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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 »
These days, Al Gore jokes that he “used to be the next President of the United States”. But it seems that he now not only isn’t, but doesn’t want to be. This seems strange on the face of it. As I pointed out back in February he’s clearly flirted with the idea. He still has [...]
Filed under: algore, election2008, tonyblair, uspolitics on November 3rd, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Downing street now has a YouTube channel. Here is the highlight so far:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Cu9187tCY]
Could this have been conceived of even three years ago? The Downing Street channel was the 7th most viewed on YouTube yesterday. The often plaintive claim that we are all victims of a big-media determined agenda looks increasingly hollow.
Filed under: democracy, internet, tonyblair, ukpolitics on May 8th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Having spent a great deal of time (probably not enough) subsidised by the British taxpayer looking back over the history of 20th century Britain and trying to get some of it to stick in my mind, I feel that it might be worth speculating about the views of historians on the Blair governments. I’m sure [...]
Filed under: constitution, foreignpolicy, gambling, gordonbrown, history, tonyblair, ukpolitics on May 5th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Thousands of bombs exploded, 22 on the streets of the capital on just one Friday; thousands of people interned without trial; pitched battles with the armed police forces and the British Army in urban streets; whole areas of cities effectively closed off to the security forces, run more by paramilitary organisations than the state; communicants [...]
Filed under: religion, tonyblair, ukpolitics on March 11th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
