I'm sitting in the Star Alliance lounge in Terminal 1, awaiting the beginning of my LHR-SFO-PDX journey, having been awake since 0400 (to catch the 4.5 hour bus journey from Plymouth* to Heathrow), drinking for free. At least the last part is a good thing....
UK politics
The latest YouGov poll has Labour on an 11 point lead. Don't get too excited, for the past couple of weeks this daily poll has had Labour around six to.
The UK is scheduled to hold a referendum on May 5 to determine whether or not to adopt the Alternative Vote for Parliamentary elections. This is the first UK-wide referendum.
The United Kingdom is clearly running out of things to privatize. Thus far, in a few short months, the following has been passed or is under serious consideration: The university system has been effectively privatized by eliminating funding, though oddly without ceding control. Students face...
Alan Johnson, Shadow Chancellor, resigned yesterday in order to spend more time with his family. This is one of the rare instances where "spending more time" with one's family means.
can be found over at UK Polling Report. They're insightful, comprehensive, and informative reviews of 2010 and previews of 2011 of the Tories, the Liberal Democrats, and Labour. Not surprisingly,.
William Keegan draws some chilling parallels in The Observer today. Broadly in agreement, Left Foot Forward offers evidence suggesting that the emergency budget is hurting the economy. Troubling to me is the sustained fall in housing prices, while my house sits on the market ....
has been avoided for the 21st Century, in a comical manner. Last night as I went to sleep, I was informed by BBC Radio 4 that the coalition government was.
Finally, something the PM and I agree on. I especially like the comparison regarding French intransigence regarding the UK's membership in the 1960s and their same position today regarding Turkey.
After seven years of living in the UK, two institutions that I admire (which never fails to invite derision from some quarters in Britain) are the BBC and the NHS. The former is funded by one of the most regressive taxes on the planet, one...
Can be found here. In short, it looks to be successful. Longer, the BPIX poll that was released yesterday is being touted as having a large enough sample size to.
Michael Foot died today. He's best known as leading Labour from 1980 until 1983, and having a hand in writing the "longest suicide note in history", or officially the Labour.