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 [...]
It’s an election year. Which means it’s time for the Conservatives to attack their favourite victimised minority. For such a tiny minority in British society, Travellers certainly attract a disproportionate amount of Middle England’s ire. Not content with passing the Criminal Justice Act in 1994, which removed the requirement for local authorities to provide sites [...]
In a recent email to the rest of this blog’s editors, Jacob requested, in his usual forthright fashion, that we refrain from writing ‘pseudo-insightful piece[s] based around new years’ resolutions’, so I’m not going to do that. However, because it’s Boxing Day (at the time of writing), because I’m full of too much wine and [...]
British Environmentalism, or more broadly speaking, a concern, expressed in politicised terms, with human mistreatment and degradation of our natural environment, has usually been associated, generally speaking, with left-wing politics (leaving aside for now such supposed anomalies as the BNP and other such nationalist numpties sloganeering in a predictably unsystematic manner about a Green Britain [...]
Walking through security at Portcullis House, the fabulously expensive building standing adjacent to the Houses of Parliament, is a bit like going through any airport anywhere in the world. But making your way through the spacious courtyard, past green trees and sun-dappled water features under the enormous sparkling glass dome towering overhead, you could be [...]
Guest post by Guy Aitchison It is time for those who want a new politics to work together for change With the party conferences over and MPs returning to Westminster today following their 82-day break, now seems like a good moment to reflect on the crisis that engulfed the political class during the early summer [...]
In the old days, the samurai of Japan would commit seppuku to save themselves from disgrace. Plunging their swords into their innards, they would disembowel themselves to die with honour rather than fall into the hands of their enemies. Gordon Brown has no such honour, limping and quacking on, come what may, to defeat as [...]
I’m a Guardian reader. Middle-class, well educated, long-haired and liberal, I don’t exactly dispel the stereotypes associated with the paper whose readers think they ought to run the country. Nor, as one of those lefty, anti-war, environmentalist types who grew up worrying about the state of the world, should it come as any surprise that [...]
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 [...]
I was planning to avoid writing about the US healthcare row. A lot of very good stuff has already been written on it, not least on this blog, and I wasn’t sure I had anything to add. But then this article on the Telegraph website caught my eye, and I couldn’t help myself. In case [...]
