Comments on: Lord Levy and Cash for Honours http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/ Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:46:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jaq http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/comment-page-3/#comment-11830 jaq Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:47:06 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=284#comment-11830 You're married sweetie, let's not define 'fabulous'. Anyway, I'm feeling penned in at the moment - I don't want any reminders of what else I might be missing. Let me just concentrate on pacing my cage like an injured lioness. Grrrrrrrrrr You’re married sweetie, let’s not define ‘fabulous’.
Anyway, I’m feeling penned in at the moment – I don’t want any reminders of what else I might be missing. Let me just concentrate on pacing my cage like an injured lioness. Grrrrrrrrrr

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]]> By: Jack Ramsey http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/comment-page-3/#comment-11829 Jack Ramsey Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:16:54 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=284#comment-11829 Aw! Gee jaq! Kind words are prize enough even though unearned! Fabulous as in mythical? Aw! Gee jaq!

Kind words are prize enough even though unearned!

Fabulous as in mythical?

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]]> By: jaq http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/comment-page-3/#comment-11828 jaq Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:40:33 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=284#comment-11828 Melissa - I think Jack Ramsey should win prizes for just being Jack Ramsey: witty, pertinent, well informed and well written. I would have included fabulous but my courage failed me. (sigh) Always the way isn't it? Melissa – I think Jack Ramsey should win prizes for just being Jack Ramsey: witty, pertinent, well informed and well written.

I would have included fabulous but my courage failed me. (sigh) Always the way isn’t it?

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]]> By: Jack Ramsey http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/comment-page-3/#comment-11827 Jack Ramsey Sat, 22 Jul 2006 09:59:05 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=284#comment-11827 Melissa Perhaps there ought to be a special prize for with without obscenity. Melissa

Perhaps there ought to be a special prize for with without obscenity.

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]]> By: Melissa http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/comment-page-3/#comment-11826 Melissa Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:28:10 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=284#comment-11826 Jack R - Yes - all of our undying esteem! Do you think he deserves something - quite a quick wit heh? that's what we want to promote so perhaps.... Jack R -

Yes – all of our undying esteem!

Do you think he deserves something – quite a quick wit heh? that’s what we want to promote so perhaps….

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]]> By: idlex http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/comment-page-3/#comment-11825 idlex Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:40:48 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=284#comment-11825 The editorial in the Spectator of 22 July, titled "Let Israel finish the job" rambles on and on, and finally terminates: <ul> What the Islamists dread is a clear decision by the international community to let the Israelis finish the job, eradicate as much of the Hezbollah machine as possible, and then - and only then - resume the painful process of transforming Lebanon into a tolerable neighbour. </ul> Over a week after this conflict began, Israel seems to have made little progress in eradicating the Hezbollah machine, given that Hezbollah rockets are still landing on Haifa and other parts of Israel. The Israeli military seems strangely ineffective in suppressing these attacks. And how's progress going on the other front, the transforming-Lebanon-into-a-tolerable-neighbour bit? Well, Israel has demolished entire districts of Beirut, bombed bridges, airports, petrol stations, roads, power stations, killing over 300 Lebanese civilians, and displacing 500,000 people. It's rather hard to see how this serves to transform Lebanon into a 'tolerable neighbour'. If anything, it looks like a good way to create another bunch of intolerable enemies. At this rate, when the 'job' is 'finished', Israel will end up surrounded not by tolerable neighbours, but by a subcontinent of sworn enemies. By every measure, the Israeli response of the past week has to be counted as not just a failure, but a disastrous failure. The editorial in the Spectator of 22 July, titled “Let Israel finish the job” rambles on and on, and finally terminates:

    What the Islamists dread is a clear decision by the international community to let the Israelis finish the job, eradicate as much of the Hezbollah machine as possible, and then – and only then – resume the painful process of transforming Lebanon into a tolerable neighbour.

Over a week after this conflict began, Israel seems to have made little progress in eradicating the Hezbollah machine, given that Hezbollah rockets are still landing on Haifa and other parts of Israel. The Israeli military seems strangely ineffective in suppressing these attacks.

And how’s progress going on the other front, the transforming-Lebanon-into-a-tolerable-neighbour bit? Well, Israel has demolished entire districts of Beirut, bombed bridges, airports, petrol stations, roads, power stations, killing over 300 Lebanese civilians, and displacing 500,000 people. It’s rather hard to see how this serves to transform Lebanon into a ‘tolerable neighbour’. If anything, it looks like a good way to create another bunch of intolerable enemies.

At this rate, when the ‘job’ is ‘finished’, Israel will end up surrounded not by tolerable neighbours, but by a subcontinent of sworn enemies. By every measure, the Israeli response of the past week has to be counted as not just a failure, but a disastrous failure.

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]]> By: Jack Ramsey http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/comment-page-3/#comment-11824 Jack Ramsey Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:34:52 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=284#comment-11824 Gerald Norley-Thumbwhisker Be nervous, be very nervous. I understand that the Turner Prize Committee are investigating you for plagiarism. Philomon Apologies Should have been Quite not Quit. You must never quit. Gerald Norley-Thumbwhisker

Be nervous, be very nervous. I understand that the Turner Prize Committee are investigating you for plagiarism.

Philomon

Apologies

Should have been Quite not Quit. You must never quit.

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]]> By: Jack Ramsey http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/comment-page-3/#comment-11823 Jack Ramsey Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:31:41 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=284#comment-11823 Edward McD Only my undying esteem i'm afraid. Possibly Melissa could help.... Philomon Quit the quipper aren't you but it brings a smile to an dotard's face. Have a nice weekend and don't talk to any strange old men! Edward McD

Only my undying esteem i’m afraid. Possibly Melissa could help….

Philomon

Quit the quipper aren’t you but it brings a smile to an dotard’s face. Have a nice weekend and don’t talk to any strange old men!

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]]> By: Ape http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/comment-page-3/#comment-11822 Ape Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:10:54 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=284#comment-11822 <a href="http://adamboulton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/bush_blair_unpl.html#comment-19948194" rel="nofollow">SCUM</a> SCUM

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]]> By: Edward McD http://www.boris-johnson.com/2006/07/13/lord-levy-and-cash-for-honours/comment-page-3/#comment-11821 Edward McD Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:43:39 +0000 http://80.82.117.242/?p=284#comment-11821 "Finish off the following poem." (Jack Ramsey) "Dr Prion went to Zion in a shower of nukes. He stepped in a crater and died sometime later his coffin is next to Farouk's" Do I get a present? “Finish off the following poem.” (Jack Ramsey)

“Dr Prion went to Zion in a shower of nukes.
He stepped in a crater and died sometime later
his coffin is next to Farouk’s”

Do I get a present?

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