Sketchup
A selection of lines from parliamentary sketch-writers.
At the Iraq inquiry as Tony Blair's former chief of staff Jonathan Powell gave evidence, has revised his opinion of the committee led by Sir John Chilcott:
"We oiks who'd been throwing vegetables at the committee for its pre-Christmas performances felt a bit abashed. The questioning which had been so mandarin had suddenly become demotic."
has little praise for those appearing in front of the committee:
"The long list of former big-shots in the Blair regime giving evidence to the Iraq Inquiry leaves a flavour not unlike Saddam's ex-clowns and mass murderers being paraded in that court in Baghdad."
was in south-east London with David Cameron as he made a speech about education in which he pledged to encourage the highest qualified graduates to become teachers:
"He loves Teach First and is creating something called Teach Now, which, I think we can agree, sounds better than Teach Sometimes in the Future When I'm Too Tired to Do my Real Job."
In the House of Commons, MPs were discussing product placement in TV programmes. reckons that the support shown by culture, media and sport ministers for the idea might not be so positive should it be applied to other areas of the arts:
"If the ending of La Bohème was rewritten so that instead of dying in an ice-cold garret, Mimi was saved through the installation of safe, reliable gas central heating. Or if Lady Macbeth could get rid of the stain of blood with the help of a leading biological washing powder. Or if Tate Britain made a bit of extra cash by painting a Vauxhall Astra onto Constable's The Hay Wain?"
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