http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:12:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Home Secretary was not making it up- he did have a cat. She also may ‘know the stories about the Human Rights Act’ but stories alone are what they are. The case concerning Maya the cat was judged in 2008 and then first misreported in 2009 thanks to the ... http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk/2011/10/09/persuasion-should-be-based-on-the-truth-not-on-propaganda/ Something good is going come out of the riots: people care about them. No news event since the 1980s has had people so aroused to read the news and try to really understand what has been happening. The events of recent weeks are a challenge to all traditional partisan narratives, ... http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk/2011/08/16/britain-has-been-broken-by-apathy-not-anarchy/ The "phone-hacking scandal" needs a good name. "Hackgate" or "Phonegate" just won't cut it -- that nomenclature is for little controversies that one wryly compares to Watergate in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. This one actually is like Watergate, and its consequences could be no less far-reaching. The one thing the scandal ... http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk/2011/07/18/the-ritual-of-purification/ Trotsky in 1938 defined the 'Third Camp' as the result of 'the fetishism of two camps' which 'would give way to a third, independent, sovereign camp of the proletariat, that camp upon which, in point of fact, the future of humanity depends.' The attempt of the USSR and the USA ... http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk/2011/06/21/the-third-camp/ It's easy to be seduced by the prospect of change and fairness. After all, who wouldn't say "Yes to Fairer Votes", as supporters of the Alternative Vote arrogantly exhort us to do? Are we really expected to believe that all supporters of First Past the Post are deliberately resisting greater ... http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk/2011/05/04/10-good-reasons-to-vote-no/ In 21st Century Britain, monarchy is faring rather better than democracy. As public trust in politicians sinks to new, unprecedented lows, the Royal Family is enjoying a weird and immensely tedious resurgence in popularity. I don't know if these things are correlated. But, either way, they are pretty alarming signs ... http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk/2011/04/21/how-to-vote/ Follow us for updates on all our events: Here we are! (If you're left wondering about the underscore in our URL, there's someone tweeting about politics in County Clare, Ireland, who's got in ahead of us. Bah.) http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk/2011/04/03/were-on-twitter/ When Edwina Currie visited Clare Politics in October, she donated a copy of Sarah from Alaska, which will soon be finding its way – autographed by its donor – into the Forbes Mellon Library. It gives a gripping account of the caffeine-fuelled chaos of the McCain/Palin campaign, which palpably fell ... http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk/2011/03/26/can-she-win/ We all love to hate bakers - in fact, we hate bankers more than we hate politicians, which is saying something. This will not, I promise, be an attempt to defend the risky, arrogant and immoral behaviour exemplified by the city's best in the last few years. I, like most ... http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk/2011/01/28/its-time-to-move-on-from-bankers-bonuses/ [caption id="attachment_2022" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Trouble at the Mill?"][/caption] One crucial detail seems to have failed to permeate the present analysis of the comments recorded by The Daily Telegraph from some Liberal Democrat Ministers. It is the nature of politics for different elements of the truth to be emphasised at different times. The current controversy is an example of another ... http://www.clarepolitics.co.uk/2010/12/22/lib-dem-ministers-simply-playing-to-the-gallery/