I suppose I should make some sort of comment about last week’s Labour conference in Manchester. There was really only one story for me: the Machiavellian undermining (intentional or not) of Gordon Brown’s keynote speech. Poor old Gordon Brown. So…
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He doesn’t exactly inspire conference
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Blairites and Brownites hit the mattresses
So today’s the day. Sometime between 2pm and 3pm Tony Blair will announce to the world the day he intends to stand down as prime minister. Or so we all thought. Breaking news suggests that, in fact, he won’t specify…
Is the unthinkable becoming more likely?
Last October I wrote a piece postulating on the possibility of ever voting for the Conservative Party one day. The conclusion was that, in all probability, this would not happen, because of the unlikelihood of that particular animal being attractive…
Stifled by consensus?
Back in October I wrote a speculative piece wondering what the Conservatives could do to win my vote. In essence it boiled down to one vital condition: not being the Conservatives in their present incarnation. I, like so many others,…
2005: Looking back. In anger.
It’s not easy, condensing 365 days and one second into a concise, readable post. But what the hell, I’ve got nothing going on this afternoon, so I’ll have a go. Here, for your enjoyment dear reader, are some of the…
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Cameron have a go if you think you’re hard enough
So it’s official: there is a new Captain of the Titanic (otherwise known as the Conservative Party). The results of the party faithful have been counted and it has come as a great surprise to absolutely nobody that David Cameron…
Two Davids but no Goliath
The head-to-head between Conservative leadership contenders David Cameron and David Davis went ahead last night and, while it made interesting viewing, it didn’t quite live up to the hype. He’d never get my vote, but if I was a true-blue…
Just say no
Or, if you’re David Cameron, when asked “have you ever taken hard drugs?”, refuse to answer one way or the other. This is a particularly petty witch-hunt isn’t it? Who cares if he has or not? What difference does it…
Thinking the unthinkable?
By the time we’re thirty five we’ll all be voting Conservative anyway. The Realist, some bar or other, University of Manchester, 1994(ish) Thus did The Realist drop this devastating bon mot into a lively conversation we were having about .…
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Citizen Sane 