Ok, perhaps he’s not wrong about everything, but Reuben wrote an article yesterday with which I have several significant disagreements. My main problem with his assertions stem from this cringe-worthy little paragraph:
In places like Cambridge – where they grabbed a seat last time – they seemed to get the vote of those who treated voting [...]
As a lefty and an ethnic minority who has always campaigned for the rights of immigrants and against the division of racial hatred, I think it’s fair to say that I have a little bit of a vested interest in Nick Griffin failing to oust Margaret Hodge in Barking to become the BNP’s first MP. [...]
Mandelson made me chuckle today. A couple of hours after shareholders approved Kraft’stakeover of Cadbury’s he met with Kraft’s CEO. Speaking to the BBC about the meeting he expressed his “dissapointment” that Kraft had failed to give him specific commitments about keeping jobs in Britain, and told of his determination to get firmer, more specific [...]
A Progressive Agenda to Stop the Right in 2012
Saturday 30th January 10am-5pm
Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1H
www.progressivelondon.org.uk/conference/progressive-london-conference-2010.html
An Interview with Ken Livingstone
They say never meet your heroes. You’re only ever gonna be disappointed. And having had some bad experiences in the past – a particularly awkward conversation with a very reluctant Mark Steel, and managing [...]
Like most people I like to think of myself as more complicated than one particular social, philosophical or political theory can pigeonhole. I am full of contradictions and exceptions. As Chris Rock said:
“I got some shit I’m conservative about, I got some shit I’m liberal about. Crime – I’m conservative. Prostitution – I’m liberal.”
Even my [...]
Gordon Brown: Labour is the party of the middle classes.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
In contrast to the recent dramatic weather, a stagnant air of ennui has settled over Westminster. In the run up to the general election, what should be a time of bold moves and inspiring rhetoric instead has all the atmosphere of a doctor’s waiting room. Sensing this, the voters have gone into hibernation. The offerings from [...]
“Kingmakers”?! You’ll be dropped quicker than porno mag when the wife walks in unless you are actually a political force in your own right…
“Back in the 1980s the Labour party lurched to the left and made the party unelectable. Ultimately it was the hardline Labour left who were responsible for 18 grim years of Tory rule.”
Ever since Blair’s landslide victory in 1997 this has been the orthodoxy, both within the Labour party and amongst political commentators in general. [...]
David Cameron and Nick Clegg have already written off this year’s Queen’s Speech as pointless political posturing, filled with legislation that will never see the light of day before the next general election. The implication being, neither men expect Gordon Brown to be residing at the same address this time next year. Of course, as [...]
