Politics – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for September

A rubbish heap in which a Ukrainian nuclear fireman finds romance with Willie Nelson.

Nick Clegg’s Spanish

Includes several therapeutic tongue-twisters.

Brown hands Mandelson Keys of Heaven

But perhaps Mandy should read Matthew before taking it as a compliment.

Le Monde ditches Gordon Brown, sticks pig’s nose on him

Bad enough the Guardian throwing in its lot with the Comment is Free mob, but even the French left establishment seems to be deserting the Sheriff of Rochdale, who is heading rapidly down this page. Looks like a superimposed Flash-type console, but ain’t. Strange. Re Mandelson: if someone else can arrange a stake, I’ll procure…

Why less democracy is better for Europe

Peter Mandelson on how fortunate we are that the European Commission is unelected, remote, unaccountable, and a major bureaucracy.

Bloody Galicians

But what was Rosa Díez actually trying to say before she so expertly inserted foot into mouth?

Why they didn’t find Lorca

Bishop Gibson of Granada understands beatific bureaucracy but not tradition. Featuring a bad Vietnamese flamenco clip.

Relative corruption of PP, PSOE, etc revisited

Every 9th Canarian nationalist councillor has a problem, and the left looks to be in worse trouble than the right nationally.

The fundamental difference between Mussolini and Berlusconi

Is Silvio a cyborg?

The new apaches

“They will respect neither the putrefied corpses of high whores nor the imbecilic devotion of the wage earner to his master’s money.”