Friday forecast
I think everyone's a bit demoralised and enervated after that "Road to Guantanamo" fiasco, so chomp down a couple of bruschetta, take a few swigs of your favourite Oddbins special and restore courage with the Friday Forecast competition!
My guesses:
Nick, Obs: Elizabeth Cheney broadcasting to Iranians and how the Left hate it because they're ani-Semites or something.
Aaro: Dubai Ports World, basically a rewrite of Gerard Baker's piece in the same newspaper, but not so bloody boring.
Nick, Standard: Same as the Observer. Freddie Flintoff's new baby.
My guesses:
Nick, Obs: Elizabeth Cheney broadcasting to Iranians and how the Left hate it because they're ani-Semites or something.
Aaro: Dubai Ports World, basically a rewrite of Gerard Baker's piece in the same newspaper, but not so bloody boring.
Nick, Standard: Same as the Observer. Freddie Flintoff's new baby.
posted by The Rioja Kid at 3/10/2006 02:50:00 PM
8 Comments:
Difficult one this week, with no obvious Harry's Place steer.
I think
CohenOb - I think he'll attack Malcom Wicks and David Cameron for installing wind turbines on their houses, use it to denegrate the whole idea of renewable energy, and the liberal left. The government report into cities. George Clooney.
Aaro - Something to do with Hastings.
NickES - I think he'll attack Malcom Wicks and David Cameron for installing wind turbines on their houses, use it to denegrate the whole idea of renewable energy, and the liberal left. The government report into cities. George Clooney.
Nick Obs: I go for International Women's Day in Teheran, demonstrators being beaten up by regime loyalists and how this shows the moral bankruptcty of the liberal left intelligensia. ("The people you would have thought of as their natural comrades were busy toasting President Ahmadinejad at their fashionable dinner parties ...")
Failing that, I go for some other event X and how that shows the moral bankruptcy of the liberal left intelligensia. But I suspect that's cheating.
Nick Obs: I go for International Women's Day in Teheran, demonstrators being beaten up by regime loyalists and how this shows the moral bankruptcty of the liberal left intelligensia. ("The people you would have thought of as their natural comrades were busy toasting President Ahmadinejad at their fashionable dinner parties ...")
Failing that, I go for some other event X and how that shows the moral bankruptcy of the liberal left intelligensia. But I suspect that's cheating.
Failing that, I go for some other event X and how that shows the moral bankruptcy of the liberal left intelligensia. But I suspect that's cheating.
Not cheating, just a recognition of a boilerplate, cut/paste NC column (think of it as an each-way bet)
DA - Education bill vote or Legislative and Regulartory 'Reform' bill (if a domestic column); Abu Ghraib (if international)
NC (Observer): another kicking for Rowan Pelling as part of a 'Nick does smut' rant; a rant against the Newsnight piece on how Britain helped Israel get the Bomb (and why Iran shouldn't have it)
NC (ES): grammar schools (if the Education Bill vote has happened by them)
I think it'll be the Oscars for Nick in the Obs, specifically an Oliver Kamm lift on the failure of Hollywood to advance Black Americans in comparison with the army. Although that was a Times column by Kamm, which makes the lift more difficult.
Maybe also Ming Campbell, and his failure to show solidarity with Iraqi democrats.
Ming Campbell is going to be a top target for Cohen or Aaronovitch, but probably not just yet.
Ming Campbell is going to be a top target for Cohen or Aaronovitch, but probably not just yet.
I dunno; if Cohen did Ming this week, it would fit my theory that he's sometimes a little bit topical, but not quite so topical as to cover the last three or four days' news in his column (which might suggest he writes it midweek).
I think he was probably expecting a Huhne win so he could riff on his call for a deadline for withdrawal of troops from Iraq. But Ming is still anti-war, albeit more equivocally so, so he'll have to do.
"Failing that, I go for some other event X and how that shows the moral bankruptcy of the liberal left intelligensia..."
This was really what was so unpleasant about his column this week. I doubt we'll be hearing much from Nick about the Sudan when it doesnt give him this opportunity. I say, Slobo this time, perhaps with the theme that there was a time wyhen the liberals hadnt "sold out", thogh he may try for a smear by retrospectively identifying "the liberal left" as a whole with the Neil Clarke tendency.
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