Malcolm Tucker
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More Reasons Why Malcolm Tucker Should Be The Next Dr. Who
Science, Reason and Critical Thinking (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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Malcolm/Capaldi Classic
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... birthday party and I will rub your nuts up and down her leg...right?" Peter Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker says this in response to a not-entirely-trusted team member who has accused Tucker's assistant of being a leaker himself with the following rant: "I could draw you a diagram...
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Bullying and Irony
Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bad Al Campbell is decrying Andy Coulson for “bullying”. Where does one start? Campbell drove a man to his grave. He is the model for Malcolm Tucker, he lied and bullied all his days in Downing Street. Damian McBride was just a cut price version of his predecessor. Watch his face in this classic encounter when [...]
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Things you don't often see in Hansard
David Ottewell's politics (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
We can only hope that as election fever mounts, there will be more Malcolm Tucker-isms hurled across the chamber...
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Duffer epidemic
Exiled New Zealander (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... I was talking to Gordon, a very funny Scottish guy who works for the Trust. He sounds just like Malcolm Tucker (although nowhere near as sweary) and I'm bound to call him 'Malcolm' accidentally one of these days (and can I just say how much I love 'The Thick of It' , a programme I only discovered a few weeks ago? Funniest thing on TV, I reckon. You need a high tolerance to...
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Maestro
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A fundamental reason why so many people of taste and refinement have been talking with great admiration about Peter Capaldi's In The Loop performance as the sewer-mouthed Malcolm Tucker is due to envy and dream-fulfillment. Capaldi's tirades have not only made him a dark-horse contender for a Best Supporting Actor nomination but instructed (or reminded) some of us that profanity can be...
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How to cope with conflict at work
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... you are, of course. 5 Don't engage at all. This option should only be taken if your boss is a Malcolm Tucker psychopath – a surprisingly common personality at the head of many large organisations. These people will take you down, any way they can. Keep a record of their behaviour and go to a tribunal. 6 Murder. A highly satisfactory outcome for your feelings, though not one...
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Pearls before swine flu
Diary of a Donkeybody - MND musings (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... explanations: either the corridors of power may these days be full of four-letter words and that Malcolm Tucker, No 10's foul-mouthed director of communications (aka king of spin), may be based on a real life holder of that position - in which case it's another sorry commentary on the state of Briitish political life - or that this generation of comedy script writers lack the sophisticated...
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The Thick of It: series three, episode five
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Rival spin doctors Malcolm Tucker and Stewart Pearson go head to head - and find they have a lot in common Read Paul Owen's episode four blog SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who are watching The Thick of It series three. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode five The Thick of It seems to be broadening its range of targets specifically so it can start insulting as many...