There has been a great deal of suspicion in the blogosphere regarding the political integrity of Total Politics, the new venture run by several former 18 Doughty Street operatives, and Politics Home, the hideous spawn of Stephan Shakespeare (the original financial progenitor of 18DS - yes, it’s all a bit incestuous). Both titles have […]
I don’t want to make this an introspective post.
It would be easy to spend the next few paragraphs explaining how I have always opposed the war. I could pat myself on the back for making the right call, and I could link back to countless posts and essays I have written that highlight just […]
Created by Mike Power.
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A blogswarm
March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm - Bring the Noise! Bring the swarm!
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Sim-O’s Random Thoughts - Five Years
Bloggerheads - The Iraq War (according to Page 3)
Left of Centrist - Numbers you can’t count on - Five Years too […]
On Valentines Day, again, a US university was rocked when one of its own students entered a lecture theatre and shot at classmates with a shotgun.
Five students were killed, and sixteen wounded before the gunman turned his weapon on himself. As usual the 24hr rolling news channels descended on the university campus and the salivating […]
Garry says: -
Representative democracy by definition is going to involve politicians. Unfortunately, such systems tend to generate a separate political class, a self-serving insulated elite who trust the people about as much as the people trust them. Their central interest is always likely to be persuading enough voters to elect them, something not renowned for […]
From the Guardian.
In a wide-ranging interview, Bush:
· Defended the existence of Guantánamo Bay where many of those caught up in the US “war on terror” are held, and claimed that the US was a defender of human rights.
· Insisted the US still occupied the moral high ground worldwide.
· Stood by his decision to remove Saddam […]
One of the most heartening aspects of John McCain and Mike Huckabee’s success in the Republican primaries, has been the delightful erosion of influence enjoyed by the rabid rightwing hackery. Rush Limbaugh, when he isn’t whacked out on painkillers, can be found raging against both candidates. Likewise, blowhard writer and Fox News talking-head Ann Coulter, […]
Iain Dale may be keeping tight-lipped*, but The Daily Mail reports that Derek Conway has cost the taxpayer £1,535,716.70 in the past 6-years.
Jesus. H. Fucking. Christ.
Slippery Dave looks a bit of a pillock now, doesn’t he? Now the Conway family have creamed off over one-and-a-half million of our money, I wonder, could they kindly […]
Devil’s Kitchen takes on Derek “Pocket-money” Conway: -
You are a fucking disgrace, Mr Derek Conway MP, and yet the real tragedy is that I am simply not surprised. The longer that I examine the political system in this country, and those who inhabit it, the more obvious it becomes that the whole of it is […]
The Guardian: -
Tory MP facing suspension ‘paid another son’
A senior Tory MP facing suspension from the House of Commons for paying his son out of MPs’ staffing allowances could have the whip withdrawn and be questioned by police amid allegations that he paid a second son.
Derek Conway yesterday apologised “unreservedly” to MPs after being reprimanded […]
J.C. Dvorak has the info.
Scary. Very. Fucking. Scary.
From The Guardian:
Inquiry launched as Labour caught in new donations row
Peter Hain will be forced to admit that he failed to declare tens of thousands of pounds worth of donations from businesses and unions when he stood for the deputy leadership of the Labour party, the Guardian has learned.
The disclosure will reopen the controversy […]
Observer: Brown: my vision for ‘dangerous’ year ahead
It’s not over for Gordon Brown, if he’s genuinely honest and humble. It’ll take a lot of work and dialogue to get Britain through a difficult time. [update] Stranger things have happened, eh? I don’t think Brown’s troubles are insurmountable, I just doubt he’s up to the job. […]
Introduction
Any review of 2007 pretty much writes itself. The past year has been a colossal year in politics, both home and abroad. Domestically we have seen the end of the Blair era, with the keys to 10 Downing Street passing, finally, to Gordon Brown. We have also observed a rollercoaster year in the fortunes of […]
From The Devil’s Kitchen: -
MPs are paid £60,000 plus expenses for a mere 160 days’ work a year. These expenses routinely climb year on year and this year averaged some £136,000. I would therefore contend that MPs are actually paid nearly £200,000 plus, of course, a very generous final salary pension scheme (which NuLabour—by dint […]
