I guess I should have wrote about the cash for peerages scandal before now, but I didn’t want to rant about it until the details of the story had emerged. After all, the fact that politicians are corruptible and unscrupulous is hardly a radical concept.
For the record I would like to say [...]
On the ‘Cash for Peerages’ scandal
Budget Day
I suspect that Tony Blair will want to complete ten years in Number 10, so Brown´s tenth budget may well be his penultimate, not his ultimate as currently suggested. If Blair can hang on and ward off the lame duck tag, he will surely try for summer 07 for his much-expected retirement from Downing Street.
Brown [...]
tPod
Rory Bremner once called David Cameron a Tory iPod, not because he is posh and white, with a slightly glazed look, but because one could “download the policy they want.” Cameron does indeed seem to be all things to all men (and it seems; breast-feeding pregnant women too), a modern centrist politician not tied [...]
A smoke-free utopia?
Do you think life in this country is so fantastic?
Do you think everyday you spend in Britain is a blissful and wonderful experience, unlike anywhere else in the world? Has nearly a decade under New Labour turned Thatcher’s grim sprawling hellhole into a utopian Eden where pan-fried salmon risotto grows on trees, and the [...]
Lib Dem Shocker
Oh this is a shame isn’t it? After throwing his ample weight behind last night’s by-election, Gordie Brown has been humiliated in the very constituency in which he lives.
In what must be the cherry on top of a horrendous 2006, the New Labour wagon now resembles a council estate Ford Escort: rusty, burnt out, [...]
The Henry Jackson Society: The high priests of British Neoconservatism
When I wrote in November about the new bi-partisan neoconservative movement The Henry Jackson Society (HJS), I was guarded in my convivial acceptance of this new internationalist Cambridge Based group. A few months later I believe I was right to be sceptical.
Any society oft described as secretive will always garner suspicion, but Stephen [...]
The Great Lib Dem Crisis
As someone who wrote to implore Mark Oaten to run for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats, I feel I must comment on the weekend’s news that Oaten had a long-term affair with a male prostitute.
I would concur with Justin McKeating over at Chicken Yoghurt who expressed outrage at the forced sanctimony that has coursed [...]
