PUTNEY DEBATER
A personal blog
Mountain Piano
A piano has been found near the summit of Britain’s highest mountain. Ben Nevis is only 4,418ft, but all the same, the fellows who found it – volunteer conservationists – can’t explain how it got there. The only clue is a wholemeal biscuit wrapper with a best-before date of December 1986 found with the instrument, which was missing its keyboard, however. Story and pictures. (Another report adds that a Model T Ford was taken to the summit in an advertising stunt back in 1911.)
Chavez in London
Just seen on Channel Four News: a snippet from Chavez’s news conference in London today. A senior journalist asks him why he isn’t seeing Blair, and he replies, you appear to be an experienced journalist, and yet you ask such a stupid question! There was also Tariq Ali saying that the trouble is we haven’t got any politicians like him in Europe. Quite so. Here it’s the politicians’ answers that are stupid.
Are you pleased with the world?
‘Are you pleased with the current condition of the world?’ (Mr A to Mr B), or What did Ahmadinejad actually say? Read more