Eddie Izzard

Glenn Beck: There’s a difference between being cool and looking like a ‘d***head’

Mick Fealty on July 26, 2011, 3:56 pm | Readers 16

There’s little doubt that the attempt by many on the liberal left to align the mass murder of so many Norwegian citizens on one day with the conservative right rather than the ultra nationalist cause is both malign and ill conceived. But Glenn Beck’s reaction to the news (comparing the dead of Utøya to the Hitler Youth) put me in mind nothing so much as this sketch from Eddie Izzard: “Cool” is a pursuit of youth, it’s a fashion link …

Eddie Izzard – saying Yes2AV all over Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on May 1, 2011, 9:23 pm | Readers 63

Representatives from local parties supporting AV meeting Eddie Izzard

Within an hour or so at landing at Belfast City Airport on the latest stop in his non-stop campaign schedule, Eddie Izzard had been greeted by Dawn Purvis (who’s in favour of AV), had a look inside the Black Box, given a pep talk to runners in tomorrow’s Belfast Marathon, met leading politicians from local parties supporting AV and retired to Malmaison for a purple (non-alcoholic) cocktail … as well as spontaneously canvassing numerous passers – even the receptionist at …