Ken Livingstone suspended for four weeks.
Oi! Give us back our mayor!
I’m really quite angry about this. He was rude and offensive to a journalist. An annoying prick of a journalist who was making an arsehole of himself. And clearly someone who can give it out but cannot take it, which is a hypocrisy I cannot bear. Why should he apologise for hurting his feelings? Go cry at home Oliver Finegold. Being Jewish doesn’t exempt you from insult, and it’s actually quite offensive to others that you believe you can use your religion\race to duck behind your own shortcomings as a human being. Fuck you.
(Incidentally – I’m aware it wasn’t the Evening Standard that brought the action. But they turned it into a story when there wasn’t one in the first place. So the point remains.)
Just to remind you why some unelected body has seen fit to remove our democratically elected mayor for a month:
Ken Livingstone was recorded asking reporter Oliver Finegold if he is a “German war criminal”.
Mr Finegold replies: “No, I’m Jewish, I wasn’t a German war criminal. I’m quite offended by that.”
The mayor then says: “Ah right, well you might be, but actually you are just like a concentration camp guard, you are just doing it because you are paid to, aren’t you?”
Anyone who thinks that’s racist, or an insult directed at anyone other than Mr. Finegold and the Daily Mail group have a very limited intelligence. Come Back Ken!
That’s according to my break time survey today. I have been doing proper work otherwise, honest 
Oh and also: I got two photos in this week’s Queens Park News. Two.
I’d also like to steal Lucy’s idea (well technically I thought of it myself!) and use MSN’s ’31 ways to use your blog’ to make a post. Here we go!
1. Keep a daily journal of your life.
Today I had Physics and Maths before going home at lunchtime to eat hot hot pizza.
2. Post a quote du jour.
“After the game, the king and the pawns go in the same box” (Oh and if you will use strange foreign words I’m not going to understand hence I just stuck with ‘quote’ 
)
3. Document your daily successes.
Pointing out our Maths teacher’s graph of cosine was wrong.
4. List your goals.
Get Olly to quit smoking.
5. Describe a recent adventure.
Well, I started by going back in time and killing my great grandfather… then things started to go wrong.
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Punting in the Cambridge sun
So, who watched The Apprentice then? I have to admit I’ve given up on Desperate Housewives but this was as entertaining as ever. As expected they picked stronger women this time leaving the guys confused and failing to get along, and despite the somewhat questionable tactics from the girls, did not rise to the challenge. Still – we all know who needs to depart from each team in future. Syed and Jo, they must go!
Right, enough TV ranting, got work to do
For anyone studying a Shakespeare play, I always recommend you go and see a stage performance. So it was great to see Black and White Sextet tonight, a modern adaption of Othello (one review here) which made practical use of modern news reports and mobile phones to help tell the story using abridged dialogue.
The small theatre made the emotion of the play very strong indeed and the ending was very well executed – a no holds barred approach to Desdemona’s nasty death which was far more powerful than a cutaway some larger productions might have been tempted to use. Oh, and Othello chased Iago offstage right past where I was sitting brandishing a sword which made me duck!
My experience was even better than simply watching the play, however, because Richard Earthy (Iago) is a friend of the family so he joined us for a drink afterwards with Fliss Walton (Desdemona) and the young university student in charge of lighting. This was amazingly and very useful as we discussed the play and various interpretations of it. Fliss completely changed my view of the meek Desdemona who was rather feisty and strong in this adaption, which is supported by considerable evidence in the text itself. The same goes for Emelia, Iago’s wife, who was also much stronger than we had imagined when reading in class. Shakespearian women have got guts, it appears.
It was slightly surreal as well. We mingled with Cassio and Emelia. Desdemona bought a round of drinks. Iago got some crisps and talked about his ‘gay wedding’ onstage in one scene with Othello. (See! I was right!) So I feel much closer to these characters now 
and how cool is that?
Somehow, I managed to forget what was clearly the most important item of the day – my appearance in a podcast by GG. (It’s towards the end, about 4/5ths of the way through.) Apparently this blog is not only amusing, but insightful too! Cheers GG – who does podcasts so wonderfully naturally I’m surprised he’s not on radio yet.
Also as some of you have already noted, my links section is now magically randomised for you to avoid any potential conflicts. OK, well maybe it’s just me being lazy and not wanting to order them. Whichever explanation you prefer.
Linda Moffitt on Colombia: “Such a sweet memory of the four of you meeting up in Colombia!” Dec 2, 07:42
