Last week the Fire Brigades Union called off their planned strike action on 5th November. Amongst those of us who believe a) that the firefighters have a legitimate grievance and b) they have the right to strike, there are two possible responses to this: We can think it was a good idea or a bad [...]
‘The truth will out’. It’s a simple, very appealing notion – and it’s perhaps one of the most pernicious fallacies in contemporary political discourse. Wherever there are people with wrongheaded ideas, from members of the BNP to climate change deniers, you can bet that sooner or later there’ll be someone (or more likely quite a [...]
Gordon Brown’s so far behind in points, he might as well be singing in Eurovision. But as he struggles to defend his already tarnished reputation against allegations of “double dealing” over the compassionate release of Megrahi, the Tories and Lib Dems took the opportunity to ratchet up their score even further. Today Sky News announced [...]
