DC Confidential - Sir Christopher Meyer

I've ordered a copy of DC Confidential by Sir Christopher Meyer, former British Ambassador to the US.
The book is currently being serialized in the Guardian and the Mirror newspapers.

Writing about US visits by New Labour ministers Meyer writes"There was a minority of capable ministers, who stood out like Masai warriors in a crowd of pygmies."

At a casual dress do at the White House, chinos, no jeans, "Blair put on a pair of ball-crushingly tight dark-blue corduroys. I was later told that his wardrobe for the weekend had been the result of intensive debate within No 10." No mention of Cabinet discussion of course.

The pygmies strike back

The British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, today accused Britain's former ambassador to Washington of "breaking trust" by publishing his highly revealing memoirs. And quite right too. The fact that the British Government is made up of pygmies is supposed to be a well kept secret.

Time for a drink

Yes I know I posted it before but I always liked the tune.

Projector tv

The installation of the bargain, slightly used, projector tv was more difficult and time consuming than anyone had anticipated and the lounge extension failed to gain universal approval.

I now think that one of those flat panel lcd or plasma screen models might have been more appropriate.