Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for Literature - 2007

Doris Lessing has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, at long last, this really is a well deserved prize for her. Doris Lessing achievements in literature are well known. Her most famous novel being The Grass is Singing (1950) a story which takes place in Rhodesia. She has written extensively since then. She is now 88 years of age and why did it take the Nobel decision makers so long to award her prize. She is a grand lady and a critic of Mugabe’s fascist dictatorship in Zimbabwe, a country she lived in for some time.

Congratulations Doris Lessing for an honour you deserve.

Prime Minister’s Questions 10 Oct 2007

We always find PMQs a fascinating TV must see programme, so we record the session every week for later viewing. We are often at a loss with the views taken by media pundits and the Tory supporting mass media. Media hacks, we often believe must live in some parallel universe because we often believe we have watched a different programme to that the hacks were observing. We were actually impressed by Gordon Brown’s fighting performance yesterday in contrast to the negative showmanship portrayed by David Cameron the leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. Surely, the leader of the opposition ought to be using the ocassion for meaningful, constructive questions rather than his Punch & Judy show we saw yesterday. The massed ranks of media hacks appeared to think it was David Cameron’s day and that Brown could not handle the situation - we find this a rather strange interpretation of what took place.