The Sun (of all papers) manufactures a controversy about . . . Gordon Brown.The time line is telling. Brown, blind in one eye and of notoriously illegible handwriting (something I can say that I understand), pens a letter to the mother of a fallen soldier...
UK politics
I was going to write something about this, but that's too easy: the "drug czar" of the UK gets the sack for very publicly disagreeing with the Government's drug policy,.
but at least it will SAVE SAVE SAVE £65 million. Because, when the public debt is at some obscene number, and when the annual deficit is approaching 12% of GDP,.
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...
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,.