Archive For The “Politics” Category
I’ve put off writing this post in the aftermath of the rioting, partly because I’m keenly aware that ranting about politics is not what this blog was originally set up to do, partly because I suspected in my cynical and road weary fashion that we’d get a bunch of soundbytes from Prime Minister Cameron asserting [...]
My thoughts are with the owners and occupants of the homes, businesses and cities that have been attacked across the country. I should really note also, there is a distinction between people with a genuine grievance, and people who seem to be using the excuse to cause mayhem through looting and destruction. If you can [...]
The view from Holloway is probably quite different to that from Chipping Norton, the tory stronghold where the likes of Rebekah Brooks and Jeremy Clarkson hobnob with hapless Prime Minister David Cameron. Yet it is the view from Holloway with which Ms.Brooks may become most familiar. The Phone Hacking scandal is shaping up nicely. If [...]
Is the phone hacking scandal David Cameron’s personal Watergate? We appear to have all the ingredients necessary to topple an unelected government for whom cynicism and self interest appear to be the only identifiable characteristics. So why is the press tip toeing around this story like cattle avoiding an abattoir? For those who haven’t been [...]
File under ‘complicated’, but news of the allied coalition launching 110 Tomahawk missiles at Libya does not fill me with waves of patriotic pride. Quite the opposite in fact. I’m dismayed that David Cameron has embraced this opportunity to generate more political capital with an alacrity matched only by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy behaving [...]
I’m sure Leona Lewis is a very pleasant person, with a quite startling vocal range and an excellent stylist. However the news that Metro readers consider her to be the most influential woman in London is an indictment both of that particular publication and of its celebrity obsessed readers. In case anyone missed it, we [...]
“On the very day that the chancellor raised another £800m in tax from bankers – having already introduced the toughest rules on bankers’ pay anywhere in the developed world – it beggars belief that anyone could claim that donors to the Conservative Party are influencing policy…” – A Conservative Party Spokesman. Cobblers. No, actually a [...]
Andrew Neil’s polemic about the influence of the public school system on english politics and the evaporation of the meritocracy ushered in by the likes of Harold Wilson on the left and Margaret Thatcher on the right offered up some truly staggering statistics. Try this one for size – 75% of the coalition cabinet are [...]
The coalition seems intent on presenting cuts in public spending as a necessary evil. They neglect to recognise that the way we approach the budget deficit is a reflection of the world we choose to live in. You know the story, I’m sure. A fiscally irresponsible Labour government left us in a terrible financial pickle. [...]
I wrote the following column for Sublime Magazine. Unfortunately, Jeremy Leggett wrote one that was remarkably similar. Mine’s better, though, of course! So I’m publishing it here. – – – – – For years we’ve been told that we can live with fewer and fewer limitations on our freedom and our consumption. Climate change and [...]
