2016-03-19 18:53
In 1997 the British people elected a Labour government, because it wanted a Labour government.A government to invest in a shattered infrastructure and a fragmented society.A government prepa… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
As Massachusetts' voters prepare to derail healthcare reform in the US, Britain's electorate are preparing to vote themselves back into recession by opting for hardcore class war Toryism 198… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
As we prepare for Blair's mesopotamiam swansong before Chilcot later today we reflect and and ponder the many negative impacts of Blair's decision to back Bush's fantasy of preemption.In the… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The temptation is to say 'this is where it starts...' but actually it started ages ago.It started when Gordon's men got an itchy election trigger finger, swiftly followed by a squeaky politi… Read More
2009-04-29 14:25
When New Labour came to power in 1997 Blair and Brown were paralysed by fear of a radicalism they never possessed.They had been rewarded with a huge majority and an unprecedentedly broad coa… Read More
2009-01-27 15:53
The BBC [and Sky]’s decision to decline to broadcast the Disaster’s Emergency Committee Appeal for Gaza is wrong.It reveals some profoundly muddled thinking by its increasingly i… Read More
2009-01-05 14:24
Yes he did.'That one' did it.And like most of us, I'm still in the emotional phase - and in a funny way, perhaps just for today, it is an 'us'. Because Obama's universality and the universal… Read More
2009-01-05 14:23
After a long break being busy with life and living it, rather than writing about it, I was thinking about a post on how THE WORST place for a post-Blair change-ringing Prime Ministerial appe… Read More
2008-12-11 17:48
If it makes sense to take poor pensioners out of the tax and benefit systems by raising taxation thresholds (or 'tax free allowances'), then why does it also make sense to abolish the 10% ra… Read More
2008-11-07 18:39
Firstly yes I have felt moved to comment on Russell Brand and second, no, I don't think its a big deal.But I did love the bitchiness of the Independent's front page today 'Manuel's Revenge'… Read More
2008-10-16 13:07
France The French police are investigating the discovery of toxic mercury pellets in the car of a human rights lawyer who was taken ill in Strasbourg on Tuesday, a day before pretrial hearin… Read More
2008-10-13 19:23
Zimbabwe Last month Robert Mugabe said he could flout the power-sharing deal brokered with the MDC while the world was distracted by the credit crunch. Now he pushes ahead with his plans. (A… Read More
2008-09-30 12:33
Remember how Blue is the new Green? You know all that Oak Tree Logo-led Tory Renewal?Not very flexible in wind incidentally oaks and subject to being struck by lightning...still:Tory transpo… Read More
2008-04-28 21:58
Michael White starts his blog post analysing the media buzz around Brown's continuing capacity for self-immolation with the potentially hazardous statement 'Here's a punt...' [No, I'm not a… Read More
2007-07-12 00:42
Gordon Brown hinted at a decision today, its a generally popular one, at any rate it is with core Labour supporters, with regeneration experts [and indeed inexperts] and with sane human bein… Read More
2007-06-28 00:10
Tony Blair's time in office has been about nothing if it has not been about the rewards of deluded expectation.Commentators have spent ten, perhaps twelve, years queueing up to acclaim Blair… Read More
2007-05-23 16:36
And to think I used to get hot under the collar when David Blunkett talked about the 'problems of immigration' in his Sheffield constituency.Not content with her crazed fantasy - almost Mosl… Read More
2007-05-11 01:52
It brings on many changesA BBC correspondent reflected this evening on Blair's departure and signaled the mass demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq as a turning point. He cited the wa… Read More
2007-03-09 18:49
Today a strange PR campign started in which friends and associates of Lord Levy (well his local rabbi and Alan Sugar at any rate) started talking up the notion of a racist witch hunt against… Read More
2007-01-22 17:47
Or scaremongering? The second holocaust will be quite different. One bright morning, in five or 10 years, perhaps during a regional crisis, perhaps out of the blue, a day or a year or five y… Read More
2007-01-05 00:25
A seasonal message from Iraq.Riverbend reflects on the price of delay, overstay and the disaster that our friends in Number 10 and the White House visited upon the Iraqi people and by extens… Read More
2006-12-16 22:19
The BBC may have the Queen and C4 a comedy turn but Too Early To Tell can exclusively (well, actually its lifted from the comments on a post on Pickled Politics in response to a lengthy sla… Read More
2006-12-15 13:35
So Flanders is not declaring independence after all. Watch the spoof news report that threw French Belgium into panic here. Shame, as a region boasting Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent is unfairly… Read More
2006-12-11 01:46
Bush and Blair may agree that, as they subtly put it, 'we are not winning' in Iraq, but unsurprisingly Iraqi President Jalal Talabani disagrees with their developing strategies.In Bush' case… Read More
2006-12-08 15:22
I actually agree with every word Tony Blair says. In particular I am pleased that the government appears to be finally making the link between Islamic facism and the home-grown kind. Those w… Read More
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