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 forward to being adequately entertained upon my return. While I have a lot of time for United Against Fascism (and I’m also in favor of […]
Tag: UK politics
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 mine) at a
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 wor
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 true). I am intrigued by the long awaited constitutional / electoral system reform. Two suggestions stand out. First, he wants to adopt the recall […]
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 pay stub to now know that HM Treasury
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 G
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 Lords after the United States Senate, which when I’m in charge, is the first US democratic institution up against the wall. Modeling after the […]
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, perh
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
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 far more privatized than the US. Some top of the head examples: the transport of prisoners from jail to trial and back is done […]
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 of the Institute for P
One of the many things I find utterly fascinating about my adopted land is its unwritten constitution. Writing on the strength of an unwritten constitution, a book review in the recent Economist state