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No surprise there, then

With the 2015 General Election campaign off to a somewhat low-key start – can anyone tell me with it has officially begun yet? – it is always comforting and reassuring to receive yet more confirmation that our political elite, and the cohorts of administrative Sir Humphreys that [...]

February 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

What goes around

I had things to do yesterday morning but, despite this, fortunately found myself back home in time to settle in for Prime Minister’s Question Time as broadcast by the Daily Politics show on BBC2. We are of course now in General Election campaigning mode and it was perhaps inevitable that the [...]

February 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

90-odd days and counting

Yesterday, on behalf of the cause, I made a point of watching BBC2’s Daily Politics at noon, then the first programme in Michael Cockerell’s four-part series on Inside The Commons at 9.00pm, followed by the first episode of Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report at 10.00pm. The latter two are part [...]

February 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Brace yourselves!

We are told – and I have no reason to disbelieve it – that from today there are exactly 100 days to go until the 2015 General Election. Inevitably, the average punter like me gains most of his impressions about what is going on in British politics from the radio and television. I prefer the [...]

January 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

… and there’s plenty more to come

I guess we all conspire to contribute to the things we like to protest about. With the General Election just over four months away, the politicians have been hitting the airwaves. The broadcasters have been only too willingly to give them airtime because this is the one medium-term story that is [...]

January 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Cranking slowly into action

This festive period I took some time off from my duties with National Rust … [Actually no, let me begin that again. The unvarnished truth is that I have no duties on the Rust, whose creed is about as loose – and therefore as liberating – as you could possibly find in the world of journalism [...]

January 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Be wary of what you wish for

The topic of Scottish independence refuses to go away. Yesterday’s strange proceedings in the House of Commons, supposedly addressing the vexed problem of how to take forward the consequential issue of ‘English only votes on English only issues’, is the latest manifestation. [...]

December 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s all relative, mate

Before I begin my post today, it is ‘cards on the table’ time. I’m an atheist, largely because – in terms of how I live my life – I feel most comfortable presuming that God does not exist and that religion is a man-made means of control-comforting the masses. If I’ve got that [...]

December 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Living anywhere but the present

It must be deeply frustrating to live in the 21sT Century if you’re a Tory. Stereotypically, of course, people of a Tory persuasion instinctively want to live in the past – I say that because (hiding under the skirt of ‘not all change is for the good’) they instinctively want life to remain [...]

December 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Forgotten but not quite

Former Lib-Dem leader Jeremy Thorpe died yesterday aged 84 after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. [Actually – hold that statement for a moment. I saw a comment by a lady in the media, somewhere within the past week, that she resented people’s experience of living with cancer being [...]

December 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

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