Dangerous dogma
I’M DISAPPOINTED in Jeremy Hunt. His announcement that the licence fee might be cut is nothing more than a sop to the right wing obsessives in his party whose...
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Clegg: the gift that just keeps on giving
LOOK, I’m really sorry to have to write yet another anti-Clegg post, but how could I resist this? Clegg yesterday No-one ever believed...
Read this entry » Chinese whispers, or downright lies?
SOMEONE, somewhere is not telling the truth. Can you guess who, children? Tonight, the BBC is screening Nick Robinson’s documentary on...
Read this entry » Another anti-AV poster
THIS one isn’t one of my efforts and, to be honest, when I first glanced at it, I thought: “Nah, too may words!” But it’s...
Read this entry » The New Politics, Part 18
LIBERAL Democrats have changed their mind on yet another policy, I just realised after re-warching the debate I had with Jo Swinson on Newsnicht...
Read this entry » Calm down, Dave
DAVE’S getting a bit hot under the collar about Labour’s decision to oppose his Preservation of LibDem Constituency Boundaries (Gerrymandering,...
Read this entry » Podcast: Two Men and a Tardis
WHEN I was a reporter on the Paisley Daily Express in 1989, I was asked to track down the writer of an award-winning children’s TV programme,...
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Meat’s not murder
I TOOK a short break with the family recently and we headed westwards to Devon. Having been raised in a semi-rural part of Ayrshire, I feel entirely comfortable...
Read this entry »A phoney war
I LOVE my car. I drive a lot and I enjoy it. And like the vast majority of Brits who do likewise, I don’t feel guilty about it. The expansion of car ownership...
Read this entry »Why couldn’t Dave win?
LET ME refresh your memories. The last Labour government (so we are told) was the most calamitous in all of history. It was the most incompetent, most irresponsible,...
Read this entry »A fisking we will go…
I’VE ONLY met Will Straw once and he seemed a decent chap. But his latest pro-LibDem post over at Liberal Democrat Voice needs a bit of critical analysis. Will...
Read this entry »The New Politics, Part 17
UK POLLING Report has a very good summary of the government’s Gerrymandering (Staying in Government) Bill to be debated in September. The most blatantly anti-democratic...
Read this entry »Statement from No. 10: The Deputy Prime Minister
22 July 2010 The Deputy Prime Minister may have given the impression in recent months that he occasionally speaks on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government and...
Read this entry »Charming!
I’M NOT sure I believe this story. Surely even a Tory councillor wouldn’t have been so offensive, so arrogant, so thick to tell voters anywhere to “work,...
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