The Talking Clock: The Week in Review

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Friday, 3 September 2010

The Week in Review

So, the last week of the holiday for the weird inhabitants of the Westminster village. Politics returns to normal from today with UKIP opening up the party conference season. So, which stories were our visitors interested in this week? Here's the top ten:

1. Lisbon Treaty Protest on streets of Belgium
2. English Defence League and one-sided media
3. Council elections looking great for UKIP
4. Our offer and challenge to UKIP hopefuls
5. Sunday Paper Review from 29th August
6. Blair talks Diana and we answer back
7. Goldfinger-ed secrets in dark places
8. Conservative Numpties and 3,530 elephants
9. Diana laughs last as Blair book trashed
10. Dr. David Kelly We don't believe suicide, say 90%

The quality of writing by independent bloggers and mainstream commentators was incredibly high this week, except for one instance which most will know what we're alluding to. Here's our ten most interesting reads elsewhere from the last week:

1. Mary Ellen Synon Barroso the Stalker (not Firefox)
2. Matt Patterson Meltdown of Climate 'consensus'
3. Watt's Up With That? Stop The Hysteria
4. Fraser Nelson Blair For Sale
5. Christopher Booker The Greatest Green Scam Of All
6. EU Referendum L'escroc Lives
7. Derek Bennett Voting For Decoy Ducks
8. The Slog Why Mr. Polly Peck Is Back
9. Iain Dale A Bleak Day For Political Blogging
10. England Expects Waaah Waaahh Waaah ... It's not fair

Don't be narked if you're a fellow blogger and haven't made our top ten list. We have no accounting for how our mood works or what catches our eye on any given day. We simply look at what's coming through the blogroll and note what catches our eye.

Anyway, thank you to those wonderful people who have contributed to The Talking Clock this week. Our visitor numbers keep inching up which means we must be resonating with some people's opinions occasionally, else we're being watched by all the right spooky folk. Hello boys, if you're reading.

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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Friday, 3 September 2010

The Week in Review

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