The ever-readable Left Outside has written a response to my post from the other week on Prop 8. It’s well worth a look, but (surprise, surprise) I’m afraid I have some issues with it. His argument, as I read it, is twofold: First, in order for there to be democracy in a society, there must [...]
There’s this great feeling going on in Edinburgh atm, which I can only describe as a mass pandemic of ‘don’t drop the ball!’ syndrome. It’s like the wheels of some huge machine are turning, with so many people doing so many jobs that it’s totally impossible to remember who’s doing what. Of course the strange [...]
For the last two years or so, I have been engaging in a dastardly plot to destroy the Tory party. Yes, by writing silly outraged-liberal letters to my Conservative MP – to which she must respond – on matters she ultimately doesn’t care about, I’ll hopefully waste enough Tory time and resources to destroy the [...]
A few weeks back I picked up on an article by Christina Patterson entitled “The Limits of Multiclturalism”. While I have already said all that needs to be said about the content of the article itself, its title drew upon a a theme that has been fashionable for some time: namely that we were overly [...]
Over in the States, there has been a ripple of excitement over the antics of recently arrested air steward Stephen Slater. As the flight he was manning came in to land, passengers were told not to grab their luggage until they got word to do so. One woman carried on getting her cases from the [...]
In a week’s time, about 1000 people from across the country are going to set up a protest camp in or near Edinburgh. Targetting the Royal Bank of Scotland, it’ll probably be the first big protest against a major bank that the UK has seen in this crisis. In 2008, RBS wasn’t just the biggest [...]
Guest post by Kam Gill There has been heated debate across the left-blogosphere, and mainstream press recently about the march through Bradford of viciously Islamophobic hooligan firm the EDL. Sunny Hundal of Liberal Conspiracy argued in the Guardian last month that “EDL thugs” must be allowed to march as to ban the protest would be [...]
Ok, false alarm, it’s not quite breaking news. People have known this for years. But I think, following today’s little outburst in The Independent, it’s worth reiterating. Julie Burchill is an idiot. Quite why a paper which is, by and large, aimed at intelligent, liberal minded progressives, chooses to print the journalistic equivalent of an [...]
Alert readers of the blog will have noticed, last week we took on a new regular writer. At 19 Jon. is our youngest blogger. He is also one of the best read 19 year olds I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. He has guest blogged for us before on political economy and the [...]
I came home from work yesterday to find myself locked out of my house. I’d like to blame an evil money-grabbing landlord, I’d like to blame the council, the police, the state. I’d like to blame the man. But I can’t. The blame lies squarely at my door. The very door I found myself hammering [...]
