I have yet to vote in the London Mayoral elections. For the first one, in 2000, I wasn’t on the electoral register. Then, in 2004, although I had every intention of voting, I went out drinking after work with my…
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Choosing from this lot is a night mayor
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Comment was suspended
The comments function on Comment is Free wasn’t working yesterday morning and for a while the world seemed a calm, serene place. Reading the site, without the subsequent reams of vitriolic abuse masquerading as opinion, it felt like some semblance…
We’re not The Judean People’s Front, we’re The People’s Front of Judea.
How wonderful to see the repugnant Respect Party disintegrating before our very eyes. This unholy union of communists and Islamists, presided by bumptious cretin George Galloway, was surely due to collapse under the weight of its own contradictions sooner rather…
The Euston Manifesto
I have just signed up to the Euston Manifesto. Launched to considerable fanfare in April, it is an organisation of leftist academics, journalists and activists committed to re-stating the principles of the democratic left. It is an attempt to distance…
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Enjoy the silence
Readers may recall that I sent an e-mail to the Respect ‘coalition’ three weeks ago seeking clarification of their position regarding their biggest contributor, Dr Mohammed Naseem. Dr Naseem is an executive director of the Islamic Party of Great Britain,…
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More on Galloway and the RESPECT Coalition
In case anyone else was wondering just how much taxpayer’s money George Galloway is wasting by appearing on Celebrity Big Brother over the next three weeks (potentially, anyway, but I’d be surprised and horrified if he lasted that long), the…
Left Out In The Cold
Introducing our first guest blogger: Devil’s Advocate. Devil’s Advocate is an acquaintance of The Realist and a regular reader of Liberal Elite, albeit one who often disagrees with us. True to the spirit of liberalism, we’ve offered him a guest…
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. find out what it means to me
A real shame to see the return of George Galloway at the expense of Oona King in Bethnal Green and Bow. I was sincerely hoping that this Stalinist throwback would disappear into the political ether. But alas, he’s back, having…
Citizen Sane 