You what?
I’m a bit fed up tonight. After a long day in Perry Barr, (where a very rough straw poll taken amongst my students showed them leaning strongly towards the Lib Dems) and a long...
Category: Politics
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,...
Middle England – an entirely unscientific poll
Today I drove from Presteigne to Perry Barr in North West Birmingham, a drive I make at least once a week. It’s a very beautiful drive, until you reach the M5 just outside Droitwich,...
Communitarianism
Just a few links tonight…. Things run by volunteers… http://www.talyllyn.co.uk/ http://www2.btcv.org.uk/display/home By local communities… http://www.gigha.org.uk/ http://www.rutlandtelecom.co.uk/ By Trusts… http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/index.shtml By various kinds of co-operative… http://www.co-operative.coop/ http://www.johnlewis.com/
Why Holywood Matters
So, I spent last autumn living in Holywood in Northern Ireland. With a lady. Now she is living with me, here in Sunny Presteigne. This morning, we awoke to the horrifying news that the...
Kemptown Lady
A short blog this evening, as I’m nuts deep in the new book. It’s not often that I wished I still lived In Brighton… in fact, it’s only at Electiontide. Back in the eighties,...
Gordon! Gordon! Gordon! Out! Out! Out!
There was a biggish demo in London today, against public spending cuts and redundancies in the public sector. On my wall, I have an 18th Century print of Canute attempting to hold back the...
Adonis by name…
I thought it was the Real Tories who were the toffs, but actually it’s the New Party who trot out their unelected peers for the benefit of the press. We’ve already seen a lot...
Never did me any harm…
Today the Tories, aided by Michael Caine, unveiled their plans for a version of National Service, what you might call National Service Lite. It won’t be compulsory, but will combine a few weeks of...
Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism
So, today it’s all been about constitutional and electoral reform. The New Party promise to deliver the things they promised to deliver 13 years ago with a majority of 160. The flagship idea is...
Our Cause is Your Cause
So said Gordon Brown, launching the New Party’s election campaign today. Surely he meant to say, Your Cause is Our Cause; which is to say, we, as elected politicians will attempt to find out...
Lock Keepers Inn
On a beautiful afternoon in September last year, my Beloved and I, together with her six year old daughter, strolled along a canalised section of the River Lagan in South Belfast to where one...
