Great quote from Andrew Rawnsley on why Labour lost: New Labour was too insolent about civil liberties, too cringeing to high finance, too tolerant of sleaze, insufficiently dynamic about public services and too crabbed about welfare and constitutional reform
Politics
NO IFS NO BUTS
Had to be done, seen a few others do this via the medium of drawing, but felt some photoshopping was in order. Generally I have been pretty disgusted at not just the greed of certain MPs but their attitude, first as they tried to stop the same kind of transparency (via laws created by themselves) [...]
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But No 10 said it was “preposterous” to suggest the PM was playing politics. From: The Beeb Course, it would be stupid for as politician to play politics wouldn’t it?
Whisper it, the 'T' word
Reading the news about the letter bombs sent to various motoring agencies this morning, I noticed a lack of the T word, terrorism in many of the reports. Sounds like a cast iron case (in my opinion) for the use of such a word. Now I don’t want to make unfounded suggestions but if letter-bombs [...]
Big Brother is watching you – but it's okay, they are really really stupid, so don't worry
My god, could channel 4 handle this any worse? Maybe if they invited the BNP onto BBLB to discuss their policies? I am pretty sure when Orwell wrote 1984 he assumed that those in charge in his dystopian future would actually know what they were doing, indeed most dystopian futures seem to assume that the [...]
calm down dear, it's only lazy journalism
Really should have posted about this when I thought about it yesterday. But I was being lazy, and now the point seems a little mute after today’s happenings. But I do feel I need to speak my mind about Charles Clarke getting all puffy and red-faced about media-representation of the government. “I believe that a [...]
Dave the Chameleon
Dave the Chameleon, absolutely brilliant stuff from the people that brought us such classics as the war in Iraq and Third World debt cancellation. A very cute mini-film ala Pixar about David Cameron and the very much hyped belief that he changes his opinion depending on whom he is addressing (isn’t that the very definition [...]
Sir Menzies wins Lib Dem contest
BBC NEWS | Politics | Sir Menzies wins Lib Dem contest Oh my, are the beeb trying to make this story seem sinister? Or is it just me? …..
Cartoons
You know what really bugs me about all this cartoon row, its the fact that many people have been saying that the Danish paper in question should be able to publish whatever they want and everyone else should simply accept it as free speech and be happy we live in such an open and democratic [...]
Political Suicide for dummies
Step 1 – Try and stop plans to allow bars to open later. I agree the plans are controversial but trying to stop them one week before the law comes into force could be a bit of a vote loser. Anyone under 30 and anyone owning a pub/bar/shop might be a little annoyed. Ofcourse all [...]