Over Three Million Hits for the Blog You Love and They Hate
April saw a total of over 3.6m pageviews from 1,382,879 visits by 347,994 visitors making 2,995,765 pageviews plus 680,207 views via RSS feed readers. Not bad for one guy with a laptop, Blackberry and a penchant for Guinness. With traffic averaging over 100,000 pageviews daily this blog puts traditional political publications like the New Statesman in the shade, forcing the likes of the Indy’s Steve Richards (no fan of Guido: “neither daring or clever”, the feeling is mutual*) to admit that nevertheless yours truly
is in my view one of the most influential figures in the British media. One day this week I heard five items on the Today programme that followed up his stories or his observations. Politicians have not learnt how to cope with an individual who has as much impact as entire newspapers.
How that growing realisation must really burn Polly, Aaronovitch, Yasmin, Jenkins, Sir Michael and the rest of the commentariat’s mediasaurs. Like acid.
Examine the front page media agenda last month: Smeargate, Snouts in the Trough, MPs’ expenses and of course the developing “Gordon is bonkers” meme, all topped off nicely with a round of mea culpas on the inside comment pages from the shamed copy takers in the Lobby. Not forgetting the Damian McBride coup de grâce and resignation tribute. Whose acid house tunes were the media elite humming?
Many thanks to you the readers and the advertisers who make this blog more profitable than both the Guardian and Independent combined.
*See also Steve Richards: Fails Numeracy Test and Steve Richards : “Voters Aren’t As Clever As Me”.
Careful Guido; (plucks at sleeve) You are but a mortal
Fuck ‘em.
Good man. You carry on and keep us amused at the same time.
Careful anyway, Guido… (please?) We need you…for a while yet, and do think of your family sometimes – I’m sure you do, but….
There’s probably other skeletons in their lockers whose former owners we don’t yet even know about, not just poor Dr David Kelly.
On the other hand, perhaps you’re too visible to be “disappeared”. Good on you for getting (our) retaliation in first.
So how much are you making?
No, no. You first.
Don’t rub it in.
No cancel that. RUB IT IN.
Good work, you deserve our praise.
Stand in your enemy’s shoes during sober moments and work out how you would try and bring about your own downfall; and be prepared.
The smut brigade.
The dating Brigade.
The advocates of violence.
The thoughts of Kim Il Sung Brigade. (Long pointless and intensely boring blogs).
The information that’s too good to be true and isn’t.
Most of us have already got their measure.
Well, naturally
Guiness all round.
Don’t sell out and keep that stock of gunpowder to hand!
Join Guido. Start your own blog, say what you want, not what the Guardian tells you. There are only 646 of them. There are 60,000,000 of us. Imagine the noise we can all make together.
You’re going to need a bigger hat.
BREAKING NEWS.
Must be the quote of the decade from Labour:
“But we will actually be judged on our vision for the next 10 to 15 years.”
David Blunkett
Newspapers still have a role to play.
Although, the press has been so supine over the past decade, their role is as a bog role.
Fuck ‘em indeed.
All power to Guido’s elbow, and may the little green fellows protect him.
Can’t you claim an allowance for a second laptop?
Atta boy, we girls love a man of courage. Men sometimes see him as a comptetitor!
More power to your elbow – and your ‘pen’!
Must go, Betfair calls!
Guido. with 3000000 hits the petition seems in need of another / semi-permanent link on your home page
great fucking numbers yet again, Guido.
the combination of zombie decapitation, hanging, general tittle-tattle and politics is really paying off, innit.
really, you should be charging a subscription fee.
trim the numbers down a bit. it’s a bit cluttered now and I am finding myself literally tripping over tory, labour, lib-em and bnp spastics as I do my rounds.
many thanks,
thick as thieves
Keep up the good work but remember that Mrs Fawkes and the little ones will need their dad around as much as possible! There is life outside politics, thank god.
Anyway, yours is a fantastic achievement, it shows what is now doable. When I started writing for Samizdata back in 2001 (gulp), I had no idea what I was getting into, really. But it has been great fun and I have made some good mates out of it as well. That is one of the real bonuses. Oh, and I like to think that we have given the libertarian meme a real booster.
Whatever booster there has been is likely to have been inversely proportional to your blog’s intellectual pretentions, which seem to me to be rather mountainous. The very choice of name is hardly encouraging. Dissentient views published in Soviet Russia were published at acute personal risk. What have you risked – stubbing your toe?
Guidoaf Orcs,
I’ve heard of you.
We have looks in common I know,
but really your hits are small beer.
Guido’s mortal?
He’s the expression of our collective outrage at the elite, he can’t die!
Continue to bring down the Government
‘Ere, stop messin’ about!
Well if he did they could always peg him up on a horse after he has snuffed it just like me
Scipio Africanus arranged for a small boy to be on hand to pluck at his sleeve and remind him he was mortal and not a God when he returned to Rome and a triumphal procession after defeating Hannibal.Just trying to raise the tone (sighs theatrically)
If Guido stood for Prime Minister, I’d canvass for him….how I think of what we did in the 70s/80s, crawling round dog tired on our hands and knees (and that was /before/ pubtime…) What a waste of effort that was, but it wouldn’t be this time, for The Man.
You are a True Man, and a GentleMan, one whom others can proudly follow.
you’re worth every penny!
Congratulations Guido. Success was never more deserved.
Agreed – good work Mr Fawkes
“more profitable than both the Guardian and Independent combined”
??!!??!!??!!
ABC Audited Circulation published?
And he doesn’t even fiddle his taxation bill
Grytpype,
You beat me to it!
Thank you, but I had to describe the allusion to some on here (335)
Seriously, more profitable than the Guardian and Independent. Well you certainly deserve it, but I’m curious, how much do you earn?
So how long before NuLabia under the control of the Supreme Wanking (sorry, Clunking) Fist come up with a plot to outlaw “the hated Guidoist-Bloggerist conspirators” to the gulag?
CHRIST ALMIGHTY
Guido has stuck his bum out for a licking and four hundred of you merrirly oblige. The English really a nation of taods.
(i have no connection to new labour. But I am indeed a Huhne).
Should be “toads”
and merrily
Well done Guido – but do take care – nothing too low for Labour to stoop to to get rid of a thorn in their side.
Oh, don’t be so hard on Steve Richards. You need a plurality of views.
I mean, if Dolly Draper didn’t exist you would, rather like the Americans and the Cold War, need to invent an enemy.
Talking of which, in his absence and the purdah of Tom Watson, just who will you pick on next ? You see, you need people on the ‘subs bench’ like our Steve.
Where is Watson? Still getting a ministerial salary and perks?
Congratulations on swallowing that lump of revisionist history in one gulp.
Nah, there’s plenty of enemies left. One just has to look at the house of parliament and the various cockroaches (lobbyists) and pigs (politicians) to find enough targets.
TomWwatsons still breathing unfortunately!
Nice one, Guido.
Exceedingly well done.
It has been said before but merits repeating – stay away from the windows, Fawkes.
And cars and booze.
And Mexico…
and jonah
and pedalos Freddie!
Guido, come and have dinner in Downing Street with myself and my wife.
You’ll be dead within hours. Bwa ha ha!
I noticed you got a mention on Charlie Brooker newswipe.
On the other hand he did seem to suggest you were part of a massive shit monster.
On the other other hand, he did say that “at least Guido is not a public servant paid for out of our taxes.” So it matters not that he is shit monster that is fighting other shit monsters. At least he IS fighting, and winning, against these shit monsters that DO claim extortionate fees from the public purse. Many of which are probably illegal.
I think Brooker has feelings of admiration and envy for old Guido, whilst acknowledging that Guido is, indeed yet another shit monster in a sea of shit monsters. Brooker himself included.
Spot on Mr. Ned. Brooker knows, deep down, that no matter how much pretence he makes, he is still part of the problem – it must burn his ring.
Brooker is at the shit monster’s orifice. Do you suppose for a moment he’s not taking the filthy lucre and loving it up? To find out the things Brooker won’t talk about you still need the intertube.
For any pinkos reading – have a nice mayday. (Yes you dummies, that IS the clever little pun with lol from Guido).
Correctomundo. The boundaries of the agenda are never talked about.
Yes, and happy mayday to all you fucking redistributionist LOOTERS, you parasitic fucking thieves.
‘And of course you still have those emails up your sleeve to deploy in the ‘dead zone’ a week before the Euro elections, where the politicians don’t deploy advertising, as it is wasteful to target voters who have already made up their minds’..
Dastardly and dreadful, Mr Fawkes, but keep it up…
Go Guido!!
Guido, Guido, Rah, Rah Rah.
Guido, you seem to be right up yourself.
I’ve a cure for that, though, admittedly, my fees are exorbitant.
Stay modest. Your brilliance is perfectly evident to all.
Yes, modesty is a virtue so no crowing please. Just keep nailing the bastards and your place in history is assured!
Modesty is overrated; not recognising achievement is a more monstrous arrogance. Look at me, I’m modest as well as clever. Fuck that.
er, I have yet to see any evidence of any intelligence whatsoever from you 320.
you are rather boring actually and you sound like a bit of a c’unt.
you fucking retard.
are you high?
Bravo Mr Fawkes – can’t wait for the next installment.
Now don’t get too smug though – remember Mr Watson is teh proppa blogga around here
Guido,
Thank you for the part you are playing in ending the nightmare that has been inflicted on us for so long.
Well done. I just like the quality of the abuse you needle dicked mother fuckers.
Talk about blowing your own trumpet.
Can’t bend forward far enough to blow mine.
Bogger orf blinky. Berk.
Is it only little, luv?
who wouldn’t?
so what!
Go Boyo!
OK, so when is the next big hit?
Well done, Guido.
However, the greatest damage inflicted on McBust this month came from his own hand – the now infamous Brown Expenses YouTube clip.
Maybe you can bounce him into a few more ‘moments of madness’ this month?
Guido….. I note that Private Eye is spitting feathers, a rather tainted ‘congratulations’ and this blog being a mix of “hypocrisy and humbug”……. Ian Hislop doth protest too much me thinks….??
Cannot expect anything else as they are rather stuck in the dead tree age !!
I saw that, on one page it was moaning about Guido then the next page it devoted a whole page to McBride and his dirty work.
Hmm I see you’re feeling brave now eh Hislop? The obvious question is why didn’t you write a whole page on Mcbride before…er… because you waited for someone i.e. Guido to do the violence first.
Private Eye;- as pusillanimous as all the others
The Eye’s point was that Guido didn’t do the violence: he had to persuade the MSM and its expensive lawyers and deep pockets to run with the story, rather than having the cojones to go with it himself.
Protecting his advertisers, no doubt.
And it was a very valid point. However, they spolit it by being mardy little twats.
I’m sure the way Guido went about it was not due to lack of courage, but to ensure the story *appeared* in the mainstream press. This meant it was followed up on TV news and the rest is history… it also led a couple of million to the website. Way to go!
Give the man his due – his media and political antennae are spot on – he knows what he’s doing
Trust him
Hislop is a smug tosspot. He’s as much a part of the cosy cartel as the rest of the Huhnes.
thirded.
Private Eye could have had the UK’s best and most dangerous blog, instead they chose HIGNFY and shiny head polish.
Dangerous blog? come on. They might be “being soft” but they do know all about getting sued.
Private eye has been sued more times than fucking sooty!
Oh can I say that? Sooty I mean?
Hislop is a Pravda appoved “rebel”, his best days, for what they were, are well behind him.
@ Old Holborn 174
Too right. HIGNFY is now like watching Guido’s stories as a weekly ‘best of’. It’s topical comedy for people who are dimwitted enough to believe what the BBC tells them about politics.
I used to love PI and have bought it for 20 yrs, but to be honest it is now left in its plastic wrapper when it comes through my door.
Last week’s edition managed a skip through and then used to mop up cat pee.
I kid not.
Won’t be keeping my subscription up – shame I couldn’t find anything outrageous to write a letter about – says it all really.
You’re right – it should have been THE blog of the UK political/news but they way they piss and moan about teh interweb is like a dancing dad.
Their Message Board column is complete crap and shows whoever is writing it has no clue.
Plato is right – PI has gone downhill, bigtime. It is now part of the MSM Borg, unfunny, formulaic and timid. Hislop’s recent hissy fits about ‘bloggers’ are laughable in showing his lack of self awareness that he & PI has now become that which it hates.
Private eye are jealous methinks !!!
Nah, The Eye is just doing what it does best, taking shots at everyone. If the God almighty came down to earth Private Eye would find a critical story, and that’s why still I buy it long after I stopped buying any other newspaper.
They don’t like it up ‘em. Or maybe they do.
Have a go at Blunkett please Mr Fawkes. The bearded hoon is getting on my t*ts.
And his bloody dog.
Not getting in my taxi them’s not .
Didn’t he shag someone over his office desk during work hours or was that another Labour Hoon? Hard to keep up these days (if you pardon the pun)
Ol’ Blinkie Blunkett couldn’t see what he was getting into.
I’ve no objection to the dog….
David Blunkett=Misconduct in Public Office
Oi! jes watch yer language – he’s sightedly challanged ‘n does it all by feel yer kno.
Blunkett hates the world and everything in it — he wants you to pay for his disability hence the torrent of totalitarian shite the disgusting little fucker produced. The best way to get at Blunkett is to ignore him completely – he is a total irrelevance now.
Strange isn’t it? – Mandelbum, Blunkett, Byers, Vaz et al – in this party, the more disgraced you are by malfeasance in public office, the more you come back as an ‘elder statesman’ of NuLab!
I guess it figures, within the warped logic of their tiny world. I just wish we could find a way to stop them inflicting their ‘values’ on the rest of us. Keep digging, one and all…
Well done, big fellah.
In five years’ time poli-sci students will be writing dissertations and theses about this blog and its effects.
Keep it up.
If it take five years for students to start writing about this kind of thing our education system is in worse shape than we think. Life’s speeding up.
First, thanks to 13 years of edukashon, our students will have to learn to write.
You are welcome you old Tart!
The man is Private Eye wasn’t very nice about you. Apparently some people here said stuff that wasn’t very nice.
Shame on you all.
In.
Fuck me, what a hoon.
How upsetting fancy people not being nice on this blog,Private Eye is part of the Establishment,with that guy who’s always on Pravda makes it even more.
Private Eye used to do that in the days before its editor spent his time being pompous on the BBC.
Bitch!
Fuck ‘em all…yuooz ma best mate (hic)…from all of us at Private Eye….
shut up!
Hislop took the (our) money and has now been corrupted; he’s just another commissar now.
When you are targeted by Private Eye – then you can know that you really are a success.
Actually Guido, I’m not sure Richards is right to say that politicians don’t know how to cope with individuals who has as much influence as entire newspapers (because governments routinely had to deal with such people in the days of Beaverbrook / Rothermere, and still have to deal e.g. with Murdoch characters) – surely it’s more that you just aren’t part of the establishment, don’t want to be and therefore can’t be “dealt with” at all. The old adage that you need to keep your friends close but your enemies closer is inapplicable.
You’re right Ian. It’s difficult to see the monocular, snot gobbling Nokia-thrower buying Guido off though.
Let us know when the bastards start offering you a knighthood, a seat in the Lords or your own Guinness pump in Annies Bar, Guido.
yes – I suppose the day Guido starts agreeing to alter his content in exchange for influence over policy / inside info / £, whatever, (if ever) will be the day they will become able to deal with him. The problem they have at the moment is that Guido is not for sale (or if he is Gordon et al can’t bring themselves to buy him).
Do you not think Guido would fuck off for £5m?
I think we should spare a thought for all these New Liebour dead tree press toadies who have made the past 12 year nightmare possible:
Steve Richards (Bruin is always right)
John Rentout (Bliar is always right)
Sir Michael Shite (everyone but me is always wrong)
‘Corporal’ David Aaronobitch (cheering for military interventions from the safety of the NAAFI)
POLLY put the KETTLE off!
Peter Riddell and his retarded cousin MARY ( where is she now that Gordon needs her?)
Matthew W’Ancona (flabby faced tosser of the liberal Tory skool – the very worst).
etc etc make your own list – there are far too many of em to bother
They should all be tried at Nuremberg.
You never mentioned that fat git heffer.
Don’t forget the broadcasters; i.e. most of the BBC
The BBC and the Guardian should be bombed, and obliterated.
They are a collective menace to democracy and liberal values – and I use the word ‘collective’ deliberately
Let’s put them all before Dame Harman’s Court of Public Opinion. Super-short trial, and Her Majesty can pick up smartie points by exercising clemency by reducing death sentences to “life” minimun period to be served, 70 years.
Toynbee – the face that boiled a thousand kettles….
Oi you talking about me?
Bit into a thousand lemons, more like.
Hag.
>Polly, Aaronovitch, Yasmin
Polly – Went to public School
Aaronivitch – Went to grammar School
Yasmin – Went to private school
One thing you can say about Private Education – without it the MSM would be in trouble.
Or the Huhnes would have to get proper jobs rather than spouting shit.
nicky campbell went to a private school in edinburgh
victoria derbyshite didn’t go to school at all
Since when have Grammar Schools been “private”.Their intake is based on that dear old-fashioned idea of merit
Time to introduce some kind of profit-sharing scheme I think.
See if you can get one of the fuckers to top themselves this weekend would you? I can’t believe only three (cf Daily Mail) are on suicide watch. I’d figure at least 200… This swine flu hysteria is really hacking me off, and we need something big to topple it.
Frank why don’t you just say what you think
>rather like the Americans and the Cold War, need to invent an enemy.
Yes, that nice Mr Stalin only had 14 million of his own people in concentration camps in 1950. What were those silly Americans going on about. Communism was really cool. And hey…. N Korea… is it really so bad to starve 1 million people to death for the sake of International Socialism.
Another shinning graduate of the Socialist British Education system. I suspect.
you only have to look at the google night time map of the far east to see N.Korea in darkness. Very symbolic and tells you all you need to know.
Communism was never a serious threat to us. It certainly enslaved and diminished it’s own though, but that was always their problem, not ours. Left to itself, that ideology always fails and dies. Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, …… They were very useful as a cold war enemy though – since replaced with war-on-terror.
The need for the Berlin airlift in 1948 suggests it was a threat to us.
Their plans to invade western Europe might suggest a wee tad of danger
Stat pron congratulations finished,now get on with it,Brown and his mates are still at it,Pravda still at it.
Wow! Guido is even more popular than the Prime Minister.
Even rabies is more popular the Prime Minister, at least and hopefully witth enough injections you can get over it,how the hell we forget about Brown and his crew with the debt hanging over us for the next 30years I will never know.
See – one flu over the cuckoo’s nest.
You are welcome.
I think you are now too big to be found dead in a secluded countryside beauty spot.
The threshold has been passed – you are in the clear.
Go get ‘em.
Yup, agree, he’s a right fat bastard, need a transit van and a gang of lads to shift him – oh, you didn’t mean that? Whoops.
One of the Steve Richards links doesn’t work.
GAY THREAD.
By the way – did I mention that I have a massive tomato for a head?
Brillaint Guido. The country needs you. Pray continue.
Good work, keep it up!
‘Ere stop messin about!
Well done, Guido!
Some people still don’t get you, do they?
It’s proably the Guinness that helps, if anything!
As for Private Eye? Their website is merely a taster to ‘force’ you to buy their magazine. And that’s a very old fashioned view of how to publish.
It’s all a bit of fun, too, isn’t it?
God knows I had fun with these, for example.
http://thatsnews.blogspot.com/2009/04/oops-cheats-never-prosper-labour-mps.html
http://thatsnews.blogspot.com/2009/04/welsh-brummie-writes-sion-simon-please.html
I’ll raise a glass to you over the weekend, Guido.
Where’s that hoon Hardwidge this morning?
It’s May 1 so the council/union/party workers have probably got the day off to celebrate the day of international socialist-communist genocide.
Sorry i’m late folks – I was just polishing off Yvette Cooper’s cock, breakfast, the most important meal of the day doncha know? Have I missed anything?
Oxford Tech alumni association piss up at The Trout followed by afternoon Tennants Super on the steps at the bottom of Cornmarket when they’re asked to leave.
His shift starts later today, his rent boy Master Baiter ( how original ) is making a limited ( retarded ) appearance this morning. Ambrose and the rest will log on from home and try to be as witty as a juvenile can, when mums out.
Guido. You are the snowflake that started the avalanche that exposed the mountain of shit that is british political life. Without your exposures, reform of MP’s expenses would never have happened and the Stalinist Tendency would still be in control of No.10.
I am certain that whichever Party in power, you will keep overturning flat stones which Gov’ts would rather have undisturbed. Every negative post or article from the Left is a compliment to your effectiveness, and judging from the number of those you are very effective. Good on you.
I agree with you Grumpy. Pat yourself on the back about your efforts regarding MPs expenses Guido.
I’m not going to mention my stats, suffice to say they’re well into 5 figures this month and a good percentage of that is due to readers of this blog. So a very big thank you from me.
Actually there are far fewer attacks from the left, thanks to Guido exposing the shower of shit that is the labour Government. Far fewer people are associating with that bunch of corrupt, mindless, lying bastards.
Very impressive…
Now if you could just get those kind of numbers to sign the following:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/#detail
We would ALL be better off. I mean who wouldn’t want to sign a petition to get rid of the worst prime messer ever?
I really think that this will happen. Some of the time, the maximum sign-up speed has been limited by their servers. So next time we should host it here.
No, it is still better on the PMs own site!!!
That little petition for Brown to resign is slow cooking very nicely,another month and it will bite Brown in the arse,slowly slowly and all that ,the more the damage
If you haven’t seen it – a poster on PB.com is running a highly amusing comparison with football club attendances as each threshold is crossed.
Someone else has noticed that after the initial frenzy the sign-up rate is increasing all by itself day on day without a big media puff.
Seems to be gathering pace and I know I mention it to everyone I can think of [including my accountant - the VAT man wants to inspect my books
]
‘Rearrange the following words into a well-known phrase or saying’ Competition:
Last week’s solution: it all started in America
Winner: J.Smith, Redditch/sister’s broom-cupboard
This week’s puzzle: go just
Answers on a petition only please, to 10 Downing Street
To make sure that Redditch hears the message go here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/smithshame/
is this a GMTV quiz? GMTV normally make the questions simpler than this you know.
I can’t sign a petition where the poster can’t spell or use the Shift key.
Edukashun eh?
Only 400 to go to reach 40,000! – I’m sure it will be there by 5pm
I was sorry to see Private Eye have a bit of a go at you this week.I’ve bought it for over thirty years and I have to say that I think Hislop must be jealous of your success.I’m sure that you are closer to being the true heir of Richard Ingrams and his contemporaries.
They are rapidly turning into the print version of You and Yours.
You and Yours – the insomniacs cure. Not sure the Eye has reached this point yet, but definitely heading in that direction. Is nothing sacred??
Hislop is a very unfunny man. Possibly size-related. the Eye is not in the same business as Guido though. No-one is.
The Peoples friend !!
Bergen, me too. I agree with you although it has to be said Ingrams was not averse to an appearance on the box.
There is nothing new in the papers and other the mainstream news. So, the blogs are where it’s at these day. I think it is better this way.
Good work, big man. Let’s drink: see you Wednesday…
DK
Guidoaf,
Get your big belly on the telly again, we need a laugh you sour faced pimple.
Did you get some extra time off this morning for staying until 6PM yesterday?
The proppa blogga has promised his work experience drones a full time job at Downing Street if they show extra commitment.
Little do they know the job is mobile phone dodging, broken printer collecting and when there is any downtime in between the ranting insults, pink oboe practice with master.
Must be dole day as you are up already
Quite a few people on this site are also on the dole having recently lost their jobs and there’ll be more.
Actually the biggest danger to Guido is his wine cellar and his car keys.
Private Eye is still the best, although I’ve no idea why Hislop is being such a Huhne over GF, you would’ve thought they were rubbing their hands in glee and joining in with kicking this festering boil that is our government.
Hislop has a nice little earner on the BBC. He’s hardly going to upset his leftie luvvie friends now, is he? Anyway he’s always been a brown-noser, making Ingrams’ tea for him as he proffered himself for the forthcoming vacant post. Nigel Dempster had him sussed.
And he looks like a lightbulb
You can switch on a light bulb.
It could be worse OH – he could look like a potatoe as Boy George once famously described Jimmy Somerville
Hislop is pissed off because he could have done what Guido has done, but since he lives in a comfortable version of the past he didn’t think it would/could ever happen and that things would remain as ever they are for ever. He was wrong. I gave up my Private Eye subscription because I didn’t want to read 2-3 weeks old stuff to which any response I cared to make would be a) subject to editorial vetting and b) would not be seen for 2 more weeks. As someone said ‘ a week is a long time in politics’. They were wrong! Ten minutes is a long time in politics now…
No, I have to disabuse you of this notion. Yesterday morning as I walked my kids to school there was a mammoth pile of dogshit outside the Crown on Bond St in Macc. But this morning, someone had cleaned it up; scraped the limestone flags clean. And yet, as I turn on my radio, I discover Broon is still there.
Proof I’m afraid that Gordon Brown is still more popular than dogshit. Astonishing really.
Some hardworking middle class family had probably scraped up that poo. They are being taxed to the hilt and can barely afford the school fees let alone decent food.
I just hope they enjoy the patè this evening.
It started in America
Brooker was having a bit of a go at you on newswipe as well Link although I think there was a bit of grudging respect mixed in.
Congratulations. Keep up the good work, and keep away from walking alone in woods or on mountains.
The Penguin
Oh FFS. Where’s the evidence that Guido walks anywhere for exercise or fun?
They’d get him with a poisoned bag of Nik Naks (Nice and Spicy flavour).
@bergen: Hislop jealous because he can be sued in the UK, had advertisers etc to think of and has no known mates in the MSM: the Eye’s stock-in-trade has always been to piss them all off.
Now up waltzes Guido with the dirt, persuades the papers he drinks with to take the legal risk, and trots away with the glory.
When a cutting-edge satirical mag has to keep one eye on its advertising revenue, and another on its wealthy target’s lawyers, it’s not going to be able to compete with Guido in the cutting-edge stakes. The Eye: good in it’s day, but that day is over.
I dont’ think the Eye was too bad – the worst they had was your well known indiscretions with t’bottle and a smattering of vicious filth from us lot. Pretty tame – there’s some professional courtesy there I think.
PS I come here for the vicious filth.
At least the Eye went big on the absolute fucking scandal that is PFI.
That’s actually a serious political story too big to be Guidoised.
PE mentioned a number of times down the thread. If it is mentioned that many times by the mentalists who bother to post comments how many visitors to this site are also purchasers of PE?
Old Luvvie Hislop may wish to consider that in future before being quite so po faced.
If he really wanted to compete Hislop would put PE online, especially the PFI scandal, the Lockerbie supplement and all the In The Back stuff.
He’s sitting on an archive of dynamite but fails to exploit it, don’t know why.
Used to read the Eye when I was in my twenties but I haven’t read it for thirty years.
Bring back the Cloggies!
I read the Eye and enjoy it when I’m visiting friends who take it, but I almost never buy it.
Hislop is definitely missing a trick – he needs to get up to speed, literally, with the way news moves now – ie online. It’s the betting equivalent of only using the bookies and ignoring the exchanges – even the bookies use the exchanges now, esp to set prices! The web sets the ‘news comment’ agenda now – how could it be otherwise?
So much of the Eye is out of date before it’s printed. And as previous poster remarks, it has a huge back archive which should definitely be online, esp since so many of it’s campaigns have been ‘slow burners’. That would be a tremendous service to more open government, to have all the past misdemeanours of public officials etc online and searchable
PE also very hard to read for us older dissidents – the type is way too small
Isn’t it a wonderful justice that the government’s defeat was confirmed by the bungling of Jacqui Smith whom Brown had earlier refused to sack for stealing from the public purse. To quote a co-conspirator, Fucking delicious.
Roll on the day that brings the headline ‘Guido Fawkes Gordon’.
It’ll be the Sun wot won it
where’s the champagne then?
Ah!
Ah! Ah!
The exquisite ecstasy of it
Your NEW name is….
Wait for it…
Guidoaf Orcs
Purr fecked!
It so, so, so, suits you sir!
Look in the mirror you ugly lick-spittle
….sigh
The Trolls have finally woken up
Council offices tea break must be over.
Ab sew lootly, sunshine and raring to go!
Regarding your lick-spittle friend
Guidoaf Orcs,
some further information:
Orcs are misshapen humanoids with sadistic, yet cowardly tendencies.
How very true.
Apprentice Baiter, you have been informed before – most posters on this blog have Google installed and are quite capable of using it, if they need to.
Thank you for your cuttee pastee activities but they really ain’t necessary.
Yes, but they still have nothing of use or interest to contribute. As per usual, yawn
Gosh, jolly funny. Thank you Oscar Wilde.
You’re a bit limp today; have some Sanatogen—
Sorry but Guidoaf Orcs is plural, not singular.
My name is Gandalf not Gandalfs for the simple fact that I am one person.
C’mon Derek, even you can do better than that.
No he’s right it’s Orcs, Guidoaf Orcs.
It comes from having a large, fat, lazy tongue.
Mind you that’s perfect for a semi-professional lick-spittle
dribble dribble, lick, lick.
“He’s” right??
It’s you, numbnuts, posting under another name.
doctor prick,
‘numbnuts’? hmm…. that’s one of my lines.
think up your own lines, eh, you fucking spastic.
fucking hell! here you are, slagging people off using other people’s stuff.
you really are a fucking wanker.
How’s the wrist today?
Welcome to the green eyed monster, and might I thank you on behalf of everyone here for your significant contribution to that hit count, and hence profit.
3 million hits to witness Labour being booted out of power, power which it clearly can’t handle, is a beautiful thing.
Encore encore.
Keep going lad! it’s beyond time that the system had a good kick in the ass!!
Ken Livingstone (this morning) says that Brown is now DDOOOOOMMED!Enter a new saviour?No, it couldn’t be….
Watching Brown and the New Labour cabinet implode is like watching an episode of The Apprentice but with uglier people. In the main the Westminster mob are also deeply unpleasant characters who are self-serving incompetents. There are just one or two slightly less ghastly individuals but there usefulness is strictly limited as they won’t take on the big boys and girls and try to keep a low profile.
And when it comes time to say ‘you’re fired’, Brown fits snugly into the role of that most odious individual whom you are certain deserves to go but is so mesmerisingly awful that maybe they should stay just another week for their addictive entertainment value.
Six degrees of separation
1. Dolly Draper
Has a straggly beard, AS HAS
2, Osama bin Laden
Who is partial to a greasy kebab AS IS
3. Jacqui Smith
Who wears a conical bra AS DOES
4. Madonna
Who once had a fling with Warren Beatty AS DID
5. Dame Freya Stark
Who has an Airedele dog, AS HAS
6. David Blunkett
Who has been reduced to scavenging his lunch out of dustbins AS HAS
7. Dolly Draper
You’d get 3 million hits in 1 day if you published in full the McBride emails
Come on Guido, you know it makes sense. It’s the right thing to do….
…says hard working families.
Guido, You do us a service, so enjoy the accolades. Thanks for all your efforts.
Being more profitable than the Guardian & Independent is nothing to get cocky about – I had a paper round where I managed that.
Just remember Guido, the Dear Leader is not going to go quietly;
he is an old fashioned dinosaur. It is death or glory, there is no retreat for him. (What would he do, he plotted for maybe 40 years for this power. There is no other position he wants or can ever contemplate). He will not ride off into the sunset to become a bankers harlot.
Accordingly, just wait for the re-emergence of a full time Alastair Campbell (you know, the guy who has played football with Pele and Maradona, and likes to give to charideeee.)
Watch your back son, he is truly evil. His first mission will be to go castrato on you.
You better also nobble Ed (like my hair?) Balls quick before he slips out of the latest noose hovering over him. Brown junior.
Interesting times…….
I am sorry,
but that haunted, washed up alcoholic has had his day.
He is now in that twilight world of being bought in to soft BBC programmes as a talking head.
His demons are gone, you can see it in his eyes.
Campbell is finished as a player. His conscience over Iraq & Dr Kelly probably tipped him over – all those dead civilians Alistair…it must haunt you
And he supports Burnley, which in itself must be enough to cause a man to go insane.
Guido…if I ever meet you, I’ll buy you a pint of Guinness. You deserve to pat yourself over the back and preen a little after the past month. That smug, pompous twat Ian Hislop must be asking himself…wtf is the point of his rag any more now that you’re ruling in the political gossip and investigations business!!
Exactly, and how many times has Guido been taken to court?
When Guido starts doing over the City, the police, PFI and local government then the Eye might have some competition.
Steady Guido, self praise is no praise. However, you are indeed the dog’s bollocks at the moment, and the nation owes you. Lots of us are assuming that you are in possession of other exciting emails, letters, pics etc to be revealed with the same timing as the McBride fun. I hope that we’re right. In particular, the..er..rocking horse
Lend me a score till I get straight!
dirty rat,
only if you promise you won’t spend it on crack.
or you will never get straight, now will you?
I will lend you a score but only on the condition that I come to the shops with you to make sure you don’t hook up with your crack dealer on the way.
Personal hygiene
I’ve just heard the old bogey eater recommend the importance of personal hygiene.
Barking
Guidoaf Orcs,
You are one ugly lick-spittle.
No wonder you didn’t want to show your face on your first outing on Newsnight.
Plastic surgery?
Guidoaf Orcs,
We have looks in common I know, but really your hits are small beer.
Is that the crackle of rigid bedsheets I hear?
Congratulations G.
How can you be more profitable than The Guardian, where the biggest and cleverest media scandal of recent times is labour channeling public sector job adds to The Guardian in return for favourable coverage. It’s been masterly executed. Hats off to Campbell and his friends for this con scheme – using taxpayers money to keep a paper afloat that trumpets labour’s achievements, if they deserve to be called that way.
Guido should start advocating that public sector job adds should be divided over all the newspapers and websites (perhaps also on Guido’s) and also advertised on a central government website to prevent clever covert buying of favourable coverage.
And Guido should expect his relative profitability to improve because a shrinking government purse will mean lower job adds revenue for The Guardian.
They still lose money.
A metaphor for the Labour Government.
Amusingly one of the few things that keeps the ship afloat is the business which lets people advertise second hand cars. Used to be a nice little earner for local newspapers. The part of the group which loses money is the bit which prints weepy articles about these poor local papers going to the wall because they’ve got no income.
Its loss making because its part of a charitable organisation, therefore maybe no surprise. i understand the group is incorporated offshore?
How about just not creating any more public sector jobs in the first place?
Now THAT’s a real fucking win-win.
*Applause*
Some one already suggested ANY government advertising should be entirely webbased, couldn’t agree more, its our money they waste.
Agreed. It’s practically criminal that The public sector has not followed the private sector in moving to web advertising. Cost of a 12 x 5 (i.e. standard sized ad) in the Sunday Times is about £12,000 (for one day); cost of an ad on a decent site like ExecAppointments is about £400 for a month.
But fuck it, it’s not the Human Resources Directors’ own money, it belongs to the NHS, local authorities and quangos. So that’s alright then.
Competitive tendering perhaps??
Sorry, out of sequence – Postal Vote 11.14 refers.
And how about cutting loose all those . .
Long
hugely expensive
tear-jerking
emotionally blackmailing
. . TV ads that solicit money for faux government jobs and orgs such as the animal / kids / weird kids ‘charities’ (sic) etc and all the ‘energy’ twaddle – especially as The Beloved Leader has
Abolished poverty
Done animal roits
Solved energy
Etc
fuck them all
(sorry folks – I used to be kind ‘n soft hearted – then this lying cheating crew took over)
The subsidy of the Labour propaganda machine that is the Guardian by the Govt (Nat and Local) via job advertising is one of the scandals of our age. Anyone wanting any of these jobs must be computer literate – there is therefore no reason to subsidise papers in this manner: a publicly owned website should be set up to advertise these jobs.
The website http://www.guardianlies.com has a big section on the Guardian Group and its tentacles in the PA and the local press, and the national press esp the Labourgraph via its printing operations. It’s required reading for anyone interested in how this group copntrols the Dead Tree Presses
I regard you as The Prime Minister of blogging and request a minesterial job in your cabinet.
PS – Guido, you do realise that you have some posts with more comments than read some of the Labour blogs?
Up early apprentice tosser ?
seconded
Subscriber since my 16th birthday – mum renews it every year as I only ever ask for booze and she balks at that. Fair enough really – difficult to imagine taking a relaxed dump without the Eye to browse (not the brown eye from under the glass table like our illustrious PM).
You’re missing an apostrophe.
No you’re not – sorry
I put an s on link by mistake though.
And if Nick Cohen’s article in Standpoint is correct, you deserve a medal for public service. I doubt if many of us realised how corrupt, supine and toadying the MSM has become. Can the telescopic sights now shift to Ed Balls?
I just read that article and I would advise everyone else to do so.It is linked on the top of the blog.
Like the majority of his risible profession, Squire Cohen is a little late out of the traps. His article is also shot through with half-hearted apologetics for client journalism and too much bigging up of his air-kissing mates … dear, dear Martin Bright … dear, dear Martin Amis … Lobby simply marvellous marvellous people, dahling. Go and have a lie down, you clapped out old soak.
Can’t be bothered to provide a direct link?
Sorry,non-techie.It’s an age thing.
‘Ere stop messin’ about !!
Thought you’d overslept
Have you ever thought about dropping the quote marks?
Can the telescopic sights now shift to Ed’s Balls?
You need telescopes, not telescopic sights
Could giving birth in the Balls household be considered the equivilant of
“dropping a bollock”?
Just wondering?
Yvette, darling, how would you like to be married to the Prime Minister?
I still cannot understand all this talk about Edwin, and wanting to see his dangly bits.
I’ve told you before, I had him seen to long ago. And I’d like to again remind you, since then, in the absence of his own, he’s spoken nothing but bollocks. Remember the Neo-Endogenous drivel?
That’s why they gave him ed-yer-kay-shun, and why he gets on so well there.
He’ll be Leader one day.
I’m glad you are making a profit.
In the last few weeks you have done
a wonderful job weaning me off
imbecilic Facebook applications.
Yup. I’ve put the Wii back in it’s box.
Can I be your friend, I’ve lost all of mine.
And I’ve weaned myself off horseracing forums with all their childish feuding
I’m punting in profit now too!
Congratulations – its been great fun – long may it last
Never mind all the figures and stat porn – LET ME THROUGH I TELL YOU!
I INSIST ON BEING HEARD!!!
Speaking as a High Profile member of this discredited, bankrupt, lying, and deceitful government, I would like to thank taxpayers for my lovely Bathplug!
It fits beautifully and stays put where I want it, is nice and shiny with little dimples, and slips in lovely.
Well done. Really well done. But you shouldn’t forget to thank the MSM for not doing their job and giving you this opportunity to do it for them.
Please don’t sell out and become just another media whore.
Any chance of the caption comp today Guido?
Guido, here’s an idea. Many of your readers would like to buy you a drink. I, for example, rarely get to London, so would find that difficult.
So how about setting up a “buy Guido a drink” button on your site so that we can buy you a drink, if not have a drink with you in your local?
The genius of this blog is its capture of the zeitgeist: disenchantment with a tired and panicky government in a recession…
The test of the blog will be its response to the years of subsequent Conservative government – will, at his time of life, the author choose to think of stability and pensions and take the Tory equivalent of a nice advisor/quango/ etc. sinecure?
Or will he stay true to his acid house libertarian routes and continue to rage? (Nick Cohen did after Labour’s victory – does that risk looking one-paced?)
Or will he struggle and start looking less zeitgeist-catching and more personally promoting? Compare Adriana Huffington’s response to Obama’s victory….
Do we really have to?
Have to what? Think of the future? Think of Adriana Huffington?
Avoid gnomic anonymous comments?
shut up
act like tits?
Have you been reading the TES?
No, I only read the LRB and the FT.
avoid acronyms?
No less than TWO “zeitgeists”.Are you a refugee from the Grauniad or from an Arts column?
No, I’m a philologist. Reading a lot of German at the moment…
Speaking of words, there are four different responses to the tone of my comment, and none to its content. Does no-one give a shit?
FEWER id you please.
Nothing is more annoying to us Eng Lang grads than the confusion of LESS and FEWER!
Hat tip
If Brown stays in the bunker, you’ll be looking at even higher figures for next month as the gaffs continue apace
There’s definitely a spring in my step today. Green shoots? Certainly not. Just the sight of McBust sinking fast and taking HMS NuLiebour with him. What unalloyed joy!
(HMS stands for Her Majesty’s Shitbags of course.)
3M – can I put in an FOI request for the number contributed by Master Baiter?
Don’t dither over the elections Guido. You saw what happened to Gordo after he shunned to face the electorate in 2007!
And Guido, beware those postal votes! I know you’re on the case, but postal votes will be the feauture of the next elections.
Daily Politics live chat starting at midday today: The Daily Politics live chat starting now
By the way Guido, don’t trumpet your blog’s success too much. Draper and McBride may apply for an apprenticeship! That would create what economists call ‘diminishing returns to scale’.
Has anyone seen my camel?
You’re sitting on it.
Your IP address has been logged.
@Local Authority District Auditor
‘Ere stop messin about!
Found it! Now, has anyone seen my cock?
Never mind your cock, has anyone seen Mike Hunt?
Dickens’ Micawber: who frequently asserted that ‘something will turn up’.
The Micawber principle: synonymous with someone who lives in hopeful expectation.
Remind you of anyone?
Keep it up Guido.
Blogs like these have a pulverizing effect on corrupt politicians and their sycophantic lobbies alike and have been seen to achieve notable results.
Toynbee, Sir Michael, Kevin Maguire etc on the other hand achieve… not much!
Haven’t heard from Draper for some time. To keep that gobshite’s mouth shut for even a microsecond is an achievement in itself.
Coooo-eeeee!
Yo Guido.
As a lifelong Liberal Democrat, grandson of a Gurkha brigadier (J.S. Vickers DSO and bar), and uncle to a half-Nepali nephew, I would like to be able to cheer my party’s emphatic victory over the issue of the Gurkhas’ “right” to settle in the UK.
However, I have grave misgivings – particularly over what this outcome may mean for Nepal.
Here in the UK, well-meaning middle-class types see the Gurkhas as stalwart servants of the Crown shamefully denied certain “rights” assumed to apply to all who take the Queen’s shilling. However, the Gurkhas are mercenaries recruited under a 200-year-old treaty with Nepal that specifies no “right” to settle in the UK.
Back in Nepal, British Gurkhas (a larger contingent serve in the Indian army) are regarded by fellow-Nepalis as a privileged elite. Balancing the envy and resentment that this causes in some quarters, however, is the undoubted contribution that many retired Gurkhas make to their home communities, as investors and civic leaders.
Inviting British Gurkhas to retire to the UK, rather than returning home, therefore risks unpicking another piece of the extremely frayed fabric of Nepali society. In this situation, an effective Nepali government (if such a body emerges from the current political confusion) might well want to reconsider allowing Britain to continue to recruit Gurkhas. What’s in it for Nepal?
There can be no doubting the incalculable contribution that the Gurkhas have made to Britain – my grandfather testified to the terrifying effect they had on the Japanese in Burma. But our admiration for their bravery should not blind us to the fact that they are mercenaries recruited on an entirely different basis from other soldiers in the British Army. Commonwealth soldiers are subjects of the Queen – Gurkhas are not.
We may be uncomfortable with the “mercenary” tag, but before we congratulate ourselves on this week’s “moral” victory in the House of Commons, I would urge all concerned to spare a thought for Nepal.
Back in Nepal, British Gurkhas (a larger contingent serve in the Indian army) are regarded by fellow-Nepalis as a privileged elite. Balancing the envy and resentment that this causes in some quarters, however, is the undoubted contribution that many retired Gurkhas make to their home communities, as investors and civic leaders.
Inviting British Gurkhas to retire to the UK, rather than returning home, therefore risks unpicking another piece of the extremely frayed fabric of Nepali society. In this situation, an effective Nepali government (if such a body emerges from the current political confusion) might well want to reconsider allowing Britain to continue to recruit Gurkhas. What’s in it for Nepal?
There can be no doubting the incalculable contribution that the Gurkhas have made to Britain – my grandfather testified to the terrifying effect they had on the Japanese in Burma. But our admiration for their bravery should not blind us to the fact that they are mercenaries recruited on an entirely different basis from other soldiers in the British Army. Commonwealth soldiers are subjects of the Queen – Gurkhas are not.
We may be uncomfortable with the “mercenary” tag, but before we congratulate ourselves on this week’s “moral” victory in the House of Commons, I would urge all concerned to spare a thought for Nepal.
I was at school with Prince Dipendra of Nepal. I can remember walking to Rugby practice with him and he said:
“You know what I like to do in the holidays TAG? I like to fuck horses.”
He went on to murder most of his family before turning the gun on himself.
Lovely chap.
Did he stand on a box or was he a Shetland pony kinda guy
This isn’t, or should not be, a party-political matter, so your cheering for the LiDems is unwelcome.The Gurkhas are not mercenaries; they swear allegiance to the Crown and wear British Army uniforms.It is also clearly the will of the people of this country that they be given right of abode in this country
I never cease to be amazed at the blinkered views of the Politariat. They are so entrenched in their old ways of power that they cannot see what’s happening. Their rotten old self-bloating structure of politicians/spin doctors/captive media is finally falling apart, thanks to the blogosphere and, in particular, the likes of Guido. The power of the Internet is growing exponentially and we (the people, the masses, the lumpen proletariat, the voters – call us what you like, use rude words if you have to, it doesn’t bother me) are finally getting a say.
IMHO the only thing that can stop this tide is government control of the Internet. But of course that will never happen, will it?
Samizdat doesn’t need internet technology
It damn well helps. The Soviets lost control of Eastern Europe and their own people largely thanks to the fax machine and the photocopier. ‘Star Wars’ helped too of course. Not that they are much better now, but at least they can get out!
Well done Guido,
I’vebeen reading your blog for ages and it’s great that all your effort is now paying off.
Keep going as more and more people will make you the first port of call for the real political picture….but watch your back as iffy things happen to those who rock the establishment boat too much.
Regards,
Dextershut.
BBC has reported on the petition – good work Guido.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8028367.stm
Ooooh! and they’ve given a link to the petitions website
This one also needs some signatures to help Jacqboots on her way:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/smithshame/
yep, but it wasn’t open for comment
Can anyone let me know on the HR situation for one of my employees who has signed the “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to carry on leading this great country of ours” petition.
And her name has not been removed yet as a joke!
If she’s pregnant you’re buggered
If she’s old you’re buggered
If she’s a dyke you’re buggered
If she’s an ethnic you’re buggered
Otherwise, invoke insanity as a just cause for instant dismissal
And you’re even more buggered if she did it as part of her trade union activities.
(Remember who Gordon’s paymasters are.)
Off topic and pedantry to boot.
But is anyone else slightly miffed at the headlines “Brown has lost it”
Doesn’t this phrase rather infer he had it in the first place?
I take exception to that.
The guy’s always been a bully and an oaf.
On topic – great work Guido.
Brown’s development stalled at some point in his teens or early 20′s. He is unable to stop playing student union games for political points. Other politicians mature into statesmen – Brown has been unable to achieve this.
I was at school with Prince Dipendra of Nepal. I can remember walking to Rugby practice with him and he said:
“You know what I like to do in the holidays TAG? I like to fuck horses.”
He went on to murder most of his family before turning the gun on himself.
Lovely chap.
Good to know those afternoons at the CCF weren’t entirely wasted then.
Seems like a nice boy!
Well done Guido, keep up the good work.
Am I to assume that you will be showing your gratitude to each of your 347,994 visitors in the form of a pint of Guinness each?
Guidoaf Orks
It certainly has a ring to it.
Don’t talk to me about Guidoaf Orks.
OT
The living Toby Jug, Charles Clarke, has told the BBC recent events have made him “ashamed” to be a Labour MP.
Nobody’s holding a gun to your head Charlie.
keep calm and shut up
hmm, toby jug as a stalking horse…but has he the trousers for it?
That Nick Cohen article is well worth a read. I have issues with Coehen, with regard to Iraq, but that’s a brutally necessary article. The big issue is of course, why didn’t he write it before Guido broke the story?
Brown is sheer insane poison. he’s got to go, for the good of the country this madman must be removed from power. Cleanest method: Liz should dissolve parliament.
Agreed. Nock Cohen’s article should be mandatory reading for everyone.
That would be Nick…..oops
I’ve just been reading about Chilperic, a Merovingian king who:
‘…ransacked and burned his own country, hated the poor, and had the eyes put out of anyone who did not do as he was told.’
It reminded me of someone…..
(It would be in poor taste to suggest that the contemporary chap I have in mind set an example by sacrificing one of his own eyes. So I shan’t.)
Random smiling Brown strikes again
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8028775.stm
God it’s awful.
Flu strikes the country killing people, and Brown is smiling. Is he a complete social misfit?
“It started across the world….we’re best placed….”
Oh do us all a favour and just fuck off
Or preferably contract Swine Flu and be wiped out.
Dysfunctional Facial Emotional Expression and Comprehension in a Patient with Corticobasal Degeneration
We describe a patient who developed a facial apraxia including an impaired ability to voluntarily generate facial expressions with relative sparing of spontaneous emotional faces. Her ability to interpret the facial expressions of others was also severely impaired. Despite these deficits, the patient had normal affect and normal speech, including expressive and receptive emotional prosody. As patients with corticobasal degeneration are known to manifest both orofacial apraxia and visuospatial dysfunction this patient’s expressive and receptive deficits may be independent manifestations of the same underlying disease process. Alternatively, these functions may share a common neuroanatomic substrate that degenerates with CBD.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a779525204~db=all
The first thing to do is to identify whether you have been in Mexico… Well, you are hardly likely to forget that, are you Mr Brown
What a stupid stupid thing to say. Mind you it was nicely offset by the flashes of idiot grin that kept darting across his face.
What an utter, utter Huhne he is!
Up and at ‘em Guards!
Er, sorry, typo’, I meant Guido.
Guidoaf Orcs,
Not a squeak about MPs expenses and it’s your big theme, won’t your readers be disappointed?
Of course you haven’t received your faxed instruction from Conservatvie HQ have you?
Fax? My, aren’t we McBrideys up with the technology.
It’s not easy to hack a fax.
You should try it.
‘Hack a fax’ hmmmm
Fax technology has existed for over 100 years.It travels along telephone lines, to numbers which can be misdialled and of course tapped, “but only on grounds of National Security” like your sanity, Pure Rile
Faxes don’t reside anywhere unlike an email which does on the servers that an email passes through. Hacking servers is easy. Tapping lines risks being discovered. Plus you’d have to catch the fax as it’s delivered, which is further complicated since a fax can be from any number to any number.
Faxes are a lot safer.
Never heard of ocr?
Perhaps a bit modern for a real socialist…………………………..
Gordon Brown and a Flying Mobile!
http://delivernothinglabourparty.blogspot.com/2009/04/but-birth-pang-to-new-mobile-phone.html
That picture is funny!
Guido should stick it up as the Friday caption competion unless he has something better!
Martin will think it is funny as he gets no hits compared to Guido!
Well done mate.
Its Friday, the sun is shining and I’m going for a pint or six.
CHEERS
MPs outside earnings deadline 1 July 2009.
Joe Blow, Wow these Tory MPs make a lot of money from outside jobs.
Gwen Blow, Yes look how many hours they work at other jobs.
Joe Blow, Did you see Frank Skinner rip in to that chinless Tory on Question Time?
Gwen Blow, yes, he’s a good laugh, it reminded me of the Eric Pickles man
Joe Blow, Cup of tea?
Gwen Blow, Yes please
Joe Blow, I’ll put the kettle on
1 July 2009
Is that like accepting cash for legislation?Or is it more like MP’s claiming “expenses”?
Isn’t that when all those nice Labour MPs’ wives find out about their dalliances? Or is when we, the public, get to see the excesses of certain Ministers in all their glory?
Swine fever / May Day marches
Connection?
Guido
We read you in France now…You are an international star…
Bloody marvellous…A remarkable achivement…Keep it up…
A little idea- how about floating your blog on AIM (only a minority)..so that we can keep ypou in Guinness and cigars fore the rest of your life…and manipulate the Guido Blog share price to give you (and us) “bonuses ” ?!
Best wishes to Ms Guido and the girls…
Your friend Nicolas Sarkozy…
PS. Please do not forget to put the full frontal nude of my lovely wife on your Tooty Watch…She can be found in her birthday suit at sarkozynews.canalblog.com/albums….She knocks the tits off all that vulgar pussy that the Berlusconi is putting around…
then I will send you beautiful photos of my ministers…chosen for their brains and good looks…and provocation…with taste…
We read you in Ireland too. JD.
Guido, well done. But over 50 million people have viewed Susan Boyle on You Tube. You’ve got to grow bushy eye brows and learn to sing…
Do you think there will be a Blogger of the Year Award? we do seem to have awards for everything else. Well done Guido I love your site,
Oh dear the BBC’s HYS function has crashed after giving readers the option to comment on Gordon’s lost nous.
They are posting them in a big list instead – http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8028108.stm
Hilarious
I suppose a walk in the countryside is out of the question now?
+++ WARNING WARNING BBC SPEAKING TRUTH++++
Slightly O/T but just read this on the beebs news site… ol’ Jug-Ears Clarke is stickin the boot into the Hoon.. and the bbc reported…
“Asked how he felt, as one of the founding figures of New Labour, to see the party apparently falling apart, he said: “It’s absolutely terrible.
“There have been things that have been done recently which have made me feel ashamed to be a Labour Member of Parliament, which was something I never ever wanted to be in. “
i nearly choked on my early afternoon pint… the BBC actually admitting to the wheels coming off the Labour dream… time for a lie down….
of course pride comes before a fall, once the Tories are in it’s game over
“HarmanPride?”
Guido is an essential daily read. What would we do without you!
Congratulations and thanks, Guido. Your work is much appreciated.
It’s a thumbs up for citizen journalism and bloggers!
Congratulations – more power to your elbow. JD.
NO TO LISBON MEANS NO TO LISBON!
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theres no such word as ‘NO’ in Europe, JD… the Irish will be asked to vote again and again till the poor fuckers vote yes just for a quiet life…
but will be interesting to see the political landscape after the June elections…
Over on Iain Dale there seems to be reliable information that a number of local Labour parties are betting on their own party coming in THIRD in the Euro elections next month.Wonder where they got that idea from, betting against their own party? W
Well done Geeds, you deserve it (just stay away from the light!)
Geeds?
No no, please no. He’s not a footballer.
To all the once, oh-so-cool, lefty ‘radicals’ now pontificating from the pages of the broadsheets, let me tell you that you are now the grandad telling the kids that pink floyd is where it is at. You are now very uncool and worse than that, you have been exposed as intellectually dishonest and self-serving. Guido has threatened your cosy little world and there will be thousands of Guidos to take his place should he get put off or get bored. In the age of the internet, you have to be authentic if you want to be respected.
Well played, Guido. Congrats on your new-found fame and fortune.
You only need another high profile scalp or two, and the MSM will have no option but to take you, and others like you, VERY seriously.
Keep on bashing the bastards.
aside from the format, you are also a member of the commentariat guido, albeit you create such a deal that there is some huge difference between you and polly and jenkins etc. They may be part of the dead tree press, but you should not believe your own spin about being any different: your are a viewmeister like them, and unless you remember that you will lose your leading position.
Doesn’t Johnathan Pearce trying to ingratiate make you want to throw up?
Get back to the bunker.
“Toenails Robinson, jug ears Marr, fatty Toynbee, Mark (Sheena) Easton, John Pinhead, Polly Toynbee, big nose geordie twat, your boys took a hell of a beating”
Guido is the new king. Suck it up dead tree journalists.
It is obvious that you are loved Guido, but stay away from the woods.
This outcome – the web and its bloggers win – is not surprising.
It’s market forces at work. Evolution.
Newspapers respond of course to what people want, but they are insensitive responders compared to the vast number of highly granular and widely varing offerings of the web.
Essentially, people can more easily find what they like on the web; the web is more responsive to what people want.
Consequently, newspapers are out-evolved; they are inherently unable to respond as promptly or accurately to what people want and so people prefer the web.
Thus we find Guido a new and still growing leader and pronouncer of public feeling.
Also of course newspapers, being rather static, experience a form of regulatory capture and become the establishment. People know this – but in the past, what could they do? change newspaper?
When a blogger suffers regulatory capture, people simply stop reading.
The web is the Press 2.0.
I’d also point at the economics of the situation. Newspapers are expensive. They require funding – advertising. Advertising is shrinking and newspapers are loosing money.
Guido spends almost nothing on this blog (although of course he bears opportunity costs).
In terms of viewship per pound, the popular blogs are many orders of magnitude more effective than newspapers; and we’re not talking about low numbers for blog readerships generating distorting figures.
Anyone fancy a pint?
If we all got together for a pint it may start a revolution!
Can’t say I agree with your politics Guido, still I regard you as one of only a pitiful few credible sources of information available to us peons in this soft totalitarian state we call home. Long may it continue… Sir, I salute you!
[...] unique visitor count was 2,861, around 1% of Guido’s, or 15% of Tom Harris’s. Charlotte Gore’s blog had a little over 50% more ‘unique [...]
“1,382,879 visits by 347,994 visitors” in a month.
How are those individual visitors calculated? I get a different IP address every time I log on… me and well over 347,994 other people… So, say I visited once every day… (I don’t but i visited several times on that scan Sunday you promised us more revelations… waited… visited… waited… sigh)… anyway… going on IP addresses the figure for me would be exaggerated by x30…
So we could only be talking 11,000 people here….
Yeah, whatever.
I want my life back.
http://www.economicspoliticsandotherstuff.blogspot.com
Came here for the McBride stench but stayed for the Hilarious ToryBoys. And BTW for those with the memory of a goldfish Blair was a Liar and a Hypocrite also up to his neck in sleaze, peerage money and Banker cash and rightly despised by the public for it. So anyone being a cheerleader for “the heir to Blair” had best remember that Cameron isn’t going to reverse the 50p Tax rate no matter how hard you stamp your feet. Brown IS all but done though. Even Mandy is fresh out of wheezes to try and save the Euro Elections.
Remember, do not become the story. Do not become the target. Let the stupid do your taking for you. By 2036 the project will be completed, then the likes of you will end up having to leave. Take care.
No one can accuse you of false modesty! You seem to be the equivalent of a newly painted cruise liner pulling into a workaday port with ribands strung from every vantage point, lights ablaze and blasting its horn. No wonder the dirty old tramp steamers are giving you nasty looks.
As for the Guinness, I hope it doesn’t do to your intestinal workings what it did to mine when I had a penchant for it!!
Guido,
Please do continue to indulge in the Guinness (responsibly). After all we need your perspective, everyone needs their vitamins, and I need my dividend cheque!
Cordielment,
R.
Keep it up
We are all behind you.
Smells realy bad in here…
Keep up the good work – great humour and insights are what we need more of in this country. Rgds Vince