy initiative which would take many of our pensioners out of tax entirely by raising the threshold to £10,000 pa. This will also directly help low paid workers -there are lots in Southport working in the tourism, care and agricultural sectors. I like Vince's emphasis on fair taxes and personally I have no problem with his mansion tax. Under Blair and Thatcher we have moved ...
Barack Obama has been award the Nobel Prize for Peace essentially for effort - he's trying hard, saying the right things but not yet delivered concrete results. (He's also got much less closer to nuclear disarmament than Ronald Regan got in the Reykjavik summit with Mikhail Gorbachev.) I'm pretty underwhelmed by the award as I would rather see the prize go to those who have produced results. Someone such as Denis Mukwege and the amazing work he's done getting treatment for those attacked during the Congo civil wars, including treatment for over 20,000 rape victims. But why not apply the ...
Title: Paid Constituency Internship Working For: Adrian Sanders MP (Lib Dem, Torbay)Salary: Remuneration will be according to the Parliamentary pay scales.Where: Constituency office in Torquay, Dev...
I strongly recommend watching this speech in the US Congress by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL). At last, it's good to see some real passion in the voices of those in favour of the US Health Care Reform proposal.
The Conservative Party's faux outrage at Britain not holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is extraordinary enough. No sensible person thinks a referendum is required, and nobody really thinks that the treaty is the same as the Constituion, which the 3 parties promised a referendum on- not even the Conservatives controversial European ally Michal ...
In order to save money all Territorial Army training is to be suspended for 6 months. Remember, this is just after a TV advertising campaign (costing several million pounds) to get people to join the TA. It further undermines any credibility this awful Labour government has when it comes to defence issues.
Residents at the north end of Oak Road and Oakfield Avenue were recently asked their preference on two different parking restriction schemes. Over 80% asked for option 2, which was to have two-hour parking (with no return within two hours) along that northern section of Oak Road, plus junction protection around Oakfield Avenue to stop people blocking the junction. That will now be implemented. But there are a couple of other things to say on this. First, stopping all-day parking there won't suddenly make all those parkers vanish. What I'd expect to happen is that most will find other places ...
"Gordon Brown will try to calm a new bout of Labour jitters on Monday over whether he should lead the party into the general election after the Conservatives emerged as the winners of the party conference season." - Independent article Labour's pessimism is a route cause of their current situation and problems. I disagree with the ...
Interesting piece in this mornings Guardian by Danny Blanchflower; in it, he rips into David Cameron and the Conservatives but also all of those who see the major economic task as being debt repayment. As I have said before this debate has an air on unrealism about it because both the media and Conservative Party ...
The Tories talk about cleaning up politics whilst conveniently choosing to forget that the Tory Party, above all others, did more to frustrate reforms of parliaments procedures than any other party. But when it comes to outside of the Palace of Westminster, the Tories seem quite happy to use front organisations to pursue their aim of misleading the electorate. Take the Countryside Alliance. This so called independent organisation is nothing more than a Tory dominated lobbying organisation. They actively help Tory candidates and they campaign for them yet the press speak to them and give them a voice as "the ...
I don't really have the qualifications for a blogospheric book reviewer, what with the intermittentcy, the near-hostility to topicality and the extent to which my reading choices are dictated by whatever's in the 3 for 2 at Waterstone's at the time. But with hopefully two years of law textbooks ahead of me and little extra-curricular reading in prospect, I thought I ought to review my last pre-university book, not least because its contents are worth a look and unlikely to be seen. It was while exploring the Oxfam bookshop in Cardiff with my good friend Justine Hall (who we'll have ...
-Gives us a sense of momentum when the United States has accolades tossed its way rather than shoes. US State department spokesperson quoted by CNN.
A few weeks ago I attended a debate between Lord Drayson and the Guardian "Bad Science" columnist Ben Goldacre called "Science reporting: Is it good for you?". It was well attended and as I blogged at the time, even though I disagreed with Lord Drayson's argument (that the UK press is basically good and certainly much better than it used to be when reporting science) I thought he made a good fist of his argument. On 30th September I was getting so sick of some of the misleading coverage about the HPV vaccine (for example here) where the press was ...
It's all happening today in Gorton. There's my Advice Session from 11 to 12 at "Belle Vue House". The Market is having their food and drink festival all day. Then this evening, we discover if Gorton's Got Talent at Cedar Mount School starting at 6 p.m. All welcome.
A hard-hitting public service ad, aired last night for the first time during Coronation Street.
It would not be a Welsh Labour leadership contest without allegations of a stitch-up and the Western Mail obliges us this morning with precisely that. It feels like 1998 all over again. The paper tells us that ordinary members are being blocled from putting tough questions to the three candidates. Instead the one hour question time at each of the five hustings will be moderated by two party officials: One party member contacted us to say: "So much for reaching out to the people of Wales. Another missed opportunity to re-engage voters. Tories had the media into the open primary ...
Held a meeting last night, excellent venue, in a meeting room in Llandudno swimming pool. After all the official business I announced my team for the forthcoming general election. I was particularly pleased to announce my Agent, Christine Humphreys, who is currently president of the Welsh Liberal Democrats and is vastly experienced politically and more importantly knows the role of agent. I announced a further ten posts all of which tie in to and will play a major role in the campaign which has started in Aberconwy. I am humbled by local people stopping me in the street and when ...
A note from Stockport Traffic Services: As part of the SEMMMS planning programme, representatives working on behalf of Greater Manchester Transportation Unit will be undertaking roadside surveys across Stockport over the next couple of weeks. The interviews are taking place at 50 sites across East Cheshire and Greater Manchester and the information will be used in the relief road planning application to be submitted by Cheshire East (CEC), Stockport and Manchester councils next year. The surveys will generally commence at 0700hrs and be completed by 1900hrs with Greater Manchester Police in attendance at each site. At locations where there is ...
Read this story. It's probably not the story you were expecting, I suspect.
With the Evening Standard about to go free, getting hold of a printed copy will no longer be a matter of whether or not you want to pay for it from one of the numerous newsagents and sellers around London but instead a matter of whether or not you can find a free distributor who isn't hugely out of your way. In central London, near the tube stations in particular, that isn't likely to be much of a problem. But take a look at the distribution map on the Standard website: currently there are no distribution points in NW3, NW5 ...
From today's Guardian: The Taxpayers' Alliance, a campaign group that calls for tax and spending cuts and claims to represent the interests of taxpayers, has admitted one of its directors does not pay British tax. The Guardian has learned that Alexander Heath, a director of the increasingly influential free market, rightwing lobby group, lives in a farmhouse in the Loire and has not paid British tax for years... "The least we can expect for an organisation that purports to represent the interests of British taxpayers is that it is run by people that pay British tax," said Jon Cruddas MP. ...
Cross-posted from the Mandate Blog: Rounding off our analysis of print media coverage gained by each of the (Shadow) Cabinet teams during their party's autumn conference, here are the top fifteen Conservatives. As with our previous Labour and Liberal Democrat lists, it's in descending order of volume of coverage: 1. David Cameron 2. George Osborne 3. William Hague 4. Ken Clarke 5. Chris Grayling 6. Eric Pickles 7. Michael Gove 8. Liam Fox 9. David Willetts 10. Theresa May 11=. Andrew Lansley 11=. Theresa Villiers 13. Greg Clark 14=. Dominic Grieve 14=. Philip Hammond Philip Hammond's joint fourteenth place highlights ...
We often see claims of racism and homophobia in sport today, more often than not though it is the fans who are accused of chants that are not as PC as they perhaps should be. So when news of this story reached my in box from a few sources, I dug around and to be honest was appalled. A Muslim amateur football team Creteil Bebel has pulled out of its planned game this weekend with Paris Foot Gay (PFG), saying it was against their religious beliefs to play against homosexuals. In fact, Zahir Belgarbi, one of the team directors told ...
There's no prize at stake – just the opportunity to prove you're wittier than any other LDV reader ... [IMG: vince paddy] Here are veteran Lib Dem stars Vince Cable and Paddy Ashdown – but what do you imagine they might be thinking / saying? Image: Alex Folkes/Fishnik Photography
You know when you see a title like that, that its not going to be a good story. I arrived at Edinburgh Waverley this morning in time for the 08.05am service wanting to go to Berwick upon Tweed, due to arrive at 09.20am according to the timetable. I checked the screen and it said the dreaded word - bus replacement! Because I needed to arrange for someone to meet me at Berwick, I asked a member of staff what time would the bus arrive in Berwick? Fortunately I asked a lady from Virgin, who then said not my train you ...
ood morning, fellow Futilitarians. Assuming there's someone out there... I have some bad news, and I know it will cause you all great sorrow. No, it's not that Obama's won the Nobel Peace Prize. Though that has indeed got one of my friends rather agitated. And the less said about the right-wing vitriol amongst the comments on politicalbetting.com, ...
We often see claims of racism and homophobia in sport today, more often than not though it is the fans who are accused of chants that are not as PC as they perhaps should be.So when news of this story reached my in box from a few sources, I dug around and to be honest was appalled. A Muslim amateur football team Creteil Bebel has pulled out of its planned game this weekend with Paris Foot Gay (PFG), saying it was against their religious beliefs to play against homosexuals. In fact, Zahir Belgarbi, one of the team directors told Reuters: ...
Don't get me wrong I'm all for an aspiring Chancellor seeking economic advice from Economists, after all my degree is in economics so I know the importance of gauging other's opinions. Also I did say earlier this week that George Osborne, "Like any mediocre student...went to the library and looked up what the master [Vince Cable] had written, taken some key points out of it, tried to pass it off as his own work, but fell short as the whole thing doesn't fit right together." So the fact that he had also read and used figures from a National Institute ...
Andrew Reeves thinks that he did; I have to confess that I think for a clergyman, Williams has the admirable trait of actually seeming to think deeply about what he is saying which I think shows that in his selection the Church recognised that it's dwindling social influence might best be solved by appointing somebody to high office who has some ...
Along with some other Town Councillors, Bradford Councilor Kris Hopkinson and others I went on a tour of the new Keighley Campus [Keighley College as was] building today. The invitation came about as a result of a chat I had with Clare MacDonald, head of the Keighley Campus of Leeds College at the Keighley Civic Service a few weeks ago. The building is rather deco in appearance with its curved "corner" at the junction of Bradford Road and Dalton Lane but does not totally hark back to the past. It seemed to be very brown at first but as more ...
Today's Guardian has this story about inconsistencies in George Osborne's claimed savings from raising the male pension age: The NIESR said Osborne's team had made a mistake in their calculations, misreading a paper written by the thinktank earlier this year. Osborne aides originally based their calculations on a NIESR document in the House of Commons library. ...
Along with my mum, I accompanied Dad to the Mayor's Civic Dinner at Walthamstow Assembly Hall this evening. It was a great evening with over 200 people attending helping to raise money for the Mayor's charities, Whipps Cross Hospital's Big Push project and the Special Care Baby Unit.The entertainment was great and included, a comedian (who picked on me to sing along- the hall emptied very quickly
As someone who has been involved in television for over two decades, I'm interested in the sort of "narratives" that are used by political leaders, football managers and pop stars, inter alia. TV news is about stories. And in politics it's about stretching stories over as much time as you can manage. Andrew Marr's interview with William Hague shows us this. ("what is it you were trying to say this week?" he asked...after 27 hours of BBC coverage). I'm sickened that the Conservatives are stealing our story: On 21st September (on the Victoria Derbyshire show) I said " My name ...
A couple of days ago I heard someone giving an answer to the present economic crisis. She thought we could all buy our meals if we are taken into hospital. This seems fairly reasonable at first glance but I have several reservations. Firstly it does next to nothing to beat the financial crisis. I hear you saying look after the pennies... but here we are looking for the tiniest fraction of a penny. You certainly would not bend down to pick this amount up in the street. That leads me to my second point. If you only have a small ...
Friday: Because, I mean Barry O is alright, but he's not in Scary Charlotte's league*, is he.PS *That's probably the League of Extraordinary Gentlepersons, a spiffing comic and wacky movie with CGI** effects.PPS **That's CGI as in "Charlotte Gore Isnotatory". Obviously. .
