Banditry » Not at all sarcastic http://www.johnband.org/blog The idle musings of John B Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:36:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= en hourly 1 On Jeremy ‘rhyming slang’ Hunt http://www.johnband.org/blog/2010/06/30/on-jeremy-rhyming-slang-hunt/ http://www.johnband.org/blog/2010/06/30/on-jeremy-rhyming-slang-hunt/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:17:47 +0000 John B http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=925 Yes, that was a really stupid thing to say in an interview.

On the plus side, it’s good to see the people of Liverpool dispelling their unfair stereotype as past-obsessed whiners by ignoring an irrelevant off-the-cuff aside about something that happened a generation ago.

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(better Begbie clips happily received. It took me long enough to track that one down…)

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Would throbbing multicultural London (population seven and a half million) be a better place if it were more like genteel riverside Henley-on-Thames (population ten thousand)? So I headed upriver to Henley at the weekend to find out. And what do you know, I think Boris has it sorted.

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