I, and several others, suggested that in the wake of Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC, support for his non-racist British National Party would not appreciably increase. Indeed, Andrew Rawnsley writes a scathing, at times hilarious, piece in "Comment is Free" in today's Observer, in...
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Nick Griffin, leader of the avowedly non-racist British National Party, appeared on the BBC's Question Time Thursday night. Although currently in the US, I've had it recorded so I look.
I'm off to Canada tomorrow to present a paper on the relationship between asylum seekers and support for far-right parties in English local elections (authored with a Ph.D. student of.
You're damned fortunate that they're dead tired of the Labour Government.I have had the misfortune of experiencing the first couple weeks of teaching term, which means I've been working more than the standard five hours per week that we expect as academics. On top of...
Gordo lays out his vision for the next Labour government.Most of it is the typical Labour shopping list (and the Tory critique that it hasn't been costed out does ring.
according to Mock the Week. Thanks to Simon Dyda and Brieg Powel for bringing this to my attention. It affords me greater optimism every time I look at my monthly.
Which given the current polling context, is not news that Labour need. While in the early summer I speculated that Labour still had a chance for a hung parliament, especially with the replacement of Gordon Brown with Alan Johnson, now that looks highly unlikely. The...
I want to flag this now, and I'll have more to say about it in the next day or two. High points so far for me:Modeling an elected House of.
A majority of Tory MPs "believe the NHS is unsustainable in its present form and want to see the introduction of an insurance system or tax breaks for healthcare fees."Unsustainable,.
Indeed. At least I rest easier knowing that the English racist / fascist set couldn't organize the proverbial piss-up in a brewery. Some further internal dissent can be found here.The title above appears in The Times coverage of this event, where the English Defence League...
Reason number one to vote against the Tories in 2010.There isn't much left to privatize in Britain today, and in a lot of ways to this American, the UK is.
This is well out of my normal terrain, but a couple weeks ago a high profile commission reported on the future priorities of UK defense spending. The commission, operating out.