According to the Guardian, Tony Blair will get on his "Education, Education, Education" soap box (again) today to announce that the government is to DOUBLE the number of City Academies from 200 to 400.

The new Newgate Academy in Central London and pupils enjoying PE.

These to me all look like they came from the same drawing board and resemble the same boring structures as the new PFI funded prisons and detention centres that are being knocked up around the UK.

Billy

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So if they can find a radioactive trail left by polonium 210 on three BA planes that have gone all over the world, I wonder when they will get round to testing the front door handle of the Russian Embassy in London?

Billy

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Just wanted to write and say how sad it was to hear of Gordon and Sarah Browns baby, Fraser, having Cystic Fibrosis. I don't know that much about CF, but have seen that sufferers have to have physio on a daily basis to help them.
I don't like to see anyone suffering or ill, especially wee bairns and my heart and thoughts go out to baby, mum and dad and hope young Fraser will be OK.

Love

Billy

I hope this works...

So, Michael goes back to where he began his career, at ITV, where he began in television working for his uncle Lew. It's where his heart is of course and you can see why.

BBC Salary = £82946 pa

ITV Salary (3 years potentially) £8.5 million.
Bit of a difference I'd say.

Does he know something about the NTL / SKY proposed take-over deal that we don't?

Something smells a bit fishy here to me, and he does have an uncanny resemblance to Jerry Springer.

Fat cats Michael and dear old Uncle lew and an even fatter cat.

Billy

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**APPEAL**

A trend that American Presidents have established as a lasting legacy to their years in power, has been the setting up of a Predidential Library. George W is hoping to carry on the trend. George is struggling at the moment so if you have any old books you don't want, could you send them to him at the White House.
Only one thing. Make sure they have lots of pictures in them and in big print, preferably with washable covers.

Suggested titlesJanet and John and the Weapons of Mass destruction
How to win an election when you are 500,000 votes behind.
Stuff happens - The Donald Rumsfeld story
My search for Bin Laden by Postman Pat
The good communists holiday guide to Cuba by Fidel Castro.
And Oreganos suggestions,
My economics: how to squander political capital
A chimpanzee's guide to foreign policy

Nearly December and Ive started thinking about all the good and bad things Christmas has to offer . Starting with films. There has been some real dross put out by film companies at Christmas in the hope that families will shell out £40 or so over the holiday period to hang on to the last remnents of Christmas day.

The Dross
1. How the Grinch stole Christmas. Hyped to the heavens, complete and utter crap.
2. Miracle of 34th Street - remake of a remake, truly awful.
3. Santa Claus the Movie, just crapness itself personified.
4. Scrooged. What was Bill Murray thinking about doing this.
5. Polar Express. A Disney disaster.
6. Die Hard. Ho Ho Ho you MutherF....Willis dons dirty vest.
7. Black Christmas. A horror film recently remade. Bad.
8. Mrs Santa Claus. Angela lansbury. Say no more, political correctness gone mad.
9. Scrooge 1970. Albert Finnie. Not the best Scrooge by a long chalk.
10. Santa Claus conquers the Martians. A film so bad you woldn't believe it was ever made.

The Good
1. A Muppet Christmas Carol. Ahhh. Michael Caine
2. A Christmas carol (1951) with Alistair Sim. Best Scrooge ever.
3. Love Actually. Bill Nighty :-)
4. Home Alone (1 or 2 - whichever was about Christmas) Kevin and the Burglars.
5. Meet me in St Louis. Judy Garland with the song Have yourself a merry Little Christmas. Sinatra sang it as well - better.
6. The Odessa File. Great film which starts at Christmas. Perry Como sings Christmas Dream
7. The Snowman. Raymond Briggs classic. Aled Jones sings the song.
8. It's a Wonderful Life. Jimmy Stewart classic.
9. The Nightmare before Christmas - Tim Burtons scary toon epic.
10. The Great Escape. One for the dads. Steve McQueen, a motor bike a camp classic.

Didn't dissappoint did she.
Liked the Glitterball entrance and the pony-boys - typical S & M stuff from Madge.
Still humming this morning....
La la la....

Billy

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Read up a bit about this from Wikipedia and an article in todays Guardian.

WIKI: Polonium (Po) - has been used as a neutron trigger for nuclear weapons.
210Po, is a lightweight heat source to power thermoelectric cells.
Polonium may now be made in milligram amounts which uses high neutron fluxes found in nuclear reactors. Only about 100 grams is believed to be produced each year, making Polonium exceedingly rare.

Apparently, you need a hi-tech industrial processing plant to produce this stuff in a small but concentrated enough form to poison and kill people. Someone, somewhere in some country, paid for and run by some government must have made it within a 28-day period for it to be of any lethal use.

How was it delivered? In a pill format or sprinkled on Mr Litvinenko's food?
Who was responsible for delivering it? The delivery means must have been something out of James Bond, for it not to have contaminated the assassin. Who sanctioned the hit?

Although MPs are using the term, why are the Met not following this up as a MURDER inquiry?

Litvinenko was a naturalised British citizen, "murdered by foreign nationals," according to Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells, a guy who rarely minces his words.

Has a call for James Bond been put in now he is 'in-post'?

If Polonium can be detected using some geiger-counter type device, why not go round the Russian Embassy, and test everyone who works there for traces of Polonium - surely this stuff leaves a trace?

Billy

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Having been writing BBD for over a year now, it shows that if you write regularly, like daily, your web hit count goes up in some cases a factor of 100 or more. When I started in Aug 2005 Google hits were of the order of hundreds, but I only wrote something once or twice a week. Writing daily since September has seen hits increase massively. On Google, Billyblogginsdonkey hits currently = 21,500.

I never cease to be amazed by the www.

Billy

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I really wanted tickets for this gig but at £85 and upwards, I really couldnt afford it, so I'll settle for the concert on Telly tonight at 10.00, C4.

Have been lucky enough to see Madge twice already in the flesh, Ive got to say, in concert she's excellent.

Get your best disco diva gear out, tomorrow may be work but tonight hit the dance floor.

Sing along now...follow the bouncing ball....

Every little thing that you say or do, i'm hung up, i'm hung up on you...
waitin for your call baby night and day, i'm fed up i'm tired of waitin on you....
Time goes by so slowly for those who wait...no time to hesitate...

Billy

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Ok come on who's stalking my Blog?
330 page views on a single day?
A Saturday?
A weekend?
Happened earlier this month too.
Google hits for BBD are now 20,000 plus.

At this rate we'll be bought out by Rupert Murdoch for £10million and I can retire to the Isle of Skye.
And start another Blog...heh ..heh.

Love to you all!

Billy

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Had a quiet Saturday in blustery, rainy and thought I'd have a "Hi Fidelity" day and come up with a list of my top 20 tunes of the moment that I'd take with me if I was stranded on a desert island.

Here's mine in order of importance to me (at the moment);

1.Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me. Still love it, 20 yrs on.
2.Beatles - A Hard Days Night, Love the film and the opening chord - CHANGGGGGG
3. Johnny Cash - Hurt. Love the guy to bits. His voice ages like a fine wine.
4. Dusty Springfield - I close my eyes and count to ten. I just love Dusty's music and the way she holds every note on this song.
5. Take That - Patience. Yep, 5 weeks and still love it. Weren't they good on Parky?
6. Madonna - Jump. By far the best song on the Confessions album for me. Love it lots.
7. Inspiral Carpets - Weakness. Just love the speed of this song - play at high volume.
8. Animals - It's my Life. I love all their old stuff, this is excellent.
9. Francoise Hardy - All Over the World. Moody French Love song..sit down and listen to this, its wonderful.
10. Oasis - Rock and Roll Star. Awesome, raw, brilliant.
11. Robbie Williams - Come Undone. My Favourite Robbie track.
12. Clash - Tommy Gun. Brit-Punk at its best with the last half of the song the best riff of the punk period.
13. Paul Young - Love of the Common people. Well not real reggae, but I love this track and the backing singers - "Whats a job?".
14. The Hombres - Let it all Hang Out. 1967 ish. Nice laid back track. Used on an advert at the moment.
15. DB Boulevard - Point Of View. Love this to bits. Always play this. Video was clever too.
16. Debbie Harry - I want that man. "I want a pair of pink high-heels, drive through Texas in a black limosine." Say no more...
17. Scissor Sisters - Mary. I really like this song. Its moody.
18. Temptations - Papa was a rollin' stone. All 8 mins of it wonderful. Motown at its very best.
19. Girls Aloud - Biology. Fraid so, they may be manufactured but I love the song.

Dave's gawn off his trolley again.
Out with Churchill and in with some common sense, feminine logic from The Guardians very own fun columnist - Polly T.
I wonder if she will end up as a Cameron advisor and become a Dame maybe?

Good move Dave.

Billy

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Rant of the Week

Sir Ken Livingstone twin brother of Gollum, reckons that the London Crossrail project is MORE important to London than the Olympics. He gives the growth in the economy and increases in the population as evidence.

How about cancelling it altogether Ken and spreading the money out ACROSS the country rather than spending ALL our resources on making London look good. Why not spend some of the Billions raised through the lottery, taxation etc on doing up some of our OTHER towns and cities eh?

It really pisses me off when all the best jobs, investment, resources and taxes are raised to spend on bleedin London. Why not Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Belfast, Cardiff, Manchester or Liverpool - more so Motherwell!
Crossrail is going to cost £16 Billion. This is just to shift people about London quicker. Get fecking walking - you lazy lot.
Cancel it and start investing more sensible projects ACROSS the country like trams in city centres, avoiding NHS cuts, better pensions.

Billy

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Oh feck! The cost of the LONDON (not Great Britain then...how come it was never Great Britains bid - its the Great Britain team who's competing innit?) Olympics have gone up by £900 million!!!!!

Now come on guys, who, who is managing the fecking budget for this little enterprise, Mickey fecking Mouse? John Prescotts cat?

Words like Brewery, Piss-up and Couldn't run spring to mind here.

How does a budget go up by £900 MILLION, SIX YEARS BEFORE the games have ever been held? We all know its gonna go up as they always do, but £900 million, now, for gawds sake -get Thatcher back, she'd get a rebate, nae bother.

How come PROJECT MANAGERS ARE GETTING (a nice round up front)£400 million? What for? Donning a suit and a hard hat and looking important on a building site? I smell a rat, or a swarm of the bastards who can sniff a scam at 500 miles.

I think LONDONERS should be told WHAT sums of money like this THEIR TAXES are being actually spent on, cos I aint payin for none of it. Fecking Londoners are going to have to work until theyre 95 to pay for this load of old bollocks.

Er, Em...I think its Jack Daniels time. Too much time online today.

Billy

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Ok so I'm not very computer savvy, can hold my own with most 40 something year olds, but can someone kindly tell me HOW to get a vido on my blog.

Theres a drink in it for ye

Ta v much

Got to go and put the tea on.

Love

Billy

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After the excellent screening of Lord of the Rings over three weekends by Channel 4, there doesnt seem to be much on offer tonight having just scanned the telly pages.

TCM are offering a yee-ha "Clint Eastwood season."

Way to go TCM. That must be the longest running "season" on record. Its a season that lasts a week and then starts all over again.
Tonight...its...The Outlaw Josey from somewhere in Wales
Wednesday...Pale pink lipstick wearing Rider
Thursday.....Unforgiven for leaving the toilet seat up
Friday.......The Good, The bad and the fed up of TCM who couldnt schedule films for toffee.

Come on TCM people, turn the Clint Eastwood tape off and put something DIFFERENT ON!
Drop the cowboy films and put something funny on, like Billy Crystals, Throw Momma From the Train. The old lady in that, Crystals face and Divito are all hilarious.

I want to have a bit of fun when I get in at night, not to be shot to pieces by a gunslinger from the Wild west or watch Cling practice his skills in gratuitous violence.

Billy

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More leeches and bean-counters wanted at the Learning Skills Council - nationwide.
Full page advert in todays Guardian for "various roles."

Apply to www.iwanttobealeech.com for further details.

Billy

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