Why the change in heart?

The Independent on Sunday ran with this article leading, at least in the rural village where I obtained a copy. If you can’t be bothered to read it all (and I don’t blame you) it is an apology for a cannabis legalisation campaign that the Independent ran in the 1990s, which retracts the earlier position, [...]

David Cameron annoys me; or, The gap between rhetoric and voting

To be fair, David Cameron would annoy me simply by being a Tory. But his pronouncements on family life last week managed to up the ante somewhat.
According to Cameron’s measured analysis, families are in ‘deep trouble’. . Luckily, he wants to help. Not for nothing is Cameron an ex-PR man. [...]

Canny Cameron and moral decline

I imagine David Cameron is secretly rather pleased that his cannabis smoking at Eton has come out. While he may have shocked some of the Tory old guard, he will be counting on gaining credibility with the people he’s really trying to impress – younger, floating voters who probably smoke the odd illicit spliff [...]

The European Elephant in the room

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 [...]