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Has a change of government changed the political blogosphere?
21st September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
In the run up to this year’s General Election there was much talk of how a change of government might lead to a change in the political blogosphere. It has had a right wing bias from its inception in the sense that, amongst the most-read, more of them have been right of centre in their output and authors’ political affiliations than centrist or anything further to the left. The oft-cited...
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Finally, the party has started
12th May 2010 | 6 comments | 1 person likes this
There was no point blogging over the last few days as either nothing or everything was happening. Now the dust is beginning to settle, things are becoming slightly clearer. A very neat deal has been done between the Lib Dems and the Tories. Several clever trade offs have been made: Osborne as Chancellor but Cable in the Treasury, Hague stays as Foreign Sec but Clegg gets to carve out his...
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Your options for government
6th May 2010 | 3 comments | 4 people like this
Please choose from one of the following options
Government tariff 1: Pray As You Go: Lib-Lab coalition (24 month contract)*Hung Parliament. Tories are the largest party but Lib Dems poll well. Labour are nowhere. Tories manifestly do not want a Lib-Tory coalition and Cameron rules it out. He’s playing the long game. Clegg has to stick to his refusal to work with the leader who polled lowest, so has to wait... -
The toughest challenge of my life
15th February 2010 | 2 comments | 2 people like this
I had to tell the cleaner not to bother coming in this morning. Nobody should have to face the consequences of me having to watch 'Piers Morgan's Life Stories' other than myself. Altruism aside, I'm fairly sure some kind of human rights breach would have taken place the moment I asked her to deal with the broken glass/blood/toilet 'problem'.
For those of you who, like me, were unable to find ITV in... -
The politics of parody
25th January 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The same argument comes round every time there is an impending general election. The posters, slogans and well rehearsed soundbites are all revealed, and the loudest voices generally condemn them all as naff, shallow, ineffective or worse, counter-effective. They are evidence of an absence of real policy, substance and furthermore, why are they spending all this money on aggressive brand-politics when the country is flat-broke (that argument’s newer than the...
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If You (Don’t) Go Down To The Polls Today
4th June 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Be in no doubt, things are a little unusual at the moment. It’s difficult to know where to look for any semblance of normality, but then why would you want to do that? There is too much fun to be had gawping at the news fallout from the implosion of politics, and more recently the plastic knife backstabbings of what has become a pretty thundery Cabinet picnic. The small matter...
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