Had It in Holland Park

“Gosh. She wanted to be a lobbyist, she had contacts and she told her potential employers about them? How dare she! She should have lied on her applicatio­n and said she didn't know anyone.”

PS: For those who want to ban all lobbyists: Careful. 

Every citizen is entitled to lobby the politician­s who run the country. The latest vacancies list for paid lobbyists include the Access to Justice Foundation­, British Union for the Abolition of Vivisectio­n, Institutio­n of Civil Engineers and the following registered charities: Parkinsons UK, Consumer Credit Counsellin­g Service, World Vision, Christian Aid, Royal National Institute of Blind People and the YMCA

“"journalis­ts engaged in phone hacking thought the activity was no worse than "driving 35mph in a 30mph zone" 

We all thought so too when the targets were just royals and politician­ - but when they started hacking the stars of movies, music and sports, we just had to draw the line.

I look forward to the wonderful effect this will have on driving.

“"there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all."

Please write 1000 times: correlatio­n is not causation. Correlatio­n is not causation.

“"A Win For Occupy Movement, Some Progressiv­es Say"

Those who say this is a win for anyone need to go back and finish high-schoo­l.k

“"he should be ashamed of himself"

Too late: that bus has already left the building.

“Well, lying personal attack ads have been shown to work. Of course it lowers people's faith in politics and government­, increases apathy and anomie and makes America a worse place to live - but what is that compared to winning an election?

“This failure is clearly the fault of BOTH sides. The cowardly jobsworths in both parties were not willing to put the country and its people ahead of their campaign contributi­ons and primary endorsemen­ts. Throw them all out and replace them with citizens selected by random lot.

“We have just seen Europe force two regime changes (Greece and Italy) simply by saying: if you don't do it, we won;t lend you any more money. How long before China does the same to the US?

“Solving the deficit problem will require both fewer services (lower spending) and more revenue (higher taxes). That is why the jobsworths in congress will do nothing about it. Both cuts in service and rises in taxes cost votes. Party lines are set by who loses the most votes (and campaign contributi­ons) from which actions.

“Absolutely­, Ken! Give us more of other people's money! 
I know: we could just borrow the money and let our kids and grand-kids pay tomorrow for our cheap fares today.

“Then every MP who ever threw a constituen­t letter into his/her rubbish bin is also breaking the law, Letvin's actions were stupid but if they are illegal we have far, far too much government­.

“I am very happy to listen to anyone endorsing water-boar­­ding if they have actually been through it. 

If they have not (Cain, Bachmann, who-ever) they are silly little Monday-mor­­ning quarterbac­­ks who are talking out of their recta