Gordon has only been PM for five minutes and already he’s doing weird things. Like asking Shirley Williams to advise on the issue of nuclear proliferation. This is the same Shirley Williams who was a complete embarrassment on Question Time…
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It’s goodbye from him….
Oh, the fun we had in the early hours of May 2nd 1997. 22 years old, just a year out of university, still aglow with the enthusiasm/naivete of youth, staying up all night at a friend’s house watching the hated…
Honour hiding to nothing
The cash-for-honours affair must be a crisis if Tony Blair is prepared to show up for Radio 4’s Today programme. Appearances by the PM on that show are as rare as hen’s teeth – he’s usually much happier to appear…
Bigmouth strikes again
He may be a semi-literate, bulldog-faced pugilist who would probably be outwitted by a pair of socks. His stand-in role at prime minister’s questions may bring to mind a large strawberry cheesecake put into bat against skilled fast bowlers, who…
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Polly Ethylene
The point is, ideology is dead and political labels are increasingly meaningless. I wrote these words in the first ever post on this blog, in March 2005. I was reminded of them last week with the news that Greg Clark,…
Political meltdown
Local elections should, of course, be contested over local issues (“This is a local election, for local people. There’s no place for you here!”); they should not be an indication of popularity for the current government. But then, bungling and…
Everyday is like Monday
So, another Monday, another week of work, another uphill struggle to the weekend ahead of us. What news nuggets might we chew over today? The Blair-Brown feud raises its ugly head again. Yawn, yawn, yawn. Like everyone else in this…
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Lord Sane?
Dear Tony Blair, Please find enclosed a cheque for £1.37. Consider it a loan to the party, if you get my drift. Nudge nudge, wink wink, etc. Obviously – other than a competitive rate of interest – I don’t expect…
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,…
Tone down?
One should always be open to new experiences. Tony Blair had one yesterday when, after eight and a half years of whip-managed, on-message, look-at-the-size-of-our-majority Parliamentary dominance, he was defeated in the House of Commons by a significant margin. The bill…
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Citizen Sane 