At 8.05 this morning, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg unveiled his latest pet project: the Your Freedom website, an internet forum in which members of the public are invited to discuss the laws they would like to see repealed and the civil liberties they would like to see restored. At 8.30, I signed up, fearing [...]
Filed under: civilliberties, conservatives, davidcameron, jonathanbirch, ukpolitics on July 1st, 2010 | No Comments »
When the exit polls came in on election night I saw the same reaction from everyone watching: total shock. Their astonishment was not at the projected hung Parliament we had all been expecting, or at the Tory lead over Labour, but at the thought that the Lib Dems, whose ascendancy had apparently been the story [...]
Filed under: conservatives, labour, libdems, ukpolitics on May 22nd, 2010 | No Comments »
Interesting times. With an extraordinary Con-Lib coalition about to be finalised, David Cameron and Nick Clegg must be all but salivating at the prospect of imminent power as a forlorn Gordon Brown skulks off into obscurity and Labour braces itself for a spell in opposition.
It looks like a catastrophe for the outgoing government. But [...]
Filed under: conservatives, davidcameron, jonathanbirch, labour, ukpolitics on May 11th, 2010 | No Comments »
The surge of support for the Liberal Democrats over the last week is proof of an extraordinary political coup, pulled off by the Labour Party. When people cast their votes on May 6th they will cast them not for or against the government, but for or against the Conservatives. David Cameron is the central figure [...]
Filed under: conservatives, davidcameron, labour, libdems, ukpolitics on April 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »
An aide to the Prime Minister spreads some nasty gossip in a private email to a blogger. The blogger’s emails are hacked, the emails are leaked to another blog, and the aide resigns. It’s a juicy and very modern tale of a spin doctor getting a taste of his own medicine. But is it really [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, bbc, conservatives, davidcameron, jonathanbirch, journalism, labour, ukpolitics on April 12th, 2009 | No Comments »
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British Airways flight 038 has absorbed the attention of newscasters this week. It crashed or, in pilot parlance, it required an emergency landing. At any rate, they’re all heroes now: the pilot, the cabin crew, all of them. A microphone has been directed at some passengers, allowing them to [...]
Filed under: conservatives, robertstagg, socialjustice on January 20th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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“So, making education for skilled work our first priority, we need to provide new incentives and new obligations to train; we need to transfer resources from welfare to education and move claimants from passive recipients of welfare benefit to active job and skill seekers; far-reaching reforms of our welfare state and education system to put [...]
Filed under: conservatives, gordonbrown, ideas, labour, mattclifford, tonyblair on November 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There was perhaps a time in the mid-1990s when few people in Britain would admit to being a Conservative with a big ‘C’, but that’s not what I’m getting at. Is there any mainstream politician in the UK today who embraces little ‘c’ conservativism?
I don’t mean what is properly called economic liberalism - support [...]
Filed under: conservatism, conservatives, ukpolitics on February 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So, everybody loves David Cameron? Sure. I do. You do. The Establishment does. Poor people…don’t hate him. Even hippies like him. So what could possibly wreck his chances of winning the next election?
Well, obviously there’s Gordon, but I’m not going to discuss that. Creaky Goliath vs. plucky David- I wouldn’t like to call it. But [...]
Filed under: conservatives, davidcameron, europe on January 31st, 2007 | 2 Comments »
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1995296,00.html
This article, claiming as it does that British society continues on the downward spiral that it has been set on since time immemorial, is sadly typical of ‘lazy journalism’. This is really no more than a written version of the BBC’s hit ‘Grumpy Old Men’.
However, what really grates is not criticism of the modern order [...]
Filed under: conservatives, society, ukpolitics on January 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
