How do you solve a problem like gobshites?
That the newspapers have been keen to hoist Maria Miller, the minister responsible for the shepherding the press regulation legislation from a lamppost for continuing to claim a level of expenses on a...
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“What is one to make of the rise of UKIP?” – asked nobody with any commonsense, ever. That having been said, there are plenty of people with no commonsense desperate to shrinkwrap a simple answer to...
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UK to EU – Can we still be friends?
A treaty being broken, yesterday The European Commission has finally realised that the long-term sexless relationship between the UK and the federalist project is over. We’re still meeting for coffee...
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A shambolic week for Labour.
Advice Ed Miliband is not receiving. That the Labour Party has no formulated policy response to the government’s welfare reforms was predictable – that Red Ed’s shadow cabinet and war-makers within...
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Labour’s messaging and other catastrophic failures
Noting the continued push for the Labour Party to embrace the ‘One Nation’ absurdity in their branding, the party’s machine decided this weekend to launch a rather poorly thought through poster...
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Ed Miliband’s Conference Speech
Friends, I am so delighted to be here with you in Manchester, the constantly shifting capital of our changing Britain. I want to discuss an important issue today – change. Change for the better. Change...
View ArticleSome thoughts on curried yoghurt
Gregory Campbell, MP and MLA for Londonderry East, enjoys courting controversy on dog-whistle issues in Northern Ireland. He’s good at it – he’s got a lot of wit and can be genuinely funny, but there...
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Can Ed hold on?
Anyone asking ‘can Ed hold on’ hasn’t been studying the form of the Labour front bench. Of all the people who could take over in the event of a departure of the Dear Leader, those best qualified would...
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Nominative determinism in Rochester and Strood
A pint of kitten because I can’t stand Farage’s awful face on my blog and nobody wants to see Mark f**king Reckless. Tomorrow, people in Rochester and Strood have an opportunity to free their former MP...
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Equality as a Trojan Horse.
CC Christof Bobzin Gerry Adams’ bad luck catches up with him all at once, it seems. The towering intellectual collossus of militant republicanism (as we once thought of him) is undone by the sunlight...
View ArticleWe’ve failed humanity.
Tonight the UK Parliament voted in favour of dictators gassing their people. I’ve never ever felt ashamed to be British before, but this is a terrible decision. When soman, tabun and cyclosarin starts...
View ArticleSometimes a view is just a view
Every so often I reboot this blog, and every so often someone comes along to give me a reason why I should constrain my blogging. I already do. I work for an organisation which has Political views in...
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Opposition, now.
Not a number… Sinn Féin and the DUP may not agree on much, but one thing they do agree on is the exercise and maintenance of political power. Theirs is a murky, unpleasant world, an agreed apartheid...
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Breastfeeding mothers tell Farage: if you’re going to be a dickhead, do it in...
Breastfeeding mothers have said it is ok for Nigel Farage to be a total arse in public, as long as he does not do so in an “ostentatious” manner. Earlier this week a man described his humiliation after...
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Ed Miliband’s Conference Speech
Friends, I am so delighted to be here with you in Manchester, the constantly shifting capital of our changing Britain. I want to discuss an important issue today – change. Change for the better. Change...
View ArticleHow do you solve a problem like gobshites?
That the newspapers have been keen to hoist Maria Miller, the minister responsible for the shepherding the press regulation legislation from a lamppost for continuing to claim a level of expenses on a...
View ArticleUKIP if you want to…
“What is one to make of the rise of UKIP?” – asked nobody with any commonsense, ever. That having been said, there are plenty of people with no commonsense desperate to shrinkwrap a simple answer to...
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UK to EU – Can we still be friends?
A treaty being broken, yesterday The European Commission has finally realised that the long-term sexless relationship between the UK and the federalist project is over. We’re still meeting for coffee...
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Towards a new understanding of commonsense Stroopwafel safety
The original incident which killed Louis Slotin in 1946 occurred when he attempted to use a hemisphere of plutonium to lift an over-microwaved Stroopwafel. The same fissile core had already killed...
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