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Bed Bugs and brass bands

  • Martha Kearney
  • 27 Sep 06, 05:26 PM

trumpet_203.jpgDay Three in the Big Conference House and the strains are already beginning to show.

You may know that there is a certain amount of condition between ourselves and the Today programme.

On Monday () they were bombed by pigeon droppings. Now in a spirit of oneupmanship we've been hit by bed bugs.

Our cameraperson Julie - veteran of many war zones - was a bit surprised to be attacked by bedbugs in Salford. Morale was further lowered when the team arrived at work this morning slightly jaded after intense late night political analysis in the Midland Hotel bar to find a brass band practising loudly in our newsroom.

See how we suffer for you.

And David Grossman is being shouted at by Labour MPs who seem to think he's been causing mischief by handing out Newsnight wristbands inscribed with the names of leadership contenders. That was before the latest batch arrived which say "I am backing anyone but Gordon".

We're reserving a space in the sick bay for David later.

Meanwhile he's been analysing the new policy proposals announced at the conference and whether they amount to a programme of constant renewal in government of the kind Bill Clinton talked to conference about today.

"Stay in the future business!" he told them.

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  • 1.
  • At 03:07 AM on 28 Sep 2006,
  • Jenny wrote:

...there is a certain amount of condition between ourselves and the Today programme.

Is this new, innovative phraseology?

Our cameraperson Julie - veteran of many war zones - was a bit surprised to be attacked by bedbugs in Salford

Name names, please. What hostelry? Is there anywhere to report them, and if so, did you report it? Why do people go about thinking that sort of danger is something from some indeterminate time in the past? And how did your top class camerawoman get to be lodged in a place so infested? Is this a sign of class segregation between the skills in the Newsnight team?

  • 2.
  • At 12:46 PM on 28 Sep 2006,
  • chris wrote:

Some how I dont think bed bugs discriminate in terms of accommodation but Im no bug expert.

Id go out on a rainy day to see your lovely smile Martha but not to listen to a politicians speech.

  • 3.
  • At 04:10 PM on 28 Sep 2006,
  • Rob White wrote:

I enjoyed watching David Grossman dishing out wristbands. It was almost reminiscent of Vincent Hanna. It was made all the more hilarious by the over-reaction of some of the more boorish and po-faced Labour MPs. I must say the Labour Party seems to have lost its sense of humour since I ceased to be a member of it.

David Grossman is in serious danger of making politics fun again, and I didn't think that was possible. More of this please!

  • 4.
  • At 09:13 PM on 28 Sep 2006,
  • Jenny wrote:

Why is it that some comments spaces here display the formatting indicated by HTML tags, and others just ignore them? It makes for a misleadingly confusing posting when indications of a quoted passage just disappear, as in mine, above. Could we have consistency?

  • 5.
  • At 07:37 PM on 04 Oct 2006,
  • Paul D wrote:

Bit concerned about Gavin's joke fit for an 11 year old (tonight's email). Are we sure it is not the standard answer to a poll of Hampshire residents?

very good article,
www.brassbandinformation.co.uk

I enjoyed the article very much indeed.

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