Soft on bankers, soft on the causes of banking
Just back after a gig in Lancaster and an all-night bimble round some deserted Cumbrian motorway service stations. I put 450 un-Green miles on the clock, so I thought I’d update on my unscientific...
Monthly Archive: April 2010
On the road again
Sadly, I won’t be able to watch tonight’s final Prime Ministerial debate, as I’m doing a Your Dad gig in Lancaster. And then I’m going to spend the night hanging out at Killington Lake...
Dreadful Old Man
When old Perry Venus and I were out doing The Longest Crawl, we met a lot of lovely people. One rosy-cheeked old gentleman who we met in a Worcestershire cherry orchard could not have...
The Seventies revisited and other matters
Hard to know where to go tonight. The news is full of the IMF coming in to prop up failing economies, Lib-Lab pacts, swingeing public spending cuts, and Blair Peach. I guess that takes...
Seems quite simple to me…
For the longest time, I’ve been a supporter of the Green Party. Sometimes I’ve paid my subs, and sometimes not. Sometimes I’ve been active, and sometimes (usually, if I’m honest), I’ve been supine. But...
Sod it again
Another Sunday, and another set of psephological puzzles. Cleggy has come out and said that the Lib Dems wouldn’t support keeping Gordon in No. 10 if the New Party got the lowest number of...
How long, Lord, how long?
Poor wee David Milliband. The punishment for the Iraq War goes on and on. Today he is in the papers complaining about the way the Lib Dems just hark on about it; and who...
Not St. George after all
I was pretty sure what I wanted to blog today, which was The English Democrats’ idea for an English Parliament. I don’t like the English Democrats, because, although they say that they’re a kind...
Undecided?
Here’s a little thing that might help. I’d be interested to know how people got on… all comments published, as ever. And if you think a blog should be longer than just one link,...
The Sun Says….
“I don’t want him running my country and I don’t want him deciding who the prime minister is,” says former Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie, of Nick Clegg. Well, that’s lovely. The Sun loved Blair...
The strange death of Labour in England
I was breakfasting in Elda’s Colombian Coffee House recently, chatting with my pal Nat, who told me about life out on the stump. Nat knows a bit about it, having stood for Parliament on...
Oh, sod it…
…after all, Sunday Night is supposed to be Music Night here on Radio Free Radnorshire. I was going to blog a rant about the inequity of a voting system that might see the New...
Radical Disgust
An easy blog today. Something very strange and noteworthy would have to happen later in the day for me to want to blog anything else, so I’m going early, leaving me free to work...
If it was just about Celebs…
… I really wouldn’t know what to do. After all, today Cameron was out with Gazza Bazza, who wrote one of my favourite songs of the last I don’t know how long… Whilst Eddie...
Eyjafjallajokull
I loved the televised debate, me, but then I’m a political anorak, so I would. Like everyone, I thought Cleggy was the winner, though I thought My Little David did best on body language,...
