It might be just me, and the amount I’m reading and watching the news at the moment, but things feel a bit despairingly bleak right now. In terms of politics I mean, and the future of the UK and world. I’m writing this just before today’s latest probably cut filled budget is announced, homelessness has […]
TAGGED WITH: Hampshire County Council, home office, Julian Lewis MP, Mad Max, NHS, Parliament, Partly Political Broadcast, podcast, Politics, satire, SOCC Hampshire, The Queen CATEGORISED BY:#partlybigsociety Blog Catherine Ovenden Education News UK General Election 2015: Why you should for…1. The Conservative Party April 6th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebWith only a few weeks till the UK general election, I thought it might be useful to do a series of, ahem, partisan blogs explaining exactly why you might want to vote for each party. If you’d like a more sensible view do check out Rick Edwards’ excellent new book ‘None Of The Above‘ which […]
TAGGED WITH: Grant Shapps, housing, Iain Duncan Smith, Institute Of Fiscal Studies, NHS, Politics, satire, tiernan douieb, vote, welfare CATEGORISED BY:Aafzal Amin Andy Coulson benefits Blog businesses campaign Comedy Conservatives David Cameron General Election 2015 George Osborne News I Vote For Voting May 18th, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebI was talking to a chiropractor at a wedding yesterday. Yes I know that’s a lot of info to take in right there but there’s no need for you to have anything other information about the situation than that. Though it should be known that it was a lovely day and my good friend Jacqui […]
TAGGED WITH: human rights, Jurassic Park, King Kong, Labour, Liberal Democrats, NHA Party, NHS, Partly Political Broadcast, Politics, The Green Party, Thursday, tiernan douieb, UKIP, voting CATEGORISED BY:Ben Hilton Blog Comedy Conservatives environmental problems Euro Elections Godzilla News Funny Thoughts January 26th, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebThere are many problems with comedy, and one of the main ones is constantly being obsessed with overthinking about it and working out exactly what it is we are all meant to be doing. This is pretty much what leads to all the other problems of comedy and were any of us that are involved […]
TAGGED WITH: Keith Farnan, May, NHA, NHS, Paul McCaffrey, Rufus Hound, thinking, tiernan douieb CATEGORISED BY:Blog Chris Coltrane Comedy Edinburgh Fringe EU Euro Elections football hooligan News My Slanderous Blog March 27th, 2012 by Tiernan DouiebThis post was meant to be on the Huffington Post this week, but er, legally, cos of the things it says in it. So, knowing full well it contains libel and probably slander, here it is, in full form. Enjoy! btw it was written on Sunday so sorry if its out of date about anything. […]
TAGGED WITH: Iain Duncan Smith, NHS, Nick Clegg, Pinky and The Brain, Robin Hood, tiernan douieb, Warner Brothers CATEGORISED BY:Big Brother Blog Channel 5 Coalition Comedy Conservatives David Cameron George Orwell Government News Ranty Rant Rant November 12th, 2011 by Tiernan DouiebI’m a whole bundle of vexed this morning. Not sure what a bundle of vexed would be like but I suspect it to be like the creature in Brett Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park. If haven’t read that, imagine Gnasher trying to eat himself. That’s probably about right. Why such rage oh Tiernan? Well blogees, let […]
TAGGED WITH: Hague, NHS, Osborne, political, Politics, tiernan douieb CATEGORISED BY:Army Audience Blog Cameron Comedy compere crisis Cuts Eurozone News YM4J (+ bonus real time update) November 3rd, 2011 by Tiernan DouiebI wrote this blog earlier today, but wi-fi let me down by being less omnipresent than I always assume it is. As far as I’m concerned, wi-fi is the closest real thing that acts like the idea of God as possible. It is many places, it provides an incredible wealth of services and it somehow […]
TAGGED WITH: Joe Wells, NHS, pensions, tiernan douieb, TUC, Youth March 4 Jobs CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy David Cameron DWP News Judging The Mice November 1st, 2011 by Tiernan DouiebIf today I was a song, I’d be Stevie Wonder’s ‘Travelling Man’. I mean I am, nearly everyday ‘True O.G’ by Ice-T but as well as that. I’m also a song that describes the extent to which today, I have been travelling. I haven’t gone very far. No. Just from Galway to Shannon, Shannon to […]
TAGGED WITH: NHS, Reading, tiernan douieb CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Dylan Moran Galway Galway Comedy Festival News Twitriol October 22nd, 2011 by Tiernan DouiebMy routine in the morning, generally, is to wake up and before I do anything else, check my phone for any overnight correspondence. I realise this is quite sad. Some of you probably have a cup of tea first or use the loo, but in today’s day and age where I may as well have […]
TAGGED WITH: Green Party, NHS, Stephen Fry, tiernan douieb, twitter CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Conservatives David Cameron Derren Brown Ed Balls News Lansley, Tosser October 14th, 2011 by Tiernan DouiebI was going to try my best today to write about something other than Andrew Lansley and the NHS but its very difficult. I hate very much that such a loathsome man has taken over not only this week’s blogs but generally much of my thinking for the past week. It’s reached such an extent […]
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