THE LAST TURKEY

Oh all right. Well somebody had to link (through the title) to this story in the Sun. And I guess it's me. I feel very sorry for this girl because her quality of life must be awful but the route to health and happiness is a pretty clear one. Don't eat so much.

If there has been a weaker criminal case than this, I'd love to hear about it. Look at the police interview and wonder why 8 years of Barry George's life and huge amounts of public money have been wasted trying to frame this complete numbskull for a crime he is so obviously entirely incapable of committing.

If any of my fellow blogging chums know how to put this video into the blog itself, I'd be grateful if they could do it for me. For the moment, you'll have to click on the title to get the video.

I am not sure if 'The Last Turkey' overlord allows us to make more serious comments about politcs but....what the heck is going on in the Labour Party? The title of this links you to David Miliband's seemingly innocuous article in the Guardian about where Labour should go from their current position. Boringly vacuous, it is apparently a declaration of war on Gordon Brown according to various political commentators.

As other pour over the hidden messages, I think there's another lesson to be taken from the sheer tedium of the article and the fact that it shows almost no original thinking whatsoever. The truth is that even in a crisis the lack of a political ideology behind New Labour shines through. Because we are all capitalists now Labour has nothing to fall back on; no certainties that it can be sure of; no intellectual tenets that they can always grasp at and Miliband's sorry excuse for an action plan is crucial evidence of that. The commentators may talk about whether or not Miliband will challenge Brown as leader but I think we are way past that. Miliband probably will be the next Labour leader and sooner rather than later but he is unlikely to be anymore popular than Gordon Brown while he is uncapable of having a personal ideology. A vague commitment to social justice, as Tony Blair discovered, isn't really enough.

But then is it really Miliband's fault that he stands for nothing - in a society where capitalism and democracy are accepted and now embeded as the status quo, what else is there to change?

PS Listen to Miliband on line if you can. If he's not doing an impression of Tony Blair, then it's bloody weird.

A class of five-year old schoolchildren return to the classroom after playing in the playground during their break time.

The teacher says to the first child 'hello Becky, what have you been doing this playtime?'

Becky replies ' I have been playing in the sand box'

'Very good' says the teacher 'if you can spell 'sand' on the blackboard, I will give you a biscuit'

Becky duly goes and writes 's a n d' on the blackboard.

'Very good' says the teacher and gives Becky a biscuit.

The teacher then says 'Freddie, what have you been doing in your playtime?'

Freddie replies 'playing with Becky in the sand box'

'Very good' says the teacher.

'If you can spell 'box' on the blackboard, I will also give you a biscuit'

Freddie duly goes and writes 'b o x' on the blackboard.

'Very good' says the teacher and gives Freddie a biscuit.

Teacher then says 'Hello Mohammed, have you been playing in the sand box with Becky and Freddie?'

'No' replies Mohammed, 'I wanted to, but they would not let me. Every time I went near them they started throwing sand at me and calling me nasty names'

'Oh dear' says the teacher. 'That sounds like blatant racial discrimination to me - I tell you what, if you can spell 'blatant racial discrimination' I will give you a biscuit'