No Political Clout
No. 5: Giles Coren
Thursday, July 31st, 2008GC and GB: two douchebags with a massively over-inflated sense of their own merits who are prone to tantrums and bullying of subordinates. And then those self-same subordinates enjoy a modicum of revenge by leaking evidence of that utter douchebaggery to the press.
Coren, though, is a moderately talented writer who can narrow down to four [...]
No. 4: Dead Men Walking
Monday, July 21st, 2008Rather like Hamid Karzai and Nouri al-Maliki.
They may be in charge of two of the world’s most unstable and dangerous places on earth; and they may be high on the “most likely to be assassinated” list. But they don’t give off the voter-scaring bad vibes that aspiring commander in chief Barack Obama detects in Brown. [...]